The interquel “Turbo-Charged Prelude” (2003) hints that Toretto ditched the Supra, since there’s an article about O’Connor shown that talks about his car having been found abandoned. The car is used to rescue Vince when another truck-heist goes south, and later to hunt down (and eventually kill) Johnny Tran after Jesse is killed in a drive-by at Toretto’s house.Īt last the Supra is used in the final race, which O’Connor wins against Toretto in his Charger (which crashes in a spectacular way), and then given to Toretto so he can make his escape from the arriving police (and to finally pay O’Connor’s debt). With some help from Mia they turn the sorry wreck into the famous orange car, giving Toretto the 10-second-car he demanded. The two end up in Little Saigon where they’re found by the movie’s bad guy Johnny Tran who proceeds to riddle the car with bullets causing it to blow up.Īfter the Eclipse meets an explosive end at the hands of Tran O’Connor owes Toretto a car, and turns up at the Toretto’s garage with a flatbed-truck with a rusted-out Supra on the back.
In the movie the car (famously) suffers an engine-failure during the very first race (that somehow rips away part of the undercarriage), but still works well enough to serve as a getaway-car for O’Connor and Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) when the cops arrive at the scene of the race. wrapped in Toyo Tires with the measures 225/40/ZR18Īnother car was relieved of its drivetrain and wheels and placed on a special rig on top of a flatbed-truck allowing the crew to film Walker in the car while a stunt-driver in the truck made it look like the car skidded and drifted as the script demanded it. A custom made carbon fiber front splitterĪt least one stunt-car had a rollcage and a fly-off handbrake.Īll five cars used in the movie stood on 18 inch “SE7EN”-wheels by Axis Sport Tuning Inc.
A Robo Car Armor Eclipse Kit consisting of a new front and rear bumper as well as new side skirts. The car(s) used had the turbocharged 420a-engine known from the Dodge Neon, with a double-bottle NOS-system and a cold air intake (the practicality of which is argued about). Later in the movie the car is said to be worth 80.000$, which seems a bit much for the specs and modifications it actually had. One is in Pennsylvania and the other somewhere in France.We first meet Paul Walker’s character (under the alias “Brian Earl Spilner”) a few minutes into the 2001’ movie “The Fast and The Furious” sitting in this green car in the empty parking lot of the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, (presumably) training for quarter mile races. Two of the four movie cars are known to survive, according to Lieberman.
The sound was modified in postproduction with exhaust notes from a Honda S2000 and Subaru WRX-the Evo's arch rival. Unfortunately for Evo fans, the wide-open throttle noises used in that scene weren't from that car, according to Lieberman. The Evo was featured prominently in "2 Fast 2 Furious," including a scene where it was raced against a Yenko Camaro. That car was eventually rented by Universal and driven by O'Connor earlier in the film, so the Evos got additional graphics to distinguish them. The cars were also painted in a retina-searing green (it's House of Kolor Lime Gold Kandy, in case you were wondering), with graphics that started out identical to those of Lieberman's personal R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R. Two "hero" cars used in close-up shots also got underflow neon, and all four cars were converted to rear-wheel drive to make them easier to slide around, Lieberman said. Those taillights were actually made for the non-Evo Mitsubishi Lancer, so bodywork had to be altered to get them to fit. The cars got body kits, new wheels and rear spoilers, and new taillights from an automotive supplier that had paid for product placement in the film. Eventually, Mitsubishi offered four examples of the outgoing Evo VII originally slated for a European rally team.īecause the Evo VII was never sold in the U.S., finding parts to modify the cars was difficult, Lieberman said. Filming took place in 2002, but the Evo VIII wasn't scheduled to launch in the United States until 2003.
In contrast, it was unclear how the production crew would get any Evos. Universal was considering using the SRT-4, as Dodge was willing to make pre-production cars available.