Tokyo Drift – Cars That Astonish
A used chassis gets a new supercharged engine in “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.” Pumping high-performance gas back into the series after a second lap sputter, third entry stays in high gear most of the way with several exhilarating racing sequences, and benefits greatly from the evocative Japanese setting. As what’s on screen amply reflects the title, franchise fan base looks to be well satisfied, meaning domestic take shouldn’t be far off the $144 million and $127 million raked in respectively by the initial entries.
“The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” delivers all the races and crashes you could possibly desire, and a little more. The movie is not exactly “Shogun” when it comes to the subject of an American in Japan. But it’s more observant than we expect, and uses its Japanese locations to make the story about something more than fast cars. Eye-popping driving sequences coupled with a limp story and flat performances make this Drift an adequate follow-up to the previous Fast and Furious installments. Strictly for the racing crowd and fans of the first two films.
The more than 200 cars built for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift weren’t optimized to generate impressive acceleration numbers or grip the skid pad with record stickiness, but to perform specific stunts or to reflect specific elements in the film’s story. For a great number of cars in the film, that meant drifting.
- 1967 Ford Mustang
- Twin-Turbo Nissan 350Z
- Mazda RX-7
- Mitsubishi Evo IX
- 1971 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
- Toyota Chaser
- Mazda RX-8
Speaking about Ford Accessories which were used to make Mustang drift we can spend a day to list them all. To mention a couple: the car has 245/35R19 front and 275/35R19 rear Toyo Proxes T1R tires and Volk Racing Grey GT-7 wheels keeping them off the ground. The V8 Tokyo Drift Mustangs has an output of 375 hp and can sprint from 0 to 60 mph in 6.7 seconds and consumed the quarter-mile in 14.7 seconds at 96.7 mph.
A true star of drifting in the movie was Nissan Silvia. The coolest thing about the Furious Silvia is the near stock-looking C-West DRFT aero kit. The exterior touches include Modern Image graphics, a C-West-supplied GT wing and a set of Ganador mirrors. The wheels get a visual upgrade in the form of some 19-inch Volk GT-7 rims wrapped in Toyo Proxes TR1 tires. Nissan Accessories are excellent solutions to make a Drifting King from your ride.
