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Originally Posted by chanomatik
haha It is a Dirty Dancing quote! I just thought I'd mix it up. That quote would fit, though, wouldn't it? Somewhere. hahaha
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What is this, the VW New Beetle forums?
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Originally Posted by chanomatik
I always wondered about the credentials of the tuners that were consulted for modifying these cars. I remember watching a behind-the-scenes for Tokyo Drift where they tried to make the mods actual, working mods. Whereas the first two F&F they didn't seem to care at all, as long as the cars ran for a few seconds of camera time and looked good.
Justin Lin seems to appreciate SOME level of quality in his work.
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I think Justin Lin has used the same car guys for all of his movies, as I recognize the same guy in all of the behind-the-scenes DVD specials.
In Tokyo Drift, you pretty much had to go with high-powered cars to drift. It's not like straightline movie action, which doesn't always rely on the cars having tons of power to look good on film. But with the fourth and fifth movies not having that same element, they may or may not have still used modded cars.
The first two movies, on the other hand, had a lot of weaksauce cars (compared to what was being portrayed), often times not even the "good" versions of the factory car (i.e. non-turbo models when a turbo variant was available). But just be glad that Universal was persuaded by the technical consultants to not accept Dodge's sponsorship of the second movie, which would have resulted in the hero cars being Dodge SRT-4s (and not the Evo VII) -- I heard this straight from Craig Lieberman when I met him in 2008 at a GT-R meet.