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* Rescuing Dom from the prisoner transfer bus. Brian drives in front of the bus, steps on the brakes, and gets rear-ended by the bus. However, instead of Brian's car getting wrecked and launched forward by the much faster and bigger bus, the bus gets flipped over instead, as if it went over a ramp

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This page is for pointing out artistic license taken with the laws of physics and cars (and occasionally chemistry) in The Fast and the Furious film franchise. Typical tropes like EveryCarIsAPinto, CarCushion, or SoftGlass do not need explaining. Remember, [[BellisariosMaxim this is a work of entertainment, not a documentary.]]

* Dom tells Brian that he should be "double-clutching", which is a technique that is only meant for the crash gearboxes on tractors and really old cars. (manual transmission cars were still in existence and being made in 2001.) and a car like a rx7 even the US (The last approved of this car in US in 1995) would have been 6 years old at the making of this movie, making a totally possible for someone you would be using it. (Big initial d fan (which season 1 was made in the late 1990s) Dom was also in this movie showing a car his father drived, which probably has some age. (but on another note, I do not want to remove anything myself, but this page is for "artistic license on the laws of physics" and for the crazy stunts the series is famous for, and I am unsure if this belongs or not)

. The bridge scene.

. crashing into a boat from launching from the land.

* Dom gets away with crashing into Deckard Shaw's car full-force in a game of Chicken with just a few bruises. The reality of two cars hitting each other head-on at 80+ mph [[{{Squick}} might look a little different. ]]

. driving a car through three buildings and and landing on each one.

* Agent Hobbs, moving a Submarine Torpedo, on ice, with his bare hands, while hanging from the side of a missile truck. Not only is it very improbable for a torpedo to slide on ice in the first place, but then Hobbs moves it. With his bare hands. We cannot express enough how dumb this is and how it would never work in real life.

** Electromagnets powerful enough to pull cars towards them are ... rare. A naturally occurring magnetic material can't pull much more than ninety pounds, and electronically activated magnets start disrupting electrical fields when they get too strong.

* In the later films, the luxury cars take a lot of bullets over the course of a chase. At the least, they should be covered in holes. At worst, the bullets should've penetrated the cabin and hit a lot of things or people. However, [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality one of the characters getting killed by a stray would be a pretty boring ending]], so it's understandable. The only exception are the armored cars, since they're made to withstand gunfire

. crashing into a boat.

* Dom tells Brian that he should be "double-clutching", which is a technique that is only meant for the crash gearboxes on tractors and really old cars. (manual transmission cars were still in existence and being made in 2001.)

* Dom tells Brian that he should be "double-clutching", which is a technique that is only meant for the crash gearboxes on tractors and really old cars.

This page is for pointing out artistic license taken with the laws of physics and cars (and occasionally chemistry) in The Fast and the Furious film franchise. Typical tropes like EveryCarIsAPinto do not need explaining.

This page is an ongoing project. Please make sure to put entries in the right folders and avoid over-generalizations, as well as accede where the physics are correct. More specific breakdowns would be appreciated.

* In the later films, the luxury cars they drive take a lot of bullets over the course of a chase. The cars should at the least, be covered in holes. At worst, the bullets could be penetrating the cabin and hitting something or someone. However, [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality one of the characters getting killed by a stray would be a pretty boring ending]], so it's understandable. The only exception are the armored cars, since they're made to withstand gunfire

* Dom catches Letty by driving his car into a guardrail and launching himself upward and forward with the resulting force. However, a stop like that is more likely to propel you downward, to say nothing of the guesswork to correctly catch someone else midair.

** Electromagnets powerful enough to pull cars towards them are ... probably rare. A naturally occurring magnetic material can't pull much more than ninety pounds, and electronically activated magnets start disrupting electrical fields past a certain power level.

This page is an ongoing project. Please make sure to put entries in the right folders and avoid over-generalizations. More specific breakdowns would be appreciated.

* Dom catches Letty by launching himself from his car

* Generally speaking, the cars tend to take a lot of bullets over the course of a fight. The luxury cars they usually drive should end up with numerous holes. However, [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality one of the characters getting killed by a stray would be a pretty boring ending]], so it's understandable. The only exception are the armored cars they start driving in the later entries, since those ARE made for that purpose.

This page is for pointing out artistic license taken with the laws of physics in The Fast and the Furious film franchise.