When a car, that's how much?

That's how much?

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Ferrari,

When the fast and furious opened in Japan just a few months after its U.S. release,

the Japanese enthusiasts who went to see it walked out with a feeling that was hard to describe.

Because the cars were right, the RX7, the Supra, the Skyline, real machines with real histories and reputation earned over years of development, racing and refinement, but the world around them was something else entirely.

We've spent eight episodes talking about where Japanese car culture came from.

The mountain passes, the midnight highway runs,

the idea that a car is something you work at,

something you understand from the inside out.

That culture was built over decades, in lots and on toge roads by people who treated

driving as a craft.

So when those same drivers sat down in movie theaters in 2001, they weren't just watching cars

on a screen, they were watching something they recognized,

get repackaged into something different, something very, very American.

Don Torretto's RX-7 wasn't threading a canyon in the dark.

It was sitting under neon lights in a Los Angeles parking lot, bumping the Jaw Rule in Ashanti.

The cars had been lifted out of their context and dropped into a different story.

Many felt the movie was a caricature of real street racing. But it was also popular.

It showed that the rest of the world wanted in on Japanese car culture.

The cars were famous now, and they were only getting more popular.

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