No RX-8 Love in Fast and the Furious 3
 

Looks like the only 8 we get is crashed into a few other cars, although it looks to be a black one towards the bottom of the page.

http://www.evolicious.com/spypics
...if you even care, which i do not:bootyshak

Nice spy pics. That 8 was probably an innocent bystander in the film for it to be stock with out the typical F&F decals and sh*t like that. I enjoyed the 1st one because I had my FD at the time and the FD got a lot of love in that one. The 2nd one was a glorified Hip Hop video that made me sick to my stomach--hopefully the third will be somewhere in between the two.

Looks like the 350Z is going to be the big car in this edition. The muffler on the Mustang in the last photo is a nice touch.......wait a minute, that looks like h*ll!

Thankfully there won't be an 8 in this "film".

Could it be because our 8's aren't very "Fast or Furious" ?
:FIREdevil

They were filming alot of these scenes right next to my apartment in downtown. It was pretty neat, as they had done up the entire city to look like Tokyo, so all the signs, traffic lights, exterior lighting, etc were changed to look like Japan. The only scene I managed to catch a glimpse of before being chased off was an NSX crashing :(

They don't have enough 350z's. They need more. I only say like 17 of them.

The second and third pics from the bottom both look like there's a dark colored RX8 in them. Not sure if I'm right, but that front car in the picture with the cars lined up sure does seem to have fender arches similar to the 8. Though, I wouldn't be surprised if that was just some heinous bodykit on a Civic or something.

Oh well, I'm sure I'll end up seeing it. I'm a glutton for punishment and what better way to be punished than by watching a terrible automotive movie!? :wallbash:

Well I've only watched about 10 minutes of the first one and I didn't see anything that I would consider "Fast and Furious" maybe I just missed the good parts :rollingla ?

As for the 8 not being considered "Fast and Furious" THANK YOU :bowdown: MAZDA . But maybe that was your point.

The funniest part about these movies is the parking lot of the theater after the movies over. I've never heard so many burn-outs, revving engines and fart-can mufflers in my life. LOL! Ricefest I tell ya!!! :scared:

Hahaha, yeah after seeing the last one with a group of friends, we hung around outside for a while and it was absolutely hilarious. Best part was when a ricer peeled out of the parking garage just as a cop drove by - WHOOPS! :rollingla Unfortunately, it seemed the cop either didn't see him or didn't care. Though, it was obvious the ricer saw him - that fart can got real quiet after having that run in.

Seriously though, how stupid can you possibly be? I can still remember the barrage of news reports warning that the police were going to be stepping up patrols in response to this movie. Why in the hell would you STILL go out and be an idiot?

Wow you have good eyes. I would have never seen them if you hadn't said anything.

I'm 90% sure those are RX-8's. And one of them looks like it has a park-bench style wing.

thank god there are no other 8's in this movie.

i'm surprised it's not a silver 8

...did I miss anyone mentioning the obvious red one? Oh, and is that a teal 7 in the second to last shot?

bah, the second one was horrendous! The first one had its scenes I suppose but hopefully this isn't as bad as "2 fast 2 furious"

What is the orange and black car? I can't tell...

Pretty sure that's an NSX that's been put in the hands of a ricer. Took me a while to accept that there are such atrocities out there in the world, but alas, there are movies like this.

I'm pretty sure that's an 8. The fenders on the 7 aren't flared at all really and I doubt the lines on any body kit would wind up being so close to the lines of the 8. Unfortunately, these movies seem to have found our beloved rotaries and are doing horrible things to them as we speak. :(

I think the black and orange one and the teal one are FDs.

Yeah the black n orange ones kinda have tail lights like an FD... but really hard to tell. The 3rd from last pic does have a teal FD, the 2nd from last pic has a blue RX8 at the front of the pack... I think the light makes it look tealish maybe

So do I. Look at the door handles and the shape of the roof. Also consider the size.

