List of Cars characters

This is a list of characters from the Pixar franchise Cars:

• the 2006 film Cars
• the mini-series Cars Toons
• the 2011 film Cars 2
• the 2013 film Planes
• the 2014 film Planes: Fire & Rescue.

Cars (film)

Piston Cup teams

Rust-eze Medicated Bumper Ointment team

Lightning McQueen

Lightning McQueen (often referred to as "McQueen"), is the protagonist in the Cars film franchise. He is voiced by Owen Wilson and his design is based on generic NASCAR vehicles.

Mack

Mack (voiced by John Ratzenberger) is a 1985 Mack Super-Liner bearing license plate "RUSTEZ3". A dedicated member of the Rust-eze Medicated Bumper Ointment Team, having the role of McQueen's transport, Mack pulls Lightning McQueen's trailer to his races. Lightning's one loyal team mate after his entire pit crew resigns in protest at the end of the season decider, he inadvertently sets up the predicament suffered by Lightning McQueen throughout the movie.

McQueen exhorts Mack to drive through the night to his tiebreaker race with Chick Hicks and The King in Los Angeles, despite federal DOT regulations which legally grant Mack ten hours daily of much-needed off-duty rest^[1] alongside "all those sleeping trucks" at the last truck stop on I-40. Lightning hopes to reach the venue first and to hang out with the Dinoco team. As a result, Mack falls asleep and, distracted by the Deinquent Road Hazards (who attempt to push him off the road to the shoulder), loses Lightning. Mack arrives in Radiator Springs after Doc reveals Lightning's location and is both very relieved ("Thank the manufacturer, you're alive!") and apologetic ("I'm so sorry I lost you, boss. I'll make it up to you..."). Lightning, who is glad to see him, forgives him.

Mack acts as Lightning's pit crew for the big race (since he has none) and worriedly asks if he's alright when he spins out, just before Doc and the others show up to help. During the closing credits, Mack views automotive versions of previous Pixar films (such as Toy Car Story and Monster Trucks, Inc.) at a restored 1950s drive-in cinema. Commenting on other characters played by John Ratzenberger (including Hamm the piggy truck and the Abominable Snowplow), he eagerly applauds each of them until he realizes they're all played by the same actor, then demands to know "what kind of cut-rate production is this?!"

"This one is a homage to my father... John Lasseter knew that my father drove a Mack truck and that's why he gave me this character. The truck was one of my first loves because I used to ride around with him in it from time to time."

—John Ratzenberger^[2]

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski proclaimed April 21, 2006 Friday Mack Trucks-Disney/Pixar "Cars" Day^[3] in Mack's honor during the 41-city "CARS Road Trip '06" promotional tour.^[4]

Mack is seen in the short Mater and the Ghostlight after Lightning established his headquarters on US Route 66. In the Cars 2 sequel he appears in a pair of brief cameo appearances at the start and end, where his two lines are "Oh, his best friend greetings. They get longer every year," and "Oh, those two are perfect for each other."

Chuck and McQueen's pit crew

Lightning McQueen's pit crew are generic forklifts who only appear at the start of the film, never to be acknowledged again. They quit after McQueen said that he is a one-man show. One of them, presumably the acting crew chief is voiced by Mike "No Name" Nelson, not to be confused with Michael J. Nelson. After the official crew chief had decided to quit, he is referred to by McQueen as "Chuck", and retorts angrily afterwards, "And my name is not Chuck!" In the credits, he is referred to as "Not Chuck". They appear in the film (only to leave almost immediately) to show McQueen's selfishness and inability to work with others. McQueen had a crew chief before the film, but was not seen in the film, because McQueen fired him (believing he was a one-man show). The chief was mentioned several times at the Dinoco 400 race. The crew is later replaced by McQueen's friends from Radiator Springs and Mack for the big race. In Cars 2, McQueen has apparently hired a new pit crew as he mentions having given them all a vacation when asked to attend the World Grand Prix, but his friends from Radiator Springs again offer to become his crew for a race and he accepts.

Harv

Harv is Lightning McQueen's agent. Never seen on-screen, McQueen speaks to Harv via his speaker phone when McQueen and Mack are on route to the tiebreaker race and again when Mack is in Radiator Springs to pick up McQueen. Consequently, very little is known of Harv's character except that he threatened to fire Mack if he doesn't get McQueen into his trailer.

Harv is voiced by actor Jeremy Piven in the American version. In the British version, he is voiced by Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson. He is also based on the character Ari Gold from the HBO series Entourage. Although he is not seen in the actual film, Jeremy Clarkson believes that he is a 1979 Ford Granada Ghia while the American version, he is thought to be a 1996 Oldsmobile.

Rusty and Dusty Rust-eze

The Rust-eze Brothers, Rusty and Dusty, are the spokescars and owners of Rust-Eze, the team that sponsors Lightning and that gave him his "big break", they are somewhat awkward. Rusty is a 1963 Dodge Dart and Dusty, a 1964 Dodge A100. Rusty and Dusty are voiced by real-life brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi (respectively) of National Public Radio's Car Talk, using that programme's closing line "...and don't drive like my brother!". The '63 Dart bears an intentional resemblance to Tom Magliozzi's infamous green Dart, named "The Dartre".^[5]

They appear three times in the film, at the beginning with McQueen looking forward to leaving them, in the middle very briefly being interviewed, and at the end after the race when McQueen realises he is happy with them. In a deleted scene on the DVD, much of their dialogue (heard at the sponsors' tent in the final script) was originally part of a brief stop at the Top Down Truck Stop. On the die-cast cars, Rusty's license plate states "Rust" and Dusty's sports "Eze". Their license plates are from "R Fair City", a term the Car Talk brothers use to describe their home town of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dinoco team

Strip "The King" Weathers

Strip Weathers, better known as The King, is a "Dinoco-blue" veteran racecar and racing legend voiced by NASCAR veteran Richard Petty. Weathers is an anthropomorphic version of Petty's aerodynamic 1970 Plymouth Superbird; in fact, it has the same shade of blue and it evenbears Petty's actual racecar number, which is 43.^[6] He is one of the racecars in the 2006 Piston Cup three-way tie, along with Chick Hicks and Lightning McQueen. His sponsor (Dinoco), like Petty's (STP), is a well-known oil company.

He is Dinoco's "Golden Boy", having won seven Piston Cups (the same number of NASCAR Cup Series championships Petty himself won in his career) and is hoping for another in the tiebreaker race. He tells Lightning McQueen to remember the importance of his team, but the rookie does not pay any attention, being more preoccupied with the thought of taking over the Dinoco sponsorship after Weathers' retirement.

On the final lap of the tie-breaker race, Hicks rams into Weathers by sending him into a dangerous rollover. This was a reminiscent of Petty's violent crash in the 1988 Daytona 500, but however the only difference is that the original accident actually involved Petty and five other cars. When McQueen sees this, he realizes that Weathers' career might end the way Doc Hudson's did. After stopping short of the finish line, allowing Hicks to win, McQueen pushes Weathers across the finish line to let him finish his last race before his retirement, much to the audience's delight. Weathers is last seen visiting the racing museum in Radiator Springs with his wife and another Piston Cup racer, "Junior", stating that Hudson was his inspiration (In NASCAR, "The King" #43 is the second of three generations of racers; his father Lee Petty won his first Cup in 1954, one year after the multiple Fabulous Hudson Hornet victories).

In the Danish edition of the movie, the King is voiced by nine-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen. In the Finnish edition of the movie, The King is voiced by Finnish two-time Formula One World Champion Mika Häkkinen. In the German edition, he is voiced by Austrian three-time Formula One World Champion Niki Lauda.

Strip Weathers also appears in the film's video game as an unlock-able character for the Arcade. Even though he strangely doesn't appear in the Story mode, he is mentioned by Darrell Cartrip.

He also appears in Disney Infinity.

Lynda Weathers/Mrs. The King

Lynda Weathers, better known as "Mrs. The King", (voiced by Richard Petty's wife Lynda Petty) is similar in design to a 1974 Chrysler Town and Country station wagon that brought the Petty family to "The King"'s races during the 1970s. Like Tex, Lynda follows each race from a Dinoco VIP booth, rooting for the #43 car. Throughout the film, she is constantly shown supporting her husband and she worries deeply when he is flipped by Chick Hicks. After the race, she kisses Lightning on the cheek to thank him for helping out her husband.

During the ending credits of Cars, Mrs. The King can be seen at the Doc Hudson Museum with her husband and Mater as a tour guide throughout the museum. She asks to see and meet Doc Hudson, but Mater is unsure of his whereabouts at the present time - but assumes he is out racing, most likely with McQueen.

Tex Dinoco

Tex Dinoco, voiced by Humpy Wheeler of Charlotte Motor Speedway, is a gold 1975 Cadillac Coupe de Ville and the owner of Dinoco. Packaged as "Tex Dinoco with bullhorns" as a diecast car, he is simply called "Tex" in the film's credits. He speaks with a Hoosier accent and resembles the gold longhorn Cadillacs at The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo. He is the King's manager and sponsor. Unlike Lightning's agent (Harv, who doesn't watch the race), Tex is an avid race fan who would never miss a race. As a supportive and long-time friend of both Lynda and "The King", he has been a loyal fan of the #43 car for many years and boasts that The King "has made Dinoco proud".

After Chick Hicks wins by employing an illegal PIT maneuver to sabotage The King in the final lap of the tiebreaker, sending the Dinoco blue #43 car into a dangerous rollover crash, Tex offers the lucrative sponsorship to Lightning with the explanation that "there's a whole lot more to racing than just winning" this is an echo of a line that McQueen used at the end of the race shown at the start of the film but with an entirely different meaning.

Dinoco Transport Helicopter

The Dinoco Transport Helicopter is based on a Bell 430. Without a speaking part, he has no voice actor and is not named in the closing credits. His name is Rotor Turbosky (in apparent reference to helicopter maker Sikorsky) in the die-cast Cars toy collection. He is seen on top of the Dinoco tent during the races. Mater gets a ride over Radiator Springs at the end of the film, a favour which Lightning had promised Mater earlier when dreaming of the big trophy and the big sponsor (Dinoco) with the fancy helicopter.

Hostile Takeover Bank team

Chick Hicks

Chick Hicks (voiced by Michael Keaton) is "a generic Pixar design, 'a stock 1980s American car'" according to Pixar publicity coordinator Amanda Sorena,^[7] but strongly resembles a GM G-body, with features from both the Chevrolet Monte Carlo and the Buick Grand National. As the real-life General Motors wanted nothing to do with the character by rejecting an initial Pixar proposal to cast a Chevrolet stock car as the movie's villain, Chick is effectively an orphan.^[7] He has spent his entire career trailing Strip "The King" Weathers, and is bitter about this fact. His racing sponsor is Hostile Takeover Bank (HTB for short).

