The Fate of the Furious (2017) – Harpooning Dom’s GTX Car Scene

A harpoon gun, a Manhattan blizzard of remote-hacked cars, and Dom Toretto behind the wheel of a blacked-out muscle car — this clip from The Fate of the Furious captures one of the franchise’s most quoted set pieces. Nearly 50 million views and counting prove the scene still lands nearly a decade later. Watch to see just how close the harpoon comes to actually working.

By the eighth installment of a franchise built entirely on cars doing things cars should not do, the Fast & Furious series had to find new ways to make an audience gasp. Harpoons did the trick. In this sequence from The Fate of the Furious, Dom Toretto is mid-chase through a blizzard of remote-hijacked cars raining down from a Manhattan parking garage, one of the film’s most absurd and most quoted set pieces, and someone decides the best way to stop a man driving a muscle car is to fire a harpoon gun at it from a moving vehicle. It should not work. Watch to see how close it comes to working anyway.

A Franchise Built on Muscle

The Fast & Furious franchise built its identity on muscle cars long before it became a globe-trotting spy saga, and by the eighth film that identity was baked in deep enough that a single clip title, this scene, gets tagged simply as Dom’s car. Dom Toretto’s vehicle roster leans hard on American iron: blacked-out Dodge Chargers, vintage Mopar builds, and cars styled to look like they rolled straight out of a Race Wars parking lot rather than a studio prop shop. This particular scene continues that lineage, putting a period-correct muscle car through a stunt sequence that owes more to a heist movie than a street race.

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The Zombie Car Chase, Explained

The chase itself is one of the film’s signature set pieces. Cipher, the film’s villain, hacks into a fleet of networked and autonomous cars parked across a Manhattan garage and turns them into a coordinated swarm, cars raining down from the structure and self-driving straight into the pursuit. It is the kind of sequence that only works in a franchise that has spent seven prior films training its audience to accept escalating absurdity as a feature, not a flaw, and it remains one of the most talked-about action beats of the entire series.

Harpoons Versus Horsepower

Firing a harpoon at a moving muscle car is, strictly speaking, not a serious tactic, and the film knows it. That is precisely the point. Fast & Furious sequences do not escalate by making more sense; they escalate by making the previous film’s stunt look quaint. A grappling hook attached to a car door was old news by the fourth installment. By the eighth, the answer to raising the stakes was a literal ballistic harpoon gun deployed from a pursuing vehicle mid-chase, choreographed alongside real stunt driving and heavy CGI blended so seamlessly that the muscle car’s growl still carries the scene.

Muscle Cars as Movie Stars

Classic muscle cars have become as central to this franchise’s identity as any of its actors, and clips like this one are a big reason why. A blacked-out vintage Mopar chased through Manhattan by a swarm of hacked vehicles is exactly the kind of image that turns a mid-budget action franchise into a cultural touchstone, and it is no accident that channels built entirely around licensed movie clips find an enormous audience clipping these scenes out and re-uploading them for fans who want to relive the moment on demand.

Why the Clip Still Gets Clicks

Nearly 50 million views on a single six-and-a-half-minute movie clip says something about staying power. The Fate of the Furious came out in 2017, and this scene is still pulling in fresh viewers who were not even watching movies in theaters when it premiered. That is the strange afterlife of a franchise built on stunts featuring real muscle cars: long after the box office numbers are forgotten, the cars themselves keep the clips alive.

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