I can imagine what the parking lots at the theatres will look like...
I just pulled this up:
Volkswagen donated 4 prototype R32's and 4 Touran minivans to fulfill its pledge with Universal to plug each other's products. As a result, R32's are in the movie.
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Toyo donated 4000 tires for the movie. Roughly half were used. Volk Racing donated 170 wheels as well.
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600 Asian extras were used during the LA filming days for the street scenes.
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The Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX, an AWD (all wheel drive) car, was converted to RWD in order to drift properly. Same thing was done with 2 of the VW R32's (which are also AWD).
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The VeilSide RX-7 driven by "Hans" used to be a special show car built by VeilSide and crowned "Best of Show 2005" at Tokyo Auto Salon, reportedly worth $150000. Just the custom leather interior reported cost $20000. Universal got it for $50000, and the crew promptly destroyed both the interior and exterior by repainting both (with spray-paint).
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One of the cars never before seen on American TV or Film is the Toyota Chaser, a Camry-sized sedan that has Lexus SC300's engine. Obviously, it was never exported to the US, and previously was only seen on US soil in special drift demo events.
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One of the Mustangs (out of 5) was actually converted to use a Nissan Skyline GT-R engine and transmission, just as the storyline says happened. However, that process took considerably more than just one evening as it did in the movie.
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The movie crew went to Japan and bought as many JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) vehicles as they needed. JDM vehicles have the steering wheel on the right.
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Over 100 cars were destroyed/wrecked during the filming of this movie.
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All of the drifting in the movie was performed by professional drivers, not created by CGI. As reported in a recent Sport Compact Car, Rhys Millen, his father, and a handful of other famous rally and drift racers consistently performed amazing drift sequences for the movie.
I met Rhys (pronounced Reese), at the PPHC and at PPIR in the clip I did below in my sig. He did better drifting his GTO than most of the Japanese Pros that attended the event.
Oh yeah, here's an answer from a friend in Hollywood on why you saw Diesel in the trailer: "Vin only shows up at the end of this movie." I was supposed to go to the premier last weekend in NYC but I had to work, lol. Lots of drifting and a week storyline from what I was told.