His pit crew are mean to Guido as they underestimate him for being tiny; his skills are later shown to be far superior to their own. Hicks' racing number 86, is a reference to 1986, the year Pixar Animation Studios was founded; 86 itself is also a slang term for destroying or getting rid of something. The number 86 is also the double of the racing number 43, the number of Richard Petty, an this car is similar to Pontiac Gran Prix (team The Petty Enterprises STP), driven by Richard Petty in NASCAR 1983.

Determined to do whatever it takes to win, Hicks will often ram other cars or use the PIT maneuver to attempt to cause racing incidents for his own benefit. He despises McQueen—but tends to mock him—and adopts the nickname Thunder which McQueen previously used as a put-down (McQueen: "Because thunder always comes after 'lightning'"). Other than his dislike towards McQueen, Hicks also appears to hate The King, as Hicks himself always comes in behind him in 2nd place. While McQueen is presumed missing, Hicks tries to take away McQueen's fans and increase his fame.

During the final lap of the tie-breaker race, Hicks (who is then determined not to come in behind Strip Weathers again) violently rams The King, sending him flying off the race track and into a devastating and horrifying roll-over wreck on the in-field. He expects a huge ovation after McQueen deliberately gives up the Piston Cup so he would help Weathers, but an angered crowd and media snub his victory by branding him as a cheater. He is pelted with discarded tires and confetti and he is booed off the stage with his trophy in humiliation. The immediate backlash is similar to backlash against Rusty Wallace after he spun out Darrell Waltrip in Turn 4 during Segment 3, Lap 9 of the Sprint All-Star Race V at Charlotte Motor Speedway, sending Waltrip spinning right into the grass. In the film, a lucrative corporate sponsorship is at stake. Hicks and McQueen share the same dream of being the new face of Dinoco Oil, a firm long represented by retiring champion #43 "The King". Both race on the assumption that winning the championship cup will land them the big sponsor. Dinoco is owned by "Tex", a loyal fan and close friend of The King who believes that there's a whole lot more to racing than just winning. Tex is at every race, start to finish, cheering on the contestants and watching much more than just the scoreboard. When Tex offers the lucrative Dinoco sponsorship to McQueen even though McQueen decides to stay at Rust-eze, this is Chick's comeuppance and defeat.

Chick returns in the Cars video game, where he is caught spying on Lightning's practice sessions. He ineffectively taunts Lightning before the first race of the season until Doc warns him off, then falls in with a gang of New York-based greaser cars in Carburetor County to challenge McQueen. The DRH gang jumps Mack on the interstate to steal McQueen's racing gear, but finger Chick as the one who hired them when caught by the Sheriff. In the Cars Race-O-Rama video game, he seeks revenge by attempting to close down McQueen's racing academy to open his own in Radiator Springs, although he gets defeated when you beat him in the final level. His catchphrase is "Ka-Chick-Ah!", a blatant rip-off of McQueen's catchphrase "KA-CHOW!".

Despite the fact he did not appear in Cars 2, he does show up in the film's video game as a downloadable character for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 editions.

Besides him, there is a similar character named Ripslinger in the 2013 Cars spin-off movie Planes and its 2014 sequel, produced by DisneyToon Studios.

He also appears in Disney Infinity as well.

Radiator Springs populace

These characters live in Radiator Springs with Lightning McQueen and his hauler, Mack.

Mater

Sir Tow Mater is a rusty tow truck and McQueen's eventual best friend, voiced by comedian Larry the Cable Guy. His design was inspired by a 1951 International Harvester boom truck.

Sally

Sally Carrera is the town's attorney and McQueen's love interest. She is voiced by Bonnie Hunt, and modeled after a 2002 Porsche 996.

Doc

Doc Hudson is the town's medical doctor and a local judge, voiced by actor Paul Newman in the first film and its video game and Corey Burton in all other related media. He is modeled after a 1951 Hudson Hornet.

Sheriff

The Sheriff (voiced by Route 66 historian and author Michael Wallis) is a 1949 Mercury Eight police car, bearing Carburetor County license plate 001. Sheriff is painted in the classic law enforcement black and white with a single red light dome, two sirens, and curb feelers. Sheriff was the first resident of Radiator Springs to appear in the original film and the first to meet Lightning McQueen during a police chase when McQueen was speeding through the town, attempting to find Mack. Upon catching McQueen, who had become ensnared in wires and fencing, Sheriff paraphrases a line used by actor Joe Higgins, who played a sheriff in early 1970s Dodge commercials, as "Boy, you're in a heap of trouble."^[8]

Sheriff was known to distrust McQueen; at one point when Sally gives McQueen some gasoline, Sheriff notices McQueen smiling at the road as if he is planning to escape. In reply Sheriff with a glare turns on his gumball in case. Lightning chooses to accompany Sally, rather than making an escape attempt, resulting in Sheriff switching off his emergency lighting. This suggests the beginning of trust in Lightning by Sheriff. He later befriends Lightning McQueen, offering him a police escort to California and even giving a few sniffles when he thought Lightning had left after finishing fixing the road (though he denied it, claiming he was glad Lightning was gone), and joins his pit crew for the championship race.

Sheriff reappears in Cars 2, seeing Lightning and his race crew off to the World Grand Prix. When Mater goes missing, Ramone mentions that Sheriff has Scotland Yard scouring London for Mater. During the climax of the film, Sheriff arrives along with the other Radiator Springs residents as new members of McQueen's pit crew in England, and is informed by Mater of the Lemons cars' plot to kill McQueen in order to turn all vehicles in the world against alternate energy and rely on gasoline for profit. Sheriff then has Red the Firetruck squirt water on the Lemon cars during the final battle, arrests most of the defeated ones with help from Sarge. Then the next day Sheriff cheers Mater on when he is knighted for foiling the evil plot led by surprisingly, the race and Allinol inventor Sir Miles Axlerod. Sheriff also partakes in the final melee against the Lemon cars.

Luigi

Luigi (voiced by Tony Shalhoub) is a 1959 Fiat 500. He is a Scuderia Ferrari fan, and has followed racing his entire life. His license plate reads 445-108, which is the latitude and longitude for the main Ferrari factory in Maranello, Italy.^[9] Luigi owns a tire shop, Casa Della Tires, which is known for its "Leaning Tower of Tires," a tower of several tires shaped like the Leaning Tower of Pisa. His assistant is an Italian forklift truck named Guido.

Inside his shop are many framed pictures of World Sportscar Championship endurance racing Ferraris from various points in history. At first, Luigi and Guido do not respect Lightning McQueen when he comes to Radiator Springs (owing to the substantial havoc that he inflicted upon the town when he first arrived), because he is not a Ferrari ("Luigi follow only the Ferraris"), but later on they learn to show courtesy to McQueen, fitting him with whitewall tires, since Luigi is a fan of white tires (having a pair himself). During the final race, Luigi and Guido work as part of Lightning's pit crew, and Guido sets the Piston Cup record in changing tires, taking only 4 seconds to change all the tires, sending the other pit crew into shock. After the race, a group of Italian sports cars – a Ferrari F430 (voiced by Michael Schumacher) and two Maserati Quattroportes – arrive at his shop, explaining that "Lightning McQueen told me this was the best place in the world to get tires" and requesting "three or four sets each". The presence of a celebrity Ferrari in their store causes both Luigi and Guido to faint from shock and happiness.

For the Italian version of the film, Luigi was voiced by comedian Marco Della Noce; one of Della Noce's most popular characters was "Oriano Ferrari", a parody character meant to represent the leader of Ferrari's pit stop crew.^[10]

In Cars 2, Luigi is a part of Lightning's pit crew, in charge of the racer's tires. In Japan, he is naturally overjoyed to see so many Ferraris at a party prior to the first race of the World Grand Prix. He also hesitantly begins to explain to Mater what a rendezvous is, but he and Guido do not believe Mater when he believes he has a date ("Guido don't believe you!" "Guido still don't believe you!") Luigi and Guido are overjoyed to be back in their home of Italy, and rejoin their large group of family and friends. A little more is discussed of Luigi's past with Guido: Luigi's Uncle Topolino mentions that Luigi and Guido often fought when they worked for him (over things like which Ferrari was the best, and which one of them looked more like a Ferrari, etc.) but they always made up after their fights. Luigi joins his friends in a mêlée against Professor Zündapp's Lemons at the film's climax, and finally believes Mater's claims of a girlfriend when Holley Shiftwell confirms the fact in person at Radiator Springs.

He is seen driving at the end of Finding Nemo.

Guido

Guido (voiced by Guido Quaroni) is an early 1950s Isetta forklift, who works at Luigi's Casa Della Tires, and is Luigi's best friend. The only language Guido can speak and understand fluently is Italian, though he appears to understand English, and even speaks a few phrases, including "Pit stop" but pronounced "Peet stop!" His dream is to perform a pit stop for a real racecar. Near the end of the movie, as a member of Lightning's new pit crew, he performs the fastest pit stop in Piston Cup history, speed-changing all four tires in only 4 seconds, shocking Chick Hicks' pit crew who had earlier made fun of him, and causing their moustaches/grills to fall off in the process.

In order to preserve the "language barrier" gags between Guido and the other characters in the Italian dub, his lines (and the other cars' lines in Italian) have been rendered with the Emiliano-Romagnolo accent spoken in the town of Modena, Italy, home of the Ferrari car manufacturer and racing team. Alex Zanardi, an Italian race driver who is a native of Bologna, the largest city in the Emilia-Romagna region (and thus presumably familiar with that dialect), voiced Guido for the Italian version. Coincidentally, or as a pun by the authors, the name "Guido" is a perfect homonym for the Italian inflected verb meaning "I drive".

In Cars 2, Guido serves the same purpose he served in the first film's climax in Lightning's pit crew throughout the film. He also removed all tires from some of the Lemons when the malicious cars surrounded Lightning and Mater, but is unable to remove the bomb from Mater's nose (engine). Guido dryly does not believe Mater when he says he has a date ("Non ci credo"), but has a jaw-dropping moment when he sees that Mater was telling the truth about his new girlfriend Holley Shiftwell (Guido believe you now! - Luigi).

Ramone

Ramone (voiced by Cheech Marin) is a 1959 Chevrolet Impala Lowrider who owns the Ramone's House of Body Art store, where he paints himself and other cars, including Lightning McQueen later in the film. His garage employs the distinctive architecture of the Tower Station (U-Drop Inn) in Shamrock, Texas. His license plate reads "L0WNSL0", which is a reference to his catchphrase, "Low and slow." He is married to Flo, whose restaurant is next door to his store. Ramone is usually depicted as purple with a yellow and orange flame job, but throughout the film he changes his paint job every morning (green, yellow, red in the first film, blue in Mater and the Ghostlight) to keep his skills sharp, owing to a lack of customers. This situation changes after Radiator Springs becomes vibrant again. He also likes to drive slow and very low on the road, and is overjoyed when the road is asphalted, enjoying the smoothness of the road.

