TOP 15 CARS FROM THE FAST AND FURIOUS SAGA

There aren’t many automotive movie franchises as wildly successful as The Fast & The Furious. Depicting the underground street racing scene in the original Fast And Furious movie set in Los Angeles and surrounding areas depicted some accurate aspects of some of the gritty parts of car culture. The initial few movies were first and foremost about cars, and therefore a relatable subject for many high-octane fueled enthusiasts.

This is probably why the original is so highly praised despite not actually being a high-quality movie. The original and sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious became so widely popular, it did in fact, turn into a full-on franchise later adding characters and story arcs that now might seem a bit of a stretch.

Currently, in movie number 10 the new narrative is a far departure from the original street racers of LA. With Pontiac Fieros flying into space, nuclear submarine hijackings, and stunts that seem to grossly defy the laws of physics, The Fast And The Furious franchise has become somewhat of a combination of comedy and science fiction appealing to a broader audience.

Updated June 6, 2023: Some truly stunning cars exist in the movies that can’t be overlooked. While there have been many throughout the Fast saga’s 10 movie run, here are some of our favorites and most memorable from The Fast And The Furious movie series. There car park in the Fast and Furious franchise only gets wilder, prompting us to add five more cars to the best Fast and Furious cars list for a total of 15.

1970 Dodge Charger: The Fast And The Furious

Starting off strong, very strong. So strong, in fact, that the chassis twisted coming off the line. Dominic Toretto’s 1970 Dodge Charger left such an imprint on fast and furious fans, that it appeared in almost every movie in some form or another. The Charger is Dom’s go-to muscle car. When things get tough, the Charger gets tougher, often helping Dominic Toretto get the “job” finished.

Many will remember the Charger from the first movie, essentially a drag car with a giant supercharger sticking out of the hood. Later versions of Dom’s famous Dodge Charger take on different appearances, but it was the original monster from The Fast And The Furious that won fans over, forever cementing Toretto as the villain who wasn’t actually a villain, and a fitting hero car always pulling through.

Nissan Skyline GT-R R34: 2 Fast 2 Furious

Brian O’Conner returns to his tuner roots in the franchise sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious. The race showcasing the R34 GT-R takes place in Miami with four drivers speeding through the city with an insane jump at the end where O’Conner ends up not only jumping his Nissan Skyline R34 over the bridge but gathering enough speed to jump his rival in a Toyota Supra in the process thus winning the race.

By Today’s Fast And Furious saga standards, this is a fairly pedestrian scene, however, at the time, it was quite the fictional automotive stunt. This race and movie solidified Brian O’Conner’s preference for highly tuned JDM sports cars. The 2F2F Skyline R34 GT-R was one of the personal cars of technical advisor, Craig Lieberman, and featured the full HKS parts catalog. The RB26 DETT engine was tuned to around 450 horsepower and if that wasn't enough, a 150-shot of nitrous was readily available.

Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VII: 2 Fast 2 Furious

As O’Conner’s story continues as an undercover cop, he and his partner Roman Pierce are presented with two (new at the time) modified Mitsubishis. Pierce takes the Mitsubishi Eclipse and O’Conner then goes on to drive the now highly coveted Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VII. Throughout the movie Brain and Roman inch closer and closer to the elusive villain, winning races and earning street cred along the way.

The EVO VII is known best for the scene involving a high-speed pursuit along Miami freeways and eventually surface streets. Brian executes a 180-degree turn and proceeds to drive in reverse taunting Roman along the way. The Lancer Evolution VII was the first EVO to be officially sold in the US. The movie car featured aesthetic upgrades but retained the stock 276 horsepower from its 4G63T engine, which was still enough for a 13.3-second quarter-mile time.

Nissan Fairlady Z (Z33): Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift

This time the big name Nissan appears in the Fast And Furious Tokyo Drift as the villain car. The Drift King or DK as he is known in the movie challenges Sean Boswell, the main character to a drift race, something Boswell is not experienced in at all. By the end of the race, DK has won, smoothly drifting his Z33 Nissan Fairlady Z throughout a multistory parking lot in downtown Tokyo, even pausing to allow Boswell to catch up in the Nissan Silvia he borrowed by Han Lue a.k.a Sung Kang, another famous character throughout the Fast And Furious saga.

