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[cjp]

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.

Dom needs to pay respect to his RX-7.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

Family drinks budweiser now.

Oh really? Guess it's time for a shared Anheuser-Buschverse

 

[Husker86]

How do Teslas handle? I know the movies are mostly straight line racing (well, when they were about racing), but just curious.

 

[Nafai1123]

They don't sound cool.

They aren't actually fast (they just accelerate quickly).

They can't really be modded.

 

[sirap]

Also lets not pretend that any of these cars (outside of the ones in FF1 and Tokyo Drift) perform even remotely close to their real-life counterparts.

Accurate car physics went out the window long ago. This ain't rFactor. If they put a Tesla in the next movie, you can bet your ass it'll sound like V8s.

 

[Dishwalla]

Dom needs to pay respect to his RX-7.

I know right? He just abandoned that thing in a parking garage somewhere in downtown LA. Haven't seen it since.

 

[Rockandrollclown]

Real world performance isn't really a factor in these movies right? Teslas just don't look cool.

 

[matrix-cat]

They don't go VROOOM and Dom can't work on them in his garage on the weekend wearing a tank top. But mostly the VROOOM thing.

 

[Catdaddy]

Tesla hasn't paid the studio to include them

 

[Finn of Ooo]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but tesla's aren't faster, they just have much greater torque so the acceleration is better but they don't top out at speeds any higher than the other vehicles.

 

[Ri'Orius]

Also lets not pretend that any of these cars (outside of the ones in FF1 and Tokyo Drift) perform even remotely close to their real-life counterparts.

Accurate car physics went out the window long ago. This ain't rFactor. If they put a Tesla in the next movie, you can bet your ass it'll sound like V8s.

Nah, if they put a Tesla in the next movie, it'll be an all-black silent-engine stealth car. Always steer into the skid in action movies.

 

[Living the Dream]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but tesla's aren't faster, they just have much greater torque so the acceleration is better but they don't top out at speeds any higher than the other vehicles.

Tesla S P100D is 0-60 in 2.1 and the X P100D is 0-60 in 2.5 seconds. It literally out paces every car they've ever shown in any of these movies. Their top speed is 155 MPH which they never go near in the movies anyways.

 

[WaterAstro]

I don't remember, but did they have the fastest hybrid supercars?

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

It took you 7 months to think up this witty thread? It's not like they were all driving Veyrons in every movie.

 

[Dinokill]

I don't understand why people say their cars have like a 50 speed manual transmission. If you are racing some place with a lot of turns and corners you will need to upshift and downshift a lot. I think people saying that doesn't know how a transmission works. lmao

 

[RuGalz]

Even if they have EVs in the movie, paddle shifter isn't as cool looking.

 

[BattleMonkey]

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

Average car enthusiast can't afford any of the cars in these movies

 

[GameAddict411]

People who like Fast and Furious movies don't like grocery shopping cars like the Tesla. While it's true that they can be extremely quick when it comes to hitting 60, but that's it. They don't sound or look amazing. Also car lovers love big powerful cars with massive V8, V10, and V12 engines.

 

[88random]

Tesla cars are fast, but they are not furious

 

[Flo_Evans]

I could have sworn there was a model S in one of them?

But yeah its more about classic muscle cars and tuner imports.

I'm sure the "nerdy" guy could tune one up with some hacked firmware and make it defy physics though.

edit: yeah it was in 4 https://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/30/michelle-rodriguez-impressed-by-tesla-roadster-in-fast-and-furi/ not a main car but it was in there.

 

[STI]

It will be a villain car. I'm calling it.

 

[HStallion]

Where are you going to find a charging station in

Vin Diesal is standing on it.

 

[v1lla21]

People who like Fast and Furious movies don't like grocery shopping cars like the Tesla. While it's true that they can be extremely quick when it comes to hitting 60, but that's it. They don't sound or look amazing. Also car lovers love big powerful cars with massive V8, V10, and V12 engines.

Plenty of cars in the series didn't have those big engines people keep talking about.

 

[HStallion]

It will be a villain car. I'm calling it.

Knight Rider hyper car with all kinds of gadgets voiced by menacing Hasslehoff

 

[Dinokill]

People who like Fast and Furious movies don't like grocery shopping cars like the Tesla. While it's true that they can be extremely quick when it comes to hitting 60, but that's it. They don't sound or look amazing. Also car lovers love big powerful cars with massive V8, V10, and V12 engines.

