8 MISTAKES AND DETAILS IN TOKYO DRIFT ONLY CAR GEEKS WOULD NOTICE | On Board

to some The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift is somewhat the black sheep of the fast franchise set away from the other films in a different country with a different cast and focused on a rather different discipline of driving - of as though it's loved as it's often regarded as the last film in the franchise where the emphasis remains on the cars but when cars are in the spotlight any mistakes made will glare up so just for a bit of fun here's eight mistakes and details in The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift only car geeks would notice number one is a mistake and it's one that takes a super keen eye and is something that doesn't make me envious of Sean take a look [Music] when working on my car I never seem to have the right spanner the first time round but it's even worse for sure who had the right spanner and did it change size whilst in his hand here he can be seen working on his car using a 13 16th of an inch sized wrench that's about 21 millimeters for US metric heads however when he gets up and puts the wrench in his toolbox it's now got a 17 millimeter size head I can't imagine how long it would take me to change a part of my car if my tools kept on changing sizes in my hands here's the second mistake it's about Japanese law [Music] so when Twinkie very proudly reveals to Shawn his Volkswagen Touran aka The Hulk mobile for the first time we are met with what I believe can be considered a mistake this is the Hulk Mobile's number plates well it's not an exact copy of the number plates but for the point I'm trying to make it'll do the job anyway notice anything special the answer is no and that's the mistake you see the number plate of Twinkies car should be adorned with a small letter Y before it because he's the family of American military personnel living and working in Japan we know this from earlier in the film when Twinkie said this is will Bob armwrestling the term army brats refers to a child of a parents or parents who serve in the United States Armed Forces and those military personnel working in Japan who privately owned cars in the country receive a special number plate with the letter Y on them to show that they work for the United States Armed Forces and this extends to the military personnel family if they are also living in Japan therefore Twinkies number plates should indeed have the letter y on it now you may be thinking maybe he just put on a false number plates after all we know Twinkies not averse to illegal activity but here's the thing he would want the special number plates because it lets you get away with all manner of sins a regular number plates weren't for example owners of a wide plated car cannot have their licenses suspended or revoked by the Japanese police no matter how many traffic violations they amount there for users could speed at twice the limits run every red light and drift into an illegal parking space without ever worrying about losing their driving privileges now doesn't that sound like a superpower Twinkie would just love to have therefore I am definitely counting this as a mistake if not 1 by the film's makers definitely one on Twinkies behalf because no one in their right mind would pass up on such an opportunity number three is a fact and it's a fact very few fans of The Fast and Furious franchise will know that's the tokyo garage party just before Shawn tries his hand at drifting against DK we meets the character Harn Lou for the first time except for this isn't the first time han has graced the silver screen and I'm not just talking about due to the mixed-up timeline in the Fast franchise with Tokyo Drift sitting as the sixth film in a series narrative but I'm referring to the fact that in reality the character Han Liu portrayed by son Kang features in the 2002 film better luck tomorrow which is directed by Justin Lin who also directed Tokyo Drift whilst better luck tomorrow isn't an official part of the Fast franchise both Lin and Kang considered the film to be somewhat a prequel to the franchise that shows the backstory of Han in his younger years before he began robbing banks and crashing planes with Dominic Toretto and Co which is pretty cool I think number four is about a different character in Tokyo Drift and I think it's a really great detail included by the film's creators so when Sean is first learning to drift in his mitsubishi evo 9 at the docks he is mocked by a fisherman apart from he's not just any fisherman in fact that's man is Motorsports royalty his name is Kate Chi su Chia and he is also known as the original and real drift King Keiichi Tsuchiya is a professional racing driver and when racing on japan's mountain roads known as tao roads he became so proficient at sliding his car through the twisty passes that commentators began referring to him as the drift king and the name stuck Kate she worked as a stunt coordinator and stuntman on Tokyo Drift and his driving can be seen throughout the film in fact his drifting was so good that he got into trouble over the film's director as when he was stunt driving as Sean it needed to look like a beginner was driving the car but mr. su Chi is driving it was just too perfect even when he was trying to be bad plus in addition to working on the film as a nod to Japan's Drift heritage the drift King also made a cameo of Aaron's in the film which i think is a great touch number five is another mistake and it's one that puts into question much of the movie's plot [Music] so what's the mistake I just showed you in those clips well it's the whole garage drift race thing everything about it looks super cool but doesn't actually make any sense in reality the whole issue here stems from the facts that the two cars are racing with the winner being the first car to the top of the parking garage and the loser being the last this format raises a couple of serious problems firstly drifting may be the coolest way to get around the corner but it is rarely the fastest whilst on loose surfaces such as dirt and snow drifting can be an efficient way to speedily take a corner because essentially you rotates the car to the angle it needs to be to exit the turn and then let the engine push the car in that direction on tarmac because the front wheels aren't battling loose gravel or similar they're able to grip far better and guide the car around the corner at an optimal angle and usually at a higher speed without requiring the engine to dramatically change the trajectory of the car granted there are a few situations where drifting on tarmac may be advantageous such as if your car suffers from severe turbo lag and you'd like to keep the engine's rpm high enough to shorten spool time or even keep the turbo spooling or if the radius of the whole turn is actually so tied to the cars steering angle isn't capable of making it around the corner however drifting essentially stems from a loss of traction and a loss of traction means a slower corner exit speed as the car must find traction again before efficiently accelerating thus giving slower overall average cornering speed this is even confirmed by the drift King mr. Tsuchiya himself who said I drift not because it is the quicker way around the corner but because it is the most exciting way and therefore in a race situation often with thousands of pounds worth of cars on the line one can only wonder why on earth these drivers are drifting when the best method of outpacing their rival and reaching the top of the car park first would be to take