MUMBAI: The adrenaline pumping sixth installment of the Vin Diesel starrer Fast & Furious 6 has zoomed past the $ 500 million mark grossing worldwide. The high octane action flick is still going strong in its third week smashing Universal‘s all records and moving faster than any film in the studio‘s history.

The sixth installment written by Chris Morgan was directed by Justin Lin and had retained the ensemble cast of its previous installment including the franchise‘s protagonists Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto along with Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson and Michelle Rodriguez.

Over the past two weeks the Fast & Furious 6 held the No 1 spot at the domestic box office and scored Universal studio‘s highest-grossing opening weekend of all time.

Till date, Fast 6 has grossed $180.3 million domestically and $342.2 million internationally. The film‘s splendid box-office performance helped push the studio past the $1 billion mark on May 31.

With the success of the street racing franchise scaling new heights its seventh installment with James Wan at the helm of the project, is set to release on 11 July 2014.