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• Volkswagen donated 4 prototype R32s and 4 Touran minivans to fulfill its pledge with Universal to plug each other's products. As a result, R32s are in the movie.
  
  
• Toyo donated 4000 tires for the movie. Roughly half were used. Rays Engineering donated its 170 Volk Racing wheels as well.
  
  
• 600 Asian extras were used during the LA filming days for the street scenes.
  
  

• The Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX, an AWD (all wheel drive) car, was converted to RWD in order to drift properly. Same thing was done with 2 of the VW R32s (which are also AWD).
  
  
• The VeilSide RX-7 driven by Han used to be a special show car built by VeilSide and crowned "Best of Show 2005" at Tokyo Auto Salon, reportedly worth $150,000. Just the custom leather interior reported cost $20,000. Universal got it for $50,000, and the crew promptly destroyed both the interior and exterior by repainting both (with spray-paint).
  
  
• One of the cars never before seen on American TV or Film is the Toyota Chaser, a Camry-sized sedan which is powered by a 2.5 liter in-line six twin turbo that also powers the Japanese version of the Lexus SC300/400, which is called the Toyota Soarer and the Japanese version of the GS300/400 the Toyota Aristo. It is also the same engine used in the 87-92 model Toyota Supra.
  
  
• The movie crew went to Japan and bought as many JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) vehicles as they needed. JDM vehicles have the steering wheel on the right.
  
  
• Over 100 cars were destroyed/wrecked during the filming of this movie.
  
  
• Neela's IM Chat username is "Drift_Girl" written in Japanese katakana.
  
  
• Cameo: [Keiichi Tsuchiya] as a fisherman.
  
  
• All of the drifting in the movie was performed by professional drivers, not created by CGI. As reported in a recent Sport Compact Car, Rhys Millen, his father Rod, and a handful of other famous rally and drift racers consistently performed amazing drift sequences for the movie.
  
  
• Rhys Millen, the film's main stunt driver, can be seen as one of the passengers aboard the airplane that takes Shaun Boswell to Tokyo.
  
  
• Sean's car is an Mitsubishi Evolution 8 but was slightly disguised to look like an Evolution 9.
  
  

• SPOILER: The car driven by Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) at the end of the film is "Hammer," a 1970 Plymouth Road Runner built by Steve Strope of Pure Vision Design in Simi Valley, California. The construction of this car was followed on the TLC series "Rides" and the car was featured in Hot Rod Magazine. The cameo was a last minute re-shoot after primary filming was completed, so the car was rented by the production rather than purchased for its appearance. And it was cast at the suggestion of Hot Rod Magazine's editor.
  
  
• SPOILER: When Sean abandons his father's house and goes crash in Han's (~54min) place you can hear people talking in Portuguese (with Brazilian accent) saying "Hey Han take a look here, you have a visitor"
  
  

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