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...so how about everyone quits makin fun of what everyone else drives and just admire them for trying...
Tony:
The Fast and the Furious isn't about 'trying' - it's about lying.
That's the point.
There is a U.S. muscle-car V-8 camp and a Japanese/Europe 4-cylinder camp in street racing. The Fast and the Furious is a movie that depicts street racing as being dominated by insanely modified 4-cylinder cars that run 10's and then take a cruise around town. That's dishonest and annoying to Mustangers who work hard to run 12's and still be streetable, as many are.
It's a 'ricer' film and it's bogus.
Yes, as I stated in my previous post, ALL 'car' movies fake stuff and that includes Bullitt and Gone in 60 Seconds. We know that, Tony. We make fun of them, too, but enjoy those films because it's 'our' cars up there on the screen doing absurd things that we wish they could do.
Fast and Furious was a 'ricer' film, and I'm certain the messageboards on the 'ricer' websites are loaded with ohhh 's and ahhhh's and pages of comments about how wonderful (and accurate) the movie was. So what?
This is a Mustang site and we don't care much for little grocery-getters with puky 4-cylinder engines that run 17's on a good day pretending to be 'fast' cars.
A V-8 Mustang is fast, even stock, and when modded (without Nitrous Oxide or turbos) it can easily run 12's N/A. Honda's don't do that. We prefer Mustangs.
Everyone is free to do what they can with what they have, Japanese or American car, 4 cylinder or V-8 but it doesn't mean we at Mustang Works have to pretend that the film in question (F&F) was anywhere near accurate about the cars depicted or the nature of street racing in general.
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