patinum

Perhaps, but for me it was a necessary evil. I'd like to say I was in before it got lame, but in reality, it exposed me to the whole car scene in general. Then I found track days and autox.

z_speed

True, it'd be ignorant for me to think that this movie brought out only negative attention but the ratio from ricers to racers favors the ricers. There was a pretty decent tuner scene before the movie came out. We had car shows and drag events like HIN, BOTI, and Drag/Import Wars (road racing and auto-x wasn't big with the tuner crowd yet). A lot of the tuner guys knew and respected each other. After the movie came out the scene exploded with guys just throwing Pep Boys parts on their mom's cars and coming out to the races or shows trying to act cool and talking shit about people's cars. Kinda reminds me of today's hellaflush movement and hard parkers lol.

Enthusiast128

2001 - The Fast and the Furious
I lived in: Chicago
I drove: 92 Civic Si, B18C5, Apex N1 exhaust, APEX N1 coilover, AEM CAI
I thought the coolest car in the movie was: green eclipse cuz he had 2 of the big NOS and the Civic that's waiting for the SR20DET transplant (jk, the Supra was my favorite)
My dream car/mods were: McLaren F1

2003 - 2 Fast 2 Furious
I lived in: Chicago
I drove: 91 240SX, 91 CRX Si, 92 Civic Si B18C5, Mugen exhaust, APEX N1, AEM CAI,
I thought the coolest car in the movie was: Nissan Skyline GTR R34
My dream car/mods were: TRD Widebody MR2 turbo (not the MR-Spyder, wanted the SW20 with the T-Tops)

2006 - Tokyo Drift
I lived in: Chicago
I drove: 06 Mazdaspeed6, 00 Audi A4 1.8t
I thought the coolest car in the movie was: NSX
My dream car/mods were: Mine's Skyline GTR R34
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXloFjDREfg[/media]

2009 - Fast and Furious
I lived in: Chicago, IL
I drove: 04 Civic Hybrid
I thought the coolest car in the movie was: didnt watch it
My dream car/mods were: Aston Martin DBS, Audi RS4

2011 - Fast Five
I lived in: Chicago, IL
I drove: 00 S2000, 07 IS250 AWD, 04 Civic Hybrid
My dream car/mods were: E30 M3 with S85B50 V10
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS5yDet6ngI[/media]


I went to watch the first movie at AMC Barrington. I'm Chinese, so i eat rice for lunch and dinner, I dont need to drive it or watch it being driven in the streets so waited for the DVD to come out to watch the rest.

It sad, but I must say that this franchise defined "rice boys". At the time, APC was known as Always Producing Crap

s2k_636

2001 - The Fast and the Furious
I lived in: Burr Ridge, IL
I drove: 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX(Weekend toy), 2001 Mercedes-Benz C240(Daily) & 2001 Kawasaki Zx6r.
I thought the coolest car in the movie was: Supra
My dream car/mods were: Honda S2000
My GSX 1999 GSX and YES I was a ricer. I think I still am.



2003 - 2 Fast 2 Furious
I lived in: Naperville, IL
I drove: 1999 Eclipse GSX(Garage Queen), 2004 Mitsubishi EVO in Silver (Weekend toy), 2003 Mercedes-Benz C230 Kompressor (Daily), & 2001 Kawasaki zx6r.
I thought the coolest car in the movie was: EVO
My dream car/mods were: Honda S2000

2006 - Tokyo Drift
I lived in: Hinsdale, IL
I drove: 1999 Eclipse GSX(Dust collector), 2005 G35 in silver(Weekend toy), Scion XB(Daily)& 2006 Kawaski 636
I thought the coolest car in the movie was: Never saw Tokyo Drift
My dream car/mods were: Honda s2000

2009 - Fast and Furious
I lived in: Naperville, IL
I drove: 1999 Eclipse GSX(Dust collector), 2004 Honda s2000 SSM(weekend toy), 2005 SLK350 & 2006 Kawaski 636
I thought the coolest car in the movie was: Skyline
My dream car/mods were: Nissan GTR

2011 - Fast Five
I lived in: Naperville, IL
I drove: 2004 Honda s2000 SSM(weekend toy), 2007 Lexus IS250(daily, & 2006 Kawaski 636
My dream car/mods were: Nissan GTR

ruexp67

I finally saw Fast Five this week. It is, by far, the best movie in the series. In part because The Rock pretty much steals the movie. It had less "cars" and more general action and plot. Granted the plot was lifted from quite a few other movies, but it was still fun. The implausibility factor was high, although not as high as some of the movies in the series. (The 4th movie with it's wheel stands at 100mph on dirt are king for that.) I did like that they brought back so many characters from the series. Overall a very fun movie.

The coolest car in the movie was the GT40.