Why did they make his character into a muscle car douche bag

>>16847815
characters became parodies of themselves all the time in the long run.

less serious answer
Murica

>>16847815
ricers were a trend
muscle is Americana

He is meant to be a dumb meat head tough guy not a secret agent too.

>>16847825
That's not even a real answer.

>>16847844
why would you put the popular badass guy in something that isnt popular or badass

muscle suits him and makes him a better character

>>16847859
Well they did have him in rice burners in the first movie.

It causes contiuality issues th the series.

>>16847874
yes because the ricer trend was huge

that shit would not fly today

>>16847880
Not really, it was a small niche scene.

Before the fast amd the furious came out the only people into japanese cars were mostly asians.

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>>16847899
>Not really, it was a small niche scene.

no the fuck it wasnt the import scene took off in the 90s

FnF just overpopulated and killed the entire scene with retards

>>16847925
Oh look a gathering of people with a small niche interest.

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>>16847941
>small niche interest
>multi billion dollar industry
>small
>niche
>interest

>>16847947
Back in the 90's most modified imports in America were just d series civic with budget turbos with about 5 psi.

A turbo d series car used to get you the cover of import magaines.

>>16847844
Nobody in the movies have riced out civics anymore.

>>16847974
Yes but he goes around bagging out japanese cars in the new movies. Doesn't make sense.

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>>16847925
WE HAVE TO GO BACK

Id rather have fart cannons and sikk wings and bodykits over the stance faggot shit and diesel truck faggotry we have now

>>16847963
>ignoring the DSMs
>implying swaps weren't a thing back then
>implying Toyotas didn't have their own scene
>implying Mazda's didn't have their own scene

Shut the fuck up you post 95 babby

>>16847995
Go have a look at the covers of 90's import magazines.

You were probBly born in like 93.

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>>16847963
you are thinking of what most ricers were

no one serious fucked with the D

H and B series were the hotness and turbos where everywhere when it came to actual modified cars

I was but a wee lad back then but I remember some cars

>>16847995
Go have a look at the covers of 90's import magazines.

You were probably born in like 93.

>>16848032
11 years earlier than that and i was buying those copies of Sport Compact Car and Super Street

>>16848042
>so shook he posted it twice
T-t-today junior!

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Turbo d series civics were in all the import magazines in the 90's if you can even remember.

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this car was a badass D series tho ugly af

>>16847991
I like stance and shit

but then again I liked minitrucks back in the day too

>>16848036
Thats early 2000's and not even from the same country I am talking about.

Im pretty sure.

>>16848061
Pretty much most hondas were turbo d in the 90's.

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>>16848058
and so where turbo B and H series

your point?

>>16848064
that car was around in the late 90s

even that pic was in a 1999 article of a US magazine

>>16848072
yeah the poorfag ones

Ricing out cars wasn't even a thing until fast and the furious came out

>>16848080
It says 2000 right up the top of the page you dimb arse.

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>>16848084
you best be rusing me nigga

>>16848084
Another dumb arse.

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Papadakis Civic
H22
mid-late 90s

shit was running 9s

>>16848084
ricing out cars was a thing since car customizing was a thing

>>16848094
goddamn you really are stupid

1999 in the lower corner

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>>16848036
What's wrong with that civic?

>>16848080
You're posting literally the fastest drag civic in existence at the time as proof that everyone everywhere was turboing B engines. You're obviously not even tangentially related to car scenes or tuning.

>>16848108
Papadakis is one of the most famous honda guys.

Not the average everyday honda giy from the 90's.

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>>16848111
>>16848112
dem goalpost moving

from magazine covers to the average ricer

top fucking kek

>>16848118
In 10 years will you be talking about how every single American has purchased an R34 GTR because people at the top of the money pyramid already have...?

>>16848118
No im not.

You are just trying to find the odd exceptions to my point to prove (for lack of a better term) you aren't wrong and deny the truth.

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>>16848128
>>16848135
keep grasping

nice to change the topic when you get BTFO

we get it you were around nothing the poor people and never saw anything else

if you actually idk

saw car show shit from the late 90s youd know they were everywhere

Okay I will admit they did become more common in the LATE 90s.

But that is still no reason to try not to learn from me kid.

>>16848165
LJ Garcia's car was not a single cam

and yeah maybe shit was different in the early-mid 90s but I wasnt really reading at that point in my life lel

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>>16847815
who gives a shit? the entire franchise is laughably awful.

>>16848181
You're right.

It does look like a single cam in that photo though.
It's almost ine of the most famous modified hondas of all time.

>>16847815
He grew up.

>>16847874
>It causes continuity issues in the series
Does it really though? The guy can change his mind can't he?
He traded his rice-burner for a muscle car, so what?

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>>16847925
It's really too bad nothing like that exists anymore.

>>16848145
>ichibahn
Isnt that the poisonous blue lipstick for men that Joey Tribiani advertised?

>>16848109
2013 proportions.

>>16848058
>tfw flex a 'cep at the cashier while picking up my 'thic 'go 'za but have to come back for my 'stang keys because i forgot them on the counter

>>16848095
Nigga dat aint ricing, dat be burging

>>16847815
No logical in-universe answer other than he sees Jap cars as cheap and expendable, but treasures classic muscle above all.

Realistically, it's because it establishes Dom with "the muscle car guy" identity in the group and probably because FCA pays for product placement not unlike what GM does for Transformers.

>>16847815

There's a Jay Leno with an Asian guy from those movies and a 240, 260zx... Asian faggot doesn't know shit about cars.

>>16848084
Shut the fuck up, dude.

Cars have always been an interest in the US and the aftermarket was definitely around in the '90s.

>>16849189
THIS

>>16850172
What up /ck/