Fast & Furious 4: Subaru WRX STi

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What's a Fast and Furious movie without some obvious product placement? And in Fast & Furious, the most obvious product placement is Subaru's WRX STI.

The Subie got its role in F&F when the picture car coordinator went looking for a new, high-performance, rally-type car for FBI agent Brian O'Connor (super-dreamy Paul Walker) to drive near the film's climax. Basically it was a choice between the Mitsubishi Evo X and the WRX STI, and Subaru was the first one to say it would supply cars. So Subaru it was.

Subaru gave a total of seven brand-new WRX STI models to the production in exchange for prominent placement in the film. But just because they were zero-mile cars doesn't mean that they were treated with any respect by the picture car department. After all, what matters in movie-making is getting the movie made, not making sure any Subaru survives unscratched.

So all the Subies had their interiors stripped, all were fitted with straightforward tuner-style modifications from Perrin, Cobb Tuning and Veilside, and then they were sent out to work on the set. Of the seven, one was cut up into an engine-less filming buck and five were destroyed during filming. The remaining car is in a warehouse awaiting another shot at fame.

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[L3BOJ]

press 0, and just watch the bloody video without continuously pressing buttons

[chsieh27]

look at that r34 in the background.... :o

[SIRRomer0]

i only saw the r34

[MrGTR1988]

oh yes all FAST & FURIOUS cars NEED KIK ASS BODY KIT lol movie is shit !

[InkredibleClan]

@chefboyardee54 Haha you're an idiot, get your facts straight before you start correcting people

[chsieh27]

@chefboyardee54 all four taillights on the r33 are equal in diameter. This one has larger outer taillights, so it's a r34

[chefboyardee54]

@chsieh27 thats an r33

[spookz01]

@jiy2able i know what tmic and fmic are.. just i can't believe they did that much work to make it a fmic

[jiy2able]

@spookz01 FRONT MOUNT INTER-COOLER *your welcome

[spookz01]

FMIC!? WAHT!?

[gutterpunktarzan]

ran them as is, why is there a perrin frontmount intercooler on it lolol

[Aaron509213]

Hey how much did it cost body kit to put one of those 08 WRX STI