Where Would We Be??????
 

If we had never seen any of the Fast and Furious Trilogy?

Me, maybe still driving my old pickup.:bonk:

Not living my life, 10 seconds at a time, and for that time I would be free.

I designed shirts for Mugen in 93 while still in high school daydreaming about adding an intake to a civic or maybe a mx-6. I read SCC when it was still mostly black and white. "Drifted" silvias in 98 while stationed in Okinawa. Was "racing" in the hills of socal right around the same time the first FATF came out. Joined Nasioc when it was still Imprezer's Lair.

I guess I'd probably be in the same place. I don't really think that movie made any impact on people like me that just appreciated the technical aspects of this hobby along with a little legal racing/spirited driving. Those movies were more for the whole HIN/Hard Parking/Hell-Frush scene which I never understood. I thought that scene was pretty much dead until this car came along...

I'm not here to judge but when I was in high school during the mid-late 90s my best friend's Dad had 6 RX7s. One track car, one DD, two parts cars, and one for each one of his two sons. He did all his own work and taught us all kinds of things in the process.

That garage and his wrenching did more for me as a car enthusiast than those goofy movies did. In fact when it came out I recall thinking that the whole 'scene' thing was ridiculous and it was only when I was in college that I came to like it because we would get AMAZINGLY stoned and just laugh our asses off at Vin Diesel.

I get that it did move a lot of people towards the culture and thats a good thing for the most part. But for me - it really just highlighted many of things gave car enthusiasts a bad name.

I'd still be a buster

I've always liked cars, but the F&F series solidified me wanting to modify my own. I was still in high school when the 1st F&F came out and didn't have a car. But I read a lot of 'tuner magazines' like Import Tuner and the like. I thought those were the coolest cars ever back then. Nowadays, I cringe at the sight of gaudy paint jobs and any sort of body kit. I, like most car guys not born in to it or introduced at a really young age, had a ricer phase. I've since grown out of it, and I prefer my cars subdued and understated. I now value handling and feel over sheer straight line acceleration and 1/4 mile times. I'll take a slow 911SC or a Carrera 3.2 over a 370Z any day of the week.

I'm sure many of you guys have matured in your tastes on how cars should be. But I can't help but think that the F&F series influenced a whole generation of would be car enthusiasts.

Taking the bus........booyah.

Don't want to make you feel like we are dinosaurs, but a majority of us were in "the scene" far before the series. I believe I started modding Hondas back in 98.

I was just about to go to Middle School when that movie came out. I was always in the lifted truck scene living down in Alabama. Not many cars that are modded. Not compared to trucks anyways. I don't think it would've changed how I am now if the movies hadn't come out in all honesty.

Never bothered to watch any of the 6 movies so far, nor do I care for it.

-alex

Movie didnt have much impact on me. The cars were more rice then nice in those movies. I did like the first one and the last 1 or 2.

I think it was gran turismo and need for speed that got me into modding cars.

Let's see, it taught us to stay away from the Asian part of the city, that it IS possible to overnight parts from Japan, pizza boys don't call the cops right away when their route is blocked, anyone who can work a PowerPoint should go to MIT, and that girls named MONICAAAAAAAAAA don't keep their words when you race for their tits.

So without it, I think America would crumble.

So many hipsters in here. HIPSTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRS

I thought the car meets and racing and fighting and egomania looked dangerous and scary. stay away