Hero cars - we love to talk $hit about them all day, but at the end of it all, owning a movie vehicle is like being friends with The Rock or cutting watermelons with Excalibur.
I haven't watched all the Fast and Furious movies, but for me, the orange Mazda RX-7 from Tokyo Drift is on the Top 5 list. It's been 10 years since the movie came out, and filming technology has come a long way since then. Pretty soon, nearly everybody will be able to film himself from a distance using drones that are cheaper than smartphones, which, by the way, are pretty good at shooting too.
For car people, the most important invention has been the GoPro camera... or a Chinese copy, if you can't afford the real deal. You can use it to see what you cat is doing, film a shark as it bites off your leg or, best of all, record the exploits of your drifting rig.
I was a kid when Tokyo Drift came out, and it falsely taught me that Japan is a place where anything is possible as long as your car is faster than the maxed-180kph police car.
So anyway, a decade ago, the RX-7 got a tuning pack from a prominent Japanese company. And one European fan decided to add the same one to his Mazda sportscar. After paint and trimming, the result is a doppelganger for the Tokyo Drift rig.
This is it, the RX-7 Veilside Fortune. Usually, the FD3S kit consists of a front under the wing, side skirt extensions, rear duct fins, and a big rear wing mounted on the trunk. The stand-out features are those cutouts that go through the fenders and wings.
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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