The film stars Martin Henderson, Ice Cube, Monet Mazur, Adam Scott, Matt Schulze, Jaime Pressly, and Jay Hernandez.
Its plot follows Cary Ford, a biker discovers and stows away motorcycles filled with crystal meth, but a gangster, Henry James, has plans to recover his drugs.
He frames Ford for the murder of his rival Trey's brother, who heads the Reapers, a biker gang.
Ford goes on the run in an attempt to clear his name, while the FBI and multiple groups of motorcycle-mounted marauders chase after him.
En route to a motorcycle party, they encounter the Reapers, a biker gang consisting of leader Trey and his brother Junior, who get into a scuffle with Ford.
At the murder scene, FBI agents Tehya Henderson and Jay McPherson assure Trey that they will find Junior's killer.
Before the agents open the back of the truck, Ford and Shane bust out in a race car with the two friends on their bikes.
Henry and China leave the garage while Ford frees Shane and Trey unties Val and Dalton.
The hard rock band Monster Magnet appears in the nightclub playing the song "Master of Light".
Jesse James of West Coast Choppers and Monster Garage makes a cameo appearance in the scene where Ford and Shane are talking inside the tent.
Stuntman turned director Scott Waugh also makes a cameo appearance as the driver of the red Mitsubishi Eclipse.
The film's director Joseph Kahn said his intention was to make a "piss take" version of the Fast & Furious franchise, even though both movies were produced by Neal H.
Torque specifically references The Fast and the Furious at one point, taking a line directly from the film.
Henderson's character Ford borrows Vin Diesel's line, "I live my life a quarter-mile at a time."
Matt Schulze, who portrayed the film's antagonist, Henry James, also appeared in The Fast and the Furious, playing Dominic Toretto's childhood friend and member of the truck hijacking team, Vince.
Another reference to The Fast and the Furious is since Torque focused on motorcycles, it does show a street race in the beginning, involving a quarter-mile race between a Mitsubishi Eclipse and an Acura RSX, with the protagonist Cary Ford beating the 2 cars on his Aprilia RSV motorcycle.
Also, when Ford rides past the road sign at the start of the film, it spins and reads "cars suck".
The movie's theatrical run took in a total of $21,215,059 in the United States and worldwide $46,546,197, against a production budget of approximately $40,000,000.
Jeremy Wheeler at AllMovie rated Torque 3 stars out of 5 stating: "Torque is a shot of adrenaline straight to the heart, eliciting so many moments of amped-up and overblown excitement that those with medical conditions (and very serious taste in film) should probably stay ten blocks away.... this little slice of joy relishes in being abundantly over-the-top at every explosive turn.