His voice actor Cheech Marin, also voiced Banzai, one of the 3 hyenas in The Lion King, and Tito the Chihuahua in Oliver & Company.

In a deleted scene that told the story of how Ramone and Flo fell in love, the only customer Ramone has refused to paint was his future wife Flo. When she asked him, "Whassamatta, you too good to paint me?" he promptly and smoothly replies, "No way, you too good for me to paint," and saying that he could not touch a classic like Flo, which made her heart melt. The story took place in Radiator Springs in 1974. This part was shown in the info on Ramone in Cars Mater-National Championship.

Ramone reappears in Cars 2, making a few appearances in the Radiator Springs scenes, though he joins everyone else to help McQueen in England. In the melee scene, Ramone disables one of the lemon cars by spray painting into the car's eyes, blinding him.

In the movie Planes, when Dusty cuts off the radios power when El Chupacabra was singing the song "Love Machine", he says Ramones catchphrase "Low and slow" which causes Chupacabra to sing a romance version of the song.

Flo

Flo (based on Fran Hauser of Adrian's Midpoint Café and voiced by Jenifer Lewis) is the owner of Radiator Springs only gas diner, "Flo's V-8 Café" and is married to Ramone, the town's body artist. Her license plate reads "SHOGRL", the same as the license plates applied to many Motorama show cars and an abbreviation of the term "showgirl". During the cruising scene, "Motorama 1957" appears above her license plate. According to a deleted scene, she is a Motorama showcar who came to Radiator Springs during a national tour (although there wasn't a Motorama show held in 1957). She appears to be inspired by three early- to mid-1950s show cars: the 1951 Le Sabre (front-end lines, the basic hood shape, lights mounted near the corners, and front-quarter trim), the 1951 Buick XP-300 (side trim), and the 1956/57 Chrysler Dart (cockpit, deck lid, and tailfins).^[11]

Flo reappears in Cars 2 to help Lightning and Mater battle the Lemons (who were sent to kill Lightning by Miles Axlerod). Later, she and Sally are seen swooning over Francesco.

In Toy Story 2, Al's car looks a lot like her.

Fillmore

Fillmore (based on Route 66 artist Bob Waldmire^[12] — not acknowledged in the film's credits — and voiced by George Carlin in Cars, Cars: The Video Game, Mater and the Ghostlight, and Cars Toons (via archives), Brian George in Cars Mater-National Championship, Mark Silverman in Cars Race-O-Rama and Lloyd Sherr in Cars 2 and Cars 2: The Video Game) is a Vicar Volkswagen Type 2 microbus of late 1950s/early 1960s vintage as evidenced by his pointed front turn signals and small rear window. Fillmore's license plate reads "51237", an easter egg which is a reference to May 12, 1937, the birthdate of George Carlin, and is also the ZIP code of George, Iowa.^[13]

He is a vicar and stereotypical hippie, as he has stickers of the peace sign and flowers with his license plate positioned to resemble a soul patch. His name is a reference to the Fillmore East, a venue that was an epicenter for rock performances throughout the 1960s and 1970s (The Allman Brothers, The Grateful Dead, and Jimi Hendrix all made notable live recordings there, to name a few). He owns an organic fuel shop (Fillmore's Organic Fuel) which features several flavors, and believes gasoline companies are lying to the public. In the morning, when next-door neighbor Sarge plays Reveille and raises the Flag of the United States, Fillmore interrupts Sarge's bugle reveille with Jimi Hendrix's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner." This is much to Sarge's irritation, as he shouts at Fillmore:

Sarge: "Will you turn that disrespectful junk off?!"

Fillmore: "Respect the classics, man. It's Hendrix!"

Despite this, he is friends with Sarge, and the two can be seen chatting throughout the film.

He has a sticker on his rear that says "I brake for Jackalopes". The jackalope is a mythical creature which features in the theatrical short "Boundin'" shown with The Incredibles. He has appeared in every Disney Cars game so far. As voiced by George Carlin, Fillmore's voice is similar to "Al Sleet, the hippy-dippy weatherman", a part of Carlin's comedy routine in the 1970s.

Fillmore reappears in Cars 2, joining McQueen's pit crew for the World Grand Prix. He has a smaller role compared to the previous film. He is the only original character that had to be re-cast (due to George Carlin's death), and was replaced by Lloyd Sherr in this film. Fillmore initially supports Allinol as it supposedly does not use oil, even convincing McQueen it is safe after several accidents involving other cars using Allinol. However, for the final race, Sarge replaces McQueen's Allinol with Fillmore's organic fuel. This is what prevents Lightning from being killed in the race.

Sarge

Sarge (voiced by Paul Dooley) is a 1941 Willys Jeep. A veteran with a military green paint job and a slightly stylized Sergeant Major (E-9) insignia on his sides, he appears to be a World War II era Willys MB. His license plate reads "41WW2", which indicates the date the Willys MB entered the service of the U.S. Army (1941 World War II). He runs a surplus store, named "Sarge's Surplus Hut", next door to Fillmore and acts as part of Lightning's pit crew, gassing him up during the race. Near the end of the film, he operates a boot camp to train SUVs and 4x4s (some of whom had never been off-road) in rugged and dirt terrain. His recruits include T.J. Hummer, Murphy, Frank "Pinky" Pinkerton, and Charlie Cargo.

Sarge reappears in Cars 2, using assistance from the British Army to aid in the melee against the Lemons. Prior to the final leg of the World Grand Prix, he secretly switches McQueen's supply of Allinol (the alternative fuel developed by race founder Sir Miles Axlerod) for Fillmore's organic fuel blend. Like Fillmore he became suspicious of the fuel after the incidents in Japan and Italy. The change saves McQueen from being destroyed as part of Axlerod's plot to discredit alternative fuels.

Lizzie

Lizzie (voiced by Katherine Helmond), a 1923 Ford Model T coupe, is the widow of Radiator Springs' founder, Stanley, and the elderly owner of a roadside souvenir and accessory shop (Radiator Springs Curios, which uses the "HERE IT IS" slogan and signage of the Jack Rabbit Trading Post on US 66). Her license plate, "MT23", is a reference to her model and year. Her name is derived from Tin Lizzie, one of the Model T's popular nicknames. She appears to have gone somewhat senile, and has a crush on Lightning McQueen. When she is shown teasing Luigi and Guido in the film, stating that "the new road makes your place look like a dump." Luigi angrily says that she is a crazy, devilish old woman but despairs at the truth of her words and sets to work repainting the Casa della Tires garage to its original appearance. She appears extremely motherly.

Lizzie reappears in Cars 2 with a minor role. In the beginning she greets Lightning when he returns, but didn't even know he was gone all this time. She isn't present at the airport but is seen in the end talking to Mack about how crazy Holley Shiftwell is for keeping a dent.

She appears in the Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales episode "Time Travel Mater", where her and Stanley's backstories are revealed.

Red

Red (voiced by Joe Ranft) is a mid-1960s closed-cab pumper bearing Carburetor County license plate "002." He is shy and emotional which explains why he cries and drives away at the same time. He spends most of his time gardening and washing things, such as the statue of Stanley in front of his fire station. It was stated by Mater that Red hated Lightning McQueen, because he accidentally killed his flowers. It is clear that Red had forgiven Lightning McQueen and warmed up to him, especially when he burst into tears and fled. This was because he thought that Lightning McQueen left without saying goodbye (which he didn't, but was forced to do later). In the movie, Red never spoke (not counting his sobs and gasps). Joe Ranft died in a car accident in August 2005, 11 months before the movie was released.

Red reappears in Cars 2 as a non-speaking character. He only makes a small appearance at the airport crying as he sees Team McQueen taking off for Tokyo, also in the battle against the Lemons, where he arrives just in time to blast some of the Lemons away with his fire hose.

Red appears in the Tales from Radiator Springs short film: Bugged. He is voiced by Jerome Ranft, who voiced Gamma in Up.

Stanley

Stanley (voiced by John Michael Higgins) is Lizzie's late husband who was the founder of Radiator Springs. Stanley was probably based on and named after a Stanley Steamer, a steam-powered automobile. Lizzie, reminiscing, describes him as having been "an awfully persistent li'l bugger for a two-cylinder". A statue of Stanley stands outside the town hall, and although it was broken off its pedestal and dragged through the streets on a wire by Lightning McQueen, it was fortunately undamaged, and another mishap placed the statue right back where it was. Although dead, Stanley continues to exert an influence on the town, particularly over Lizzie, who often talks to his statue in memory of him. At one point, the statue is sent flying through the air ("Fly away, Stanley. Be free!" - Fillmore) but returns to the pedestal luckily.

Stanley's statue reappears in Cars 2 where he was shown to be less old and broken, possibly renovated.

In the Cars Toon, Time Travel Mater, Stanley appears alive for the first time. In the Cars Land theme park, signage commemorating "The Original Radiator Spring" claims that "On this site in the summer of 1909 Stanley, exploring out west, overheated as his radiator water boiled away. Coasting into the shade, he happened upon a life-saving natural spring. Upon this most fortunate discovery, Stanley founded the first settlement in Ornament Valley, and in honor of the oasis, christened it Radiator Springs."^[14] Stanley's Oasis is listed as the first local business in Radiator Springs, although condensers only appeared on Stanley steam cars beginning in 1915.

Stanley makes a silent cameo in the Pixar short, Boundin'.

Bessie

Bessie is a tarmac laying machine that is used to fix roads in Radiator Springs. She was often used by one of the citizens of Radiator Springs, referenced as "Big Al", before the citizen in question left fifteen years ago. When Lightning McQueen accidentally destroys the road with the statue of Stanley, Radiator Springs traffic court judge Doc Hudson sentences him to fix the road with her.

While Doc insists "this here is Bessie, finest road-paving machine ever built", a construction trade publication's August 2006 editorial describes her as a "tar-spewing hybrid paver/compactor" and "an ecological disaster" as sometimes Bessie boils over and splats tar onto the car(s) pulling her.

"If she doesn’t hit you with a stray spray of hot asphalt burbling in two tanks heated by open flames, the fumes emanating from every orifice would prompt an asthma attack. Aggregate jostles loose in a top hopper, and her black-smoke-extruding exhaust pipes are coated with the remains of decades of paving seasons... In fact, everything is wrong about Bessie except the product she produces when Lightning finally decides to get serious about his civic duty."

