Corrected entry: At Verone's house, just after Verone says "meet me at a club tonight", there is a shot looking up and as Brian and Verone are shaking hands Monica is beside them. However, in the previous and following shots Monica is standing behind Brian and Roman. (00:37:15)
Corrected entry: During the initial race sequence the Corvette has its top down until it crashes, when we see the top is up. (00:30:00)
Corrected entry: Immediately after the fly through of the car's electrical system, we see the US Customs tracking computer display. It reads Skynet. (00:30:05)
Corrected entry: When the cars are on the highway there is a scene when the Evo is speeding past the camera at the close up angle, beside the Evo there is the grey Corvette and behind is the orange and then the blue muscle behind it. In the next shot the blue car is in front of the orange car. (00:29:05)
Corrected entry: In the race at the beginning, the front of Suki's car is all banged up. However, when the cops arrive, as Suki drives the car the front is completely fine. (00:14:00)
Corrected entry: In that scene where Brian is introducing Rome to Tej, there is a big waterski-race going on, and Tej is following it apparently with great interest. Yet he's always looking in the wrong direction, for the waterski-racers have to get past the house-boat, which is seen to Tej's left.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the two thugs and their boss have searched Paul Walker's houseboat for the girl they turn to leave, satisfied she is not on board. Just after they have left Paul Walker's friend turns to him and comments really loudly about the girl on the boat. Surely they would have heard him?
Corrected entry: At the start of the film you see Tej on the phone and when he walks into the room, beside him you see a red cabinet and a calendar next to it. In the next close up view beside him there is a harnessed alloy. (00:01:10)
Corrected entry: When Roman and Brian arrive at Tej's garage they approach into the backyard, where the water-skiing is held, and if you keep your ears open you can hear a girl shout out, "I love you, Tyrese".
Corrected entry: In the scene when you see Tej, Suki and Jimmy playing cards, you see Rome leaning against the blue Yenko and in the background you can see two blokes one looking at the camera and one pointing. (01:01:55)
Correction: This is incorrect. First of all, there isn't two guys, there are actually three. When we see Rome leaning up against the blue car, you see two guys but the 3rd guy is behind a post, and they are simply talking to him. So when you think the one guy is looking at the camera he infact is not, he's talking to the guy behind the post.
Corrected entry: When Brian and Rome are racing Fabio and Fonzie for the pink slips, look at the speedo just after Brian applies his nitrous. It's already at 120-140ish. A few shots later, you see Brian change gear, and the speedo moves up to where it previously was.
Corrected entry: Near the end of the film, Brian and Rome are going to rescue Monica in the blue Dodge. Brian tells Rome to "put on his seat belt", and Rome subsequently grabs for it, but you notice afterwards, the he's NEVER wearing a seat belt. Not during the jump, not after the jump, and it's most obvious when they're talking inside the car after Brian shot Carter. (01:31:30 - 01:33:05)
Correction: The seatbelt is red just like his shirt. The two bars going verticaly down his shirt are the logos that are on the belt.
Corrected entry: When Brian is spinning the Evo around so he's driving in reverse, the cars he's passing are not moving (notice the rims - they are not spinning).
Correction: The cars are moving, it is just that at certain speeds, usually highway driving speed, standard movie cameras don't have a high enough frame rate to film motion of wheels, therefore they appear to be still.
Corrected entry: The first time Brian's car gets hit with the ESD it shorts out his electrical system but for some reason he is acting like his brakes don't work. National DOT standards and all the laws that govern automotive design and manufacture strictly require that no part of the braking system rely on electronics. This is because electronics are not reliable enough for such a vital part of driving safety. Even if illegally modified, a racer wouldn't make his brakes rely on the electrics for the same reason. While the brakes might be less responsive, they wouldn't be as unresponsive as depicted.
Correction: An ABS system, on most new models, IS an electronic component of a braking system, and would be shorted by the ESD. The reason the brakes become less responsive is because the engine stalls, causing the power brake booster to be inoperable due to lack of vacuum from the engine. This may cause the brakes to be as unresponsive as shown. Having driven a 67 Camaro SS with no power brakes, you need to apply a lot of pressure to the manual brakes to stop. And also having driven cars with failed power boosters, it is at least as much, if not more, pressure required to stop the car.
Corrected entry: When Brian and Rome decide to chase the boat in the Yenko they have to back up. You see the rear tire spinning in the dirt then it stops spinning but you can hear the other tire spinning. This is not possible if this is really a Yenko. In a Yenko Camaro the suspension consisted of a 12-bolt with 4.10 gears, Posi-traction, multileaf springs, and special shocks.
Correction: Even if it was a real Yenko, it's more than possible that someone, somewhere, during the car's over 30 year life would change the rear end. Positracs are great for straight line traction, but notoriously poor for handling. If the car was used for competitive street racing, someone could have swapped the rear end for a limited slip differential for better handling characteristics. We don't know this particular car's history.
Corrected entry: In the first race, it is very obvious that sometimes the cars have mirrors, and sometimes they don't. In almost every shot you can see no mirror in the interior of the car (which is quite appropriate, for streetracers normally don't have mirrors in their cars), but there are one or two scenes where Brian is looking into the mirror, and suddenly the mirror is right where it should be.
Correction: This makes no sense whatsoever, why WOULDN'T streetracers have rear view mirrors in their cars? All the better to see what their competition is doing behind them, or to see the red and blue lights of pursuing police officers? Generally rearview mirrors are only removed for movies, giving better shots for the actors inside the car.
Corrected entry: In the first race sequence between the four cars, most of them are racing with their windows open. No one would race with windows open (this makes your car less streamlined as wind flows into the windows (racing with a convertible isn't seen very often either)), especially when there are thousands of dollars on the line.
Correction: This is more of a character issue than movie mistake. Besides, it is possible that they do not want to use their A/C for racing, as it takes more horsepower away than having an open window. In the humid conditions around Florida, you usually need either A/C on, or windows open just for ventilation.
Corrected entry: During the first scene Suki (the girl) is shown racing a convertible. They were going approximately 90 MPH and her hair was hardly blowing.
Correction: Some cars have amazing wind turbulence resistance, even at 90 MPH.
Corrected entry: During a boat race, someone is talking through a kind of microphone (in don't know the correct American word, because I am from the Netherlands). As soon as the main characters start to talk to each other there is coming no more sound out of the microphone. After they have stopped talking, it suddenly is possible again to hear the microphone. (00:41:20)
Correction: What you're referring to is called a megaphone. It's "activated" by pressing a trigger at the top of the handle. Tej released the trigger when he was talking to just his friends, thus no sound from the megaphone. When he wanted to address the crowd, he pressed the trigger to "turn it on".
Corrected entry: Dom's RX-7 that he uses in Fast and the Furious appears with it's new Latino Owner in 2 Fast 2 Furious. Compare the side graphics of both cars. It's the same.
Correction: Rx-7's are not exactly rare cars. There are hundreds if not thousands of them. It's no surprise that there are two cars of the same make in separate movies.
Correction: Trick of the camera. Monica is behind them all the time.
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