I'm guessing they just start with a whole vw, they buy the thing cheap, and then the props department simply extend the chassis and then just throw the new shell over the top of it.

And you're right about the part "I doubt the movie producers are willing to buy real GT-R's as stunt cars." I looked into it and it turns out its typical of hollywood to only have the one real 'hero' car and the rest are duplicate mockup stunt cars.

I'd still have one, though I don't think I'd ever open the boot... or start the engine, lol.

They still do look sweet from the outside though

That's exactly what they did, it's just a R34 shell on top of a extended beetle frame

bad times

Disappointing tbh. If you're not going to do it right, do it properly. Either that or leave it.

This explains why Herbie is such a fast car - they just swapped the engines!

For me the main logical reason is that its much cheaper.

Films like The Fast And The Furious are big budget films and i remember on The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift DVD bonus features about the cars, i think they meantioned they had 7 Chevy Monte Carlo's just for the opening race.

They buy atleast 4 models:
Main Model - The finished version
blue screen - used for blue screen work
green screen - used for green screen work
trashed - used for the stunts, repaird and trashed again

they also buy more but the 4 models above i think is spread out over the amount of cars for one model for all the cars in the film.

Can't wait for the 5th film.

I kinda Agree that we cant buy 10 GTR'S and maybe destroy all of them in the Stunt Scenes,, that would be Insane way to spend money ,,,

Thnx for the Info Mark

I would think they have more of those crash cars. One is being used while the other is being repaired.

That blue screen/green screen thing I don't really get. Why would it need to have separate cars for each one anyway? Did they really say that in the 'making of' materials that they do that? Blue screen works better with film and green better with digital. The most significant, if not even the only difference, between the two. Both are used the same way and to the same purpose.

I remember in 'Gone in 60 seconds' they made 12 clones of the Shelby Eleanors (made from 63 or 67 fastbacks), 5 or 7 of those were written off. SO 12 x 34Gt-R's = very costly

But whats the difference between the blue and green screen cars. it's used the same way.

But every one here seems so dissapointed that not all were 34GTR's.
IMO the new FnF4 they used way too much CG graphics, I'm disappointed in that