What Fans Should Know About Han’s RX-7 From ‘Fast And Furious: Tokyo Drift’

What made the “Fast and Furious” Mazda RX-7 stand out is how it looked almost nothing like a stock FD, and that’s thanks to its widebody kit courtesy of VeilSide. Another of Lieberman’s YouTube videos revealed that Han’s RX-7 was built by VeilSide specifically to showcase its body kit for car shows, and it used to be red instead of orange. Although there were nine other examples used in the film, the hero car had the most upgrades, which allegedly gave it 305 horsepower. However, the VeilSide RX-7’s looks alone were enough to convince vehicle coordinator Dennis McCarthy to turn it into a principal car.

Han’s RX-7 was rocking VeilSide’s Fortune body kit, which made it almost a foot wider than its stock counterpart, but there’s a good reason why it had such a name. For comparison’s sake, the RX-7 had a sticker price of £25,000 ($29,528) in 1993 (via EVO). The custom Fortune kit itself is already worth ¥2,200,000 (about $16,000) excluding additional labor and shipping costs, and the “Fast and Furious” car even came with optional carbon body panels that could easily amount to over $20,000 in total (via VeilSide). Imported cars like these usually end up as scrap post-production, but fortunately for fans, that wasn’t exactly the fate of Han’s RX-7.