David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
1/31/20 8:27 a.m.
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What’s cooler than racing a Subaru WRX through the mean streets of Atlanta? When the stunts come courtesy of our own jfryjfry (Next time, though, how about hitting the V for an F.O.?).

 

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Gearheadotaku
Gearheadotaku GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
1/31/20 8:47 a.m.

Great movie.

David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
1/31/20 8:51 a.m.

And look for a behind-the-scenes magazine article by our favorite stunt driver on the pages of GRM soon. :)

Gearheadotaku
Gearheadotaku GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
1/31/20 8:54 a.m.

That sounds great! Thank you!

mr2s2000elise
mr2s2000elise Dork
1/31/20 8:58 a.m.

Excellent 

 

I almost had a chance to meet him last Friday in person. Was Gonna get an autograph 

didn't work out - like most things in my life 

OjaiM5
OjaiM5 Reader
1/31/20 9:14 a.m.

My friend was a camera man on that movie. The opening scene is filmed really cool. 

The WRX is RWD to make it more festive. 

Strike_Zero
Strike_Zero UltraDork
1/31/20 10:42 a.m.

We really enjoyed this movie. 

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
1/31/20 11:22 p.m.

The fabulous...

Most groovy...

j_tso
j_tso Reader
2/1/20 8:46 a.m.

Although the rest of the car action didn't live up to that first scene, Jamie Foxx and Jon Hamm were terrific.

P3PPY
P3PPY GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
3/31/24 1:51 p.m.
OjaiM5 said:

My friend was a camera man on that movie. The opening scene is filmed really cool. 

The WRX is RWD to make it more festive. 

Good to know

CyberEric
CyberEric SuperDork
4/1/24 8:23 a.m.

You can tell looking at it. The front end is sitting high like a truck having lost the weight over the front.

Jerry
Jerry PowerDork
4/1/24 8:27 a.m.

It's on Netflix as of today I believe.  Might have to rewatch.

RevRico
RevRico GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
4/1/24 9:27 p.m.

Yup just got the email it's on Netflix. Which is great because I forgot all about this movie and actually wanted to watch it.

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
4/1/24 11:13 p.m.

In reply to RevRico :

You haven't seen it yet? Oooh, you're in for a treat.

jfryjfry
jfryjfry UltraDork
4/2/24 10:41 a.m.
CyberEric said:

You can tell looking at it. The front end is sitting high like a truck having lost the weight over the front.

It's likely that pic is of the rwd but nothing significant was removed to make it such - they went into the transfer case and had to weld up some stuff I'm told but the front diff was there. 
 

the front is high probably because the car was under powah! (At least I'm sure the driver would like to think that...)

RevRico
RevRico GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
4/2/24 11:56 a.m.

Alright. Aside from my complete inability to take Jamie Fox as a thug seriously, this was pretty damn good. Fun cars, decent music, not a lot of filler.

Awesome driving jfryjfry. 

CAinCA
CAinCA GRM+ Memberand Dork
4/2/24 1:04 p.m.

My wife's out of town. I just added this to tonight's watch list. 

SV reX
SV reX MegaDork
4/2/24 2:14 p.m.
CyberEric said:

You can tell looking at it. The front end is sitting high like a truck having lost the weight over the front.

That's not how Subarus work. 
 

The transfer case is not a separate unit. The actual transmission has side outputs for the front wheels.  Nothing of any significant weight needs to be removed to convert to RWD. 
 

This is one of my all time favorite movies!

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