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• Continuity: During the chase scene involving the Grand National and the petro truck - the Grand National's grill changes from all black (1987) to chromed (1986) and then back again.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The blast of the cannon that rolls the tanker semi is clearly visible.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene when Walker and the gangbanger fall from the window, they land on the car facing the rear, yet when the camera view changes to inside the car, they are facing front.
  
  

• Continuity: When Dom and Brian are in the church at the end when they capture the cartel leader Dom pumps his shotgun twice.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Before O'Conner breaks through the window at the end of the roof chase, camera and operator are visible in a window during the pan shot.
  
  
• Continuity: Before Dom says grace at dinner and takes a drink from his beer, the bottle overflows with suds. But in a closer angle of the table immediately following, there's no sign of the beer foam.
  
  
• Continuity: When they are having dinner/beers at the table, Walker takes a sip of his Corona and then in the next shot the beer is foamed to the top. Then in the next shot there is no foam.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the end of the movie where Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker) is leaning against the wrecked Ford Torino (Fenix's car) the dent in the lip of the rim changes places (car was moved during the shots).
  
  
• Factual errors: The traction needed to do a wheel stand is not obtainable on dirt.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the race to the boarder, tire squealing can be heard from one of the cars. This is impossible since they were in a gritty desert landscape and not pavement.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Toward the end of the chase scene where Brian's Subaru Impreza STI is rolled over, you can clearly see that the fuel tank, prop-shaft and exhaust have been removed for the stunt.
  
  
• Continuity: When Letty is speaking with Dom on the beach, her loose shirt appears to be in a variety of positions on her shoulders in between shots. Sometimes it's on properly, other times it's falling off the left or right shoulder.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the end credits a car's engine is shown firing in cutaway. The graphic indicates a combustion event on every stroke of the piston. While not common some cars with custom engine management systems run 'wasted spark' firing. In this system there is a spark every compression of the piston.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Vin Diesel's Buick Grand National has the unmistakable sound of a V8 when in fact all GNs had a turbo V6. Obviously a V8 could have been transplanted but then why go to all the trouble to make this car cosmetically correct as a Grand National (right down to the Grand National logo on the front license plate)?
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: David Park's car is described as a '98 Nissan 240 with an illegal mod'. Though it may look like a Nissan Silvia (a Nissan S15 chassis imported from Japan), It is a Nissan 240 converted to resemble an s15 Nissan Silvia (Trunk, rear lights, front end, and a right hand drive convention.) It is possible to import a Nissan Silvia, but registration would list it as it's American Counterpart (a 1999 Nissan 240.) That explains why they call it a 98 Nissan 240.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Dominic's Chevelle has narrow wheels while in the race to make Braga's team. It may be more difficult for him take the corners with drag front wheels but not impossible even though the car was set up for a straight line, and not cornering.
  
  
• Continuity: During the race for the spot on Braga's team, the 99 Nissan 240 drifts into a white Ford Explorer, you can see and hear the two cars colliding 3 times from different angles.
  
  
• Continuity: About half way through the movie, Dom breaks the window out of the STI at the impound. At the end, when the duo is racing out of Mexico, the driver side window is rolled up, completely intact.
  
  
• Continuity: After Dom and Brian park the Hummer in the impound yard, Dom and his jacket show no sign of his recently acquired bullet holes.
  
  
• Continuity: During the race for a spot as one of Barages's drivers, the GPS says that Don and O'Conner have a quarter of a mile until their destination. It takes them 48 seconds to finish the quarter mile.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the scene where the young Mexican boy tells Vin Diesel he has a phone call, Vin Diesel rolls out from under his car holding a water pump. The water pump in that particular car is not accessible from underneath the vehicle.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene when Dom slams his Buick into the tanker hitch, the quarter-panel is shown at first to be damaged and then a shot later, not damaged then back to damaged again which could also be related to another goof reference to the GN's grills being 2 different colors in different shots; they used 2 different cars.
  
  
• Continuity: When Letti and Dom are on beach, Letti's right hand switches position on Dom's face in between shots.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the final scene where the crew is going to get Dom out of the prison bus, there is a Honda NSX that is left hand drive. But being from Japan, a Honda NSX should be right hand drive not left hand drive, like an American Acura NSX. However, it is commonplace for Acura owners to swap Honda badges onto their cars, especially in the cases of the Integra/RSX and the NSX.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene where Dom revs the Grand National a clutch is visible, proving it to be a manual. Later however, when he is shown launching the car, it is shown to be an automatic. The crew most likely used two different Grand Nationals, one a manual the other an auto, during the filming of this scene.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where O'Connor is going after the criminal, we see that the criminal is shooting with a six chamber revolver. However, when he takes the firsts shots at Brian he fires 3 bullets. When Brian pushes him off of the building he fires another 4 bullets. Thats 7 bullets in a six chamber gun.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Dom blows up four cars by pushing the cigarette lighter in and releasing nitrous oxide into the car. Nitrous oxide is not flammable or explosive at room temperature, however, just because it's a NOS tank doesn't mean it actually contains nitrous oxide. It's likely that Dom had planned beforehand and filled the tank with a flammable gas.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The movie takes place 5 years after the first. Assuming the first took place in the same time period it was made (2001), then this installment would take place circa 2006. Brian driving a 2009 Subaru STI it is therefore impossible.
  
  

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