—Equipment World^[15]

During the epilogue, the Delinquent Road Hazards have to fix a road with her as punishment for speeding. Bessie is a "non-living" vehicle; she cannot move by herself and she has no voice actor in the film.

Frank and the tractors

Frank is a generic red combine harvester that resembles a bull, and the guardian of the tractors (which "moo" as cows). After Lightning McQueen's first encounter with Frank during a night of tractor tipping with Mater, Lightning starts dreaming that he, The King, and Chick Hicks (the last of whom does not survive, getting chopped up while The King and McQueen move out of the way) are beaten by Frank in the tie-breaker race. When he wins, big smoke comes out of his horns which makes him look more like a moose while Lighting is surrounded by the tractors who are licking him. He is last seen with the tractors at the drive-in theatre scenes behind the fence far behind Mack, watching the movie as well. He is also seen in the short Mater and the Ghostlight when Mater races past him, waking him up, but does not chase him. Frank seems to be the soothing and kind master of the tractors and the leader of the herd and also hates trespassers who step into his farm and bother the tractors.

Former residents

A flashback in the original film devotes a little over a minute to show Radiator Springs in a pre-freeway era when all cross-country traffic would by necessity pass through the town's busy main street. Various old cars appear very briefly in this segment with no names and no dialogue, only to vanish when the town is bypassed.

Miles "Meattruck" Malone was a red-cab delivery truck serving the Ornament Valley region; Dustin Mellows, a yellow delivery truck, bore the logo and initials TS for Trophy Sparkplugs. Local cars included Mildred Bylane (a light-brown car leaving Luigi's), Percy Hanbrakes (a brown car towed to Flo's by Mater), Edwin Kranks (a two-tone apple-green car), Hank "Halloween" Murphy (a two-tone orange "Rumbler" with tail fins, named as a parody of the Nash/AMC Rambler) and Milton Calypeer (a blue car on Route 66 at the town limits).

Bugs

In Radiator Springs and the surrounding desert area of Carburetor County, insects are depicted as small, winged VW Bugs (or beetles). The bugs appear at least three times in the original film, hovering around fluorescent lighting at Flo's V8 Café on Lightning's initial arrival, swarming around the windows and the one missing fuel pump at the Wheel Well Motel before its historic restoration, and in the desert where Minny and Van are still quite clearly lost at the end of the film, after the closing credits. (One bumps on the camera lens, leaving a mark on it, and flies off eventually) One also appears in Mater and the Ghostlight, which Mater had confused for the Ghostlight (despite the yellow headlights). The bugs are alive but do not speak (Vroomaroundus Bugus merely buzz with sped-up sounds of an air-cooled VW engine^[16]) so they are not named individually and they have no voice actors.

Piston Cup Announcers

Darrell Cartrip

Darrell Cartrip, a 1977 Chevy Monte Carlo, is a Piston Cup announcer in the first film. A former Piston Cup racer, his character is based on his voice actor, 1989 Daytona 500 winner and NASCAR on Fox commentator Darrell Waltrip. An enthusiastic Cartrip uses Waltrip's catchphrase "Boogity boogity boogity! Let's go racing, boys!" and insists that his oil pressure's running through the roof and he might need to be towed out of the booth after the race.

Cartrip appears in the Cars video game as the sole announcer; he is a playable character in the Piston Cup VS. and Arcade mode and returns in the second film as the only of three World Grand Prix announcers to believe it was Lightning McQueen's race to lose.

A real-life 1977 Monte Carlo was driven by Waltrip with DiGard Motorsports, finishing a very close second (11 points behind Richard Petty) for the 1979 championship Cup.^[17] Waltrip raced from midway through the 1975 season until the 1980 season driving for the team. The real-life car's original number (DiGard's #88) and green-and-white Gatorade livery do not appear on the character (The livery's design is now owned by Pepsico). The film's credits list Darrell Waltrip Motorsports (his licencing arm) as the "#17 Car"; Waltrip's various NASCAR entries have included a #17 (which he owned) and a #95. The most famous of the DiGard Monte Carlos was the infamous "Bertha", displayed at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Talladega, known for a weight-reduction scheme (devised by Gary Nelson and Buddy Parrott) where up to 100 pounds (45 kg) of buckshot is dropped on-track on parade laps to lighten the car. A subsequent NASCAR rule change to weigh cars after the race now prevents this type of ruse.

Bob Cutlass

Bob Cutlass is an announcer for the Piston Cup races and friend of Darrell Cartrip. He is voiced by Bob Costas, the NBC sportscaster and journalist and his name, like Darrell Cartrip's, is a play on that of his voice actor. The character's name is a reference to the Oldsmobile Cutlass. Cutlass is actually supposed to resemble a 1999 Oldsmobile Aurora, even though the Aurora was never offered in a 2-door model. He did not return for the video game, nor Cars 2.

Racetrack personnel

Various officials and track employees are seen in the original film but not named in the movie's credits, often because they have no named voice actor or no speaking role. Names and descriptions are assigned to these cars and trucks in the "Cars" franchise to allow the characters to be sold as die-cast toys.

Racing officials

Dexter Hoover (a pickup truck atop the flagstand) waves the green flag to start the race, the checkered flag to finish the race and the yellow flag when Piston Cup officials call a caution. Charlie Checker is the official pace car at each race of the Piston Cup series. Like the Checker taxi cab, he is bright yellow. Race Official Tom, a Piston Cup official, reviews videotape in the replay booth for the photo finish in the first race. Tow is a tow truck who removes injured contestants from the track, dragging a disabled but stubborn Chuck Armstrong away from the Dinoco 400 after a collision.

Security

Marlon "Clutches" McKay, security team leader at the Motor Speedway of the South, is a former armored troop carrier. Richard Clayton Kensington (a large Piston Cup security van) chases paparazzi from the replay booth, yelling "Hey! No cameras! Get out of here!" Marco Axelbender, a Piston Cup security guard at the Los Angeles International Speedway, refuses to admit Fred to Pit Row without a garage pass.

Vendors

Brian, a pickup truck briefly spotted selling souvenirs at the Motor Speedway of the South, shouts "Get your antenna balls here!" Todd, a Pizza Planet truck, is seen behind the announcers at the tiebreaker race.

Sideshows

The Alphanumeros are a group of cars in tight formation, driving at the beginning of the tiebreaker race in position to spell "PISTON CUP" with each letter formed from multiple, matching moving vehicles. Barney Stormin, a small propeller-driven skywriting biplane, writes "PISTON CUP" only to have it obliterated by Marco's formation of three twin-engine jet fighters.

The Lightyear Blimp (a parody of the Goodyear blimp), is named "Al Oft". His only line is "Oh yeah, Whoo!"

Media

Kori Turbowitz

Kori Turbowitz (voiced by DJ Sarah Clark of KLLC's San Francisco Bay Area weekday morning "Sarah and Vinny Show"^[18]) is a 1997 Ford Puma. A news reporter who makes three appearances in Cars, Turbowitz is shown interviewing McQueen on-camera immediately before his original pit crew resigns en masse, is the first to report McQueen missing and later obtains a tip from Doc Hudson revealing Lightning McQueen's location in Radiator Springs.

Chuki

Chuki is a small, light pink hatchback with a Japanese nationality, living in Tokyo. Chuki has a very small appearance in Cars-she is shown as one of the news reporters who appear in the multi-clip footage of various TV news channels reporting McQueen's sudden disappearance while being transported to the Los Angeles International Speedway for his tie-breaker final of the Piston Cup. In Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales' Tokyo Mater episode, Chuki is seen presenting a news broadcast on one of the large TVs installed in Tokyo. In Cars 2, she is seen in the neon advertisement glowboards in Tokyo.

Chuki is based on hatchbacks designed according to Japan's Kei car specifications and is voiced by Sonoko Konishi, a senior Pixar animator who was also part of the animation team that won Ratatouille (another Pixar film) an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.^[19]

Konishi is credited in the Cars 2 cast for voicing the Japanese toilet assistant that appears in the computerised automated car toilets in Tokyo.

Jay Limo

Jay Limo, like his voice actor Jay Leno, is the talk show host of The Jay Limo Show. He resembles the latest generation of the Lincoln Town Car. He remarks "I don't know what's going to be harder to find; Lightning McQueen or a crew chief who'll work with him!"

News anchors

Chuck Manifold, a blue and somewhat-boxy 1980s-style car, is an anchor for Racing Sports Network (RSN) who appears briefly at the end of the last of multiple media reports of McQueen's disappearance with the one line "They are all asking the same question: Where is McQueen?"

Dan Sclarkenberg, a green car and one of two "braking news" desk anchors on MPH 55 NEWS, is one of the announcers of the "McQueen Missing" segments.

News helicopters

A pair of helicopters with searchlights (as the first of a large group of reporters in Radiator Springs) are not listed in the film's credits but identified elsewhere in the franchise. The red Kathy Copter has one line, "We have found McQueen! We have found McQueen!" while the white/yellow Ron Hover does not have a speaking part.

Camera and microphone cars

Other press cars (not identified in the film's credits) are Houser Boon (a yellow camera car exclaiming "Show us the bolt!"), Tim Rimmer (a grey tabloid news photo car booing Chick Hicks #86 when the Piston Cup is awarded), Hooman (a small brown camera car in Radiator Springs), Dash Boardman (a green camera car at the race), Andrea (a magenta-red reporter car holding a microphone) and Skip Ricter (a brown car who appears outside Los Angeles International Speedway as an announcer; a play on former real-life NASCAR executive Les Richter).

Video coverage of the race itself is handled by Racing Sports Network personnel Artie (one of a pair of video control operators, a light-blue car who exclaims "Bob! Darrell! The Hudson Hornet's back!") and Nelson Blindspot (a light-green SUV, one of multiple Piston Cup video camera operators). Both names reference real-life staff who work with Waltrip on NASCAR on FOX broadcasts, Artie Kempner (director) and Nelson Crozier (spotter).

Race fans

Mia and Tia

Mia (voiced by Lindsey Collins) and Tia (voiced by Elissa Knight) are identical twin 1992 Mazda MX-5 ("Miata") sisters who are Lightning McQueen's self-proclaimed biggest fans in the first film. When they first meet Lightning, Mia and Tia flash their pop-up headlights at him, similar to groupies pulling up their shirts to flash their breasts (called "headlights" in sexual slang) at celebrities. In Lightning McQueen's daydream about the Dinoco Sponsorship, the twins are Dinoco blue, except for the scene in the penthouse, where they are painted gold. After McQueen's disappearance, the twins are devastated that McQueen apparently will not make it to the race. Chick Hicks then swoops in and consoles them, loading them up with his own merchandise and a free Hostile Takeover Bank-sponsored green paint job. Mia and Tia accept the offer, not because they are Chick's fans, but because green complements their eyes. They soon return to being McQueen's fans, turning against Hicks after he deliberately causes Strip "The King" Weathers to wreck in the tie-breaker race.

