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The Fast and The Furious is not a "crass piece of work."  The sequel I have no great love for, but the most recent three (and a fourth / sixth on the way) with Justin Lin at the helm have a lot of heart.  Even the first one is dealing heavily with family issues when it isn't warping time and space in a quarter-mile. 

Sure the depiction of cars isn't accurate, but who wants that?  Cars in movies are just like guns and computers and who knows what else; people expect certain things from them, regardless of how they would work in reality.  That's ok.  Drifting sideways through an intersection is no way to go fast, to say nothing of being unsafe, but put it in a movie, and I'm having a great time.  Sure it's gratuitous; that's the point.