Fast and furious?

Reader question: Please explain “fast and furious” in this sentence: And the growth has been fast and furious, buoyed by the robust growth of the banking sector, rapid digitization, changing customer preferences, and increasing support of investors and regulators. Later on, people followed the famous poet’s example and began to describe throbbing scenes as “fast and furious”, such as, for instance, a fast-paced English Premier League soccer match, a Formula One car race or, for that matter, a tumultuous day at the stock market where shares change hands at an unprecedented rate. “And I could see a thousand feet into the air, spinning debris, big debris, and it was coming down from the south, and my wife came out and said ‘get in here,’ and we no sooner got inside, shut the door in our safe room, and it hit, and 30 seconds later it was gone but we knew it was bad,” Dave Darnell said. “It wasn’t like a hurricane where you’ve got, like, a long time of bad stuff, it was fast and furious and it was just a quick roar.” “And they’re not kidding when they say it sounds like a freight train because that’s exactly what it sounded like,” said Bryan Schultz of Wellington. Has he never been in a factory?” Nathalie Bauters, head of Corporate Communications at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, responded with statistics: 8 million-square-foot facility, three body shops, two paint shops, two assembly halls., a metal stamping facility for body panels, investment of more than $13 billion, 11,000 highly skilled associates making 1,500 vehicles daily – 400,000 a year – with parts from hundreds of suppliers across the United States.