Characters in the Fast and Furious franchise shift gears so often during drag races that their cars would mathematically need to have roughly twenty-eight distinct gears.

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Characters in the Fast and Furious franchise shift gears so often during drag races that their cars would mathematically need to have roughly twenty-eight distinct gears. Car enthusiasts have spent entirely too much of their free time analyzing the audio and visual cues in these movies, only to discover that Dominic Toretto is apparently driving vehicles built with physics-defying transmissions. Hollywood expects us to believe in the sacred bonds of family and the ability to outrun a nuclear submarine in a Dodge Charger, but asking us to accept a twenty-eight-speed manual gearbox in a street car is where we draw the line. It is a fantastic reminder that testosterone-fueled cinema operates in an alternate universe where gear shifts are basically just punctuation marks for dramatic eye contact!