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The Fast and the Furious (2001) More at IMDbPro »

• The house used as headquarters for the FBI and LAPD undercover investigation is the same house that was used as Walter Matthau's house in Hanging Up (2000).
  
  
• Paul Walker and Matt Schulze carefully choreographed the fight scene outside the grocery store, but when it came time to shoot, it didn't feel right. In the end they just improvised.
  
  
• The movie that Dom's gang is watching after the BBQ is Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993), also directed by Rob Cohen.
  
  
• Neither Michelle Rodriguez nor Jordana Brewster had driver's licenses or even learner's permits before production of the film.
  
  
• The Volkswagen Jetta that Jesse drives in the movie was later purchased by Frankie Muniz.
  
  
• The guy in the black Ferrari, credited as 'Ferrari guy', is Neal H. Moritz, one of the producers (and also producer of another movie featuring Vin Diesel, xXx (2002)).
  
  
• Director Cameo: [Rob Cohen] as the old pizza delivery man who is blocked by the first race.
  
  
• Working titles for the movie included "Racer X", "Redline" and "Race Wars".
  
  
• The street where Vin Diesel crashes his car at the end of the film is the same location as the first narcotics bust in Training Day (2001), which was also written by David Ayer.
  
  
• Keep watching after the credits end.
  
  
• Dominic's RX-7 originally had a roll cage. It was removed to accommodate Vin Diesel's physique.
  
  
• The title rights, not the story rights, to the film The Fast and the Furious (1955), were purchased so that the title could be used on this project, another film about racing. The original film was shown in a theater owned by the grandfather of producer Neal H. Moritz.
  
  
• There are over 15,000 individual sound effects in the first street race.
  
  
• At the house party, Vin Diesel says to Paul Walker, "You can have any beer you want, as long as it's a Corona." This is a reference to automobile innovator 'Henry Ford'. Although he probably never said, "You can have any color you want, as long as it's black," and although the Model T to which he was supposedly referring was made in several colors (including a couple of shades of green and red as well as gray, blue, and several others), the phrase has long been attributed to him.
  
  
• Vin Diesel accidentally broke a stuntman's nose.
  
  
• During the Race Wars, real race cars with their real drivers came to participate in the huge scene.
  
  
• When first submitted to the MPAA, the film received an R-rating. Some shots from the final robbery showing Vince's mutilated arm were cut.
  
  
• Film-makers asked owners of houses in backgrounds to re-paint their houses with more muted colors to show off the colorful cars.
  
  
• Over 1,500 cars were at the Race Wars.
  
  
• The only cars to feature in both "Fast and Furious" films was Neal H. Moritz's navy-colored Ferrari F355, and Dom's RX-7. In the first film, the F355 was used in the Malibu race scene and then parked outside Verone's house in 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003). The RX-7 was changed and used again in the second film as Orange Julius' car in the first race scene.
  
  
• Dominic Toretto's black muscle car is a 1970 Dodge Charger with a 528ci supercharged Hemi and four speed transmission. This Charger is the same body style (although one year newer) as the famous 1969 Dodge Charger "General Lee" of the "The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979) television series. After the filming of the crash at the end of the film, the same 1970 Charger wound up in the opening scenes of Herbie Fully Loaded (2005) as a car in the junkyard.
  
  
• 'Mark Wahlberg', Christian Bale and Eminem were all considered for the part of Brian O'Connor before Paul Walker was cast.
  
  
• There were more than 60 Japanese vehicles in this movie.
  
  

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