The total number of cars destroyed in every Fast & Furious movie is absolutely wild

Fast & Furious began as a ‘humble’ movie about street racing and evolved into a massive multi-billion-dollar franchise.

As the franchise is about to wrap – the final movie in the main storyline is set to be released in 2028 – it’s time to do the math.

That’s because the Fast & Furious production team destroyed an incredible number of cars during filming.

But there is a mild consolation.

How many vehicles were destroyed while filming Fast & Furious movies

Across the series, hundreds of vehicles have been custom-built, modified, and then crashed, all in the name of filmmaking.

The first movie – The Fast and the Furious – began with a relatively low count as ‘only’ 78 cars were destroyed.

That number went up with the sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious, which required 130+ cars.

Tokyo Drift doubled that number, mainly because the drifting theme sort of required it, and that’s how as many as 249 cars met their fate.

Tokyo Drift, now one of the most beloved movies, nearly totaled the franchise.

When they made a comeback with Fast & Furious they had to go big: 190+ cars were destroyed.

A few years later, Fast Five completed the transition from street racing to action-heist, and that explains the number of cars sacrificed: 260+.

Fast & Furious 6 needed 350+ cars and Furious 7 went through 230+.

After that, it went completely out of control with The Fate of the Furious, 300+ cars; F9 with 350+ cars; and Fast X with 500+ cars destroyed.

By the end of the last production, over 2,300 cars had been destroyed across the series.

But Fast X was a bit of a mess.

Fans didn’t love it, and the box office result was underwhelming, which forced the production team to rethink everything and tone it down a notch.

The next and final movie – Fast Forever – will likely be a little less ‘wasteful’.

The number of cars destroyed won’t be zero, but it’s probably not going to be 500 or 400.

A mild consolation

The Fast & Furious production team burned through an inordinate number of cars, but the mild consolation is most of those cars were not entirely legitimate.

For every Nissan Skyline you saw on screen, there were probably four or five kit cars that looked like a Skyline but were just a fruit salad of parts from other, much cheaper cars.

Some were not cars at all, but rather empty shells with a chassis, a mockup interior, and a fiberglass body.

On some occasions, what you saw probably didn’t even have an interior or an engine.

They still cost money to build, and they still didn’t survive.

But at least you could say that ‘no Nissan Skylines were harmed in the making of this scene’.