Mia and Tia eventually move to Radiator Springs and are visible briefly as waitresses at Flo's V8 Café during the end credits. Their characters are based on sisters Mary Lou and Christina Mendez at the Midpoint Café in Adrian, Texas, where the café's (now semi-retired) owner Fran Houser is the basis for "Flo".^[20]

In a deleted scene on the Cars DVD, the twins were fans who distract Lightning during a brief stop at the Top Down Truck Stop, a venue with "all convertible waitresses", causing Mack to inadvertently leave without him. The implicit reference to toplessness is largely removed from the final script, which has Mack driving straight through and separates the characters on I-40. Mia and Tia appear in every episode of Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales except Time Travel Mater and make a cameo appearance near the end of Cars 2 as spectators at the new Radiator Springs Grand Prix.

Albert Hinkey

Albert Hinkey (voiced by Douglas "Mater" Keever^[21]) is an RV who proclaims himself as Lightning's "biggest" fan ("biggest" being a pun because he is such a large vehicle). He is seen in the background of races. His topside is decorated with rows of Lightning/Rust-eze flags. Hinkey also has a loud horn, which he uses while saying "Ka-Chow!" (McQueen's catchphrase) and the loud noise is a nuisance to fellow spectators.

His friend Slick, voiced by Larry Benton, exclaims "Dip me in axle grease and call me Slick! It's the Hudson Hornet!" when Lightning's Radiator Springs pit team arrives for the tiebreaker race. This is a joke on the old Harold Lloyd punch line, "step right up and call me speedy!," which originated (mostly) in his hit silent film called The Freshman Lloyd also made another film called Speedy, which may or may not have been a reference, as it was made three years after The Freshman.

Fred

Fred (voiced by Andrew Stanton) is a starstruck, very rusty old car. Everybody knows his name because his license plate holder and license plate say "Hello, my name is" and "FRED", respectively. He is the prop for the recurring gag in the film; when McQueen says his name, he shouts, "He knows my name! He knows my name!" and, in his excitement, his front bumper (which happens to be his lower jaw) falls off. Later, when he is unable to gain access to the tie-breaker race and Mario Andretti (who would be waved through the gate on sight as a celebrity) likewise reads his license plate, Fred says, "Mario Andretti knows my name! You gotta let me in now!" He is seen in Radiator Springs at the end of the film with bumper stickers for the last three towns (Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino) in Route 66 (song); when he stops, his front bumper falls off again. He also shows up in Mater National and Race-O-Rama.

Fred is one of the many rusty old cars at the Rust-Eze sponsor tent for McQueen's personal appearance; others (listed in the "Car Finder" game but not named in the movie's credits) include Jonathan Wrenchworths (the rusted green car in Rust-Eze advertisements) and Donna Pits (a rusted 1970s car standing beside Fred).

Additional fans

A group of five transport lorries watch the race at a truck stop; two are identified in the "Car Finder" game as Gil (a green Peterbilt) and Paul Valdez (an orange transport with a white stripe and 'PV' on his cap).

A group of RV's watching the tiebreaker at the speedway include Barry Diesel (a thirsty RV with a blue Dinoco visor cap, sipping two kegs of Dinoco Light), Bud (a white RV with a jackalope painted on his back), Clayton Gentlebreeze (a white RV with green stripes) and Syd VanDerKamper (a camper van).

The "more than two hundred thousand cars" watching the tiebreaker race include Coriander Widetrack (a small purple car holding a model aeroplane), Marty Brakeburst (a grey runabout wearing a Piston Cup antenna ball), Mathew "True Blue" McCrew (a blue car behind a fence with "the King" flag on his antenna), Milo (a boxy green car beside McCrew), Polly Puddlejumper (a small blue car with a blue "the King" crown on her antenna), Swift Alternetter (a green SUV surrounded by RV's), Timothy Twostroke (a dark-red car displaying the #95 lightning bolt on his visor and antenna) and Wilmar Flattz (a small light-purple car with "lightning" on his antenna and "95" on his visor).

Other racecars

"Junior" #8

"Junior" #8 is a red-colored 2003 Chevrolet Monte Carlo similar to the Gen 4 cars that the Sprint Cup Series used prior to 2007. As his name suggests, he is voiced by Dale Earnhardt Jr., and closely resembles the #8 Budweiser Chevrolet that Earnhardt, Jr. drove from his Sprint Cup début in 1999 until his departure to Hendrick Motorsports in 2008. The car's Budweiser stickers are replaced by Dale Earnhardt Inc. stickers. These stickers refer to the same change made in NASCAR games to avoid advertising beer. Junior is seen during the first race (Dinoco 400). When McQueen goes missing, Junior tells the Competition Racing Sports Network "I sure hope that Lightning is okay, I would hate to see anything bad happen to him". At the tie-breaker, Junior wishes The King good luck in his last race, as "you've been an inspiration to me". Junior is last seen at the Radiator Springs racing museum with The King and his wife Lynda, amazed by Doc Hudson's many season winnings during the 1950s. Junior does not appear in the video game.

Mario Andretti #11

Mario Andretti voices his eponymous character, who is a former racecar that believes every day is a great day for racing. He is based on the 1967 Holman Moody Ford Fairlane that Andretti drove to victory lane in the 1967 Daytona 500. In the Spanish edition of the movie, Andretti is voiced by Spanish Formula One champion Fernando Alonso.

A small green car seen beside Andretti at the entrance to pit lane is identified in the "Car Finder" game as Patty, Mario's personal assistant. She does not have a speaking role in the film.

The actual Ford Fairlane that Andretti drove was rebuilt as a Mercury Cyclone by Robert Gee (Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s maternal grandfather), driven in 1971 by German F1 and sportscar driver Rolf Stommelen for his only NASCAR start at Talladega Superspeedway, then sold to Darrell Waltrip for use his five races in 1972 and the first half of the 1973 season. It later became a Sportsman racer for Waltrip, but was crashed in 1975 at the Permatex 300 Sportsman race (now NASCAR Nationwide Series race). Abandoned by Gee, it stayed there until a few NASCAR mechanics restored the car in its 1972 configuration as a 1971 Mercury Cyclone (brown #95) in the mid-1990s for a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Waltrip's first Cup start. It is displayed at Waltrip's museum in Harrisburg, North Carolina. It will be part of an Andretti exhibit at the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 2013.^[22]

Dinoco 400 contestants

The initial race in Cars consists of 43 cars, just like a real NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starting field, three of which proceed to the tie-breaker race in California. With the exception of Earnhardt, Jr.'s #8, plus The King, Chick Hicks, and Lightning McQueen, the remaining forty vehicles (and the corresponding teams' pit crews) appear only during the first race (the Dinoco 400 at the "Motor Speedway of the South") and most make only silent cameo appearances. Many of these cars are towed as wreckage after a massive crash deliberately ignited by #86 Chick Hicks during the race.

As automobiles without speaking roles have no voice actors, these briefly visible characters are absent from the film's credits. Names and back stories were assigned to these vehicles (typically one crew chief and one of the forklift mechanics per race car) in the "Car Finder" game and the die-cast "Cars" toy line but these are not named characters in the original film.

Car	Sponsor	Name	Description
#4	Tow Cap Hitch Profectors	Rusty Cornfuel	Is a brawny motor co. spark gt.
#28	Nitroade Hi-Energy Drink	Aiken Axler	Pitty's name is Hugo Fast.
#33	Mood Springs	Chuck Armstrong	A blue car who was sent airborne during the collision and then was seen begging "Don't take me out, I can still race!" while he was taken away by a wrecker.
#34	Trunk Fresh: Smell Ya Later	Dirkson D'Agostino	He has yellow and black colors.
#35	Shifty Drug	Kevin Racingtire	A racer who hits the #84 Re-Volting car during the multi-car collision.
#36	Tank Coat: Soothes upset tanks	Eugene Carbureski	He did not get involved in the multi-crash until a car spins him into it off-screen.
#39	View Zeen Corrective Windshields	Ryan Shields	A near-sighted vehicle without his View Zeen windscreen the race is merely a blur.
#51	Easy Idle: A Warm Start to a Cold Morning	Ruby "Easy" Oaks	A blue car just like the #33 Mood Springs racer.
#52	Leak Less Adult Dripping Pans	Claude Scruggs	A yellow car who was flipped onto the roof of the red #123 No Stall car during the multi-vehicle collision; McQueen jumps over him.Earl Filter is his crew chief with Stacy as his forklift.
#54	Faux Wheel Drive	Johnny Blamer	He was invloved in more collisions than any other car in Piston Cup history, and he hasn't finished a race in 10 years.
#56	Fiber Fuel	Brush Curber	He has a huge family, the other being the #121 Clutch Aid car.
#58	Octane Gain Turbo Vitamins	Billy Oilchanger	A racer who was is hit side-on by another vehicle in the collision.One of his pit crew, a generic yellow forklift, is given the name "Dudley Spare" in the die-cast toy collection but has no name and no speaking part in the original film.[23]
#61	Vitoline: For Older Active Cars	James Cleanair	Vitoline, a fuel additive vitamin company, provides fuel for older active cars.
#63	Transberry Juice	Lee Revkins	The first car hit by Chick Hicks (#86).
#64	RPM nighttime backfire suppressant	Winford Bradford Rutherford	The third car hit by Chick Hicks, causing the multi-vehicle collision. McQueen is the second car hit deliberately by Hicks, but recovers control after a brief stop. His crew chief is "Chief RPM" and his forklift is Petrol Pulaski.
#68	N2O Cola	Manny Flywheel	Sponsors N2O Nitro Cola contains nitrous to give you that extra pep in your engine. Manny himself cannot drink the product and still race legally.
#70	Gasprin Hood-Ache Relief	Floyd Mulvihill	His nickname is "Smoky Floyd"
#73	Carburetor Rev-N-Go Decongestant	Misti Motorkrass	She is the only female racer out of all the 36 cars.
#74	Sidewall O' Shine	Slider Petrolski	A yellow Capitol Motors/Verve XT which appears only in the first race.
#76	Vinyl Toupée: Vinyl Top In a Can	Crusty Rotor	He is a stodgey suaver EX like Gasprin #70.
#79	Retread Tire Deodorant: Roll On	Haul Ingass	Inngas is said to be European.
#80	Creme-Filled Gask-its: The Racetrack Treat	Sage VanDerSpin	His name is said to come from Africa.
#82	Shiny Wax	Darren Leadfoot	His crew chief is Senior Trax with his forklift as Nebekenzer Schmidt.
#84	Apple, Inc.	Matthew "Mac iCar" Overtaker	A reference to Steve Jobs; his car number is year of introduction of the Apple Macintosh desktop computer line. Initially seen behind Dale Earnhardt Jr; The King overtakes him after the race restarts. He finishes near the back of the pack.
#84	Re-Volting Rebuilt Alternators	Davey Apex	Duplicate car number (as #84 is also the iCar); this car is hit during the multi-vehicle collision.
#90	Bumper $ave	Ponchy Wipeout	His last name probably means that he got wiped out in the multi-car crash.
#92	Sputter Stop Cold Engine Relief	Murray Clutchburn	He has teal and orange colors just like the Dolphins football team.
#93	Spare Mint	Ernie Gearson	His crew chief is Ernest B. Raykes and his forklift is Piccolo Perry.
#101	Tach-O-Mint	Greg Candyman	Tach-O-Mint branding is gingerbread brown with candy cane text.
#117	Lil' Torquey Pistons	Ralph Carlow	He is colored red, white, and blue.
#121	Clutch Aid	Kevin Shiftright	One of the 2 cars to be the longest running race car in his family. His family is also huge, just like the #56 Fiber Fuel car.
#123	No Stall	Todd Marcus	A red race car who hits the yellow #52 Leak Less car during the multi-car collision; #52 lands onto this guy's roof before McQueen must jump over the wreckage.Roman Dunes (or Chief No Stall) is his crew chief with Shirley Spinout as his forklift.

