By Furious 7, the Fast and Furious series needed to stay on the cutting edge of automotive innovation, and scrapmetal cars custom-built for vehicular combat couldn't continue to carry the series.

As one of the longest movie franchises of all time, The Fast and Furious series has evolved from relatively modest street racing movies to the pinnacle of over-the-top Hollywood action — an evolution ...

Edwin (Ja Rule) and his 1994 Acura Integra are a distant second, and really, he wasn’t a bad guy — he just wanted his ménage. The verdict: Hero cars all the way. 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) ...

No, The Fast and the Furious films are objectively not very good. But I doubt that even the greats can claim to have had anywhere near as much of an impact on their subject matter.