The Fast and The Furious

Just watched the film, awesome but here's the questions...
1.What is the green car that Brian drive at the start of the film, and can i get one?
2.Can i get a kit of the RX-7 that Toretto drives.

hope you can help, ta very much!

The green car is a Talon, no plastic 1/24 yet
RX7 sports a Veilside kit, you can get that model from Aoshima

no the green car is an eclipse.

revell is coming out with F&F cars later this year. they are selling the green eclipse and the black civic. i believe they are expected to come out in december.... so long to wait!!!

~mike

The green car is an Eclipse. Revell is supposed to come out with the black civic, the charger, and the eclipse. Complete with all decals.

For the RX-7, Aoshima has a RX-7 veilside kit, you would have to get the decals and rims if you wanted them to match.

Heres some links for the models.
VeilsideRX-7
http://www.hlj.com/cgi-local/hljpage.cgi?AOS29022

Eclipse
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p.pgm?Q=1&I=LXCBH5&P=7

Civic
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p.pgm?Q=1&I=LXCBH6&P=7

Charger
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p.pgm?Q=1&I=LXCBH7&P=7

HOLY SHIT, YOUR THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!


i just back ordered all 3 of those car's......man i cant wa it to get them in!

Wow Seriously ! I will buy those 3 for sure !

Originally posted by mentel
HOLY SHIT, YOUR THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!


i just back ordered all 3 of those car's......man i cant wa it to get them in!

Hope you guys know these are actually die-cast kits???

Originally posted by flyonthewall


Hope you guys know these are actually die-cast kits???

i dont see how they could get away with using plastic bodies for this situation. it is a trademarked movie car... so they are probably making them metal body so that there isnt an easy way to modify them.

but, who cares... if you want the car to look like the one in the movie, then you shouldnt mind that the body is already prepared for you.

thats my take on it.

~mike

The three are diecast and the RX-7 is plastic.

How can you not know its an Eclipse!!!!

who's to say that i will leave the metal body alone and detail the hell out of the interior?.......i already got plans for the eclipse!......im gonna scratch build some stuff, like gauges, nos tanks, laptop computer, etc, and the engine compartment, dont get me started!

ok my bad, eclipse, talon...haha, they look so the same:p

I worked in a little shop and installed complete exhaust setups and air intakes for these little rich-pricks a bunch of times, so I definitely know the difference! Keep in mind I am located in Canada where Mitsubishi is very rare. :(

I am 110% sure that the car in F&F is an Eclipse. If you need help in distinguishing them, just look at where the white reverse lights are. On an Eclipse, they are white circles down on the bumper, but on a Talon its merged with the tail-light as little white squares. ;)

personally thought it was a Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX 2.0 Turbo....if I am right that is the awd version?
the Talon is kinda different in the body, although they are fundamentally the same cars....I have freinds with both....

ray!!!!! sup man, I am doing a few last posts before I go......read in BMC

Is someone gonna put green lights under the civic?:rolleyes:

I was sittin' here by myself thinking today I wanted to do a model of my Batmobile...(which...due to run-ins with the state police is parked in the Batcave for the time being:( ); a 1997 Eagle Talon TSi AWD
:devil: Okay...if they can do a kit of a CRX...why not one of a Mitsubishi Eclipse or a Talon?!?!?! To answer your question, I believe the Eclipse GSX they used in the movie in real life is AWD...and seeings how you can't burn out with AWD hardly...if at all, I don't see how it can manage in the movie unless it's FWD...
Either way, if they do come out with a model kit it'll prolly be the Eclipse...which then I will have to modify to look like my Talon
Second generation TSi's are pretty rare, compared to their first generation Eagle cousins you see on the road, whereas, there were a few more GSXs made. TSi = Turbo Sports Injected GSX = Gran Sport Cross (the X is kinda like cross country referring to the offroad AWD)
But anyways...I am on a rant...both have turbo and boast the 2.0 Mitsu engine, only difference is that the 2G Talon is assembled in the US and has different badging then the Eclipse (not too mention different taillights)
BTW...the Eagle graphics from the F&F I found a place here in the States that produces them in any color...so I ordered a set in silver for my black Talon
Can't wait til' they're here:devil:

uh.. isnt the eclipse also made in the US.. in normal, illionios. i went there when checking out colleges (urbana champange) and got a tour of it...i so wanted a spyder.. but found out.. they also make galants and i think a sebring in the same plant... i dont remerbe seeing any talons there... but this was like 5 years ago...

okay... the eclipse and talon were considered "sister" cars under DSM (diamond star motors). it was a joint design about 5-8 years ago. notice how all the cars looked almost exactly the same... it wasnt coincidence, it was because they were all designed off the same platform.

this is pretty common within companyies like GM... look at the multitude of similar cars between chevy and pontiac.

but it is not so common between car companies... the latest attempt to pull this off again is the pontiac vibe and the toyota matrix. they are both designed off the same base, but have different styling cues to set them apart.

~Mike

actually, this kind of 'same platform' design takes place a lot where I grew up, in South Africa....
Ford & Mazda use the following vehicles and just badge them different:
Ford Ranger = Mazda Drifter
Ford Tracer = Mazda 323
Ford Meteor = Mazda 323 notch back
Ford Bantam = Mazda Rustler
The only difference is literally the colors the vehicles are available in, what you can get in red from Ford you can't have in red from Mazda....you want a blue Bantam, you have to buy a Rustler, if you get what I mean.....

Ray

Urban and Mp3 you guys are right...they were made in Normal, Illinois at the Diamond Star Motors plant, but what made the second generation Eclipses and Talons different from that of the first generation was that the plant closed up in 1995 I believe so anything on from that was more than likely imported...but I'm not sure...for the sake of all purposes they still consider the 2g cars DSM. I believe the DSM plant spit out the Plymouth? Lazer, Dodge Stealth, Eclipse, Talon but if you want a really cool website check out:
http://www.dsm.org

I don't know if you're into building RC Cars, but I was looking in an rc mag, and I saw an ad for an RC body of Toretto's Veilside RX-7. I think the stickers were prepainted on it, but I'm not really sure though. I can't remember which mag it was, but it's probably in all of them. That would be a really cool body to put on an RC chassis.

I've heard from many that the green eclipse wasn't a turbo. It just had some ghey Hollywood sound effects. So in that case, it wouldn't be a GSX Eclipse correct? I wouldn't put it past the movie makers since there are sooooo many things in that movie that are wrong. But lets not start another one of those discussions :rolleyes: If anyone wants to read up on that, do a search :)

I think we also determined somewhere along the line that the headlights from the Aoshima C-West FD kit match the red one in the movie.