Fun fact: 230 cars were destroyed in Fast&Furious 7

The Wall Street Journal reports that 230 cars were destroyed during James Wan’s shoot in Colorado, Atlanta and Abu Dhabi. The destroyed vehicles included several black Mercedes-Benzes, a Ford Crown Victoria and a Mitsubishi Montero.

One sequence filmed on a mountainous highway pass in Colorado proved to be particularly damaging. “We probably destroyed 40-plus vehicles just shooting that sequence,” McCarthy told the Post.

Around 20 to 30 damaged cars were removed from the shooting site and crushed by Colorado firm Bonnie’s Car Crushers to ensure they would not end up back on the market.

During the filming of 2013’s Fast & Furious 6, the movie’s team set up deals with owners of area used-car lots and junkyards. “We’d wreck 25 cars a day; they’d come out at night, scoop ‘em up and bring us 25 more,” McCarthy said.

He added that the crew needed to be particularly careful that each ruined car would get completely crushed and rendered unusable, as to avoid any possible litigation by people who want to own a film-used car.

“We have to account for every single car destroyed in each film,” he explained.