![]() ![]() Originally their company demo car, it was first built to showcase their £15K Fortune widebody kit at the 2005 Tokyo Auto Salon. This car was also bought ready modified, but this time for a reported $150k from legendary Japanese tuners Veilside. The 1997 RX-7 featured in Tokyo Drift, as you would expect, is a full-on JDM model. This car was also repainted and used in 2 Fast 2 Furious by Orange Julius. The real-life version only had a factory audio system – it was a lightweight racer, after all. A few clone cars were also built, but these were standard, except for the exterior styling and exhausts.ĭom’s Mazda is shown to have a huge aftermarket sound system in the movie, but these shots were actually taken from another car. The producers painted the car red, and then removed the cage, simply because Vin Diesel couldn’t fit in it. The car was originally a left-hand drive US model in grey with heavily modified 13B engine and a roll cage. As with Brian’s Supra in the first film, the frugal producers rented a ready-built example (this time owned by Keith Imoto) and made a few cosmetic changes. In the modifying world, of course, the Mazda RX-7 is something of an icon – the very reason why it was used in both movies. And second, the main hero car from Tokyo Drift was Han Seoul-Oh’s widebody ‘Fortune’ RX-7 FD. First, one of these introduced Dominic Toretto to the series in The Fast and The Furious, and it was the only Japanese tuner car he raced before breaking out the trademark American muscle cars. 1993 & 1997 Mazda RX-7 FDĮveryone’s favourite rotary-powered Mazda had two of the most important roles in the franchise. Not a bad payday for a 90s Toyota, is it? 2. Although it did turn up again in 2021 where it was sold at auction for $550k. So, what happened to the orange Supra when filming wrapped? It simply went back to its original owner. ![]() There’s also a white 1995 US Twin Turbo model at the end of Furious 7, but this wasn’t a rehash of one of these cars that one was from Paul Walker’s personal collection. But that’s Hollywood for you, eh?Īside from the genuine hero car, a host of other replicas were built for stunts and racing scenes, some of which were repainted and used for Slap-Jack’s car in 2 Fast 2 Furious. In reality, they would have put well over 100k into this build. ![]() It would have taken way more than 15k to get it up to full ‘Race Wars’ spec too. Just about everything else was already there.Īnd if you’re wondering about the ‘junker’ on the back of a tow truck in the movie, that was indeed sporting a 2JZ engine – but not the legendary twin turbo lump they were describing. In fact, the only changes that the production team made for the movie were the wheels, body styling and orange paint job (originally the car was yellow). His A80 Supra was already sporting a heavily modified 3-litre 2JZ-GTE engine and pushing out a whopping 570bhp – nearly double that of a standard Twin Turbo Supra. The Fast and The Furious was a relatively low-budget flick, so – to save on the budget – the car was rented from the film’s technical advisor, Craig Lieberman. And that was before the film was even in development. What this car was, however, was a genuine modified monster. So, strictly speaking, you couldn’t call it JDM. But the turbocharged, targa-top hero used in the original movie was a left-hand-drive US model. The Lamborghini-Orange “Nuclear Gladiator” Toyota Supra may be the most well-known Japanese car of the entire franchise. The most famous JDM car of them all? Well, that’s probably half true.
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