Fast and Furious 8 Cars List: Every Car in The Fate of the Furious

The Fate of the Furious is the eighth film in the series and picks up where our Furious 7 cars list left off. This page lists every notable car in the film, who drives it, where it appears, and what the real car underneath is. For the whole franchise in one place, see the Fast and Furious cars list hub.

The film moves through three big car set pieces: a street race in Havana, a hacked-car chase through New York, and a finale on a frozen lake that was shot in Iceland. Each set piece has its own garage, so the cars below are grouped the same way.

The Fate of the Furious at a Glance

Every Car in The Fate of the Furious: The Full List

The table covers the cars tied to a named character or a key scene. Many more background and stunt cars also appear, including the 40 or 50 cars wrecked in the New York pileup.

Sources: Xbox Wire, Fate of the Furious car pack, The Drive (ice cars), The Drive (New York cars), The Drive (Dennis McCarthy tour), TheWrap. Real-car figures are linked in each section below.

Dom’s Ice Charger: The Hero Car of Fast 8

The Ice Charger is a film build, not something Dodge ever sold. It was built by Dennis McCarthy, the franchise’s picture car coordinator, whose shop has supplied the series’ cars since Tokyo Drift. In a walk-around filmed for The Drive, McCarthy describes a widebody Charger with a 550 horsepower LS engine mounted as close to the firewall as possible, plus a driveshaft running to the front wheels for all-wheel drive (The Drive). He named Ken Block’s Hoonicorn Mustang as a design influence.

The official Forza Motorsport 7 tie-in, made with Universal Brand Development, adds more detail: the car is based on a 1968 Charger (Universal’s display notice says 1970), only the roof and pillars are stock, the body is widened for 18-inch tires, and a Chevrolet LS V8 sits under the hood (Xbox Wire).

How many Ice Chargers were built?

McCarthy told TheWrap that three stunt cars were built for the ice sequence, plus one version with a detailed interior for Vin Diesel (TheWrap). Dom’s Ice Charger was also put on display at Universal Studios Hollywood when the film opened (Comcast/Universal Studios Hollywood).

The Havana Street Race: Dom’s Fleetline vs the Fairlane

The film opens in Cuba. Dom is challenged by a local racer in a heavily modified Ford Fairlane and has to make a tired Chevrolet Fleetline competitive. The Forza tie-in lists the cars as a 1951 Chevrolet Fleetline Special and a 1955 Ford Fairlane. In the story the Fleetline is stripped almost to the chassis and given a large turbo from a marine engine running 30 pounds of boost (Xbox Wire).

The real build was more modest. McCarthy explains that the turbo setup on the film car is fake: Turbonetics supplied a pallet of hollowed-out turbos, and steel panels were removed to save weight (The Drive). Model years for both cars vary between sources, so treat them as early-to-mid-1950s rather than exact.

The New York Chase: Every Character’s Car

Location filming in Manhattan took place in July 2016, including a motorcade down Fifth Avenue, and The Drive photographed most of the hero cars on set (The Drive).

• Dom: a black 1971 Plymouth GTX (Syfy Wire). The Drive noted a rumored LS3 engine swap.
• Letty: a second-generation Corvette. McCarthy says the film car started as a rusty barn find, needed heavy structural reinforcement, and got a 400 hp Chevy crate engine.
• Roman: a slammed, two-tone Bentley Continental GT with a modified trunk.
• Tej: a Mercedes-AMG GT S, a twin-turbo V8 coupe.
• Shaw: a Jaguar F-Type R Coupe in British green.
• Hobbs: an International MXT truck.
• Little Nobody: a wide-body Subaru BRZ, with a wide-body WRX STI appearing briefly.

Shaw’s Jaguar F-Type R: Real Specs

Jaguar revealed the F-Type R Coupe in November 2013 with a 550PS (about 542 hp) 5.0-liter supercharged V8, a 0-60 mph time of 4.0 seconds and a limited top speed of 186 mph (Jaguar press release). Production ended in June 2024 after 87,731 F-Types had been built (GoAuto).

The Zombie-Car Pileup

In the story, Cipher hacks cars across New York so they drive themselves. McCarthy told TheWrap much of the hacked-car segment was shot in Cleveland and Atlanta, that the pileup used about 40 or 50 cars, and that his shop keeps at least one backup for every car in a scene (TheWrap).

The Frozen-Lake Finale: Rally Fighter, Murciélago, Ripsaw and Ice Ram

The finale was filmed in Iceland, and the franchise’s own Facebook photos from June 2016 showed the main ice vehicles (The Drive).

Letty’s Local Motors Rally Fighter

The Rally Fighter was a low-volume off-roader from Local Motors. The production car uses a 6.2-liter GM LS3 V8 rated at 430 hp with a four-speed automatic (Wikipedia, used because Local Motors has closed and no maker page is online). The film car added studded tires, LED light bars and a red push bar (The Drive; Xbox Wire).

Roman’s Lamborghini Murciélago

Roman’s orange Murciélago is a real production supercar, chased across the ice in the film. McCarthy said the team bought three of them (TheWrap). Lamborghini built the Murciélago from 2001 to 2010, with a total of 4,099 cars and a V12 engine of 6.2 to 6.5 liters (Wikipedia).

Tej’s Ripsaw and Hobbs’s Ice Ram

Tej drives a Ripsaw, a heavily equipped tracked vehicle, while Hobbs gets a sand-colored Dodge Ram that runs on treads instead of tires and carries a large ice pick on the tailgate (The Drive). Universal’s display notice confirms both, plus Hobbs’s MXT (Comcast/Universal Studios Hollywood).

Fate of the Furious Cars You Can Buy Today

Most of the film’s hero cars are classics or one-off builds. A few nameplates are still sold new in the US; check the maker’s site for current pricing, because trims and prices change every model year. If you like this kind of car, see our sports car guide.

Fate of the Furious vs Furious 7: How the Garage Changed

Furious 7 leaned on exotic supercars for its Abu Dhabi chapter. The Fate of the Furious went the other way in two of its three set pieces: a rusty 1950s Chevy in Havana and purpose-built ice machines in the finale.

The bigger change is scale. McCarthy’s estimate of well over 300 cars built in about six months, with more than half expected to be wrecked, shows how far the series had moved from the street-racing roots covered in our Fast and Furious 6 cars list. For the cars that defined the whole series, see the most iconic cars.

Next in the series: F9 cars list and Fast X cars list.

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