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Fast Five, the fifth installment of the Fast and Furious franchise, opened last weekend to some pretty impressive grossing figures, around $83.6 million worth of box office sales, making it the highest grossing opening weekend film for the year. The hype and attention surrounding the movie has apparently rubbed off on some people, including one comedian who is considered one of the foremost gearheads in the world. In the latest episode of Jay Leno’s Garage, Jay Leno invited movie car builder, Dennis McCarthy, to his garage to talk about one of the main cars that appeared in the movie: a replica of the C2 Corvette Grand Sport that McCarthy’s company built exclusively for the movie. Featuring a suspension taken from the Corvette of the 80’s, McCarthy and his people went about the work of adding some touches to make it as real as possible. The custom body was given by Mongoose Motorsport and the car, despite it’s designation as a ’movie’ car, still has a powerful enough engine to produce 500 horsepower. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, then we highly suggest that you head over to your local AMC Theater to watch it. In addition to the C2 Corvette Grand Sport, McCarthy also brought another one of the movie franchise’s iconic cars, the Dodge Charger R/T. This is the same car that was used by Vin Diesel in the fourth installment of the franchise, and comes with a faux blower on it. Check out the latest episode of Jay Leno’s Garage featuring McCarthy and the hero car of Fast Five. As an added bonus, the cameras even went back with McCarthy to his shop around the block to check out some other cars from the Fast & Furious franchise. .
18 comments: Video: Jay Leno meets the ’hero car’ of Fast Five Awesome car! I don’t need to read the article because all the know the movie of fast five and this car has a great performance and it’s so fast.
 Agreed. With the awesome performance of this car now wonder why its called the hero car. However, its still makes me wonder if it performs the same in real life?
 I first read about this car here before I have watched the video and I have to say that I was impressed with the major appearance of this car and it truly saves the life of the main characters from the death defying scene.
 I have watched the movie and after its scene in the explosion of the train its just dumped out in the lake of water. Well, I guess its the reason why its a replica version.
 Honestly, I really doubt the performance of this car during the filming of the movie. I wonder if it performs the same in real life. For a vintage car to have an impressive power output like this, well, its awesome!
 I’ve remembed that he did guested the stars from this movie. But the most important detail on his show is to feature the real superstars on this movie – the super hot cars that has been used during the filming.
 Those cars were really awesome. I think they should be given more credits instead of the stars. However, the stars did also their best. I love the action scenes in this movie.
 I kept on browsing Jay Leno’s thread on this site. And I must commend the great effort made of the people here. All videos were so detailed and updated. Keep it up TopSpeed guys!
 I though he interviewed the stars, what he meant was the ’hot super cars’ featured in this flick. Actually, I have seen the movie and I should able to ask Jay Leno to feature more of the cars used in this movie.
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10.21.2011 @ 03:54