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Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
One Of The Dumbest Scenes In 'The Fast And The Furious' Makes Sense In The Script
The original "The Fast And The Furious" (not the new Folgers-themed film) tried its best to be a very accurate movie about tuner culture, and sometimes it did a passable job. The rest of the time the movie did substantially worse — we all remember Brian's floor falling off in that first big race — but one moment has always stuck out as particularly egregious. Brian rolls up to Dom's shop with a Supra on a trailer, and everyone is stunned that this A80 has a 2JZ-GE engine under its hood: the only engine we got in that car, and the boring non-turbo version to boot. As it turns out, though, there was an earlier draft of the movie where this scene made perfect sense. The orange Supra was famously a personal car of Craig Lieberman, credited as the "import car consultant" for "The Fast And The Furious," but the original script for the film never called for a Supra. In fact, it never called for anything 2J-powered at all. Back in the script's "Blue draft" of May 2000, Brian's hero car was a Nissan 240SX pulled from an LAPD impound lot — a 240SX with a six-cylinder Skyline engine swapped in. No sh*t indeed. Read more: SEMA Was Full Of Wild Concepts In 2002 Had Brian rolled up to Dom's shop in an already-swapped car — an idea eventually reused for "Tokyo Drift," where Sean Boswell crashes Han's RB26-swapped S15 Silvia and eventually reuses its engine in his Mustang — the line would make sense. No one expects to pop the hood on a 240SX and see a Skyline's RB sitting there. A KA24, sure; an SR20 is neat but expected. An I6 out of a Skyline is neat, regardless of which mill from the line it ends up being. By the time of the script's next revision just two weeks later, according to Lieberman, Brian's final hero car changed to a Mitsubishi Eclipse. Neither the Eclipse nor the 240SX had enough open space in the roof to make Brian's rescue of Vince really work, though, so Lieberman's Supra and its targa roof ended up getting the hero role instead. For some reason, the engine-surprise line was left in, and we got the nonsensical scene that remains in the final movie. But at some point, early on, that line did actually make sense. Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Automotive
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What Did You Want As Your First Car (And What Did You End Up With)?
Getting your first car is a rite of passage for most people. Having the kind of freedom that a car gives you at a young age is like nothing else, and it's an even bigger deal when you're into cars. Getting your first ride as a car enthusiast can help shape what cars you're into for years to come. My 14-year-old son recently surprised me (and made me proud) by telling me he wants his first car to be a first-gen Lexus LS. He's big into JDM cars so he has some... interesting plans for an LS if he gets one. Plans that include a backseat chandelier. It may be weird, but it's cool and I get it, especially since he seems to get his love for JDM cars from me. He may not necessarily end up with an LS, though. What we want and what we end up with are usually different, especially when it comes to cars. And this kid's love for JDM cars is wide ranging. He could very well end up with an S14 Nissan Silvia/240SX, a car he loves just as much as an LS. That is basically what happened to me — I wanted one thing but the realities of life meant I ended up with a car I would have never expected to drive. Read more: All Aboard South Korea's New $100 Billion Baby-Making Trains Toyota introduced Scion to the U.S. market in 2003. I was a freshman in high school then and was immediately smitten with the brand. Its marketing was brilliant. From DJ booths handing out excellent mixtapes at auto shows to special events and a magazine highlighting JDM and tuner culture, they knew how to reach the youths and Millennials like me were their prime target. Scion came over with two models initially: the xA hatch and the boxy xB, which I loved. I had to have one. I begged my mom to get me one, but sadly she didn't think I should have a brand new car that young, so I had to watch from afar as other people my age got to drive around in the boxy Japanese car that I loved. I wouldn't actually get a car until I was nearly finished with high school, and it came by way of a family friend. My first car was a dark blue2003 Acura 3.2 TL. It had over 100,000 miles on it, and being an Acura we weren't really worried about reliability. While I was grateful for the car, I was a teenager and this wasn't a TL Type S. I saw it as an old man's car, something some well off man somewhere bought and kept for years to ferry him and his wife around to dinner and to and from the golf course. I eventually came around to liking the TL, but it took a while. Now we ask you, Jalopnik readers. What did you want your first car to be and, if you eventually got one, what did you end up with? It'll be surprising to see if anyone actually ended up with the thing they actually wanted. I'll try not to get too jealous. Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Automotive
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Drifters Try Their Hands At Drag Racing
⚡️ Read the full article on Motorious Drift cars and drag cars are very similar in many ways. They both have a ridiculous amount of horsepower, lightweight bodies, and their drivers have to be some of the toughest and most focused people out there to be able to control their vehicle. However, there is one quite noticeable distinction between drift cars and dragsters, drift cars usually make a spectacle out of sliding rather than shooting off like a rocket ship and a straight line. For this reason, hoonigan has been wondering if a dry drift car could really deliver the same sort of show and performance as a fully blooded drag car. Watch American muscle cars showdown here. That's exactly where these two drivers come and play, both drifters in their fully customized and thoroughly over powered drift cars, competing in a head to head drag race to see who's car is faster in a straight line. One of these cars is a 240SX, a widely popular choice for fans of the sport. The other is a fifth generation Chevrolet Camaro whose overall body desired might be a matter of subjectivity but its performance certainly can't be described as anything less than stellar. Under the hood of the Camaro is a massive 7 L V8 engine compared to the 240 SX which has a 6.7 L V8 engine. Both of these power houses are based on the LS platform which means they crank out a ton of power and make sliding around a drift track super easy. Oddly enough, the Camaro underway is the 240 SX at just 2600 pounds compared to the 240s 3080. At the end of the day, the 240SX ended up just barely beating out the Camaro the second and first time, likely due to its increased weight which usually transfers to better control at higher speeds. When all of a sudden, the drifters got to do what they do best, tandem donuts. As most commenters point out, probably the most impressive part of the entire video is win Pierre, the driver in the Camaro, pulls off an absolutely wild reverse entry to the tandem donuts and finishes off by drifting into the sunset. Sign in to access your portfolio
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30-01-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Barn Find Nissan 240SX Transforms Into A Beauty
Read the full story on Backfire News Since the late 1990s, a Nissan 240SX barn find was kept in a literal barn without any care or attention paid to it. That's right, we once again have a barn find car that isn't in a garage, warehouse, or field, but in a real deal even more mind blowing is the son-in-law of the guy who owns the car says it was parked there before he was born 'for absolutely no reason.' Usually, a barn find is left and forgotten because it broke big time, like the engine or transmission blew up, and the owner procrastinated fixing it. But this little Nissan was apparently running and driving when it was just parked. It doesn't help that the portion of the barn it was left in is open to the outside. Not only does the thing wear a thick coating of magical barn find dust which instantly increases the value of some cars, it is covered in leaves and twigs. In a way it's like a barn find and field find rolled into one. Thankfully, the 240SX is in good hands with WD Detailing coming to give it the full treatment. The shop does these YouTube deals where they will fully detail a car for free if they can make a video about it. So far, we've only see one person act ungrateful for such a service. Just learning the color of the Nissan is a surprise because it's so thickly coated in gunk. But once they get it in the shop and starting washing away the dirt, a beautiful coat of gray paint is revealed. What's even more amazing is the 240SX is entirely stock. We know a lot of younger kids who have watched this detail think the Nissan would be fun to install one of those annoying cat-back systems, some dumb wing, maybe a giant turbo system, then go attend a foolish street takeover event where they can destroy the tires (well, new ones, because the original ones have serious dry rot). We think this thing should be kept original and put in a museum so we can all remember when Nissan used to make cheap, fun cars. Image via WD Detailing/YouTube
