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  1. Five of the best Fast and Furious cars you can buy
  2. Toyota Supra, Fast depreciator
  3. Honda Integra Type-R, Furious engine within
  4. Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R, The Skyline is the limit
  5. Mitsubishi 3000GT, Technofest
  6. Dodge Charger, Charged with the US vote

Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R, The Skyline is the limit

As Japanese as a Manga comic, the Skyline R34 is the last GT-R to be based on the Skyline series of cars. It's an iconic Japanese performance car, its in-line six-cylinder engine famously tuneable; the stock crankcase is said to be able to cope with outputs as high as 1,000bhp. Not that in standard guise the GT-R is lacking, the twin-turbo machine producing 276bhp - that's enough for it to reach 62mph in just 5.2 seconds. Though not many will be content with a stock Skyline, as the engine is just begging for more power.

The transmission can cope with it too, the Skyline's complex four-wheel drive system translating all the engine's prodigious grunt into phenomenal forward motion. It's also quite remarkably agile in the bends, the traction and grip the GT-R delivers being scarcely believable. It looks like a Fast and Furious car in standard guise as well, which is just as well as you won't have much money in the bank left if you buy one - the Skyline R34 GT-R is still commanding good money as a used buy.

Skyline GT-R from £20,000.

Kyle Fortune