- Toyo donated 4000 tires for the movie. Roughly half were used. Rays Engineering donated its 170 Volk Racing wheels as well.

- The Porsche Boxter that is in the same garage Twinkie's car is in has 987 on its number plate. 987 is the internal designation Porsche uses for the second generation Boxter.

- The Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VIII, an AWD (all wheel drive) car, was converted to RWD in order to drift properly. Same thing was done with 2 of the VW R32s (which are also AWD).