Most likely influenced by the movie itself, thieves stole the blue Nissan Skyline from the Fast & Furious movie from a storage facility in Sun Valley, Los Angeles. Thieves reportedly stole the car in a matter of 10 minutes.

The car was actually a Skyline GT-S model that had been modified to look like a turbocharged Nissan GT-R. It took professional driver Chris Milano about two years to built the car for its movie debut (in the movie it took O’Connor only 10 seconds to finish the car).

The thieves stole the car Monday night after getting through metal doors and sideswiping a Studebaker and Porsche Boxster on their way out. The car is estimated to carry a price tag of $75,000 and was not insured.

- By: The Daily Auto Editor

Source: Inside Line

Paul Walker has revealed that him and Vin Diesel are going to return for the fifth installment to  the Fast and Furious franchise. The new Fast and Furious (part 4) broke many records bringing in $72.5 million on its opening day

“This was supposed to be it. There wasn’t supposed to be the open-ended closing like there was,” Walker told MYfm’s Valentine. ”But without question, with the way things opened up, Vin and I will be coming back, we’re making a fifth one, and we’re going to Brazil, that’s it.”

Walker did not say why Diesel did not return for the second installment. Walker said that the fourth installment of the movie was actually the “first true sequel” to the original film.

- By: Omar Rana

Source: LATimes

Besides the storyline and the return of the original cast, I was pretty excited to see the 2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe make its onscreen debut in “Fast & Furious.” However, I was very disappointed when I didn’t even catch a glimpse of the two-door Hyundai sports car.

According to Miles Johnson, the 2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe was “ready to go.” He said that he thinks another manufacturer blocked Hyundai from appearing in the fourth installment of the franchise (we’re guessing it was Subaru with their Impreza WRX STI).

Apparently Hyundai never got the official word from Universal Pictures. He said that Hyundai had “a few running prototypes, and the red turbocharged 2.0L 4-cylinder Genesis Coupe SE” had been prepped just for the filming of the movie.

Johnson said that the 2010 Genesis Coupe was also scheduled to appear in the opening sequence with Vin Diesel.

2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe:

- By: Kap Shah

Source: Inside Line

So we’re pretty sure that if you read eGMCarTech you went out and saw “Fast & Furious” this weekend. Well, apparently many are surprised that the movie raked in $72.5 million since its opening day – making it the No. 1 movie at the box office. We’re not so surprised since the movie was everything we expected and more.

The fourth installment in the series also shattered a lot of records including the best April opening ever, the best Universal Pictures opening ever (in three-days), Best F&F franchise opening ever and the best opening so far in 2009. It was also the Best opening for the stars of the movie including Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster, as well as for director Justin Lin.

The movie also holds the best opening ever for a car-themed movie beating out “Car” $60.1 million opening. Let us know what you thought of “Fast & Furious” in the comments section below.

- By: Omar Rana

Source: CNN

We were invited to an advanced screening of Fast & Furious last night but chose not to go since we were to busy bringing you live coverage of the Tesla Model S Sedan launch (since we love you guys and everything). Nonetheless, you can be sure we’ll be headed to the theaters on April 3rd to check out all the hot cars, action sequences and of course – the girls.

Fast & Furious is running an “Ultimate Fast & Furious Model Competition” where your votes will determine the winner. 25 of the hottest girls were selected as finalists leaving it up to you guys to pick the hottest one of them all.

You can submit your vote through the widget posted after the jump.

- By: The Daily Auto Insider

Source: Fast & Furious

If you’re not a huge Arizona or Pittsburgh fan, tonight may be the first Super Bowl where your watching the game for the commercials. Besides the Hyundai, Audi, and Transformers Revenge of the Fallen ads, look out for the third official trailer for Fast and Furious.

The 2009 Summer movie season is turning out to look pretty amazing.

Grade: A – The last scene where Vin Diesel goes under the blazing truck is just to unreal to add + in front of that A.

You can follow our Super Bowl XLIII tag to see all the automotive related commercials that will air tonight.

Make the jump for the trailer.

We first saw the trailer to the fourth installment to The Fast and The Furious in August of last year. Universal has now released a second trailer of the Fast & Furious, giving us a better feel for the plot of the movie.

Paul Walker and Dominic Toretto are back after Walker is released from prison to catch a heroin importer with Toretto as his right hand man. Han from Tokyo Drift is also said to make a special appearance in this non-stop thrilling action feature.

Click through to see the trailer.

Here it is – the trailer to Fast and Furious and we’re not calling it ‘The Fast and The Furious 4′ for a reason. The movie basically takes the characters from the original The Fast and The Furious and puts them in a new plot based on the 1939 film Fast and Furious.

Building off of the original movie Paul Walker’s character Brian is released from prison to help the feds stop a heroin importer. With the help of Dominic Toretto, played by Vin Diesel, Brian gets inside the criminal world where he and Dominic plan to catch the man. It is said that Han from Tokyo Drift will make a special appearance in the movie.

Fast and Furious will be released in the summer of 2009.

Click through for the trailer.