By now, the “Fast and Furious” franchise has been around for over a decade, and been through five iterations. Now with “Fast and Furious 6” out in theaters, it seems high time to look over the series and examine part of what has made it such a fascinating adventure: that of Dom and his love for Mopars.

In the beginning, we all saw Dom driving those eye-roll-inducing, rice-rocket Civics and his RX7, but we all knew we were going to be treated when we laid eyes on the blown 1970 Dodge Charger. And treated we were, when we saw that showdown at the end with the narrow miss against the train, defeating Paul Walker and his Toyota Supra in the process. It was just too bad that his momentary ignorance wound up sending the poor car to the junkyard when he nicked the semi and flipped over the Supra. It totaled the car, sure, but still a cool barrel-roll.

Dom made the fortunate choice of skipping the direct sequel, much to the chagrin of Walker and Gibson, although we did see a couple of musclecars, one being the Yenko Camaro and the other a HEMI Challenger. Dom re-appeared in the much-hyped third installment, “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” in 2006, this time behind the wheel of a Plymouth Roadrunner. His appearance at the end in a sister car to his favorite Chargers kept the Mopar B-body theme alive. We’re pretty sure he won that race, do you agree?

The fourth installment saw Mr. Diesel driving another suped-up Charger, taking on the ever-present cartel to avenge Letty’s death. This time, however, it’s a ’69 dressed up to resemble the original ’70, which was being restored at the time of filming. Shotgun in hand, Dom destroys–oh come on, that one gets wrecked too? Is there any justice in this world?!

Dom and his Dodges (and a Plymouth) seem to be a great combination. It seems he gave up squeezing bottles on imports for the brute horsepower of American muscle.

Round 5! Dom regains his ’70 Charger, and it’s in the movie in less than 5 minutes. It’s also in the movie less than 5 minutes, after it gets totaled in a T-bone by Dwayne Johnson’s ‘roid rage-driven Terradyne Gurkha. The audience booed when that happened, another Charger destroyed for the sake of entertainment. At least “The Rock” got his precious Gurkha scratched a bit in the last third of the movie. Take that, Mineral Man!

And now we arrive at Fast & Furious 6. The Charger used is now a 1969 Daytona clone, and boy, is it badass. Unfortunately, the engine used is an LS3 small-block V8, instead of the period-correct 426 HEMI or 440 Magnum.

We won’t spoil it as for how well it’s driven or used in the movie, but with Diesel behind the wheel, you know it cannot disappoint. We won’t tell you whether this one gets trashed, you’ll have to watch the movie – if you haven’t already.