Wow, I just watched the original movie so I'd be all up on the background for next week Friday. I learned so much!! I think we should all take a moment to appreciate what we've learned from this movie. I'll start:

1. There's hundreds of ricers. Anywhere. (And if your friends have rice too, then you drive in formation. Always.)
2. There's also a lot of big empty spaces to hang out and drive: old factories, city streets, abandoned military complexes...
3. If you can't find a big open space, just get 100s of your friends to block a city street. For miles. No one will notice for a long time, except maybe a pizza guy.
4. Buy NOS brand, because those bottles never need to be refilled.
5. If you run too much NOS, the worst that will happen is parts of your car blow off. After the race you can drive off, even outrun cops, no problem.
6. A suped-up Supra will beat a Ferrari, hang with a Charger, and outrun motorcycles. It might take some of that never-ending NOS though.
7. In car chases, streets are pretty much empty.
8. Cops have nice digs.
9. If your Charger throws a rod, you can still make it go faster!
10. Run a car into a truck, flip over a few times, get out... feel fine.

Anybody else?

 

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I think I'm coming, unless it is decided that we're doing some recording for the CD that night... :blah: And unless the showing is too early and I can't make it after work...

Here's more things I learned ( this is fun!):
11. If you lean the seats back, there's enough room in a compact car to stretch out and have great sex.
12. If you rev your car up enough, flames shoot out the tailpipes.
13. Good help is hard to find. So hard, in fact, that sometimes the boss allows you to live in the shop.

 

Every aftermarket part avaliable, a huge single turbo conversion, weight reduction, and a Toyota Supra can beat a Ferrari 355 by a few inches

I seriously would have liked to see a real race. That ferrari would have been bus lengths behind the supra in a couple seconds, easy... ah well, WHY make something seem normal and real, right? Lets make it as corny as possible with the dudes passing people on the shoulders and on dirty all while still full throttle and no tirespin..

 

What happened to the Ferrari after they raced??? Did anyone else pick up on that??? Another editing error I guess. They pull into that seafood restaurant and the black convertible that goes by was a Jag XKR, not a F355 Spyder.?.?

 

"Double clutching" is not only used to match revs when down-shifting, but it should also be used when up-shifting..........................................otherwis e, you won't win a race!!! (yet I always thought that clutching is hardly necessary when racing??...............but hey, what do I know? ).

Another favourite of mine is Vin Diesel's "big race" against the train at the end! I haven't seen the movie for awhile, nor have I actually "counted" the shifts, but if I recall, it seems to me that he's in 4th (assuming) and downshifts back into 3rd to get more speed?? I've seen the movie 2 or 3 times, and every time I've always felt like there were 1 too many shifts during that race??