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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    09/23/09

    In reply to This Fast And Furious 4 Skyline R34 Is Powered By A VW Bug Engine
    You laugh, but I would drive this, just to piss off every purist ever.
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    Image of avconsumer2 avconsumer2
    09/23/09

    @FP: Your Volvo is awesome! Anyway: Pretty sure you'd just get laughed at actually.
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    Image of crsdfr crsdfr
    09/24/09

    @avconsumer2: Case in point.
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    Tanshanomi promoted this comment crsdfr was starred crsdfr was unstarred
    Image of Hotrodelectric Hotrodelectric
    09/22/09

    In reply to This Fast And Furious 4 Skyline R34 Is Powered By A VW Bug Engine
    Something that you guys aren't considering: federal and state law. Importing a complete, running Skyline would have been a legal hell for the producers. I can't quote chapter and verse, but it seems to me that a Skyline could have only been here on a very limited timeframe, then it was to be either scrapped- with the feds watching and verifying- or it would have needed to be re-exported, again with the feds watching. However, simply bringing in a bodyshell to drape on a scratch built chassis with a cheap, easily obtained, LEGAL motor was an easy way to go. No fed or state oversight, and they have a paid-for prop car for the next installment.
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    FP: Your Volvo is awesome! Anyway promoted this comment Hotrodelectric was starred Hotrodelectric was unstarred
    Image of MaWeiTao MaWeiTao
    09/22/09

    In reply to This Fast And Furious 4 Skyline R34 Is Powered By A VW Bug Engine
    Actually, I think that car or something similar might have been used in previous Fast and Furious movies.

    At first glance it seems absurd. But I'm guessing the donor Skyline was probably in an accident and gutted. It likely was a lot easier and cheaper to acquire the car that way and import it into the US. It likely didn't even come from Japan. And they just dropped the cheapest engine they could find in the back, likely purchased in Mexico. I'm sure this engine is a lot easier to service and keep running than an actual Skyline engine.

    Hell, I bet the thing was assembled in Mexico, where labor must be dirt cheap and Beetle engines are plentiful. Which makes me wonder if the body wasn't acquired there as well. Some well-to-do guy imported the Skyline and ultimately wrecked it.
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    Image of Dave7 Dave7
    09/22/09

    In reply to This Fast And Furious 4 Skyline R34 Is Powered By A VW Bug Engine
    Makes no sense - these are available quite cheap from Japan - cheaper than building that VW thing anyway. So what if its not road legal - its for a movie.
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    Alfisted promoted this comment Dave7 was starred Dave7 was unstarred
    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    09/22/09

    @Dave7: It's not a VW Thing, it's based on a Beetle.
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    Image of Uncle Bo Uncle Bo
    09/22/09

    In reply to This Fast And Furious 4 Skyline R34 Is Powered By A VW Bug Engine
    Hey JDM fanboi's..... where is your God now?
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    Uncle Bo was starred Uncle Bo was unstarred
    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    09/22/09

    In reply to This Fast And Furious 4 Skyline R34 Is Powered By A VW Bug Engine
    To everybody who posted that it's a fiberglass shell, no not it's not. The original post explains that the prop cars were (real steel) GTS-T bodies fitted with an aftermarket body kit to resemble the GT-R. Look at the video and it's clearly not fiberglass from the inside.

    BTW, they put a body on a VW Buggy to facility jumping/rough terrain stunts.
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    Edited by Tanshanomi at 09/22/09 2:15 PM Tanshanomi was starred Tanshanomi was unstarred
    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    09/22/09

    @Tanshanomi: faciliTATE. Stupid hands.
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    Tanshanomi was starred Tanshanomi was unstarred
    Image of PHIL PHIL
    09/22/09

    In reply to This Fast And Furious 4 Skyline R34 Is Powered By A VW Bug Engine
    It makes sense, since the actors in the movies are also just glued together carboard/fiberglass cut outs too.
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    discontinuuity is happy that everything has been set right in the Jalopverse. Now all we need is more of engineerd's Brefas Scotch! promoted this comment PHIL was starred PHIL was unstarred
    Image of Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it
    09/22/09

    In reply to This Fast And Furious 4 Skyline R34 Is Powered By A VW Bug Engine
    Is that a Volksamatic? I don't think Paul Walker can drive stick
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    Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it was starred Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it was unstarred
    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    09/22/09

    @Bentoboxx, Now part owner of General Motors: Vin Diesel says otherwise
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    Alfisted was starred Alfisted was unstarred
    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    09/22/09

    In reply to This Fast And Furious 4 Skyline R34 Is Powered By A VW Bug Engine

    Behold, the magic that is Hollywood!

