Sally Carrera

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Sally Carrera
Model	2002 Porsche 911 Carrera (Type 996)
Gender	Female
Eye Color	Green
Color	Light Blue
Voice Actor	Bonnie Hunt

Sally Carrera is a fictional character, and one of the protagonists from the Disney/Pixar film, Cars. She is one of the twelve cars left in the fictional town of Radiator Springs, and is voiced by actress Bonnie Hunt. Sally is voiced by Keiko Toda in the Japanese version.

Contents 1 Story 1.1 Cars Movie 1.2 Cars Video Game 2 Trivia 3 References

[edit] Story

[edit] Cars Movie

Sally, Lightning McQueen's love interest, is Radiator Springs' town attorney. She came to the town several years before when she found that the big city life (she had been an attorney in Los Angeles, California) was not to her liking and she was never really happy there. She drove for quite some time until she finally broke down in front of the Wheel Well Motel. She was fixed up by Doc Hudson and taken in by Flo. Sally then fell in love with the town, and the land around it, and never left to go back to LA.

Sally ran the Cozy Cone Motel until close to the end of the movie, when she and Lightning reopened the Wheel Well.

Throughout the movie, Lightning and Sally's relationship goes from rocky to affectionate, starting with his overly strong come-ons and ending with him finally realizing there is something he wants more in his life than the Piston Cup.

[edit] Cars Video Game

Sally's interest in McQueen continues in the video game follow-up. McQueen resides at the Cozy Cone during his stays in Radiator Springs. Prior to the first Piston Cup race of the season, Sally asks McQueen to go for a drive, but is interrupted by Mia and Tia (aka the Lightning groupies), who are now working at Flo's V8 Café (thus increasing the number of residents to 18, counting Dusty and Rusty Rust-eze, and Mack) and once again McQueen's "biggest fans" after Chick Hicks, whom they supported for a time, cheated in order to win the 2005 Piston Cup. Irritated by the interruption, Sally challenges the twins to a race, in which Flo also takes part just for fun.

Later on, she gets to take her drive with Lightning, but once again it becomes a racing competition. Afterwards, they reminisce about their first trip to the Wheel Well.

Following Lightning's attainment of the Piston Cup, Sally decides to accompany McQueen and Mater on a celebratory cross-country trip. She asks if Lightning remembered to pack his trophy, to which he replies he left in it a good place (in Doc Hudson's clinic next to the legend's own three cups).

[edit] Trivia

• Sally's last name (Carrera) comes from her car model, a 2002 996 Porsche 911.
• The Porsche 911 Carrera has a spoiler that normally only rises at highway speeds, but at one point in the movie, Sally purposefully lifts her tailfin to show off a pinstriped tramp stamp style tattoo beneath, which Lightning notices and points out.
• In the UK cars magazine Top Gear, Sally was included in the magazine's list of the 10 sexiest cars in the World.^[1]
• Pixar originally wanted a classic model, but Porsche persuaded them to use a 2002 model. However, the 996 would be succeeded by the 997 before Pixar could finish the movie (note Sally's "melted" headlamps compared to the 997's classic rounded shape).
• The character might have been inspired by the 1953 short story "Sally" by Isaac Asimov, which depicts a world with intelligent cars; the (human) narrator's favorite car is an elegant and feminine convertible named Sally.

[edit] References

2006 Disney-Pixar film Cars
Main Characters	Lightning McQueen | Mater | Sally | Doc Hudson The King | Chick Hicks | Ramone | Flo | Luigi | Guido | Mack | Red Sheriff | Fillmore | Sarge | The Delinquent Road Hazards
Production Studio	Disney | Pixar
Related Articles	Soundtrack | Official Video Game | Radiator Springs Radiator Springs Adventures | Cars Diecast Line