Random Coolest Cars from the Fast and the Furious Movies (27 items)

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  (#3) 1995 Toyota Supra Turbo MkIV

  If any car from the first movie could lay claim to being legitimate competition for Dom’s Charger, it’s the 2JZ Supra that Paul Walker spent most of the film building. The Turbo Supra was then and remains Japan’s muscle-car king. Wheelies aside, the last race of the movie is pretty plausible as long as you don’t look at the Supra’s rear tires. With a decent set of drag slicks, two stages of nitrous, and some standard engine tuning, this orange sticker vector could probably keep up with Dom’s Charger on its best day.

  The day of the last race, however, wasn't its best, considering that it threw a rod just before hitting a truck. Still, this Japanese muscle cars broke the stereotype most Americans held about Japanese iron. Or, aluminum, as it were. 
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  (#13) 2003 Mitsubishi "Drift" EVO

  Generally, I’m doing my best to avoid repeating models on this list, but the red EVO Lucas Black “drove” in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift has to be mentioned. It was a purpose-built, rear-drive drift machine, and its few scenes contained some of the best un-cut and un-CGI-enhanced drifting of the entire movie.

  Also, the EVO was helmed by Japan’s real-life drift king, Keiichi Tsuchiya. You can’t see him in the car, but you can see him as the fisherman in the blue jacket who smirks as Lucas Black’s character spins out attempting to drift the EVO. That footage, by the way, was originally an outtake of Keiichi himself in one of his rare drift fails. 
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  (#20) 2011 Bugatti Veyron

  Would this list be complete without “The World’s Fastest Volkswagen”? You know, a couple of years ago I might have been inclined to write off the Veyron from Furious 7 as “overpriced hyper trash.” These days, though, having peered into the diamond-crusted eyes of the Lykan, Bugatti’s Veyron starts looking like the Audi S4 of million-dollar hyper cars: subtle, understated and tastefully restrained.  
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  (#7) 2013 W Motors Lykan HyperSport

  A big part of my soul wants to write this car from Furious 7 off as just vulgar, overpriced, European trash. And you could make a pretty good case for that, considering the fact that a good chunk of this Lebanese Lykan’s $3.4 million price tag comes from the 420 fifteen-carat diamonds in its headlights. Yes, real diamonds. In the headlights. Manufacturer W Motors also offers an interior combination of sapphires and diamonds. Somehow, the fact that it’s got 720 horsepower from a RUF-tuned Porsche flat six, a 2.8-second 0 to 60 time, and 239 mph top speed doesn’t help.

  All that said: The Lykan is provocatively gorgeous, especially in red. Then again, Nero probably would have said the same thing of Rome burning. 
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  (#23) 1971 Jensen Interceptor

  The 1971 Jensen Interceptor from Fast & Furious 6 has got rear drive, a 440 Chrysler big block, and a front end that looks like it was lifted straight from a Dodge Challenger. No, it’s not an American muscle car. The Jensen Interceptor actually came straight from Birmingham, England. A legend in its own time, the Interceptor and its absurdly huge engine almost instantly became a bedroom pinup for little boys throughout Europe.

  The Interceptor was the sibling to the Jensen FF, the first production car in the world to ever use full-time all-wheel drive. The Interceptor was rear drive, though. Because, burnouts. 

   

  The fact that it made its debut in the series as Letty’s ride seems somehow prescient. The Jensen Interceptor is, after all, Europe’s most direct equivalent to Dom’s trademark Charger. It even uses the same engine. How romantic.
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  (#1) 1999 Nissan R34 Skyline GT-R

  Brian O’Connor’s Skyline wasn’t the first Skyline to appear in The Fast and the Furious franchise (that honor belongs to “Big Bird,” the yellow, grey market import R33 that briefly appeared in the original), but the R34 would go on to become the signature ride of Paul Walker’s character.

  It showed up in the opening sequence of 2 Fast 2 Furious, and lasted all of ten minutes before it was wrecked. But what a glorious ten minutes it was! If you pay close attention during that sequence, you can actually see the GT-R’s incredible HICAS rear-steering system at work, allowing it to pull off some of the most stunning handling maneuvers ever committed to film. 

  Since then, despite having seen a few Mitsubishis come and go, Brian O’Connor has forever been associated with Nissan and the GT-R badge.

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