Michael Schumacher

Michael Schumacher is a 2004 Ferrari F430 sports car voiced by Schumacher himself. He is a Ferrari in reference to his recent championships with Ferrari F1. He appears at Luigi's shop at the end of the movie after being told by Lightning McQueen that "this is the best place in the world to buy tires", and asks to order a few sets of tires for himself and a pair of Maserati Quattroportes who accompany him. After Luigi faints from the excitement of having "a real Michael Schumacher Ferrari in his store", Schumacher speaks to Guido in Italian, and Guido subsequently faints. The Italian phrase he speaks is, "I hope that your friend recovers, I was told that you are fantastic." Because of licencing issues, in the Cars toyline, his name is called Ferrari F430 instead of his name himself.

Other vehicles

Van and Minny

Van (voiced by Richard Kind) and Minny (voiced by Edie McClurg) are husband and wife. In the first film, they are lost and pass through Radiator Springs while trying to find their way back to Interstate 40. Van refuses to ask directions, claiming not to need them due to having a GPS. Minny mentions that Van did the same when they were heading up to the "Crazy Days" (a parody of Derby Days^[24]) in Shakopee. U.S. Route 66, taken off the map in 1985, is conspicuously absent from stored maps in automotive aftermarket GPS units — an omission also noted by Harv, Lightning's agent, and a minor running joke in the film.

Both are equipped with car alarms, which they arm after their encounter with Lightning McQueen when he begs them to call for help (they dismissed his plea as madness). After the final credits, Van and Minny are shown dirty and lost somewhere in the desert, having never asked for directions, with Van almost driven to insanity. Their names combine as a pun on "minivan". Van is a 2003 Ford Windstar and Minny appears to be a 1996 Dodge Caravan. Minny speaks with a pronounced Minnesota accent.

Van and Minny reappear near the end of the second film. While Minny is mesmerized by Mater's spy story, Van does not believe one word of it until British agent Holley Shiftwell arrives to confirm it, which surprises Van, leaving him mesmerized by her and annoying Minny. In the final scene, when a rocket-propelled Mater rushes past Van, maps that Van was carrying are sent flying.

Delinquent Road Hazards

The Delinquent Road Hazards are a group of four modified tuner cars that intentionally cause trouble on the highway: Boost (Purple Neon/Silver 1992 Mitsubishi GTO), DJ (Blue 2004 Scion xB), Wingo (Green and purple 2000 Nissan Silvia) and Snot Rod (Orange 1969 Pontiac GTO). They get their group name from what Sheriff called McQueen when he ordered Mater to tow him to traffic court. They catch Mack nodding off to sleep on the way to California and amuse themselves by nudging him onto the rumble strips along the shoulder. The resulting vibration causes Mack's trailer door to open and a sleeping McQueen to roll out of the trailer. When the chronically sniffly Snot Rod sneezes, Mack is startled awake, and accelerates away, leaving the still-sleeping McQueen behind near Radiator Springs. During the end credits, the Hazards are caught speeding on the outskirts of Radiator Springs by the Sheriff, who places them in the impound lot. They are sentenced to messy roadwork towing Bessie.

In the Italian dub, three of the Hazards are voiced by F1 drivers: Giancarlo Fisichella (Boost), Emanuele Pirro (Wingo) and Jarno Trulli (DJ).

Boost, DJ and Wingo make a cameo appearance at the start of Tokyo Mater, drifting along the main road of Radiator Springs before Sheriff gives chase to them.

D.J. was voiced by his inspiration and actor, E.J. Holowicki. Wingo was voiced by Adrian Ochoa. Jonas Rivera voiced Boost. Snot Rod was voiced by Pixar actor Lou Romano.

TJ Hummer

TJ Hummer is a vain Hummer H1 that Sarge teaches in his boot camp during the end of the movie. Unlike the other SUVs in the boot camp, TJ refuses to go off road, fearing that he will get dirt on his rims, but Sarge forces him to do so. His name may be a play on the action character T.J. Hooker. The other three boot camp recruits (none of which have speaking parts) are Frank "Pinky" Pinkerton (a pink SUV), Murphy (an orange SUV) and Charlie Cargo.

Sven "The Governator"

Sven "The Governator" (voiced by Jess Harnell) is a Hummer. His only line is "Lightning McQueen must be found at all costs!" The name and vehicle is a parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger's then-current position as California governor, the first three Terminator films he starred on, and the fact that he was one of the first Hummer H1 owners.

Jerry Recycled Batteries

Jerry (voiced by Joe Ranft) is a 1979 Peterbilt 352 that Lightning McQueen mistook for Mack. He has the words "Recycled Batteries" on his side. His only line in the movie is a response to McQueen: "Mack? I ain't no Mack, I'm a Peterbilt, for dang sake! Turn on your lights, ya moron!"

Interstate 40 vehicles

Various cars and trucks in non-speaking roles are named in the "Car Finder" game but have only silent cameos in the film.

Bertha Butterswagon, a small green runabout, watches Mack admiring his own reflection in a metal tanker truck. Leroy Traffik, a minivan with a mattress on his roof and a temporary spare as his right-rear wheel, passes a tired Mack just before the truck stop. He is seen with new tires from Luigi's during the film's epilogue.

Ben Crankleshaft, Chet Boxkaar and Oliver Lightload are sleeping trucks at the Top Down Truck Stop.

Duff Wrecks is a grey pickup truck briefly seen one lane away from the Delinquent Road Hazard gang on I-40.

Cars 2

These are characters who have first or only appeared in the film Cars 2 (2011).

Secret agents and spies

Finn McMissile

Finn McMissile (voiced by Michael Caine) is a British secret agent who recruits Mater, whom he mistakes for a cleverly disguised American agent, to help in his mission. Caine depicted his character Finn based on his previous role Harry Palmer from The IPCRESS File and its sequels. He is also similar to James Bond which Michael Caine did not portray.

Originally, Finn was supposed to appear in the first Cars movie. In a sequence that never went beyond the storyboarding stage, Lightning and Sally visited a drive-in theater where a James Bond-type film about a superspy car named Finn McMissile was playing. This scene was deleted.^[25] The design of Finn is inspired by several cars, the roofline and doors of the Volvo P1800 (possibly inspired by Roger Moore's ownership of one while filming The Saint TV espionage series in the early 1960s), the grill and fenders of the BMW 507, and some major elements of the iconic James Bond Aston Martin DB5, he also resembles a 1970s Volkswagen Karmann Ghia. The look of the car has been slightly modified; Finn has a different grill that looks like a suave mustache, but like Bond, he does have plenty of gadgets.^[26] His small tailfins were inspired by a 1958 British sports car called the Peerless—one of the few British cars with fins.^[27] Finn is fluent in many languages, most notably French and Italian. He is outfitted with a plethora of gadgets, including: two (Front) bumperette grappling hooks, a right headlight spy camera, a left headlight missile launcher, side mirror digital read-outs, a deployable glass cutter, wheel hub magnetic explosives launcher; (side) side vent deployable machine guns, (rear) wheel hub deployable surveillance probes, rear bumperette grappling hooks, a rear turn signal oil dispenser, an undercarriage mounted quad harpoon gun, a hydrofoil for oversea travel, a roof-deployed holographic disguise emitter, and a submarine-mode for underwater escapes.^[27] Finn made a cameo in Toy Story 3 on a poster in Andy's room. His license plate is 314 FMCM, which includes a reference to his initials. The number 314 indicates Caine's birthday, March 14, same day as Billy Crystal, another actor for Pixar.

His belief about the World Grand Prix turns out to be true, as it was all just a setup by Miles Axlerod to make alternate fuel seem dangerous and make cars run on his own fuel with no choice.

Finn McMissile appears in Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure. It was revealed that Finn was a spy who was on the biggest oil platform in the world before he met Mater. None of them knew that Mater was not a spy. He just answered the question correctly. He can dispense bombs from his wing nuts. Finn is also able to magnetise his wheels in order to climb up some vertical metal surfaces. Other abilities that Finn has include purposely spilling oil onto the road, using grappling hooks to swing between buildings and traverse great heights by using the hook cables as tightropes, and being able to 'breathe' underwater.

2 power discs of him were made for Disney Infinity.

Holley Shiftwell

Holley Shiftwell (voiced by Emily Mortimer) is a British spy-in-training who is Mater's love interest/ girlfriend in the film. She is similar to Sally.

Holley's name is a reference to Holley Performance Products, Inc., a manufacturer of high-performance carburetors and fuel systems located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Her design was made from a Jaguar XJR-15. Her name is possibly also a reference to Bond Girl Holly Goodhead. Her license plate is HS1201, which includes her initials. The number 1201 is Emily Mortimer's birthday in American date order (December 1).

Holley is equipped with gadgets including: (front) projection lamps above headlights that emit a heads-up display, headlight cameras; a (side) right wheel concealed gun and an electro-shock device, a telescoping utility arm, (undercarriage) mounted dual trackball platforms for controlling the heads-up display, and retractable wings for flight.^[27]

Holley Shiftwell appears in Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure.

Holley Shiftwell is a playable character in Disney Infinity.

