Continuity mistake: Brian's number plate gets shot off at the end in the desert. However it reappears in a couple of shots in the tunnels. (01:28:00)
Ssiscool
Continuity mistake: When the girl is asking for Dom's number at the end of the first race her hair is in her jacket in some shots and not in others. (00:43:00)
Ssiscool Continuity mistake: Dom lets go of David Park and Brian rushes forward to grab him. Dom vanishes instantly, for Brian to get past him. (00:29:50)
Ssiscool Continuity mistake: When Mia hugs Dom in the garage, her hands keep changing position and grasp on Dom's shoulder. (00:16:50)
Ssiscool Continuity mistake: When the truck driver shoots at Dom at the start, we see his window smash in on him. Camera changes and it smashes again, but this time it smashes out, on to the road. (00:03:50)
Ssiscool Continuity mistake: When Dom crushes Phoenix between the Camaro and Impreza, the hood of the Camaro is badly damaged and denting up. In every shot afterwards, the Camaro is just fine. (01:35:50)
Friso94
Chosen answer: It's a slightly tricky one to answer because the movie doesn't give very many clues. What we do know for a fact is the events at the start during and up to the conclusion of the Petroleum tanker heists was set before Tokyo Drift as evidenced by Dom speaking to Han with a view to returning back to Tokyo. After that it gets a little fuzzy. Some people claim the entire movie is before Tokyo Drift, but that simply cannot be the case as there are lots of 2008/2009 model cars around the movie, so the general consensus is the very start is before Tokyo Drift, and the time when Dom comes out of travelling/hiding and gets the phone call that Letty is dead is now after Tokyo Drift.
GalahadFairlightThis is not right. The entire movie takes place before "Tokyo Drift", as that is where Han dies. He is still around for the next two films and then dies in the seventh where events catch up with "Tokyo Drift" and then continues where it left off.
Yeah, Han's not dead either, he's back in the 9th movie.