DrivingEnthusiast.net Prior Blog Posts by Date DRIVING: that's what it's ALL ABOUT! A blog and website for automotive driving enthusiasts, featuring my interests as I see them: news and opinion about manufacturers of interest, significant enthusiast cars, and driving them hard and well. August 2008 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat           1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31             Jul   Sep RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net Index of prior posts by title Use this calendar to navigate thru prior blog postings by date. Wednesday, August 27, 2008    Fast and Furious 4 in production!   Fast and Furious 4 brings back the full original cast: Paul Walker, Vin Diesel (not a lot of offers these days...), Michelle Rodriquez (hopefully dry and well behaved, as well as over getting dumped in real life by Vin after the 1st film was completed), and the luscious Jordana Brewster. F&F 4 is currently scheduled for release on June 5, 2009 (date and full title subject to change). It's been in production for the past few months and the first trailer has just been released.  View the new trailer here: Fast & Furious 4 trailer  (.avi 26mg, fast connection required). While I liked the storyline in Tokyo, this time the story returns to the original characters. It's great to see them all back, and from the trailer   We've seen the stories over the past few months about the STI that was built specifically for the film. It apparently has a leading role.   We're not happy with the presence of muscle cars in the film... the old-school Charger makes a return appearance. When the last time you saw a Ford RS200 in a film? Any film? Anybody who can identify this car is a serious driving enthusiast! Jordana Brewster had a secondary role in F&F 1 - she made friends with Paul Walker's character and then ditched him to escape to Mexico with her brother. It looks her character is back together with Paul Walker's again. Her own career has also taken off since the original F&F so we are lucky to have her back. Speculation on the net is that she drives an NSX Type R in the film... the trailer would seem to support that. It's a real shame that Michelle Rodriquez has had such a tough time with celebrity. Despite a promising debut in Girl Fight, she didn't continue her line of serious acting. She is talented... she is attractive, she does have a good personality on-air. But she has a drinking problem that may be the root of more fundamental issues. Michelle shows her athletic prowess... and assets.. on the hood of a Buick Grand National during the tanker heist sequence. Yikes! The racing must have been really exciting to get this kind of reaction from these two spectators!  Stay tuned for another trailer in the Spring of 2009. In the meantime, collect and view the full series (including the original classic F&F): View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Media: Car Movies - Fast and Furious | Media: Car Movies and TV Search for similar posts on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net  AutoWeek reports Chrysler may sell the Viper business   AutoWeek reports that Chrysler is exploring "strategic options" for it's Viper product line. This means that like Ford (Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover, and perhaps Volvo) and GM (hummer), the Viper business would be sold lock, stock, and barrel to another company. Chrysler has already said that it has no Viper product in the pipeline past 2012 and that the Viper would probabaly be allowed to die a slow death as finances allow after that. This new plan, if executed, would sell the Viper business to a third party and then support it with technology and engineering support. The news comes as an unpleasant surprise to Viper owners and enthusiasts, who always believed that the Viper business was profitable and would continue. More information: (<right click> and <option in new tab>) Autoweek Article: http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080827/FREE/808279989/1508/newsletter02  More on DrivingEnthusiast.net network: Road Test: gen 2 Viper:  http://www.drivingenthusiast.net/sec-my-automobilia/sec-imho/1998-08-10_roadtest_gen2-viper/index.htm Challenger Enthusiast (included Dodge Viper section): http://challenger.drivingenthusiast.net/  View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Chrysler | Chrysler - Dodge Viper Search for similar posts on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net
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