Car/driving lessons from Fast 5
Car/driving lessons from Fast 5
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PhillT

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2,489 posts

255 months

Wednesday 4th May 2011
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Saw Fast 5 yesterday and rather enjoyed it, despite the preposterousness of it all.
Here are some things I've learned as a result. Feel free to add more...

- To win a street race, change gear just before the line.
- If a 996 GT3 RS isn't fast or nimble enough, try a Supra
- In a fight between moving bus and stationary car deliberately placed just in front of it, bus loses badly.
- If you're so broke that you can't afford any food, things still aren't bad enough to sell your hugely desirable vintage Skyline and buy a lesser mode of transport.
- The new Dodge Charger has a surprisingly large amount of torque.

GT Kodiak

2,907 posts

209 months

Wednesday 4th May 2011
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- Spindly armed, Ex-forces, super-model-esque women can manhandle a car through a complex whilst drifting better than any man ever could.
- Race Spec Corvette C2's can self repair on the go.
- The Dodge Charger "Lazarus" project is in full effect.
- The new dodge charger is not subject to the laws of physics, buy one now for a free pair of gravity boots and a "go faster" stripe!

Z06George

2,519 posts

219 months

Wednesday 4th May 2011
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-No matter where you are there is an unlimited supply of body panels and parts for a '70 Charger, how many times has it been wrecked or dmamged then repaired?

james_gt3rs

4,816 posts

221 months

Wednesday 4th May 2011
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Handbrake turns are the fastest way around a corner.

Guvernator

14,487 posts

195 months

Wednesday 4th May 2011
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Every car has at least 15 gears. To go faster just change up another gear.

If you are ever drag racing, never go all out and use full throttle at the beginning. Rather than putting your foot to the floor as soon as possible as you would normally do in a real race, always hold a little something back. That way, in the event that you are in danger of being overtaken, then and only then should you mash the accelarator to the floor to surprise the other racers with your extra turn of speed.

A 10 second quarter mile race will always take at least a couple of minutes to complete.

Ozone

3,112 posts

217 months

Thursday 5th May 2011
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It doesn't matter that you don't have any money at all, you will still be able to buy the latest computer equipment and scanning/listening devices, petrol, tyres, welding/cutting gear etc.

You will be able to call on your multiskilled mates at anytime who will come immediately and lay their life down for you. (One of whom will die).

You wil be able to find large groups of street racers and scantily clad chicks in multistorey car parks in any city in the world.

Cop chicks love big time criminals.




I enjoyed the film thumbup

Goochie

5,801 posts

249 months

Thursday 5th May 2011
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- If you think your girlfriend is dead, dont worry about it because she has a twin sister in Germany who just robbed a convoy of trucks (Only those who diddnt leap from their seats as the credits roll will get this one)

Dyl

1,303 posts

240 months

Thursday 5th May 2011
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After stealing four Police cars, instead of getting away as quickly and quietly as possible, line up across the four lane road and drag race - but remember one of you must put the sirens/lights on for full effect!

Rotary Madness

2,285 posts

216 months

Thursday 5th May 2011
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PhillT said:
Saw Fast 5 yesterday and rather enjoyed it, despite the preposterousness of it all.
Here are some things I've learned as a result. Feel free to add more...

- To win a street race, change gear just before the line.
- If a 996 GT3 RS isn't fast or nimble enough, try a Supra
- In a fight between moving bus and stationary car deliberately placed just in front of it, bus loses badly.
- If you're so broke that you can't afford any food, things still aren't bad enough to sell your hugely desirable vintage Skyline and buy a lesser mode of transport.
- The new Dodge Charger has a surprisingly large amount of torque.
Priorities wink

Guvernator

14,487 posts

195 months

Thursday 5th May 2011
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Rotary Madness said:
PhillT said:
Saw Fast 5 yesterday and rather enjoyed it, despite the preposterousness of it all.
Here are some things I've learned as a result. Feel free to add more...