Siddeley

Siddeley (voiced by Jason Isaacs) is a state-of-the-art British twin-engine spy jet. He is 176 feet long with a 157-foot wingspan (53 and 48 meters respectively) and is shown to possess afterburners, though no aspect of his airframe is suited to supersonic flight, In addition, he has VTOL (vertical-takeoff and landing) capabilities. His tail has A113 painted on it, a recurring gag in the Pixar films. Siddeley is also seen in the background in one scene of the Cars spinoff, 'Planes.' ^[28] His name is a reference to the British aerospace company Hawker Siddeley.

Stephenson

Stephenson is a spy train, who first appeared in Cars 2 working with Finn McMissile. Stephenson brings Finn, Holley, and Mater to Porta Corsa, Italy. Stephenson is a state-of-the-art bullet train, who scrambles switchboards, hops international rail lines, and can make it from Dover to Porto Corsa in five hours. He has no dining car and no spare compartment because he's filled with the finest in high-tech, classified spy gear and probably has a few secret agents aboard. One of his carriages contains high-tech equipment that modifies and adds gadgets to cars. His only line in Cars 2 is "Finn, one hour to Porta Corsa". Stephenson is named after the "father of railways", George Stephenson.

Leland Turbo

Leland Turbo (voiced by Jason Isaacs) was a British agent who appeared in the film's beginning. He sends a video message to Finn McMissile about what he sees in Professor Zündapp's oil rig. However, he is found by the lemons and was crushed into a cube when Finn McMissle arrives at the oil rig. He appears to be based on a Jaguar E-Type. His name is most likely based on Leyland Motors, a now defunct British vehicle manufacturer.

Rod “Torque” Redline

Rod “Torque” Redline (voiced by Bruce Campbell) is considered by many as America's greatest spy. He's the agent, McMissile and Shiftwell were supposed to meet before he ran into Mater, which leads to the mistake of the spy cars thinking Mater is Redline.

In the beginning of the film, he is seen by McMissile (disguised as a lemon) talking to Professor Zündapp about the camera. In the bathroom, Rod takes off his disguise so Finn and Holley can recognize him. Unfortunately, lemons Grem and Acer come in the bathroom and recognize him before Holley can meet him. Cornered by the villains, he turns his information over to a rusty American tow truck named Mater before his capture. He is later filled with Allinol at the lemons' hideout and killed by Professor Zündapp's weapon, a magnetic pulse gun disguised as a TV camera (Allinol explodes when it reacts with a magnetic pulse).

Torque is a visual portmanteau of a Dodge Challenger and a Ford Mustang. His license plate is a Michigan plate (Campbell's home state) and reads "M1911A1", a reference to the handgun used historically by the United States Armed Forces.

Tomber

Tomber (voiced by Michel Michelis) is Finn McMissile's underground informant. Having been saved from a long sentence in a Moroccan impound lot (20 years to life) by McMissile, Tomber has since become an auto-parts dealer. He specializes in rare parts, such as the ones needed to keep a certain Rover V8 going. Mater and Tomber get along from their first meeting, both respecting the other's knowledge of cars and specific parts. Tomber (French for "to tumble") is a Reliant Regal threewheeler, a car notorious for its poor handling and tendency to roll over in even gentle turns. His license plate reads "PCS NO1R". He may be based on Del Boy from Only Fools & Horses

Sir Miles Axlerod

Sir Miles Axlerod (voiced by Eddie Izzard) is a former oil baron who has sold off his fortune after he supposedly converted himself into an electric vehicle and the main antagonist. He was the first car to circumnavigate the globe without any GPS which is similar to explorer, Ferdinand Magellan who circulated the globe. Axlerod created the World Grand Prix to promote his new wonder-fuel, Allinol. Axlerod later reveals that he owns the largest untapped oil reserves in the world. His "alternative fuel" is actually ordinary gasoline engineered to ignite if hit with electromagnetic pulses from weapons disguised as television cameras. Axlerod's plans to use oil for world domination are eventually exposed. Axlerod plans to use Professor Zündapp and the Lemon Cars to kill McQueen in the final race, but the EMP weapon fails to finish him off because Sarge switched McQueen's Allinol for Filmore's organic fuel. As a backup, Axlerod has Zündapp and the lemon cars implant a bomb on Mater's air filter which was not seen in the climax. Mater confronts Axlerod about the conspiracy and forces him to deactivate the bomb with a voice command, proving that he was the one who set it. Axlerod's engine turns out to be the Rover V8 in the photo obtained by McMissile and Shiftwell after Mater opened his front hood (described by Mater and Tomber as "the worst engine ever made"), and he is exposed as a fraud and a liar and is arrested by the British police, wondering how Mater figured out Axlerod was behind the whole scheme.

Axlerod is styled after a first generation Range Rover and has a Rover V8 engine (an abandoned Buick design). Mater remarks after seeing the engine on the spy picture that the owner must be very happy since he has all the spare parts. Those spare parts are labelled "British Weyland", which is a parody on British Leyland, with a "W" instead of an "L" in the logo. British Leyland produced both the Rover V-8 engine and the Range Rover models. His last name, a portmanteau of "axle" and "rod", is a reference to Mr. Izzard's stand-up routine about the invention of the wheel and axle.

Professor Zündapp

Professor Zündapp (voiced by Thomas Kretschmann), often referred to as "Professor Z" (by his henchmen), is an internationally wanted weapons designer who is modelled after a Zündapp Janus 250 and has a broken roof rack that evokes the look of a comb over and the secondary antagonist. Though at first Professor Zündapp appears to be the main villain, he is eventually exposed as a subordinate to Miles Axlerod. Zündapp was responsible for killing Rod “Torque” Redline with a weapon disguised as a camera, where Miles Axelrod's Allinol explodes when hit by a magnetic pulse. He eventually implants a bomb on Mater to kill McQueen to continue on with the plan (because of how McQueen is using Allinol for the final race, although Allinol is called into question by the public) but he is captured by Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell, as his license plate says "BAD GA58". When he was told to deactivate the bomb on Mater, he states that it is voice-activated and it only answers to the person who activated the bomb, which turns out to be Miles Axelrod. Professor Zündapp is then shocked into unconsciousness by Holley. According to Lego.com, it is revealed that his full name is Wolfgang Otto Zundapp.

Professor Zündapp also appears in Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure.

Grem and Acer

Grem (voiced by Joe Mantegna) is a dented, rusty orange AMC Gremlin. Acer (voiced by Peter Jacobson) is a beat-up green AMC Pacer. Both of these “lemon” cars are henchmen for Professor Zündapp, Grem and Acer mistake Mater for an American agent with top-secret information, chasing him around the globe.

In the final fight in London, they are about to intercept Mater and McQueen when diverted forcibly by a flying Holley into a pub called Ye Left Turn Inn where they crash into the bar into a table causing the patrons' drinks to spill all over. Confronted by the very angry patrons, they are last seen being beaten up by the patrons as the tire of one of them was seen flying out.

Tony Trihull

Tony Trihull (voiced by Lloyd Sherr) is a combat ship (modelled after the USS Independence (LCS-2)) who works for Professor Zündapp. He first appears in the beginning when he notices Crabby and Finn in the oil reserve, ordering Crabby to leave. When Crabby refuses, Tony threatens him with a missile battery (based on the RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile). As a result, Crabby leaves but Finn hitches a ride on the back of Tony without him knowing. He later appears again near the end of the film in London when Professor Z tries to escape from being caught by Finn McMissile, yelling for the Professor to hurry and get aboard him. When Finn McMissile stops the Professor, Tony uses a magnetic device pulling the Professor to him. McMissile releases several mini-bombs out of his wheels to cling on to Tony's magnet and makes Tony release the Professor.

Trihull has heavy metal teeth (evidently inspired by the legendary James Bond villain Jaws). His overall design recalls the sharks from the Jaws movies.

Hugo Family

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (voiced by Stanley Townsend) is the head lemon of the Hugo family, being referred to as "the boss" by fellow Hugos. He and his Hugos work with Professor Zündapp. During the film, Victor uses Ivan, a blue tow truck (which Mater masquerades as to infiltrate the lemons' meeting), as his own personal transportation that tows him place to place instead of having to drive on his own. He attends the meeting with the other main heads of the three lemon families (Gremlin, Pacer, Trunkov) in Porto Corsa with Professor Z to discuss their evil plans about discrediting the Allinol by using the radiation disguised camera to crash out the racers in the World Grand Prix that use the gas, and ensure that all cars keep using conventional fuel to secure the profits of their "lemon" organization who managed to secure the largest unexplored oil resources in the world. Near the end of the film, Victor is arrested in London with his fellow lemons.

Victor is modelled after the Yugo car, with some adjustments: the logo V on his front bumper and two separate headlights on each side. He appears to be named after the historical writer Victor Hugo.

Alexander Hugo

Alexander Hugo (voiced by Velibor Topic) is part of the Hugo family that works for Professor Z and Miles Axlerod. He is the only black Hugo in the entire movie to talk, making him and Victor the only Hugo family members that talk. Despite his young age, he does dirty work (like Victor and Ivan) and attends the lemon meeting. He also is one of the lemons attempting to round up Mater so that the bomb would explode, killing both Mater and Lightning. Near the end of the film, Alexander is arrested in London with his fellow lemons.

Ivan

Ivan (voiced by Stanley Townsend) is a blue tow truck who serves as Victor Hugo's mode of transportation, towing him around. He resembles Mater greatly, in fact, Mater disguises as Ivan in order to infiltrate a lemon crime meeting. The real Ivan was previously tazed by Holley. He later awoke and captured Holley and even intercepted Mater before he can warn Lightning McQueen about the truth of Allinol. In the end, he is defeated by Mater and arrested alongside the other lemons. His name is pronounced ee-van instead of eye-van.

Pacer Family

Tubbs Pacer

Tubbs Pacer (voiced by Brad Lewis) is the head lemon of the Pacer family. He and his Pacers work with Professor Zündapp. During the film, Tubbs and the other main heads of the three lemon families (Gremlin, Trunkov, Hugo) attend a meeting with Professor Z in Porto Corsa to discuss their evil plans about discrediting the Allinol by using the radiation disguised camera to crash out the racers in the World Grand Prix that use the gas, and ensure that all cars keep using conventional fuel to secure the profits of their "lemon" organization who managed to secure the largest unexplored oil resources in the world. Tubbs is seen smiling at the idea and cannot wait. Tubbs last name, "Pacer" is the model of his car. During the final fight in London, Tubbs tries to fight against McQueen to kill him, only to be stopped by Mater, who then uses his tow cable to swing Tubbs on the other side of the intersection, where Ramone violently throws in his spray paint on Tubbs. Without hesistation, Pacer and some of the lemons are forced to retreat only to be halted and arrested by the British Army (thanks to a tipoff from Sarge).

Petey Pacer

Petey Pacer is a blue AMC Pacer member of the lemon organization. He can be recognized as one of the cars equipped with flamethrowers who attack Finn McMissile on the oil rigs' helipad.

