The Fast and the Furious franchise, love it, or hate it, the fact is if you are into cars then you know you’ve watched most of these movies. Say what you will, the films make a ton of cash at the box office and the crew has built some cool and fast machines for the series (and then often crashed those machines).

Video taken from a rooftop in Eastern Europe’s Georgia where the next movie is being shot shows an exciting surprise in the back seat of the black Charger.

For the next installment of the franchise — Fast and Furious 9 — actor Vin Diesel’s character, Dominic Toretto, will be behind the wheel of another black Dodge Charger, only this Charger appears to be mid-engined, and it also appears to be twin-turbocharged! Again, say what you want about the realism of these movies, but a mid-engined, twin-turbo, second-generation Hemi Charger . . . that is legit!

In Fast and Furious 1, Toretto drove a 1970 Dodge Charger R/T with the massive supercharger popping out of the hood. He lived his life a quarter-mile at a time.

The series has shown Toretto in numerous vehicles including a Buick Grand National and a Chevrolet Chevelle, but his “hero” ride is always a familiar black Dodge Charger. That Charger, over the years and throughout the films, has had different iterations, from an off-road version to an armored version that drove on the ice and chased a submarine (hey, it could happen).

The latest version appears to have something in common with the new C8 Corvette (mid-engine) and also shares a commonality with a lot of LS-swaps these days (twin-turbo power).

Ice, Ice Baby, in Fast and Furious 8 things got a bit chilly on the ice.

The newest Charger seems more realistic than some of the others. With all of the weight over the rear wheels, the car could really put the power down and accelerate hard (right to the box office). The only hard part with the mid-engine design is where to put the kid’s car seats. Is Toretto expecting? Based on this car, probably not.

Can a mid-engine, twin-turbo, Hemi, Dodge Charger take a Chevy Nova in a drag race? You will have to watch the newest Fast and Furious 9 to find out.

To see the full one-minute, seventeen-second video where we scored the spy shots, check out the source at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The video includes some stunts of an armored truck smashing through some unfortunate parked vehicles on cables.