- To win a street race, change gear just before the line.
- If a 996 GT3 RS isn't fast or nimble enough, try a Supra
- In a fight between moving bus and stationary car deliberately placed just in front of it, bus loses badly.
- If you're so broke that you can't afford any food, things still aren't bad enough to sell your hugely desirable vintage Skyline and buy a lesser mode of transport.
- The new Dodge Charger has a surprisingly large amount of torque.
Priorities wink
But why were they so broke in the first place? As soon as they decided they were going to do the bank job, they managed to win a GT3 RS in a street race along with about 10 other high performance or customised cars worth several hundred thousand within a few minutes. Why didn't they do this in the first place? In fact why did they even bother risking life and limb with the dangerous bank job when they could have been out winning cars every night, they would have been millonaires within a month.

Goochie

5,801 posts

249 months

Thursday 5th May 2011
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Guvernator said:
But why were they so broke in the first place? As soon as they decided they were going to do the bank job, they managed to win a GT3 RS in a street race along with about 10 other high performance or customised cars worth several hundred thousand within a few minutes. Why didn't they do this in the first place? In fact why did they even bother risking life and limb with the dangerous bank job when they could have been out winning cars every night, they would have been millonaires within a month.
Funniest thing I've read on here in a long time!

Guvernator

14,487 posts

195 months

Thursday 5th May 2011
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Goochie said:
Guvernator said:
But why were they so broke in the first place? As soon as they decided they were going to do the bank job, they managed to win a GT3 RS in a street race along with about 10 other high performance or customised cars worth several hundred thousand within a few minutes. Why didn't they do this in the first place? In fact why did they even bother risking life and limb with the dangerous bank job when they could have been out winning cars every night, they would have been millonaires within a month.
Funniest thing I've read on here in a long time!
I realise it's just a film and all but these kinds of plot holes just make me laugh. How can you be so broke, you can't afford to eat one minute and then the next be driving around in £100k plus cars which you just "won" in a race or for that matter be able to afford to chuck tens of thousands of pounds at buying bits to tune a car. I wish this happened in real life. "Where are you going dear?" "Oh I fancy owning a GT3 for a while, just popping out to win one in an illegal drag race, I'll be back in time for tea."

Still a cracking film though wink

anonymous-user

84 months

Thursday 5th May 2011
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What ever you do, do NOT try to run too much Nitrous into your engine, otherwise the passenger footwell will "Blow out"........ WTF ???? ;-)

matsmith

1,166 posts

239 months

Friday 6th May 2011
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Guvernator said:
they managed to win a GT3 RS in a street race
Don't be fooled by the stickers. A GT3 RS is not a part of this film.






The GMan

2,508 posts

285 months

Friday 6th May 2011
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That 914 looks nice in the last picture.

Marf

22,907 posts

271 months

Friday 6th May 2011
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Max_Torque said:
What ever you do, do NOT try to run too much Nitrous into your engine, otherwise the passenger footwell will "Blow out"........ WTF ???? ;-)

james_gt3rs

4,816 posts

221 months

Friday 6th May 2011
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The GMan said:
That 914 looks nice in the last picture.
Except for the blingy wheels.

deanocool

17 posts

186 months

Friday 6th May 2011
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lol amazing. looks like f5 is as awesome as the others then. ill still go to see it anyway. so... let me get this right.... going 140mph in a mitsi eclipse wont make the floor drop out? and if it did then vin diesel would still be able to get in like 2 scenes later? i still love them for all their awesome cheese.

can this new fast 5 film include a scene to top the all time ever cheese scene though...

Q nice car, whats the retail on one of those?

A more than you can afford pal, ferrari.......

steedy27

677 posts

220 months

Friday 6th May 2011
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They have self repairing windscreens

croyde

26,472 posts

260 months

Friday 6th May 2011
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And not only win those $100k cars but manage to insure them.