Corrected entry: Dom's RX-7 that he uses in Fast and the Furious appears with it's new Latino Owner in 2 Fast 2 Furious. Compare the side graphics of both cars. It's the same.
Corrected entry: Does anyone else think it odd to have hydraulics and huge sound systems in "race" cars? Hydraulics add a considerable amount of weight to a car. The last thing you want in a race is extra weight. More than one car is seen racing with big sound systems. Brian's and Rome's car both have big sound systems.
Correction: Note that these are "Street Racers" and many wouldn't know the difference between a "Race Car" and a "Rice-Burner." Also, many of the cars are built to show-off or attract Girls, so sacrificing handling for Kick-@$$ sound systems and Neon that add weight is seen as a fair trade-off.
Corrected entry: In the scene when they get the package from Verone's Ferrari, Roman gets out a revolver and shoots the cops car about sixteen times without reloading. A revolver holds a maximum of six bullets. (00:33:25)
Correction: Roman had a semi-automatic pistol, which can hold 16. Fabio had a revolver.
Corrected entry: If Eva knew she would be collecting Brian and Roman's licenses to run a background check wouldn't they give them aliases so Veron wouldn't know who their real names and could have them killed or hunt them down himself when he got out?
Correction: If she did do that wouldn't Verone think it would be strange that when he had them followed he was surprised that other people called them other names like at Tej's. By the time Verone gets out they could be in witness protection or moved somewhere.
Corrected entry: There would've been a much easier way for Monica to escape from the bad guys. There is one shot inside the houseboat where you can see some small stairs leading up to the roof of the boat, so she really needn't have climbed out of that small window in the roof of the bathroom.
Correction: Yes, but the stairs were such an obvious place to hide, Enrique and Roberto were sure to search it.
Corrected entry: When Paul Walker is racing the Lancer Evo against Fonzi's muscle car half way through the film, there is a shot of the Evo pedals which have the Nissan GT-R logo on them.
Correction: Some tuners have been known (and documented around the web, like in beaterz.com and other Anti-Ricer sites) to mix parts, stickers, and logos from various cars and after-market parts sources to create the "illusion" that they have said equipment, or to appear they have a certain model (i.e. put on Type-R stickers on Domestic Accura Integras, or Skyline GT-R Badges on Honda Civics) or for completely different reasons. Perhaps Walker's character liked the GT-R pedals for racing reasons (easier to push, or less chance to get caught in when changing pedals).
Corrected entry: In the scene where all the racers are supposedly speeding down I-75 in South Florida, the shot widens to show some very tall mountains in the background. There are no tall mountains South Florida. The highest point in Florida is at a whopping 345ft above sea level, unless you count the rides at amusement parks in Orlando. Obviously this was filmed somewhere else.
Correction: The woman in the background speaking to Markham says "I've got them heading south on I-95," not I-75.
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, during the first race, if you look at the Camo Supra, the neon lights under the car keep changing colours. It goes green, then red, then back to green and then back to red (and it keeps doing this the whole race.)
Correction: Color change neon lights are available.
Corrected entry: At the start, when Brian and the Supra-racer reach the bridge (near the end of the race), we see a shot of the speedometer of the Supra (orange car). It's just reached the 180kph mark, and it's still rising. However, a short while later, we see Brian's speedometer and it's just cleared 160kph. How could Brian's car have overtaken (or jumped, in this case) over the Supra when it was travelling slower? (00:12:05)
Correction: Brian uses his NOS to get a great boost and pass over the Supra; he is going slower so that the Supra would go farther and give him more space to accelerate.
Corrected entry: After Brian and Roman pick up the package from the red Ferrari in the impound lot, Brian tells Roman to "put his blouse on". He does but doesn't button it and gets in the car. Then, in the next scene, when Roman gets out the car, his shirt is perfectly buttoned. He would have no time inside the car to button his shirt seeing as they are travelling over 100mph.
