I'm shooting the stunt unit on The Fast and The Furious 3 "Tokyo Drift" and thought you guys would like to see a couple of the cars in the movie... We're shooting parts of the movie in downtown LA and the rest in Japan... You'll notice all the cars are right hand drive... and the driving direction is reversed... You gotta love Hollywood... Where else in the world can you shut down city streets and race cars in the middle of the night... LOL

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Very cool. Think you could sneak a crossfire cameo appearance in there somewhere?

 

IMO... the sport compact thing is in decline. Can anyone who has been to SEMA verify? I heard that despite a smattering of Civics at SEMA this year, there was also no shortage of 300C/Magnums, Hummers, Mustangs, and what I will grudgingly call "bling". Disappointingly, I heard there were also few Corvettes in the crowd. Maybe (just maybe) people have finally figured out that spending $40K on an old Civic to make it nearly as fast as a stock, clapped-out 15-year-old Mustang 5.0L makes little sense. IMO, spend the money on a lightly used WRX if you need a sport compact, and stay clear away from the APC section at Pep Boys. From experience, I will say that Asian performance can be done in a subtle, tasteful, and satisfying way without breaking the bank.

 

Hey Derek, I think "bobs" idea is great . Couldn't you "sneak" your car in there, in a safe location parked on the street where everybody can at least get a glimpse of it. That would be cool!

 

I think this is the way most are doing it now. Plus the rice fad is now over but the people are still making fast 4 bangers. People where making them before the imports, like the old turbo Dodges, and will keep making them. They are losing some to the V8 mainly just because they have upped the game and have put some real power in them at a price many can afford. Sema in my book has always had more bling than power mods just for the pure fact bling looks better on the floor.

 

no way! i don't want the crossfire compared to that crap. :P

 

No can do... It has to be a right hand drive for this movie... They spent a fortune on the cars 3-4 of each for the crash sequences... I always have the car on my regular show "JOEY"... Nearly every time we go out on location you'll see my little black Crossfire somewhere in the shot... LOL

 

That "crap" is pretty f-ing fast... Even though I hate Japanese cars, Hell I used to hate german cars, now I own them... LOL

I swore I would never own a Japanese car, but I ordered A Lotus Exige (british) and low and behold it's got a 243 HP Toyota 4 banger engine...

What the heck?

 

Former NXMX5, who said anything about comparing it? I just thought it would add some class to the set, that's all.
Hey Derek, now I'm going to have to start watching "JOEY"!

 

Don't bother... the show is less than stellar... LOL... Its a paycheck...

 

Just curious, who is going to be the main star in F&F3? I assume there will be another lame rapper thrown in there somewhere.

 

Lucas Black, Daniel Booko, Brandon Brendel, Zachery Ty Bryan... Nobody of note... LOL

 

...I can see this series drifting into a long line of sequels, most of which I assume will be the "made for DVD" kind after this one bombs at the box office. I have to think that the whole ricer thing is in decline. As with any trend, once people find out about it (and everyone is into it), the "hipness" is gone. Those of us in a certain age bracket need only ask our parents about the ****-van craze of the seventies to glimpse how irrational, tasteless, and generally out of hand this stuff can get. Fast and Furious is our generation's ****-van craze.

 

Juddz....Great analogy!! I never would have put those two cultures together. But you're absolutely right, they did, and are, getting out of hand. All it takes is one look at NOPI television, and it's easy to see that all hope of rationality, and good taste is lost.
My question is always, "Where does all the money come from that they spend on those tuners? And why?" For the same amount of money some of those guys have in their cars, they could be driving, Vipers, Z06s, Mercedes etc. Is it simply an insurance thing?

 

I think most of the done up cover cars that get the ink at Nopi and elsewhere are put together by tuner shops and other private companies, to market high powered stereos, cold air intakes, vinyl graphics, neon lighting, fake carbon fiber, mufflers, aftermarket tail lamps, etc. The girls dancing around in tube tops are yet more of this same marketing to the "X-Box Generation".

I think most of the cars that real 17-year-old "sport compact" kids own might get a muffler and some LED washer nozzles (and that's about it). I am not saying they don't exist, but there are very few people out there crazy enough to actually spend $40K on a Civic with the intent of racing it or showing it off. For that kind of money, why not buy a lightly used Porsche 911, barely off the lot Corvette, or even the occasionally seen 10-year-old Viper? Anyone with real sense would.

And, I have thought the same thing about insurance rates driving the trend. Probably those who buy the muffler and the APC stickers are trying to spruce up the only car their folks would let them have (usually an Asian econobox of some stripe). Those few who spend big bucks to street race probably have little regard for high insurance costs, as breaking the law in anything by a wide margin is contrary to getting a good rate. Or, maybe I am just spending a lot of time rationalizing yet more proof that some people just have no darn sense.

 

Here's one of the hero cars from the movie... Sorry for the low quality image I uploaded it from my cell phone. https://www.crossfireforum.org/galle...cat/500/page/1

I'm not real fond of the whole ricer world either, but what the heck, to each his own...

 

I think you have got it right. It seems like when it has just rained that is when I meet one of the "17-year-old 'sport compact' kids" at a traffic light. They always stop on an angle and rev up their engines just waiting for the light to change. The problem is; I have excellent traction on wet streets and they don't. I hear their tires spin and I pull away...but only just enough to bate them. Next light same scenario, but this time I humble them...really badly. Now is the time where you can hear the evil laugh coming from my car.