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• With a gross of $72.5 million on its opening weekend, the movie had the biggest April debut ever. (Anger Management (2003) formerly held the record with $42.2 million)
  
  
• With $72.5 mio., had the highest-grossing opening weekend for a car-themed movie (beating Cars (2006)' $60.1 million).
  
  
• With a gross of $72.5 mio., it had the biggest three day opening ever for a Universal Pictures beating The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)'s $72.1 mil.
  
  
• The F-BOMB Camaro used at the end of the final chase scene through the tunnel is a duplicate of David Frieberger's real '71 Camaro "F Bomb". David was the chief editor for Hot Rod magazine for years. Originally built by Tom Nelson at Nelsonracingengines.com
  
  
• Vin Diesel originally wanted to make the 4th and 5th films back to back, but Universal decided to take some time to see how the current movie would work out before moving on to a fifth. Diesel was allowed to direct an 18 minute short film set in the Fast And Furious world, which will be available on the DVD.
  
  
• David Ayer (The Fast and the Furious (2001), Training Day (2001)) did uncredited rewrites.
  
  
• In the original movie Dom can be quoted before the final heist of the movie as saying to Letty: "The other night I had a dream, you and I were on a beach in Mexico", which proves true as Dom and Letty are at a party and walking along a beach in Mexico, after the initial gasoline steal.
  
  
• The Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 that O'Çonnor drives was provided by Kaizo Industries which was claimed to be legal for road use under "kit car" guidelines. The R34 was later believed to be stolen in July 2009, when it was later revealed to be one of the three R34s seized by government agents. As of September 2009, its fate is unknown.
  
  
• First film to use D-BOX motion simulation seating in select US theaters.
  
  

• SPOILER: Despite having the cast reunited, 'Michelle Rodriguez' (Letty) does not share any scenes with Paul Walker (Brian) and Jordana Brewster (Mia), since Letty dies after the events of the opening scene.
  
  
• SPOILER: The film takes place before the events of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006). Sung Kang plays Han in both films, in this film when Dominic tells Han to go his own way he says he's going to go to Tokyo. Han dies in the 3rd film and Vin Diesel has a cameo at the end claiming to know Han.
  
  

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