{"id":23316,"date":"2023-05-15T07:09:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T07:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/?p=23316"},"modified":"2024-09-12T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:12:09","slug":"fast-x-the-cars-the-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/fast-x-the-cars-the-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast X – The Car’s The Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vin Diesel (full name; Vehicle Identification Number Dieselman) doesn’t have friends, he has family. He also has one of the world’s – love it or hate it – most successful movie franchises under his belt in the form of the\u00a0Fast and Furious<\/em> series. And later this month, the tenth and penultimate film hits the silver screen – Fast X<\/em>. And normally, this wouldn’t be something that would pique the interest of us here at Car & Classic, but it seems this addition to one of cinema’s biggest juggernauts seems to be dripping with more classic metal than ever. The franchise’s picture car coordinator, Dennis McCarthy seems to have leaned into classic metal harder than ever, and we’re here for it.<\/p>\n

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If you want to know more about the history of this now-old-enough-to-drink-a-Corona movie franchise, you can do so by having a read of this article<\/a> we wrote last year. If you want to know about the vehicles in\u00a0Fast X<\/em> then stay right here. We’ve done the digging, we’ve watched the trailers roughly four-hundred times and we’ve got the screen grabs. And all our research tells us that this should be a proper cinematic slice of fun. Just don’t forget to take your family.<\/p>\n

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Fast X\u00a0<\/em>is the tenth film in the franchise, and also the penultimate one. Apparently, this one won’t end with the family having a BBQ in Dom’s back yard, but will instead be some sort of fraught, tense cliff-hanger. In this one, if you’ve been keeping up, we revisit Fast 5\u00a0<\/em>to be shown how that film’s antagonist died, but his son didn’t. All of this happened off camera in the fifth film, obviously. But some CGI and clever editing will create our introduction to\u00a0X’s\u00a0<\/em>antagonist, Dante Reyes, played by Jason Moamamamnanna. Or Aquaman, to use his other name. And to Jason’s credit, he seems to be having fun with the role, which should be good. Anyway, this is Car & Classic, not Empire Magazine<\/em> so you can get a better overview by watching the trailer here…<\/p>\n