| When Universal launched the Fast and the Furious | | | | both previous Fast and Furious movies. One of |
| series of street racing films, they only expected | | | | the cars used in the previous Fast and Furious |
| only a modest return. Although street racing was | | | | movie was Dominic Toretto's red RX. |
| getting a lot of press attention and the popularity | | | | In the sequel to the Fast & Furious, 2 Fast, 2 |
| of modified imports were exploding, the movies | | | | Furious, the character Roman Pierce was given a |
| was never expected to be a blockbuster. | | | | new partner in his adventure, the Mitsubishi Eclipse |
| However, the film was an unexpected summer | | | | Spyder with a Snyper Body Kit. The car was |
| hit. It grossed $40,089,015 on its opening | | | | personally picked by John Singleton for Pierce to |
| weekend, surpassing the film's $38 million budget. | | | | drive and the car came equipped with a Vortech |
| It may have been the media buzz and gear head | | | | Supercharger V5 G trim, HKS Blow valve, HKS |
| buzz surrounding the movies that caused an | | | | AFR (fuel management controller), RC engineering |
| explosion in the box office and gave global insight | | | | 270cc injectors, Boost Variant Fuel Pressure |
| and curiosity into the supercharged social scene of | | | | Regulator with Gauge and a Magnecor 8.5mil |
| racing and customizing cars. | | | | Competition wires and a license plate that said |
| Two of the films' stars that caused the movies | | | | "H8TER." |
| to thunder in the box office, were the Mazda | | | | The Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder had the most |
| RX7 and the Mitsubishi Eclipse. One of Japan's | | | | elaborate paint job of any of the cars built for |
| largest automotive aftermarket companies, | | | | any of the Fast & Furious movies. The |
| Veilside, built the Mazda RX7 that was later filmed | | | | patchwork design on the car were not graphics |
| in Fast and Furious to show off its "Fortune" | | | | but painted on with House of Kolors paint. It was |
| wide-body kit at the 2005 Tokyo Auto Salon. At | | | | one of the few cars in the film that wasn't |
| the time of the show, the car was painted red, | | | | destroyed although a total of four were made for |
| and it had everything a show car should - an HKS | | | | the filming. It is rumored that the car exhaust |
| T04Z single-turbo conversion kit, a massive | | | | was swapped with a Subaru WRX. |
| intercooler shoved under the front bumper, big | | | | Like all cars in the Fast & Furious series, both |
| Rotora brakes, A'PEXi coil-over shocks and vast | | | | cars were heavily reinforced with a roll cage for |
| 19-inch Andrew Evo-V wheels inside P255/30ZR19 | | | | bridge jumping. Also there was so much neon |
| front and P305/25ZR19 rear Toyo Proxes radials. | | | | lighting used in the cars that a technical specialist |
| For the Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the | | | | whose expertise was in shooting neon on film |
| same Mazda RX7 was painted Sunset Orange | | | | was kept on set at all times. This obviously cost a |
| Pearl and Veilside built three more visual clones, | | | | lot more and cut into the budget but it made the |
| including one that was destined for destruction | | | | film authentic. |
| using a previous Mazda RX7 that had appeared in | | | | |