    Next, you'll try to tell me that it wasn't a real Fiero 2M4 that Jeannie drove in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    09/22/09

    @smalleyxb122: Guess what, the real Fiero was actually the 250 GT California.
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    Syrax was starred Syrax was unstarred
    Image of TimTim TimTim
    09/22/09

    In reply to This Fast And Furious 4 Skyline R34 Is Powered By A VW Bug Engine
    I bet we could spend a week calling out movie car faux pas: Like in 88 Minutes where one scene Pacino's Porsche has turbo twists, but by the time he gets to the parking garage it's sporting BBS LMs. Or later when they blow it up you get a clear view of the undercarriage and they have a square-tube rear axle, with fake tail pipes welded right to it. This is the kind of stuff that makes you rewind and watch over and over again... ruins the whole movie. Which, for Fast and Furious, was a physical impossibility, so why not use a skyline bodied Type 1 kit car?
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    TimTim was starred TimTim was unstarred
    Image of MOPAR-MAN MOPAR-MAN
    09/22/09

    In reply to This Fast And Furious 4 Skyline R34 Is Powered By A VW Bug Engine
    I have never watched any of the "Slow and Curious" movies. That's all.
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    Scandinavian Flick promoted this comment MOPAR-MAN was starred MOPAR-MAN was unstarred
    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    09/22/09

    @MOPAR-MAN: You are missing out on some of the best comedies of all time.
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    Scandinavian Flick was starred Scandinavian Flick was unstarred
    Image of gabeedwards01 gabeedwards01
    09/22/09

    @Scandinavian Flick: We use them for our drinking games. You take a shot everytime someone says something stupid, and you take a drink everytime a car magically accelerates after a side-by-side at top speed.
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    Scandinavian Flick promoted this comment gabeedwards01 was starred gabeedwards01 was unstarred
    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    09/22/09

    @gabeedwards01: I would have to be a bit more specific than that, otherwise I would be dead of alcohol poisoning before the movie was half over.

    "Nitro meth is for pussies!"
    "You looked under my hood!?"
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    Scandinavian Flick was starred Scandinavian Flick was unstarred
    Image of YellowDucati YellowDucati
    09/22/09

    In reply to This Fast And Furious 4 Skyline R34 Is Powered By A VW Bug Engine
    Dang that YellowDucati guy is cool
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    acarr260 promoted this comment YellowDucati was starred YellowDucati was unstarred
    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/22/09

    In reply to This Fast And Furious 4 Skyline R34 Is Powered By A VW Bug Engine
    Most rolling-display movie cars do this. The beetle rear engine setup is easy to install, simple to maintain, widely available, and reliable. If the car is mostly green-screened or CGI, as in F&F, it doesn't need anything more. It's enough to get it moving for a few shots, and to move it from one shot to another.

    In other shocking news, many of Hollywood's finest breasts aren't real either.

    It's okay. Take a moment to come to terms with that. We'll understand.
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    Deartháir II was starred Deartháir II was unstarred
    Image of uncleben uncleben
    09/22/09

    @Deartháir II: The Return: Wait what about Scarlett Johansson? Say it ain't so...
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    Deartháir II: The Return promoted this comment uncleben was starred uncleben was unstarred
    Image of acarr260 acarr260
    09/22/09

    @Deartháir II: The Return: Next you're going to tell me that the Easter Bunny isn't real...
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    acarr260 was starred acarr260 was unstarred
    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    09/22/09

    @Deartháir II: The Return: I would have expected Ford or Chevy small block V-8 and a 3 speed auto, but I guess with the VW pan you get the whole suspension too.
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    P161911 probably shoudn't have was starred P161911 probably shoudn't have was unstarred
    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/22/09

    @P161911: And it's small enough to fit in any movie car, and can be installed in a fiberglass replica car in an afternoon. By a trained monkey.

    Seriously, I hear that's what the monkey from Friends is doing now to make ends meet.
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    Deartháir II was starred Deartháir II was unstarred
    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/22/09

    @uncleben: Not my Scarlett. She's perfect. No modifications needed.
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    Deartháir II was starred Deartháir II was unstarred
    Image of uncleben uncleben
    09/22/09

    @Deartháir II: The Return: Dam that Van Wilder. Some guys get all the luck.

    /rage consumes me!
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    uncleben was starred uncleben was unstarred
    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    09/22/09

    @Deartháir II: The Return: What about Fred Gailey´s pants filling?
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    BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ was starred BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ was unstarred
    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/22/09

    @uncleben: I'm okay with that. At least she chose a proper Canadian boy.
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    Deartháir II was starred Deartháir II was unstarred
    Image of Ash78, tryptophanatic Ash78, tryptophanatic
    09/22/09

    In reply to This Fast And Furious 4 Skyline R34 Is Powered By A VW Bug Engine
    Needs more "Type-III" stickers in Kanji
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    Ash78, tryptophanatic was starred Ash78, tryptophanatic was unstarred
    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    09/22/09

    In reply to This Fast And Furious 4 Skyline R34 Is Powered By A VW Bug Engine
    Makes sense to me. Beetles rarely blow transmissions.
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    Alfisted was starred Alfisted was unstarred
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