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Originally Posted by mineistaken
write to chevy and tesla and ask them to lobby/pay
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Yeah, good idea. Apparently Fiat / Chrysler paid a fortune to have their cars in the movie. According to IMDB:
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As was the case in the previous three F&F installments, FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) bought product placement in the movie, but this time at a considerably broader level. Everyone on Dom's team except for Hobbs is shown driving a Dodge Challenger during their attack of the Berlin facility, and Hobbs' latest truck is depicted as a Ram (another FCA brand). Further, the producers revealed shortly before the movie's debut that all of the Challengers are 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demons, an all-new variant of the model that FCA used the movie to introduce. The Demon is the most powerful factory-spec Challenger ever made, with an 840-horsepower engine and a quarter-mile time in the nine-second range. Also, nearly all of the "zombie cars" Cipher assumes control of during the New York sequence are either Jeeps, Chryslers or Fiats, including the ones seen falling from a garage onto the street below. Finally, both of the vintage muscle cars Dom drives are Chrysler-family vehicles: the 1971 Plymouth GTX from the Manhattan-set scenes, and a heavily modified 1970 Dodge Charger - the same one driven by Dom throughout the series - in the ice sequence.
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I actually love this part of the movie business. Movie companies don't need to buy certain things like cars anymore because big companies not only donate them (like GM did for The Matrix), but now donate and pay money to showcase their stuff. Pretty cool.