Tag: furious
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Nissan’s short-lived IDx concept to appear ‘Furious 8’
The compact, rear-wheel drive show car we got so excited about at the Nissan stand a few years ago is back, but it isn’t headed to dealers. Instead, as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson pointed out in a post on his Instagram channel, the IDx NISMO show car will apparently play a role in the upcoming…
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Charlize Theron to play villain in “Fast 8”
The latest bit of information about the upcoming eighth installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise is that Charlize Theron will play the villain. The information was revealed overnight in a Twitter post that also reaffirmed the movie’s April 14, 2017 release date. Theron proved she can play a badass in 2015’s Mad Max:…
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Replica Ford GT40 From ‘Fast Five’ Heads To Auction
Fans of the 2011 movie Fast Five will immediately recognize this Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] GT40. It’s a replica built exclusively for filming of the fifth installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise and featured prominently at the start of the movie, during the train heist scene. Now it’s headed for auction. According to…
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Jaguar F-Type SVR, 2017 Audi R8, Fast 8: The Week In Reverse
The 2017 Jaguar F-Type SVR was revealed early; Audi priced the new 2017 R8; and Fast & Furious 8 will be called Fast 8. It’s the Week in Reverse, right here on Motor Authority. We had a hunch it was coming, but Jaguar wouldn’t confirm it. Now, we know, because the 2017 F-Type SVR was…
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Fast & Furious & Polish: Hilarious Parody Video Terrorizes Polish Countryside
Look out, here comes trouble…err, a Trabant. And a couple of Fiats. And a bunch of Poles with a budget that’s roughly 1/1,000,000th that of the actual Furious 7, but at least as much humor. “Ugly and angry, that rural action movies!” declares the YouTube description for this parody (via Google Translate). We’d say…
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2016 Camaro Teased, Toyota Makes Funny, Furious 7 Skydrops Cars: The Week In Reverse
The 2016 Chevy Camaro is teased again as part of the promo for the 500,000th fifth-generation Camaro’s production, Toyota does make boring cars—but its ads sure can be funny, and the Furious 7 movie team really dropped (more or less) real cars from a real airplane. It’s The Week In Reverse, right here at Motor…