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Saturday, December 05, 2015

NISSAN SKYLINE R34 GT-R











 NISSAN SKYLINE R34 GT-R

The signature vehicle of Brian O’Conner throughout most of the series is the Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R. The Skyline’s 2.6 L RB26DETT twin turbo motor produced 450hp.The Skyline used in 2 Fast 2 Furious was used to win the race at the open of the film, until it was shot with a EDU harpoon gun that fries the electronics in the vehicle. O’Conner has a Skyline in Fast and Furious for most of the film, using it during the audition race as well as through the underground tunnels from Mexico to America. This Skyline was destroyed when Dom turned his 1970 Chevelle into a bomb. The Skyline is seen multiple other times throughout the franchise but doesn’t have a prominent role other than being associated with O’Conner.









2011 DODGE CHARGER SRT-8









2011 DODGE CHARGER SRT-8

The Dodge Charger SRT-8 was the car of choice for the bank vault heist in Fast Five. The stock Dodge Charger SRT-8 came with a 6.4 HEMI V-8 that produced 465hp and 465 ft-lb of torque. After heavy modifications the Chargers used rear mounted heavy duty tow winches to tether themselves to a bank vault and rip it out of the building then engage police in a high speed chase. Topping anything that had come before, this chase sequence was intense, with the two Chargers roaring down streets side by side towing a giant vault behind them. Every sharp corner sent the vault swinging through traffic and knocking aside anything it its way. Aside from bullet holes the cars suffer very little damage, until inertia from the vault flings Dom’s Charger into an oncoming Volkswagen Touran.









NISSAN SILVIA S15 SPEC-R











NISSAN SILVIA S15 SPEC-R

Seen multiple times throughout the series, the Nissan Silvia S15 is a Japan only car (although it was sold under the name 200SX in Australia and New Zealand) and is the favorite of the character Han Seoul-Oh. The Silvia’s SR20DET engine was turbo charged and had an output of 250hp. The car was seen in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift briefly when Han allowed newcomer Sean Boswell to borrow his Silvia for a drift race. Things do not go well for Sean during the race and the car ends up totaled after slamming against multiple walls and support pillars in the parking garage they were racing through. Sean acquires a new Silvia by the film’s end and other Silvias can be seen in various other entries of the series.









1995 TOYOTA SUPRA MARK IV TWIN TURBO









1995 TOYOTA SUPRA MARK IV TWIN TURBO

Brian O’Conners second car in the film The Fast and the Furious, the 1995 Toyota Supra is iconic. In debt to Dom after losing a street race, O’Conner owes him a 10 second car so he delivers a rusted Supra from a junkyard and the crew rebuilds it. After close to $100,000 in upgrades the stock Supra’s 2JZ-GTE I6 330hp engine became a 544hp beast, capable of 0-60 in 3.4 seconds and running the ¼ mile in 10 seconds at 185mph. During the first test drive of the car, O’Conner smoked a Ferrari that tried to race him on the street. At the films end O’Conner puts the Supra up against Dom’s 1970 Dodge Charger for one final race resulting in a tie.










1970 CHEVROLET CHEVELLE SS










 1970 CHEVROLET CHEVELLE SS

Seen briefly at the very end of The Fast and the Furious and featured more prominently in the 4th film Fast and Furious, Dominic Toretto’s 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS is the car he returned to the series with. First seen with a red and black color scheme, the car is eventually modified and painted grey in preparation for an audition race. It’s unknown exactly what modifications where done to the Chevelle but the standard engine was a LS6 454 V8 with 450 base horsepower capable of 0-60 in 6 seconds and a ¼ mile time of 13.7 seconds. Unfortunately the Chevelle doesn’t survive the film as Dom used it as a timed bomb to injure/distract the films villain, by allowing nitrous from the tanks to seep into the car with the cigarette lighter turned on. Once the lighter sparked, the car exploded ending its life within the films.