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Top 10 Cars Used in Fast & Furious 7
Vehicles to travel from one place to another are among the greatest gifts of science to mankind. Of course, man has not stopped at mere wheeled contraptions to travel upon from one place to another. They developed the modern cars that are nothing short of great wonders, so much so that they have their own movies made. One of the most famous movies about cars is Fast and Furious. The seventh movie of the series has been released on 26 March, 2015, and features some of the best cars the series has shown so far. Let us take a look at the Top 10 Cars Used in Fast & Furious 7.
10. Plymouth Road Runner
Performance car Plymouth Road Runner was designed and produced by the Plymouth division of the Chrysler Corporation in the United States from 1968 to 1980. Chrysler Corporation paid nearly 50,000 to Warner Bros.-Seven Arts to use the name of their Road Runner cartoon character. A signature Beep, beep horn of the Road Runner cartoon was also developed by Plymouth to utilize in this car. The car used a Chrysler B platform as a base and was designed a back-to-basics muscle car. It first appeared as a protagonist car in the 2009 Fast and Furious, and was driven by Ortiz where the Plymouth rolled over multiple times. This car made a comeback in Fast and Furious 7 as the flashback to how Ortiz died. Plymouth Road Runner is inducted in the tenth place in our list of top 10 cars used in Fast & Furious 7.
9. 2011 Dodge Challenger SRT-8
The Dodge Challenger has three different generations of American automobiles and is marketed by the Dodge division of Chrysler. The first Dodge Silver Challenger was developed from 1958 to 1959 and then the first generation Dodge Challenger pony car with Chrysler E platform was produced from 1969 to 1974. The pony car shared major components with the Plymouth Barracuda. The 3rd generation Dodge Challenger was first unveiled for public at the 2006 Detroit Motor Show and started the production in 2007. This classic car Challenger SRT-8 is driven by Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez) is the Fast & Furious 7 where she saves Brian OConner (Paul Walker) from a breath taking coach trip. The 2011 Dodge Challenger SRT-8 is inducted in the ninth place in our list of top 10 cars used in Fast & Furious 7.
8. 1970 Plymouth Barracuda
The Plymouth Barracuda is a type of two-door American sports car and was manufactured from 1964 to 1974 by the Plymouth division of the Chrysler Corporation. The 1970 to 1974 version of this car was available as a coupe and a convertible unlike the previous models of Barracuda. After 1974 Chrysler Corporation stopped the production of this car. This car was also used by Swede Savage and Dan Gurney in identical factory-sponsored All American Racers Cudas in the 1970 Trans-Am Series. The car achieved its highest finish of second at Road America. A street legal version of the AAR Cuda was also produced with a three two-barrel carburetors (Six-Pack) engine. 1970 Plymouth Barracuda first appeared in the previous film of the Fast & Furious franchise Fast & Furious 6. Letty Ortiz drives this 1970 Plymouth Cuda in the recent Fast & Furious 7. This car is inducted in the eighth place in our list of top 10 cars used in Fast & Furious 7.
7. 2015 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited
Sport utility vehicle Jeep Wrangler Unlimited models are a mid-size compact four-wheel drive off-road car and are produced under its Jeep marque of American automaker Chrysler. This car currently has the third generation in the market. Jeep introduced the Wrangler Unlimited model of SUV segment in 2004 with a Command-Trac 231 transfer case and 10-inch (250 mm) longer wheelbase. Jeep then released the Rubicon Unlimited version with Rock-Trac four-wheel-drive system and diamond plate rocker guards in 2005. This model has nearly double the towing capacity than its shorter wheelbase sibling. An armored 2015 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited is driven by Tej Parker (Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges) in the Fast & Furious 7. This car is inducted in the seventh place in our list of top 10 cars used in Fast & Furious 7.
