The two end up in Little Saigon where theyвЂ™re found by the movieвЂ™s bad guy Johnny Tran who proceeds to riddle the car with bullets causing it to blow up.ДЄfter the Eclipse meets an explosive end at the hands of Tran OвЂ™Connor owes Toretto a car, and turns up at the TorettoвЂ™s garage with a flatbed-truck with a rusted-out Supra on the back. In the movie the car (famously) suffers an engine-failure during the very first race (that somehow rips away part of the undercarriage), but still works well enough to serve as a getaway-car for OвЂ™Connor and Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) when the cops arrive at the scene of the race. wrapped in Toyo Tires with the measures 225/40/ZR18ДЄnother car was relieved of its drivetrain and wheels and placed on a special rig on top of a flatbed-truck allowing the crew to film Walker in the car while a stunt-driver in the truck made it look like the car skidded and drifted as the script demanded it. A custom made carbon fiber front splitterДЄt least one stunt-car had a rollcage and a fly-off handbrake.ДЄll five cars used in the movie stood on 18 inch вЂњSE7ENвЂќ-wheels by Axis Sport Tuning Inc. A Robo Car Armor Eclipse Kit consisting of a new front and rear bumper as well as new side skirts. The car(s) used had the turbocharged 420a-engine known from the Dodge Neon, with a double-bottle NOS-system and a cold air intake (the practicality of which is argued about). Later in the movie the car is said to be worth 80.000$, which seems a bit much for the specs and modifications it actually had. We first meet Paul WalkerвЂ™s character (under the alias вЂњBrian Earl SpilnerвЂќ) a few minutes into the 2001вЂ™ movie вЂњThe Fast and The FuriousвЂќ sitting in this green car in the empty parking lot of the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, (presumably) training for quarter mile races.

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