The Fast and the Furious 4

[Rykon Zero]

Fine then. Way over the top ricers.

 

[McLaren]

*cough*

1200 HP cavalier? "Phat" Wide body? It's not the tuner cars that I am opposed to , its most of the ricers that appear in these mags.

I bet you don't even realize where that Subaru on the front cover comes from.

 

[Rykon Zero]

I am quite aware that's a race car.

 

[nk4e]

Well, what is rice after all?

 

[McLaren]

I am quite aware that's a race car.

Then, it's obvious not a ricer magazine. A 1,200 Cavalier also isn't necessarily rice. More than likely, it's a highly modified drag car.

 

[Rykon Zero]

Alright. You have me on that point. SS is not entirely a rice mag. But how do you explain the "phat" widebody RX-7?

 

[Muzaffar]

*cough*

1200 HP cavalier? "Phat" Wide body? It's not the tuner cars that I am opposed to , its most of the ricers that appear in these mags.

Alright. You have me on that point. SS is not entirely a rice mag. But how do you explain the "phat" widebody RX-7?

Its a street term thing you wouldn't understand........

 

[Loon]

Alright. You have me on that point. SS is not entirely a rice mag. But how do you explain the "phat" widebody RX-7?

Either some performance company came out with a new kit, or its actually a bit ricy, but none-the-less a sports performance car.

 

[V1P3R]

Carbonated...

 

[McLaren]

Alright. You have me on that point. SS is not entirely a rice mag. But how do you explain the "phat" widebody RX-7?

It's just slang for cool. The word "Phat" does not have to be associated with rice.

 

[Omnis]

*cough*

1200 HP cavalier? "Phat" Wide body? It's not the tuner cars that I am opposed to , its most of the ricers that appear in these mags.

Anything with more than 400 horsepower is no ricer.

Well, at least this didn't come to America

Hey, I'd drive one just for the challenge. But I think the van itself without the crazy protrusions (but with the fender flares) looks wicked.

 

[niky]

If it doesn't make it faster, easier to drive or more comfortable to live with, it's rice.

You can't avoid having ricey touches, sometimes... hell, shops need to tack on the tacky to appeal to their target market... but you've got to give respect to anyone who gets over 300 whp out of an engine designed for use in a riding mower.

 

[nk4e]

If it doesn't make it faster, easier to drive or more comfortable to live with, it's rice.

You can't avoid having ricey touches, sometimes... hell, shops need to tack on the tacky to appeal to their target market... but you've got to give respect to anyone who gets over 300 whp out of an engine designed for use in a riding mower.

So tuning a Colbat isn't rice?

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Why would it be?

 

[nk4e]

My friend tends to call it "slowBalt"

 

[niky]

If you can make a Cobalt run faster on the racetrack than an Evo.... why not?

Tuning doesn't have to make sense. There's always someone bigger, faster and better (or, actually, on track, lighter, stronger and faster)... but it's fun to fiddle with a car and make it do more than it was designed to.

Hell... I'd tune a Forenza for the hell of it, if I had the money. I've ridden in some Honda Fits with twice as much power as stock, and those are fun little toys to drive around in.

I'm an anti-ricer, definitely. For me, anything that doesn't make the car faster ain't worth it... not even a sound system with enough sound quality to satisfy Simon Cowell...

If it has tacked on flares, a wing, 20" wheels but stock brakes, an engine putting out 70 bhp and the handling of a plate of spaghetti... that's rice to me. If it's a well thought out build with the grip and stopping power to match the power adders... then that gets my thumbs up.

 

[ceiling_fan]

One of the big giveaways for rice is when you see a car with stickers from aftermarket companies (Mugen, NOS) even though the car doesn't actually have those parts. It's like when people put a Type R badge on a Matiz...

 

[Muzaffar]

One of the big giveaways for rice is when you see a car with stickers from aftermarket companies (Mugen, NOS) even though the car doesn't actually have those parts. It's like when people put a Type R badge on a Matiz...

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But to really know what car is rice, is when the owner starts show of his car too often and asks to race during a traffic light stop. Most casual ricers don't even know what they talk about........ (i.e. when he says his Dodge Neon is an SRT-8 )

 

[EnZo-UK]

its just the same story as 2 fast 2 furious

 

[Max_DC]

My opinion :

F&F : 8/10 ( at the time it was released it was more like a 9/10 for me )
2F2F : 5/10 ( what a disaster : weak sound, weak cars and unrealistic )
F&F TD : 7/10 ( I actually liked it, good sound, Tokyo etc )


F&F 4 :

+ Original cast
- story seems to be pretty weak
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Good movie ? Depends on the cars I guess, and of course what they'll do with that story.

Tbh, I can see myself in theater and a Blu-ray disc of it in my hands. Let's hope for the best.

 

[ExigeEvan]

This should be pretty entertaining with the old cast back. Didn't even bother watching the 3, just smelt too much like "ooh franchise, lets sell some more".

If you go to see this movie and expect to learn anymore about cars than you would about WW2 from an American produced movie then you are going completelely the wrong way about it.

But then there's always those that'll tell you Nos will make their Corsa do 200mph and WW2 was America doing all the hard work.

 

[Rykon Zero]

You'ld need a Bugatti Veyron engine to make a Corsa go 200.

 

[Lee]

Just stumbled over this thread.










Great.

 

[Appie]

You'ld need a Bugatti Veyron engine to make a Corsa go 200.

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Slap an 2.0 liter in it and ur good to go.

 

[kjb]

I actually like the first two movies. They were short on plot but I enjoyed the cars and the stunts. Hopefully this new will be enjoyable as well.

 

[Rykon Zero]

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Slap an 2.0 liter in it and ur good to go.

I was exagerrating.

 

[niky]

2.0 + Corsa = 130 mph top speed.

With the Corsa's aerodynamics... hmm... 300 bhp to get to 150 mph... errh... 700+ to get to 200?

 

[Joey D]

There is a trailer!

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=41522995

It looks just like the first one.

** If you don't want to onto myspace (I can't blame you) then AutoBlog has it too.
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/08/26/video-fast-and-furious-4-trailer-debuts/

 

[ExigeEvan]

It's looks alot like the first one, but is that such a bad thing

 

[prisonermonkeys]

The first half of that - the truck hijacking - wasn't actually that bad. But as soon as the truck blew up, thus fulfilling the Hollywood standard that as soon as anything containing petrol is bumped, it explodes, it went downhill.