6. Maximus Ultra-Charger
The Maximus Ultra-Charger is actually a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T Maximus equipped with all alloy engine and was first reviled at the SEMA show in Las Vegas. The car was developed by Scott Spock Racing and Nelson Racing Engines. Ultra-Charger is powered by a 9.4-liter Hemi V-8 engine which is capable of delivering nearly 2,000 horsepower. This classic muscle car can achieve the top speed of 260mph and is valued at more than $1 million. The car looks straight out of the late 1960s with cutting-edge technology and was used in several previous installments before the seventh part of Fast & Furious franchise by Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel). McCarthy acquired Toretto’s modified brushed-metal 1968 Dodge Charger in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the Specialty Equipment Market Association show. Maximus Ultra-Charger is inducted in the sixth place in our list of top 10 cars used in Fast & Furious 7.
5. Ferrari 458 Italia
The Ferrari 458 is a type of mid-engined sports car produced by the Italian sports car giant Ferrari. This car was produced as the successor of Ferrari F430 and was first officially unveiled for public at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show on 15 September 2009. The Ferrari 458 Italia is actually a two-seat berlinetta 458. The character of Tej Parker portrayed by Chris Ludacris Bridges uses this car while driving through the desert along with a White Bugatti Veyron, a Dodge Viper, McLaren MP4-12C, and 2015 Dodge Charger in Fast & Furious 7. Tej Parker, besides his appearance in the seventh installment, also appeared in Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6 while being a part of Dominic and Brian’s crew as their technician expert. Ferrari 458 Italia is inducted in the fifth place in our list of top 10 cars used in Fast & Furious 7.
4. Aston Martin DB9
Aston Martin DB9 was first produced as the successor of the DB7. This car was the first model built at Aston Martins Gaydon facility and eventually revealed for public as a grand tourer at the 2003 Frankfurt Auto Show. Aston Martin DB9 was designed by Ian Callum and Henrik Fisker, and the chassis of this car is taken from the Aston Martin DBS. The car is powered by 6.0L V12 from the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish. DB9 is used as a perfect car for British villain Jason Statham when he is involved in a head-on collision with Vin Diesel’s Dodge Charger in Fast & Furious 7. Both of the cars were attached to cables and driven by remote control into each other at 40mph speed and a massive amount of damage was caused by the collision. Aston Martin DB9 is inducted in the fourth place in our list of top 10 cars used in Fast & Furious 7.
3. Bugatti Veyron
Bugatti Veyron is the fastest street-legal production car in the world with a top speed of 267.856 mile/hour according to the Guinness Book of Records. This mid-engined sports car is developed by the Volkswagen Group and manufactured by Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S in Molsheim, France. Bugatti Veyron was named Car of the Decade and achieved Best Car Driven All Year award in 2005 by the BBC television programme Top Gear. This car was designed by Hartmut Warkuss, the interior was designed by Volkswagen’s Jozef Kaba† and engineering Chief Wolfgang Schreiber guided the engineering work. Bugatti Veyron was selected as the companion for fast-talking flamboyant Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson). With record top speed and extraordinary looks, this car is inducted in the third place in our list of top 10 cars used in Fast & Furious 7.
2. 1970 Dodge Charger R/T
The modified 1970 Dodge Charger R/T is the signature car of Dominic Toretto portrayed by Vin Diesel in Fast & Furious 7. Dodge Charger is manufactured by American manufacturer Chrysler Group LLC in Canada and marketed by the Dodge division of Chrysler. The very first car bearing the Charger nameplate was first released in 1964.
1. The Lykan HyperSport
The Lykan Hypersport is manufactured by Lebanese based company W Motors as a limited production sports car. It is also the first supercar to be made in the Middle East. W Motors first launched its first pre-production model at the International Dubai Motor Show in November 2013, and announced their intention to produce only seven units of this supercar with each one priced at nearly £2.3 million. The high price tag of Lykan HyperSport is justified by its luxury option as the car is the first vehicle to have diamonds in its headlights. The front light of this car is made of titanium LED blades with 420 diamonds of 15 carats. This car can also accelerate 0 to 100 km/h in less than 3 seconds, and achieve a top speed of 385 km/h. Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) with Paul Walker jumped from one building to another to another one in Dubai with this car in the Fast & Furious 7. Lykan HyperSport is inducted in the top place in our list of top 10 cars used in Fast & Furious 7.