The vast majority is cars in the series are Turbocharged/NA I4 and V6.

 

[tbm24]

Plenty of cars in the series didn't have those big engines people keep talking about.

I think people seem to forget that the series began with tuners. The first movie even made it a point to shit on Ferrari with a Supra. Same for the second and third movie.

 

[Dishwalla]

Yeah the only characters that prominently uses V8 muscle cars regularly is Dom and Letty.

 

[v1lla21]

I think people seem to forget that the series began with tuners. The first movie even made it a point to shit on Ferrari with a Supra. Same for the second and third movie.

Even the latest movie had four bangers in it. Lol.

 

[CosmicGroinPull]

Now you've done it. The next one will have a self-driving AI that's become self aware and intent on destroying the world.

 

[Chozoman]

There was a thorough dissection of this omission in a classic Simpsons episode...

 

[therealist]

Lol Tesla's aren't fast. They are quick. There's a difference.

 

[XGRaViSmOrSX]

They top out at 150mph. Fast acceleration yes, but they will get reeled in by any real super car. They also don't make loud noises, no one gets hyped by electric motor whine.

 

[televator]

Cuz you can't mod batteries with T3 turbos and nawz liek u can a tyte Spoon motor, yo!

 

[lem0n]

A question only a Gaffer could ask. Lmao.

 

[ryutaro's mama]

People who like Fast and Furious movies don't like grocery shopping cars like the Tesla. While it's true that they can be extremely quick when it comes to hitting 60, but that's it. They don't sound or look amazing. Also car lovers love big powerful cars with massive V8, V10, and V12 engines.

Tell me more about what "People who like Fast and Furious movies don't like".

Enlighten me.

 

[Morts]

Car enthusiasts I know scoff at electric cars because they don't make any noise.

 

[Pagusas]

What are the torque figures on a Tesla? What would happen if you harpooned one by 6 other cards and each tried to pool it in the opposite direction?

 

[Harp]

A full blown Tesla cost 130k. Thats actually not cool at all. Lambos, Porsches, Ferrari are expensive but that look amazing. Tesla lots of cool stuff. But no one is imagining drifting a Tesla.

 

[Dishwalla]

There was a thorough dissection of this omission in a classic Simpsons episode...

Did you just call this "a classic Simpsons episode"?

 

[kitchenmotors]

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

Why people don’t get this, is beyond me.

 

[Chozoman]

Did you just call this "a classic Simpsons episode"?

YMMV...just like a Tesla.

 

[Bitch Pudding]

Do they even sell those cars to 'real men'?

 

[itwasTuesday]

You forget, Tej made NOS grappling hooks. He got this.

 

[mike6467]

Tesla's aren't sports cars.

 

[Hoo-doo]

I'd dig it, they could have the FX guys make the Teslas sound like fucking Starship Enterprise when they take off if they want to. They could show them get modded as well, the writers could go crazy with it.

The sheer insecurity in these threads is always a fun sight as well. EV's are here to stay, folks, get used to it.
The 'no noise' complaint is slowly going to evaporate once people realize that sheer power without any noise is fucking sci-fi levels of awesome.

 

[Johnny Cage In The Shower]

What are the torque figures on a Tesla? What would happen if you harpooned one by 6 other cards and each tried to pool it in the opposite direction?

Well let's hope Dom's not in the car when they "pool" it, Electric cars and swimming pools can be a deadly, fatal combination.

 

[Pagusas]

Why people don't get this, is beyond me.

Probably because part of their marketing in the begining was boasting about the Model S being the fastest 0-60 production car in the world or something like that.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/07/technology/motor-trend-tesla-acceleration/index.html

The Tesla Model S can go from zero to 60 faster than any other street-legal car around. That includes Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Bugattis and any other crazy exotic sports car you can think of.

 

[Lord Error]

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

Teslas do actually stall if you push them too hard, and they do it fairly quickly even. There's a video where someone was driving Tesla against some other fast car, and winning first few times, but after a few launches, Tesla got into some kind of safe mode, where high speed was no longer allowed due to battery discharging too quickly, or overheating, or something like that.

 

[Pagusas]

Well let's hope Dom's not in the car when they "pool" it, Electric cars and swimming pools can be a deadly, fatal combination.

 

[enzo_gt]

F&F films rarely have new cars outside of product placements, and usually pull from models with history or an enthusiast cultures built around them.

Teslas ain't there yet.