Vin Diesel's 'Fast 8' Car Has a Jet Engine. Seriously. (Update)
Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto in a scene from ‘Furious 7’ (Photo: Universal Pictures, Scott Garfield/AP)
Update: We originally wrote that Vin Diesel’s Fast 8 car would boast a jet engine. However, we didn’t intend to imply that the vehicle he’d be driving in the film would feature an actual, operational aircraft turbine. To be clear: the jet engine featured in the pictures below is fake. It is a cosmetic prop, and not the real thing. We apologize for any confusion.
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Vin Diesel has driven many fantastic vehicles over the course of the Fast and Furious franchise’s seven installments (he’s appeared in all but one of them) — and he’s even jumped one of them from one skyscraper into another. But for next summer’s Fast 8, he’s going to up the ante by taking the wheel of a ride that’s jet-powered. Literally.
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On the Jada Toys Instagram page, photos have surfaced of the modified Dodge Charger that Diesel will be handling in F. Gary Gray’s sequel to last year’s Furious 7. Apparently in order to allow it to navigate the frozen Arctic tundra – because that’s an obvious place for his master thief Dominic Toretto to take a leisurely drive – the car will boast armored plating to protect it from artillery fire, as well as a jet turbine for maximum velocity. Yes, we said jet turbine. As in, an engine made for a plane. Attached to the back of Vin Diesel’s car.
Such an outlandish auto-alteration seems like a slippery slope toward future Fast and Furious installments in which the cast handles even more futuristic vehicles – could a crossover with Michael Bay’s Transformers movies be far off? Nonetheless, it no doubt indicates that Fast 8 will be aiming to top its road-raging predecessors when it races into theaters on April 14, 2017.
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