a clean tire smokeless rather boring looking but quick line through each corner whilst we are on the subjects of the race the second thing that has bugged me for many years is that the race is taking place in a multi-story car park which is incredibly narrow and has essentially no overtaking places this means that unless a driver crashes out the race would essentially be decided by whoever leads into the first corner after a 50 metre sprint now my issue with all of this isn't actually with the fact that drifting isn't the fastest way around a corner or that the Tokyo garage is narrow drifting is awesome and the parking garage suited the theme of the film really well in my opinion the mistake here is that both of these apparent issues could have been avoided if the film's creators had made one vital change and had taken a leaf out of formula DS book in a Formula Drift event drivers are scored as to how awesome they're drifting looks and how few mistakes they make by a panel of judges not according to their times or finishing position if formula 1 was speed skating formula D would be figure skating both equally skilled both equally competitive but as they're very different sports winners are decided very differently - if the car park races were scored like formula D and figure skating Shawn wouldn't have just been able to lead Morimoto through the car park and therefore win the race he would have had to be more precise have more Flair and make fewer errors in essence he would have actually had to prove that he is indeed the better drifter number 6 is kind of a mistake I wish hadn't been made I'll explain what I mean shortly what those police cars here on the factory to can't catch you please they don't even try unfortunately Hans statesman's here is a mistake so in Japan near enough all cars are electronically limited to 180 km/h and this does indeed extend to police cars buts the thing is the 100 and 80 kph limit only extends to police cars that aren't designed for high speed driving such as the Nissan Cedric and the 2003 Toyota Crown Royal that you see in this scene here and it's fine to have these cars limited because on Japan's expressway there's a unit of elite high performance Japanese police cars that aren't speed limited and you would not want on your tail regardless of what car you're in the Japanese expressway patrol unit comprises of cars including a modified Nissan 350z or 350z to the American folk watching out there Mazda rx-7 Subaru Impreza WRX STI is a first generation Honda NSX Nissan skylines in GTRs spanning three generations and way more these police cars aren't only for show they are actually used to patrol the expressways in order to have something on hand specifically to keep up with modified and high-performance cars such as Hans rx-7 and that's why I think it's a shame this mistake exists because how cool would it have been to see a police chase between Hans rx-7 and a fleet of Japan's finest pursuit vehicles I for one would definitely buy popcorn for that show number 7 is another mistake [Applause] drivetrains every car has one some cars are front-wheel drive others have rear-wheel drive and some others have four-wheel drive or at least they're supposed to have four-wheel drive because it can clearly be seen that Sean's Mitsubishi Evo 9 in the movie is rear-wheel drive even though all Mitsubishi Lancer evolutions are sold with four-wheel drive as stock of course there's a clear explanation for this mistake which is that the car has been altered for drifting whilst copias rally legends have shown us that drifting four-wheel drive cars is doable and awesome for the sake of the slow speed and precise maneuvers that were required for the sequences such as the parking lot races the film's stunt coordinators felt that a rear-wheel drive setup would be far more suitable so they had 8 out of the films 10 Evo nines converted into rear-wheel drive and you know what I think it's fair to assume that an experienced drifters such as Han would have thought the same as the film's creators and modified his evo 9 to send power to the rear wheels exclusively - so I guess this can't be considered to be a mistake as it's more just a logical modification implemented to make a car more suited for its purpose but still or that tire smoke pouring from only the Evo's rear wheels was just too apparent not to point out here's a little bonus fact and it's one that takes a translator to know about Neela's Instant Messenger user name translates from Japanese to drift girl which I just think is some great attention to detail by the movie's creators now I'm going to finish this video by chatting about that Vin Diesel cameo at the very ends of the film because the story as to how that cameo came to be is quite something so just like with too fast too furious the creators of Tokyo Drift wrote another script and much like with too fast too furious that first script centered around Vin Diesel reprising his role as Dominic Toretto however much like when the scripts were too fast too furious were being written Vin Diesel still was and interested in starring in another Fast and Furious movie so he turns down the parts and apparently the creators of Tokyo Drift weren't interested in casting Paul Walker again as they felt he was getting too old so instead they wrote a brand new script which revolved around a brand new set of characters and a fresh cast however when the film was shown to test audiences it wasn't particularly well received viewers disliked the absence of any of them much-loved characters from the previous films in the franchise and therefore in a panicked bid to boost the box-office potential of Tokyo Drift a short scene featuring a cameo appearance from Dominic Toretto was quickly cobbled together to be bolted onto the end of the movie so that the film could be set to feature Vin Diesel I guess that's the 2005 equivalent of clickbait but getting diesel to appear even in this short scene was tricky he didn't want to be paid but instead requested that he be given the filming rights to the character Riddick whom he had portrayed in two films prior to this you see there was going to be a third film in the Riddick franchise however because the second film The Chronicles of Riddick tanked at the box office production was scrapped Vin Diesel wanted to make that movie though and therefore said he would only make his cameo appearance if he was given the exclusive rights to Riddick and stur Riddick franchise and Universal was so worried about their own film falling flat of sales that they agreed to these terms so Tokyo Drift got its cameo and ste-zel got to make his third Riddick film which actually didn't do too badly at the box office but even with that's cameo The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift remains possibly the most polarizing film in the holdfast franchise and yet whether you love it or loathe it I think it's fair to say the creators of the film put in a huge amount of effort to include some really great details for us car enthusiasts to enjoy and I think that makes Tokyo Drift a film to be appreciated but even so nobody can deny DK totally still stands for dot-com so that was eight mistakes in details in The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift only car geeks would notice I hope you enjoyed the video and please do consider subscribing to my channel should he want to be kept up to date with my latest videos thanks you

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Length: 17min 8sec (1028 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 08 2019