Equipment
RHD. 1308cc/280 hp, five-speed, Veilside Fortune wide body kit, Andrew Premier Series Racing Evolution 5 wheels, Pirelli P Zero Nero tires, Blitz Nur-Spec exhaust. Has a custom interior with Veilside bucket seats, Alpine sound system, polished NOS bottle (currently not connected) custom stainless steel prop for the rear hatch to enable the sound system to be displayed.
Condition
Used in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006). Re-worked at Veilside Co Ltd, the famous Japanese body-kit supplier, where company founder Hironao Yokomaku and his team fitted their aggressive-looking “Fortune” wide-body kit, adding over 200mm to the car’s width. It is one of only two survivors and was not used for drifting sequences in the film. It has been in UK-based ownership since 2008. It is taxed, MoT’d, and road legal. Decent paint with uneven panels being the cause. There’s surface rust on the brake dust bells. The alloy wheels are marked here and there. Superb, well-preserved interior. The huge speakers are ridiculous, but so is most of this car.
Market commentary
This wasn’t the most expensive car of the auction, but it was the star, selling for roughly triple its estimate and setting world auction records for most expensive RX-7, most expensive Mazda road car, and most expensive movie car from the F&F franchise. The price is over a million bucks more than the previous $107,500 record (acheived in 2023) for a standard FD-generation RX-7. It’s nearly a million bucks higher than the previous record for a Mazda road car, the $264,000 achieved by a Cosmo 110 Sport way back in 2014. And in dollar terms, it’s more than double the next most expensive F&F car, the much more well-known Supra from movies one and two that brought $550K back in 2021. Movie cars don’t always bring huge premiums, but they often do, and two bidders were desperate to have this one. The records it set here are likely to stand for quite a while, unless this result draws more famous F&F cars out of hiding and onto the market.