Led by vehicle coordinator mastermind Dennis McCarthy for the FF movies, Universal's movie car department isn't crazy to wreck real collector vehicles for the sake of its action scenes. While 2 Fast 2 Furious used five genuine GT-Rs, by the time Fast 4 came around, only the main principal car was an R34 GT-R, the backups and stunt cars were less powerful, rear-drive JDM Nissan Skyline GTTs. As for the Toyota Supras, the first movie had eight on set, including Hero 1 and its backup, plus several stunt cars in various tunes and completion. ![]() Production built five Chargers in total, only three of which were stunt cars. The most famous car of the franchise, Dom's Charger, was actually a 1970 Dodge with a bunch of '69 Charger parts thrown at it. Compared to everything that's come after it, 2001's The Fast and the Furious was a fairly low-budget experiment using lots of rented cars and innovative tricks by the picture car department.
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