The Nissan 350Z featured a sinister look, courtesy of Veilside's full body kit, including VeilSide Andrew Evolution Vs wheels, measuring 19x9 inches front and 19x11 inches rear. The 3.5-liter V-6 received an APS twin-turbo kit, boosting output to 460 horsepower at the rear wheels. The suspension received lowering springs and the stock Brembo brakes were deemed sufficient. Overall, a well-rounded performance build.

1966 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Grand Sport: Fast Five

In a rather fitting display of teamwork, Brian and Dominic steal an incredibly rare 1966 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport off a train, which they then send flying off a cliff. The Car was used by Dominic to save Brian's life as he was hanging from a wrecked train car. Dominic soars off the train in the ’66 Corvette Grand Sport and lines the car up just close enough to allow Brian to jump onto it that they then send him flying off a cliff into a river down below.

While expensive cars have been crashed in movies before, all Corvette Gran Sports crashed in Fast 5 were replicas. Mongoose Motors built 13 replicas, of which one was a hero car, built to the highest specifications, and was auctioned off to an anonymous buyer, in 2021. It featured a fully-built, 502-cubic-inch V-8. The rest were built on a C4 chassis and two were based on a VW Bug. All except the hero's car crashed in stunts.

1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT: The Fast And The Furious

Right in the midst of the actual 1990s underground tuner scene, the bright green 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT that Brian O’Conner drove, introducing the world to The Fast And The Furious, instantly became an automotive cultural icon. This was a car that influenced many others in real life and made the statement that being bold was acceptable, encouraged, and even. Because of the parallel to the actual tuner scene happening in real-time, cars like Brian’s Eclipse were immediately relatable, for some the tuner car world is solely the space they occupy.

In the movie, agent Bilkins complained about the car's $80,000 price tag, but in reality, the Eclipse was powered by a rebuilt, 420a engine that put out 165 horsepower. There was also a 75-horsepower shot of nitrous, but other than that, most modifications were purely aesthetic. Nevertheless, this is the car that started it all and introduced Paul Walker's most iconic character.

Flip Car: Fast And Furious 6

By the time Fast And Furious 6 was released, nothing was off limits, and every possibility for death and destruction was on the table. This includes the very trick “flip cars” from Fast And Furious 6. The scene takes place in London, we find Brian and Dominic in a pair of blacked-out E60 BMW M5s chasing the villains through the city. The main villain Owen Shaw then appears with his accomplice in the sleek almost stripped F1-looking flip car.

The idea was that the front of the GM LS3-powered flip car was reinforced and designed in a way that would wedge under a normal car at speed sending the victim’s car flying into the air spinning and flipping out of control. This ultimately happens to Brian’s BMW M5 as he chases villains and gets tricked at the last moment sending him soaring out of control.

Lykan Hypersport: Furious 7

Perhaps one of the wildest scenes ever to be created for an action thriller was in Furious 7 when Dominic and Brian steal a Lykan Hypersport from one of the tallest buildings in Dubai. When the bullets start flying, so do Brian and Dominic, as they somehow gather enough speed (Hypersport can achieve 0–60 miles per hour in 2.8 seconds) to burst through the building and carry enough momentum to crash into, and land inside a neighboring building.

At this point, the throttle gets stuck on the $3.4M hypercar leading Dominic to then gather speed again for another building-to-building jump. The two leap from the screeching vehicle just in time for it to again pop out of the last building falling to the ground far below. A fleeting moment for such a capable hypercar.

1995 Nissan Skyline R33 GT-R

Out of all GT-Rs, the R33 seems to be the unloved child, largely, due to the fact it was bigger and heavier than the R32 and R34 models. Regardless, the first movie featured a yellow R33, nicknamed "Big Bird", which could make short work of any other car featured in the movie. We didn't see much of Leon's character, and he seems to have been left out of the plot, but there is an interesting story behind the yellow R33 GT-R.

It was one of the first cars, imported by MotoRex, and would have been instrumental in making Skylines legal for import before they became 25 years old. Originally, stock, the R33 became an HKS demo car, post-movie, and went through different iterations. Power ranged from 440 to 650 wheel horsepower. After attending various racing events, "Big Bird" was, reportedly, crushed by the FBI.