Well I think the RX8 having a presence in the movie is important to keep it in the public consciousness in real life. It reassures all the teenage shitheads out there that the RX8 is relevant and a part of the current trend.

But then again, if the 8 was in this movie, many more teens would get the 8 and try to mod and street race it. and sadly... rice it up

InsuranceRates++;

Hmm, after looking at the pics again, I'm starting to wonder if the 8 and 7 are a team, like the RedSuns (or at least Keisuke and Ryosuke) from Initial D. They look like they're both painted in a similar manner.

Also, with that black and orange...thing, I can see the possibility of it being a 7, but it almost looks like they've changed it so much that they're just going to credit it as something else. All the other cars have maintained their obvious identities, wonder why this one's so wacky.

hay guys. i believe that besides the red one, there is one more 8 in the pictures.
a black 8(possible) right in front of a blue0 GTR32.

the orange one is an fd....its the veilside fortune wide body kit....big bucks for that kit!

This ridiculous series of movies may be the answer to this thread:
https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-discussion-3/why-does-everyone-want-race-me-79456/

not the funny thing is being in ontario ca after ff movie u see 50 r so cops pulling anyone over with rims or exhaust

Thats gotta be an 8 on the left side of this pic

http://www.evolicious.com/evolicious...pyshots_14.jpg

-Steakboy

yeah saw these pics on another site....the rx8 isnt a car ricers want, cause its now 'fast' enough...i say good.

could have done wonders for the resale value though if it was the hero car and the movie was good (see supra resale value pre/post FATF)

Second last pic, one car looks a lot like an 8.

i concur, and its a blueish color

-Steakboy

All I have to say is good, our car is too good for that POS movie franchise. :/

OMG THAT WING... is a NO NO

just an fyi they threw a RB26DETT

http://www.cycloneinjapan.com/upload...RBMustang2.jpg

the orange car in that night shot isnt an rx7(FD), it is a Nissan 240SX. that is the only car that has the light that looks similar to the FD. i recognize it because 2 of my friends have one.

oooh nevermind, my bad for talkin about the wrong picture.

http://veilside.com/veilsideusa/aero...ortuneFups.jpg
http://veilside.com/veilsideusa/aero...7fortuneFs.jpg http://veilside.com/veilsideusa/aero...7fortuneSs.jpg
http://veilside.com/veilsideusa/aero...ortuneRups.jpg http://veilside.com/veilsideusa/aero...7fortuneRs.jpg

compare them now

http://www.evolicious.com/evolicious...pyshots_03.jpg
http://www.evolicious.com/evolicious...pyshots_05.jpg
http://www.evolicious.com/evolicious...pyshots_06.jpg
http://www.evolicious.com/evolicious...pyshots_12.jpg

and see here for yourself!


now do you believe they are the fd?

Poor cars... you'll be freed soon.

Funny, I didn't see anyone arguing about what they were.

he was :bootyshak

He said he was talking about another picture.

that is the faboulous body kit...super expensive .... original fd has one of a kind rims... actually four of 1kind :mdrmed:

Hah, at first I was like, "What? CLearly an FD," but then I realized I said the wrong pic. I meant the third* to last one, the back of the 7. The second to last pic appears to have a darkish blue 8, not really teal.

I wonder what happens to all of the cars. Are they sold off, gutted, what happens. Do they simply rent a bunch of the cars to use? Many of them are painted exactly the same so clearly they're not simply 'borrowing' from the public. Heh, so they auction off the cars and you run into the guy running the same identical 350z as you in the street, from the decals to the headers - trippy.

It seems they put them into the show circuit for a while and then sell them off. I'm not sure that any of them are actually street legal, so I don't know what becomes of them afterwards.

I know why they didn't use RX8 in the movie.

please don't keep us in suspense any longer. :rolleyes:

haven't we spotted one possibly two in the lineups? a black one and a blueish one?

-Steakboy

Yeah, but not everyone reads the whole thread before posting.