Fast & Furious 4: The Cars and Trucks

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InsideLineVideo | March 31, 2009

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InsideLineVideo | March 31, 2009

FAST & FURIOUS COVERAGE @ INSIDELINE.COM:
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/...

Opens Friday, April 3!!!

In the movie business, cars are expendable. They're not respected, nowhere near cherished, subject to abuse and constantly thrashed. It doesn't matter if the cars are Ferraris or Ford Crown Vics, the job of any vehicle in a movie is to tell the story effectively — even if it must be destroyed in order to do so. And in a movie like Fast & Furious (opening April 3) the cars do a lot of storytelling. We should know; we went behind the scenes.

In October of 2007, Dennis McCarthy was hired as the picture car coordinator for Fast & Furious, and after leasing a 60,000-square-foot shop in Southern California's San Fernando Valley and hiring a staff of mechanics and fabricators, he got started building the 240 or so cars that would be needed for the production — to portray about a dozen on-screen cars tied to a character. After all, duplicates were needed of every car to ensure the production never had to slow down; to perform specific stunts; and to be wrecked in the most spectacular way possible.

Using documentation from the production's picture car department and in-person interviews with McCarthy and his hard-working team of fabricators, Inside Line has created the most comprehensive guide to this year's hottest movie cars. Here it is: Inside Line's guide to the cars and trucks of Fast & Furious.

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  • They shouldnt be allowed to destroy so many cars like that Gran Torino...theres not alot left. they should be treated as endangered animals. thumbs up if you agree.

    I want that fucking Road Runner.

  • i cried when i saw this clip,so many cars were wrecked,this is so sad....

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  • this movie sucked IMO

  • the sound of that car wow!! 0:28 ;)

  • @BumbleBeeGS ik. its sad. but im actually ok with this compared to how many chargers were destroyed during the filming of the dukes of hazard...

  • @bhshawk0710 standard cars are the cheapest of that kind of car, if they were to use all the premium package cars.......they'd be broke.....a good Grand National GNX now a days will run you over $55,000 but you can find a standard one for about ehh $3,000

  • ok at 1:25 they talk about Grand Nationals and how they used alot of them in filming, they used standerd Gran National's, there were over 50,000 of them made....but in the movie the made them look like they were Grand National GNX's, wich only about 500 were made...to simplify it for you, they made a hoe into a house wife....sorta speak

  • @makealilmoney

    Then why whenever they introduce a car do they say how many knock off's they built?

  • @bhshawk0710 wtf r u talking about? they said they didnt use the f bomb camaro....all these cars are legit, just not special ones....

  • @zacfabbian id a say a 454

  • @nickobren1 Didn't you listen? All the muscle cars wrecked were knock offs that they built, so no legitimate muscle cars were destroyed.

  • what engine does the truck have

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