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Top Ten popular Genres Of Music
Music is something which brings together different kinds of people from all over the world. It doesn’t matter where you are or who you are, music has the power to bring down these walls and contributes in creating what can be aptly called a “melting pot” of cultures. It’s something that complete strangers become friends over and friends spend time discussing. The kind of music you listen to also becomes a part of your identity and the many sub cultures too have associated themselves with music as they often do with literature as well. But music too has undergone a huge transformation through the ages. It’s now possible for people to know about different cultures through the kind of music these cultures produce. It also has created a lot of questions over labels and independent music has now come into its own, courtesy of the internet and the other communication channels which make it possible for someone in one continent to listen to music being produced off the mainstream in another. In such an environment it’s really hard to pick the genres which have struck a chord with the contemporary generation but here’s a list of Top 10 genres that might give you an idea as to what people are listening to these days.
10.Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated at the beginning of the 20th century. Its roots lie in the adoption by Africa-Americans of European harmony and form, taking on those European elements and combinging them into their existing African-based music. Its African musical basiis is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythm, syncopation and the swung note
9.Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the “Deep South” of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
8.Latin
This category includes music from Latin America and other Caribbean countries, and shares the cultural elements of Africa, native America and Europe. The percussion instruments included in this type of genre music are Clave, maracas, cowbells, congas, bongos, timbales, tambora, bombo, guiro, cajones, cascara, shekere, tres, marimbula. Latin music is influenced from the Spanish, who introduced the string instruments. It is vocal as well as instrumental music, which earlier was played for religious purposes, but now is considered as dance music. With strong beats, it is naturally syncopated dance music and is highly rhythmic.
Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias, Ricky Martin, Selena, Belinda are some of the highlighted Latin artists.
7.Emd
Electronic Dance Music also known as club music is centered on dancing and club settings. It all started with the advent of the disco or the popcorn as it was known back then. This brought in many forms of synthetic electrical instruments and the purpose of producing music for orchestration in a club shifted to producing music with the intent of it being played by the DJs though drums etc. Eventually the DJs started experimenting with songs of other artists and extending these songs into Dance remixes. The emergence of popular festivals around the EDM genre too led its popular appeal amongst the masses.
6.Sufi
sufi music is the devotional music of Sufis, inspired by the works of sufi poets, like Rumi Hafiz, Bulleh Shah and Khawaja Ghulam Farid. Qawwali is the most well known form of sufi music and is mostly common in parts of Paskistan an India.Sufi love song are often performed as Ghazals and Kafi, a solo genre accompai\nied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of song by sufi poets.
5.Country
Country music is a genre of American popular music that originated in the rural regions of the southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the south-eastern of American folk music and Western music.Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instrument such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, fiddles, and harmonicas.
4.Hip-hop
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music, or hip-hop music is a music, is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.
3.Pop
Pop music (a term that originally derives form an abbreviation of “popular”) is a genre of popular music which originated in its modern form in the 1950s, deriving form rock and roll. The terms popular musics and pop musics are often used interchangeably, even though the former is a description of musics which is popular. It borrows elements from other styles including urban, dance, rock, latin and country.
2.Heavy Metal
Heavy metal is a genre of rock musics that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, originally in the United Kingdom and later in the United States. The bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are often associated with aggression.
1.Rock
Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as “Rock and Roll” in the United States in the 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s’ and 1950s’ rock and roll. itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music. Musically, rock has centred around the electric guitar, usually as part of rock group with bass guitar and drums.
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