2007 Porsche 911 GT3 RS

Fast 5 is the first movie, in which we started seeing more European sports cars. We were also introduced to Diogo's character, who drove a blue 996 GT3 RS, which was won by Dom Toretto for Brian O'Conner. In Fast X, we see the same character driving a green Porsche 997.1 GT3 RS, which was sadly, destroyed in an explosion caused by the main antagonist, played by Jason Momoa, placing a bomb on the car’s underbelly.

The no-deceased movie character had an obvious affinity to the track-focused variant of the Porsche 911. As there are no details on the Fast and Furious fan page, surrounding the 911 GT3 RS, we have to assume it's completely stock, just like the 996 GT3 RS from FAST 5. Still, these are quite capable out of the box and it's nice to see the parallel between a car that has been modified to be fast and a car that's already fast.

1997 Mazda RX-7 FD Veilside

In Japanese car culture, the more unique - the better. For Fast and Furious fans, it didn't get more unique than Han's orange Mazda RX-7. Sung Kang's character is seemingly in partnership with the main antagonist, but we quickly learn he has his own agenda - something that's quite obvious if you have seen the fourth Fast and Furious movie, where he's working with Dom Toretto to hijack fuel trucks in the Dominican Republic.

His choice of car benefits from the full Veilside visual treatment and a catchy, orange and black color scheme. Performance modifications are rather mild, including a custom intercooler, HKS turbo kit, and colder spark plugs, resulting in 306 horsepower and 257 pound-feet (348 Nm).

1967 Ford Mustang Fastback: Fast And Furious Tokyo Drift

Perhaps one of the most Frankenstein cars of the entire saga, Sean Boswell and Han build the 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback from a shell donated by Sean’s father, and the engine from the wrecked Nissan Silvia from earlier in the movie.

The engine was actually a GT-R-derived, 2.6-liter RB26 inline-6. This coming-together moment symbolized a collaboration between cultures bringing a little bit of American Muscle to the Japanese drift scene. Ultimately because of the team's hard work and Sean’s determination to master drifting, the Nissan-powered Mustang has what it takes to bring down the drift king and once and for all set things right within the drift community.

1975 Datsun 240Z

The RB26 swap theme doesn't end with the Tokyo Drift Mustang. The Fast and Furious 10 showed us Isabel Neves - the "bad" sister to Elena Neves, who was Dom Toretto's love interest in Fast 5. Despite the two sisters painting a classic parallel between a cop and a street racer and serving as a subtle commemoration of Paul Walker, it also gave us one of the coolest cars in the franchise.

The bright-yellow, wide-body Datsun 240Z was depicted as having an RB26 engine from a Skyline GT-R. Not much is known about the build other than the actual car was powered by a Chevy small-block V-8, likely, because it was easier to source one. Apparently, some of the stunt cars were turbocharged since the Turbonetics turbocharger sticks over the bonnet and an intercooler is visible, but those could be purely aesthetic.

1992 Ford Mustang Foxbody

As soon as Dom's brother, Jacob, is introduced, the movie shows us that while both are Toretto, they are very different. The choice of car reflects that Dom is a known MOPAR enthusiast while Jacob seems to have an affinity for Ford. In F9, Jacob Toretto, played by John Cena, races his brother in a 5.0 Foxbody but loses after hitting the nitrous too soon.

In the tenth movie, we see Jacob driving the same car, albeit with obvious signs of wear and tear, to show it's been around for a while. The car doesn't feature any performance modifications that we know of, instead serving as a mobile command center for Jacob's spy endeavors, including secret compartments and devices that create fake documents. At the same time, the Foxbody's scruffy looks and 5.0 V-8 make it under the radar and dependable.

1994 Toyota Mk4 Supra: The Fast And The Furious

Some considered Dominic Toretto’s Dodge Charger to be the hero car of The Fast And The Furious. In truth, it is the Orange A80 Toyota Supra (Mk4), driven by the late Paul Walker that is the last one standing. In the famous final drag race between Dominic and Brian, both the Charger and Supra pick up extraordinary speed, the Charger doing a massive wheelie from a standstill as they quickly approach a railroad crossing.

The orange Toyota Supra is not only among the most iconic cars of the franchise, but it also resulted in the Japanese icon's rise in popularity, to the point where it became more expensive than the black Ferrari it defeated. The car was owned by Craig Lieberman and made 569 horsepower, not counting the 100-shot of nitrous. Most of the stunt cars were non-turbo automatics.

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