Fast and Furious – Fast Five

fast furious

fast and furious 5 – In “Fast and Furious – Fast Five” is also an Italian legend: the De Tomaso Pantera. It ‘s the first time that a car of our country appears to be the protagonist in the movie franchise dedicated to self developed and is not the only icon of the past was to be celebrated in this film. Self in “Fast and Furious – Fast Five”, the last episode of the series began in 2001, there are too many chases and races are not short of expectations.

“In this film we really outdone ourselves with the use of the car and caused some damage,” said producer Neal H. Mortiz, and in fact only in the final scene were destroyed about 200 cars! The novelty, however, most striking in “Fast and Furious – Fast Five” is the use of police cars in pursuit, in which coivolti both characters, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) . But we see more in detail what they came up with the producers this time, Vin Diesel, Michael Fottrell and Neal H. Mortiz, and the director Justin Lin.

fast and the furious 5

STAR DODGE
Even in “Fast and Furious – Fast Five” could not miss the now legendary ’70 Dodge Charger that is so tied to the character of Dom Toretto. Although it has been destroyed twice – the first was hit by a truck in full in “Fast and Furious” and then crashed into the wall of an underground tunnel in “Fast & Furious – Only original parts” – is resurrected, and obviously with some modifications. “We worked on some elaboration of minor importance to the Dodge Charger: wheels and larger tires, better suspension, better steering … A lot of stuff that not even show on screen. The ventilation system was removed and now we have a Chrysler HEMI with a piston positioned cut above. In the first instance has to run the Dodge Charger, “said the coordinator of the cars of the film, Dennis McCarthy. But in “Fast Five” The Dodge Charger also appears in its most recently, the High Performance Dodge, who was chosen to play the role of police cars in Brazil. It ‘s amazing the number of Dodge that the production was able to secure. “The Dodge has given us more than 20 cars to use, providing also the help of a couple of engineers came just for change, working with our experts and mechanics,” said Michael Fottrell, and at the end of the film also appears 2011 Dodge Challenger.

THE LEGENDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
As we already mentioned, the 1972 De Tomaso Pantera is not the only legendary car that appears in “Fast and Furious – Fast Five”. To share with you an action scene, there are a Corvette GS Roadster and a 2007 Ford GT40 which alone is worth less than 2 million dollars. E ‘therefore evident the importance of the use of replicas in the film. “By destroying so many cars as happens in the sequence of the blow of the train, you could run the risk of burning all the budget made available by the fleet of cars wrecking one vehicle. Much better to find cars that could be duplicated,” said Fottrell .

THE JAPANESE
The skills behind the wheel of the leading actors are much increased in these years of shooting, especially those of Paul Walker, said from the set. The actor grew up as a pilot and his character has been linked in “Fast Five” the image of the sports gipponese. “We presented the Nissan 370Z and given a polish to the Toyota Supra, one of the best Japanese cars ever built, and even the Nissan Skyline GT-R comapre in the film,” says the actor. The Subaru STI, already seen in previous episodes of the series, had a role to play, but was primarily used as a camera car, earning the nickname “Subie-Cam”. Appears finally, although for a few seconds, the exclusive Lexus LFA, the “thunder from the Rising Sun” with V10 with 560 hp and carbon shell that has been produced in limited series of 500 units each of the cost of 375mila euros.

2012 bmw 3 series

THE GERMAN
The only European cars that appear in “Fast and Furious – Fast Five” are, except De Tomaso, the German ones. There is a brief appearance of BMW, but the main role has been assigned to a Porsche 996 Carrera 2 GT3 RS that guides dressed as Brian O’Conner, while in most occasions you can see the Volkswagen brand. The “bad guys” traveling on Touareg black opaque and in some shots you see a beetle (which reminds us the actual launch of the new Volkswagen Beetle) and a “mythical” Bulli.

A CURIOSITY ‘AND A QUESTION
Waiting to see the movies from May 4th “Fast and Furious – Fast Five” with a curiosity and a close question. The first concerns the so-called “Oshkosh HEMTT”, surely the most curious of the film that was purchased out of production for individual pieces, then assembled directly from the warehouse of the Marine Corps, for a total amount equal to $ 85,000. The second one has to do with a question. In the last scenes of the film appears another very exclusive car, which has none of the aforementioned nationalities. His name begins with “K”, what supercar would be according to you?