Random Ridiculously Stupid Plot Holes in Fast and Furious Movies (17 items)

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  (#14) Rio de Janeiro Police Cruisers Are Dodge Chargers

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  There isn’t a one-two punch that destroys property more efficiently than Brian O’Conner and Dom Toretto, and their capabilities came to screen in spectacular fashion in Fast Five. Once they set their sights on mega crime boss Reyes, Rio didn’t stand a chance, and neither did the brave officers of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State and their Dodge Charger police cruisers. They simply couldn’t keep up with the ferocity and speed of our favorite villains heroes, even though they had American muscle on their side. Maybe it was the manual transmissions the Rio cops just couldn’t master. Either way, shortly after the events of Fast Five, Rio’s police union announced they will be accepting new bids for their next official police cruisers.
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  (#3) Why Not Take Just the Radio?

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  Fast Five followed the newfound tradition of starting hard and fast. Dom, Brian, Mia, and even Vince join a crew of Brazilian gangsters to steal a handful of exotic cars off a fast-moving train. The twist? Dom and Brian don’t know the other gang’s lead man Zizi is after only a microchip hidden inside the radio of the Ford GT40 they’re after. Their collective plan is to cut off an entire side panel of the train with blowtorches, then wench each car to a flatbed ramp, and reverse them to freedom. All for a data chip inside one car’s radio. Everything is going smoothly, until it’s not, and the ensuing commotion garners the unwanted attention of some DEA agents onboard. Why not just send one guy on the train to steal the GT40’s radio? Without, you know, blowtorching the train while it's moving? 
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  (#2) What Ever Happened to Baby Leon?

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  Dom and Leon were like brothers. They came up together, built cars, raced cars, partied at Race Wars, and even stole DVD players together. They would have killed, or been killed, for each other. Leon was there from the beginning, from childhood. Brian wasn’t. Han came years later; so did Roman. All those guys, and more, are family to Dom. He’ll risk it all for them and then some. But Leon’s services and personality haven’t meant anything to Dom since 2001. Let’s hope Dom at least transferred ownership of Toretto’s Market & Cafe so Leon had something to live for.
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  (#15) Brian O'Conner: Lawman and/or Outlaw

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  The original Fast and Furious film is pretty clear on which side of the law Brian is on until the very last scene. He’s a fugitive at the onset of the sequel, but is recruited back to the FBI under close supervision. He clears his rap sheet and leaves as a civilian at the end of 2 Fast, but when see him again in Fast & Furious he’s now a full-fledged FBI agent… and still has a soft spot for Dom and Mia.

  By the end of the fourth film, Brian can’t resist the urge of the outlaw life, and really goes rogue by helping with Dom’s jailbreak. After orchestrating a $100 million robbery and wrecking half of Rio de Janeiro in Five, Hobbs finds him and Dom in Spain in Fast 6 and recruits their services to help bring down the particularly menacing Owen Shaw, Deckard Shaw’s younger brother. After millions in damages to London, Brian is still close enough with agents at the FBI to help arrange a meeting between him and a Cartel boss in a super-max prison in the US. 

  After Brian and Dom lay waste to London, Spain, Los Angeles, and Dubai, it seems Brian will remain a lawman turned-outlaw-turned-civilian. Meanwhile, the rest of us risk devastating penalties for unpaid traffic violations.
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  (#4) Hobbs's Task Force Are Secretly Amazing Mechanics

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  After Fast Five’s high octane shootout foot chase through the Rio de Janeiro favelas, Hobbs and his team return to Dom and Brian’s abandoned hideout on a clue-gathering mission. It’s where they find the elusive Ford GT40 from the memorable train heist, only now it’s half disassembled. Hobbs follows his always-accurate instincts and knows he needs to put the super car back together to find out what Dom was looking for.

  Hobbs tells two of his guys to “put all this mess back together,” referring to the now half-built GT40. You can’t disobey Hobbs, so they oblige. Lucky for Hobbs, their entire adult life presumably spent in the military and then special task force law enforcement perfectly prepped them to be able to reconstruct a limited edition super car on the fly in a shanty hideout garage without any documentation manuals. Not only did they complete the task in a matter of hours, but the engine started up on the first try!
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  (#11) 150mph Makes Your Floorboards Fall Off (Except It Doesn't, Actually)

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  It’s easy to forget just how green Brian O'Conner was the first time he raced the Dominic Toretto in The Fast and The Furious. Sure, Brian had some racing chops, but he knew he’d need more than that to be competitive. Against sage advice, Brian insisted he be given two giant NOS tanks for his first big race. Well, he got what he wanted, but at what cost? Brian’s unflinching ambition to win sparked a catastrophic chain of events once he reached 150mph. Innumerable machine screws and flat washers spewed from his car’s passenger-side floor, causing a ruckus that ended with gravity getting the best of the floorboard.

  Apparently installing those NOS tanks inextricably wove the vehicle’s powertrain and passenger-side flooring together. 

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