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The Fast and Furious franchise gifted a lot of gearheads plenty of cars to love...and a few that just shouldn’t have graced the screens.

It’s no secret that the Fast and Furious franchise today isn’t what it used to be. What started out as a movie focused solely on street races, cool cars, and quarter-mile drag races, today revolves around a group of international criminals who somehow get away with breaking every single law known to man, especially the ones that were dearest to Sir Isaac Newton.

However, the one thing we can’t deny, is that even when the movies went from featuring a hero who went from running a garage and stealing some Panasonic DVD players on a Honda Civic to a literal god among men who could run a $3 million hypercar through three skyscrapers in Abu Dhabi, the Fast and Furious franchise has certainly retained its style. In fact, as production values increased for each movie over the years, so did the flashy cars, and gearheads got to feel like Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton pointing at the screen as they saw their favorite car grace the screen. On the other end of the spectrum, though, are also some terrible cars, either as per the way they looked, or how little they contributed to the movie(s).

The Fast and Furious franchise has boasted a lovable and diverse cast for years now, and it has several protagonists, major and minor, who have driven good and bad cars both. But while it’s the hero cars that grab the most attention, we figured we must also talk about the cars that were horrendous, yet were driven by none other than the very same protagonists we’ve come to love. Here are the worst cars that our Fast and Furious protagonists drove, ranked best to worst.

We'll admit the Civic Coupe is a fairly decent-looking car, but should it really have been used in the heist scenes in the very first Fast and Furious film? We don't think so. For starters, they're not fast enough to reach the 'furious' part of the spectrum, and the crew could easily have used better cars for the heisting, such as M3's or even Camaro's. At the very least, Dom's love for American muscle would have continued with the latter.

The modifications, too, with the neon green underglow and the in-your-face spoiler simply did not stand the test of time. Thus, even though the cars were good enough at the time, they could've been better. Yet, they weren't absolute travesties, which is why the Honda Civic Coupe comes in as the best of the worst cars our heroes drove. The chrome allows were horrible, though.

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Another car that is decent, but makes us wonder why they chose this for such an action-packed franchise- the car is simply boring! Yes, before you come at us for considering Furious 7's Deckard Shaw a 'hero', Hobbs and Shaw ensured that he became one of the badass good guys.

The Ghibli was the car Dex used in his high-speed pursuit with Dominic Toretto. After Dom's Plymouth Road Runner smashes into the Ghibli, neither car is seen again, and we sure didn't miss the Ghibli. At the very least, they could have simply used the McLaren 720S that Jason Statham's character drove in Hobbs and Shaw instead of the ridiculously overpriced and unreliable Maserati they stuck him with.

Here's a car that is fairly popular in the car enthusiast world, but using it as a high-speed car in a segment about straight-up drag racing in the desert? No, thanks. The VW Jetta is simply not quick at all, and thus, is neither fast nor furious. After all, the VW used the Jetta to further their environmental campaign, which ensured that the car was never known for its speed either.

The modifications didn't help its case either, what with the obscene paint, the weird decals and the outlandish body kit. Plus, the spoiler was even worse than the ones on their Civics! How the guards at 'Race Wars' even allowed Jesse to race his Jetta was a surprise, but then again, knowing the guy who organized it all probably helped.

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This car was featured in the first movie when the time came for Vince and the rest of Dom's posse to enter the frame loudly and in style. However, using a Maxima in a movie where it runs alongside a Toyota Supra MK 4 and a 900-hp Dodge Charger was never the right choice. The Maxima is known for being a big family sedan, and is an extremely common car.

At the very least, the makers could have thrown in a Nissan Stagea, or a Toyota Chaser, or even a lesser Plymouth. How Dominic Toretto allowed his second-in-command to ride a Maxima with cheap decals and ugly alloys beats us.

Fast & Furious 4 was the first time we saw Sung Kang's beloved character Han Seoul-Oh after his car crash in Tokyo Drift. In the opening sequence of the fourth installment, we saw Dom and Letty's new crew in the Dominican Republic, stealing oil tankers on the interstate. It was also the only time we saw Han not inside a sports car, as he instead sat behind the wheel of a 1967 Chevy C-10.

This was an extremely far cry from Han's flashy Veilside RX-7 or his fast Lexus LFA, and for a group of international criminals with nothing to lose who started out heisting with decked out Civics, they could definitely have chosen something that suited Han better.

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This open-top Mitsubishi Eclipse stands out as one of the Fast and Furious franchise's most egregious mistakes. Letting this car be one of the hero cars in 2Fast 2Furious was something that simply shouldn't have ever happened, and this weird front-wheel-drive convertible version of a car that is in a true JDM icon was just not the way to go.

Finished in an absolutely wretched purple paint job with even tackier decals that were hard to look at, this Eclipse Spyder's body kit was the last straw, making it one of the very worst cars that have ever been driven by the protagonists in the entire franchise. Laughable throughout, the car's modifications, which included the dumb spoiler, were just completely ugly.

Volkswagen's Touran is a small European MPV. Nothing more than a people's carrier, rapper Bow Wow's character in Tokyo Drift, Twinkie, used this as his personalized car. Sadly, it didn't stop at just being a less than remarkable MPV, because it was Hulk-themed, and wrapped completely in green, with the front grille even coming in where the Hulk's snarling open mouth would be. This was easily one of the worst custom paint jobs ever seen.

While we count our blessings that the car never raced against anyone in the movie, it was still our hero Sean Boswell who drove it to an underground car meet, where it stuck out like a sore thumb, surrounded by fancy JDM cars. It was such a ridiculous car, made even more appalling by the absence of a scene where Twinkie explains why he chose the Hulk to be the mascot for his Touran.

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While many might consider Twinkie's Touran to be the worst hero-driven car in the Fast and Furious franchise, that award goes to the Chrysler Town and Country that Brian O'Connor drove in Furious 7 when he was done with the criminal life and lived happily with Mia Toretto and their son Jack. This car is a travesty and violation all in one, even without any outlandish modification or horrid paint job.

Sure, Brian had retired from the street racing life, but a Chrysler Town and Country? And that too for a family of three? The car had absolutely dreary specs, and it was nothing short of a soccer mom's Minivan where you could almost expect O'Connor to be carpooling the entire suburb's kids to school. They could, at the very least, have modified the minivan, or better yet, stuck Brian with an Altima. Watching him go from a Nissan Skyline as his go-to car, to then ferrying his kid in a Chrysler Town and Country was downright painful.

If it has wheels and an engine, Samarveer Singh is going to be obsessed with it. He is a budding Indian motorcycle racer, competing at the national level in his country in his very first year, chasing his dream around every corner of the racetrack. A touring enthusiast, Samarveer is forever stuck between the urge to constantly redline his bike, or save its clutch plates for longer.