Correction: It took Brian and Roman about 5 minutes of film time to reach the boat yard. Roman would have had plenty of time to button his shirt.
Corrected entry: When, in the final chase scene, Brian O'Connor is chasing the boat, he is in a channel (you can see the opposite margin) but after he does the car jumping stunt and finishes fighting all the bad guys you can't see land anywhere around the boat.
Correction: The reason why you can't see land around the boat anymore is because it just exited a channel. Watch the scenery around the boat to see this.
Corrected entry: When Brian O'connor smacks the gate of the supposedly real impound lot with his car he hits the gate going nearly 100 MPH. This would definitely put a huge dent or something on his car, but when he stops the front end is shown and it is completely intact.
Correction: First thing, he isn't going 100 mph, I'd say baredly 50 mph. If you have the DVD, go frame by frame, you can see that the bumper is damage in the first two shots that you can see the car. Basically there is a dent that you can see in the first 2 shots of the scene.
Corrected entry: Towards the end of the film when Paul Walker calls Ludacris on his cell phone, he uses the walkie talkie, not his personal cell phone. You can't make regular calls on an ordinary walkie talkie.
Correction: Tej's phone is a Nextel cell/CB radio. It's a phone that can work on the CB band. I would Tej could possibly still be in range of the CB, I think some have a range of 2 miles.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Brian does the stare-and-drive on Monica, when he stops his car is about 4 inches before the white line, yet in the next shot it's halfway past the white line.
Correction: It's quite possible Brian makes a rolling stop.
Corrected entry: When Rome and Brian are driving in the impound lot, watch the segment after Rome laughs out loud. Before they make a right turn, the Eclipse was following the Evo. When the camera switches to the next shot, the two cars are side by side. (00:33:36)
Correction: When they both arrive at the impound lot, you'll notice that Brian puts a little drift when he parks (slides), and Rome just stops in angle, slowing down.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Brian and Rome are Racing Fonzie and Fabio, Brian appears to shift down as he is turning around the barrels. If you watch closely, you can see, all he is really doing is moving his hand in the shifting motion. (Note, this mistake happens several other times while Brian is driving the EVO.)
Correction: Look closer, right before Brian pulls the U-Turn around the barrels, he is in fact shifting the shifter into either neutral or a lower gear then pulling the e-brake so that he can power slide the Evo.
Corrected entry: In the opening scene, Paul Walker shifts his car an awful lot of times. When you're driving 100 miles per hour, you should be in fifth (highest) gear. A few standards have six gears, but even so, if you're driving 100MPH, shifting is unnecessary.
Correction: Brian shifts so often because they take two sharp curves. The Skyline has six gears. When they take the first curve, every racer drops down to second gear. They get back up to fifth (or sixth, in the Skyline's case), then take another curve, drop back to second, and shift back up again.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Paul Walker and Tyrese are saying good-bye to Eva Mendes, Paul Walker says "bye Eva" where in reality he should have said "bye Monica".
Correction: They never say good bye to Monica (Eva). She just says nice working with you and he says you too.
Corrected entry: In the intro race, the racers all seem to have 5,6 or 7 gears, but Brian has at least 12, as every scene he is in, it shows him changing a gear...wierd car don't ya reckon?
Correction: He is down shifting to get more power and speed and then upshifting again.
Corrected entry: The black guy who drives the supra wipes out in the first major drag, does some serious damage to the car when it hits the advertisement structure, maybe even a write-off. A day or so later when they leave the huge warehouse with 100 or so cars he comes out with his now intact supra.
Correction: As seen in the first race, Slapjack is pretty familiar with the street racing world. He could have easily fixed the Supra. It was, in fact, at least 2 or 3 days, which would have given him plenty of time to repair it.
Correction: Rx-7's are not exactly rare cars. There are hundreds if not thousands of them. It's no surprise that there are two cars of the same make in separate movies.
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