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[Living the Dream]

With all the cars they have in this serious now they are all outclassed by a Tesla Model S P100D and even the Tesla Model X P100D SUV!!! is faster than the cars they have.

A fucking 0-60 in 2.5 seconds SUV is faster than any other car they've ever had in this series.

Bias against electric cars? What's the deal? Not loud enough? 🙄🙄

 

[Steejee]

Probably because the noise an electric makes accelerating isn't as UBER MANLY POWERFUL as those slower, noisier cars.

 

[v1lla21]

Cuz they'll only get like 5 miles away in it before the car overheats.

 

[BronsonLee]

Because product placement and/or Tesla doesn't want their cars to be fucking destroyed in films

 

[ghostofsparta]

Model S and Model X are luxury cars, not sport cars

 

[Moppeh]

Product placement

Also, they drive tanks and shit now. A Tesla vehicle doesn't seem interesting or unique enough to include in those movies.

 

[fredrancour]

Cause part of loving cars too much is loving engines too much.

 

[Dynomutt]

You average car enthusiast is not buying a Tesla...

 

[SonicXtreme]

because these 'moves' have a strict no nerds allowed policy

 

[OnPoint]

Feels like that would be more of a slick, Bond thing honestly.

 

[Rosur2a]

because they mostly started filming before tesla's got popular (could see 9 having electric cars) and is more aimed at petrol heads (from fast 1 + 2)..

 

[Dalek]

They'd have to pull over every now and then and recharge their cars.

 

[Makki]

Because they sound like ass, literally like a fart in the wind. Also without flames and shifting noises it is not exciting to watch

 

[Slayven]

You average car enthusiast is not buying a Tesla...

Yeah, there is a car wiki for the FF movies and it is quite impressive. Cause they are all pretty much custom cars, except for a few.

 

[Kurdel]

Because cars in movies like those are marketing deals and Tesla isn’t lobbying hollywood to get their ads in movies(yet).

 

[Cipherr]

Lol, cars are almost not enough for that franchise anymore. They moved to submarines, tanks and planes and shit.

 

[KHarvey16]

They don't have the 15 speed transmission required to appear in the film.

 

[The Albatross]

It's all product placement. The manufacturers in these movies pay to have their cars in them.

The brand also doesn't really appeal to the car enthusiasts who might be really into Fast & Furious and who see the movies to see particular cars. Similarly, James Bond has always typically driven European or British luxury sports vehicles... And while Toyota, Honda, and Ford make some of the most popular cars on the planet, the audience typically expects James Bond to drive an Aston Martin, Audi, or BMW, even if an Acura NSX (or something) is a faster car.

Teslas are fast but, correct me if I'm wrong because I don't know much about cars, you can't really open the hood and tinker with those cars like you could do with the typical muscle or sports cars that are in Fast & Furious.

 

[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

Product placement and marketing is everywhere. Asking this question might mean you're way too sucked into it.

 

[strafer]

Because Dom wants a 10 second car and not a 10 hour car.

 

[LowSignal]

But Musk could be the next villain in F&F

 

[norm9]

Teslas are boring and would get smoked by any of the Toretto crews' cars.

And they can't do this-

Teslas need to stick to the Prius lane.

 

[Slayven]

The president of GM product design was in The Transformers movie that happened in China. I recognized him because he is a black dude, and that shit is rare as hens teeth in the industry.

 

[Big Blue]

Because Tesla didn't pay Universal.

 

[Two Words]

Cuz they'll only get like 5 miles away in it before the car overheats.

Uhh, electric cars don't have heating issues. Combustible engines are the ones with heat as a concern.

 

[Appleman]

They don't have the 15 speed transmission required to appear in the film.

Yep, need to have 62 shifts per race scene

 

[cjp]

Because they stopped being car films after the first film.

 

[Plasticine]

Can't put a NOS system in a Tesla.

 

[Gattsu25]

Because they stopped being car films after the first film.

I'd say Tokyo Drift was the first and last car movie in the franchise.

 

[StoOgE]

Because in the F8 universe Cipher already took over self-driving cars and weaponized them and Tesla would therefor be too dangerous and illegal to exist.

 

[Alcotholic]

Teslas are becoming increasingly overrated and overjoyed.

 

[FinalStageBoss]

because tesla's are boring

 

[ZOONAMI]

Because teslas are like the most generic, boring looking cars on the road? It looks like an aped Lexus IS but more boring.

 

[Seesaw15]

its about good ol' fashion AMERICAN MUSCLE cars you poser.

 

[arturo2666]

Tesla puts very little marketing dollars towards their vehicles. That is the correct answer.

 

[sirap]

I'd say Tokyo Drift was the first and last car movie in the franchise.

Yup. Tokyo Drift was pretty much car porn.

 

[Plasticine]

They'd have to pull over every now and then and recharge their cars.

It would suck having your battery die in the middle of battling a submarine.

 

[DodgyGeezerFella]

Tesla's range couldn't last the runway.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

Dom shits on Brian for driving Japanese cars over American muscle. If someone showed up in an electric car, they'd throw their empty Corona bottles at them.

 

[Slayven]

Where are you going to find a charging station in

 

[sixteen-bit]

do electric cars make that loud vrooom noise?

 

[v1lla21]

Uhh, electric cars don't have heating issues. Combustible engines are the ones with heat as a concern.

Reduced power mode is mostly what I meant. I know Tesla isn't actually gonna let the battery overheat.

 

[jon bones]

Because in the F8 universe Cipher already took over self-driving cars and weaponized them and Tesla would therefor be too dangerous and illegal to exist.

thank you for a serious answer

you goons have no respect for the arts

 

[Dishwalla]

No Tesla will ever be as cool as any of Dom's various Dodge Chargers.

 

[norm9]

F&F could potentially bankrupt Tesla by having the car blow up in the opening scene in the next movie and having Tyrese say something funny afterwards.

 

[Mushroomer25]

I could see them having electric cars as part of a future instalment, especially as they become more ubiquitous. The cars are now just props for huge explosive setpeices.

Maybe some mission where they need to run a car through a facility completely silently - so they to do it in an electric car.

 

[StoOgE]

Dom shits on Brian for driving Japanese cars over American muscle. If someone showed up in an electric car, they'd throw their empty Corona bottles at them.

Family drinks budweiser now.

 

[TAJ]

Teslas need to stick to the Prius lane.

 

[Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!]

The next F&F movie should be about Vin Diesel racing a self driving car to prove that man is better than machine and the bad guy can be an over the top Elon Musk parody.

 

[cdyhybrid]

Musk probably hasn't paid the studio