Trunkov Family

Vladimir Trunkov

Vladimir Trunkov (voiced by Stanley Townsend) is the head lemon of the Trunkov family. He and his Trunkovs work with Professor Zündapp. During the film, Vladimir and the other main heads of the three lemon families (Gremlin, Pacer, Hugo) attend a meeting with Professor Z in Porto Corsa to discuss their evil plans about discrediting the Allinol by using the radiation-disguised camera to crash out the racers in the World Grand Prix that use the gas, and ensure that all cars keep using conventional fuel to secure the profits of their "lemon" organization who managed to secure the largest unexplored oil resources in the world. Vladimir is seen smiling at the idea. Near the end of the film, Vladimir and the lemons surround Mater, McQueen, and the British agents in an intersection, confirming them of the lemons' intent to kill McQueen, saying that it's nothing personal. He is eventually arrested by Sheriff in London when he placed a parking boot on him.

Vladimir is modeled after a ZAZ-968M Zaporozhets car, but with one adjustment—the T logo on his front bumper, which stands for his last name.

Tolga Trunkov

Tolga is a black Trunkov that helps Vladimir Trunkov by protecting him, but it does not know who he is in the movie because there are several otherblack Trunkovs.

Petrov Trunkov

Petrov Trunkov is a light green Trunkov who is not actually seen in the movie.

Gremlin Family

J. Curby Gremlin

J. Curby Gremlin (voiced by John Mainieri) is the head lemon of the Gremlin family. He originates from Detroit, as he states it when he introduces himself to the other lemons. He and his Gremlins work with Professor Zündapp. J. Curby, along with the other main heads of the three lemon families (Pacer, Trunkov, Hugo), attend a meeting with Professor Z in Porto Corsa to discuss their evil plans about discrediting the Allinol by using the radiation disguised camera to crash out the racers in the World Grand Prix that use the gas, and ensure that all cars keep using conventional fuel to secure the profits of their "lemon" organization who managed to secure the largest unexplored oil resources in the world. J. Curby is seen smiling at the idea. Near the end of the film, J. Curby is sprayed by Red from behind, being thrown in the air. He is arrested in London with fellow lemons. J. Curby's last name is the make of his model.

World Grand Prix Racers

Francesco Bernoulli

Francesco Bernoulli #1 (voiced by John Turturro) is an international Formula Racer champion who grew up alongside the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza (in real life, last raced in 1967) and his own biggest fan. Francesco often refers to himself in the third person. He resembles a modern Formula One car and is painted to match the Italian flag. He is often miscalled Mr. San Francisco by Mater.

Bernoulli is first seen on the Mel Dorado Show when Sir Miles Axlerod introduces Allinol and the World Grand Prix. He makes fun of Lightning McQueen and talk to Mater when he calls into the show. When he begins to make fun of Mater, Lighting McQueen takes the phone and agrees to race when Axlerod says that the squabble is, "something that needs to be settled on the race course."

Lightning loses the first race to him in Japan when Mater accidentally gives him bad racing advice, but he is able to win the second race to him. Because the winner of the World Grand Prix was undetermined, they race in the Radiator Springs Grand Prix, where their rivalry slightly changes.

He is often surprised by the strange happenings involving Mater, Finn, and Holly on the race course (in England and in Radiator Springs).

Francesco Bernoulli appears in Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure.

Francesco Bernoulli is a playable character in Disney Infinity.

Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton, who shares his name with his voice actor, the 2008 and 2014 Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton, is a British/Grenadan race car whose design bears strong resemblance to the McLaren MP4-12C. He is a World Sports Touring Champion and is the #2 contender in the World Grand Prix and represents Great Britain and Grenada.

Jeff Gorvette

Jeff Gorvette, voiced by three-time Daytona 500 winner Jeff Gordon, is an American Corvette C6.R and the #24 race car of the World Grand Prix. His name is a pun on his voice actor and his car model, and his car number is the same one borne by Gordon's racecar in the Sprint Cup Series. Jeff Gorvette, just as Gordon did in real life, moved from his hometown of Vallejo, California to Indiana to be closer to the racing world. Gorvette #24's crew chief is John Lassetire, a big yellow American Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck and an obvious reference to his voice cameo actor, Pixar director John Lasseter.^[29]

The character does not appear in international versions of Cars 2. In two scenes (one where Lightning meets him at the party in Tokyo, and another when that scene appears in Mater's nightmare), Gorvette is replaced by a completely different character, voiced by a regionally better known racer than Jeff Gordon. Most of them share the body shape with Max Schnell and the least of them share after the body of Miguel Camino:

• Mark Winterbottom as Frosty (Australian release)^[30][31]
• Fernando Alonso as Fernando Alonso (Spanish release)
• Vitaly Petrov as Vitaly Petrov (Russian release)
• Jan Nilsson as Flash (Swedish release)^[32]
• Unknown as Long Ge (Chinese release)
• Memo Rojas as Memo Rojas, Jr. (Mexican release)
• Sebastian Vettel as Sebastian Schnell (German release)
• Claudia Leitte as Carla Veloso (Brazilian release)^[33]
• Unknown as Raoul ÇaRoule (French release)

Nigel Gearsley

Nigel Gearsley (voiced by Greg Ellis) is a racer in the World Grand Prix. He is an Aston Martin DBR9, and races as #9. He finished in 5th place in the Tokyo Grand Prix, but is one of the cars whose engine explodes in Italy. He recovers in time to race in the London Grand Prix and the celebrity race at Radiator Springs. His name is a reference to Sir Nigel Gresley, designer of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) A4, the fastest steam locomotive class in the world.

Shu Todoroki

Shu Todoroki #7 (voiced by Erik Passoja), a prototype racer resembling the Lola B08/60, represents Japan. His coach, a Mazda 787B, was the only Japanese winner at Le Mans. His crew chief, a Nissan Fairlady Z named Mach Matsuo, is one of the most popular Japanese sports cars of all time. Todoroki is one of the racers whose engine explodes, in spite of the allinol fuel.

Miguel Camino

Pamplona’s Miguel Camino #5, painted to match the Spanish flag, gained fame as a toreador in the Running of the Bulldozers before joining the Grand Touring Sport racing circuit. Though he somewhat resembles a Ferrari 458 Italia, his name is an obvious play on the Chevrolet El Camino.

Max Schnell

Max Schnell #4, voiced by James Rankin, originally a production sedan from Stuttgart, increased his horsepower and converted to carbon fibre to refine his build and drop his weight. His overall design and back story is a nod to Germany's DTM series, and his name is a play on the German phrase "mach schnell" which means to 'do quickly'.

Carla Veloso

Carla Veloso #8 (voiced by Jossara Jinaro), a prototype racer and the only female competitor in the World Grand Prix, represents Brazil, where she has been known to dance the night away at the famous "CAR-nival". She is seen in all three races and also in the one at Radiator Springs. Carla has no lines in most versions of Cars 2; however, in the Brazilian version of the film she replaces Jeff Gorvette in his dialogue scenes, being voiced by Brazilian singer Claudia Leitte in the Brazilian version.

Raoul ÇaRoule

Dubbed the "World's Greatest Rally Car", Raoul ÇaRoule #06 (voiced by Jerome Dalton) comes from Alsace, France, where he once joined the famous "Cirque du Voiture" French circus. Raoul is most likely based on French rally driver and nine-time WRC winner Sébastien Loeb, with whom he shares the similar backstory and car design.He resembles a Citroen C4 WRC.

Rip Clutchgoneski

Rip Clutchgoneski #10, described as the rookie of the World Grand Prix, represents the Republic of New Rearendia (thus being the only competitor in the film representing a fictional country). Rip's design is reminiscent of Formula One-like production cars, such as the Caparo T1 and the Hulme F1.

Other Cars

Diasu Tsashimi

Diasu Tsashimi, played by Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi, is the name of the forklift who serves Mater wasabi, when Mater mistook it for delicious pistachio ice cream.

Mama Topolino

Mama Topolino (voiced by Vanessa Redgrave) is Luigi's aunt. She resembles a 1950s Renault (or maybe Alfa Romeo) Dauphine.

Uncle Topolino

Uncle Topolino (voiced by Franco Nero) is Luigi's uncle. He is a Fiat 500 "Topolino" from 1948 or earlier ("Topolino", which translates as "Little Mouse", is Mickey Mouse's Italian name). The cover on his top resembles a hair style, similar to Luigi's.

Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II (voiced by Vanessa Redgrave) is a classic Rolls Royce Phantom car watching the race from Buckingham Palace. She knights Mater for his bravery in foiling Axlerod's plot. Her roof racks are made to look like a crown.

Prince Wheeliam

Prince Wheeliam, the grandson of the Queen of the United Kingdom, is based on Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. He is a Bentley Continental GT and a fan of Britain's Lewis Hamilton and Nigel Gearsley.

Signora Bernoulli

Signora Bernoulli is Francesco's mother. She is seen at the Porto Corsa race cheering her son on. She is an 1960s era Formula One race car and, as evidenced by her number, his biggest fan other than himself.

Mel Dorado

Mel Dorado (voiced by Patrick Walker) Is the host of the "Mel Dorado Show" where he interviews Miles Axlerod and Francesco Bernoulli. Mater calls the show and eventually gets McQueen into the World Grand Prix. As his name indicates he is a Cadillac Eldorado. As evidenced by his glasses and smile, he is loosely based on Larry King.

The Popemobile

The Popemobile is only seen at the Italian World Grand Prix Race - interestingly, he is seen inside a bulletproof "popemobile" for his personal protection. He is among the many fans in the stands. The Popemobile is referred to earlier in the film when Mater asks, "Is the Popemobile Catholic?" He has no lines in the film.

Black-hatted priests can be seen next to the Popemobile while he sits in the stands at Porta Corsa for the second race in the World Grand Prix. Small Isetta forklifts, similar the Guido character, are seen in white cassocks and red hats waving incense into the air.

World Grand Prix Announcers

Brent Mustangburger

Brent Mustangburger, a 1964 Ford Mustang in traditional racing blue, is based on ESPN/ABC sportscaster Brent Musburger, who provides the character's voice.^[34] He re-appears in the spin-off film Planes.

David Hobbscap

David Hobbscap, a British racing green 1963 Jaguar Coombs Lightweight E-Type, is a former champion from 24 Heures du Mans turned television sportscaster.^[35] His character is based on the real life former British racing driver and current NBC Sports commentator David Hobbs, who provides the character's voice. Jacques Villeneuve voices the character in the French and Quebec versions of Cars 2. He joins Mustangburger and Darrell Cartrip.

Crabby the Boat

Crabby the Boat (voiced by Sig Hansen) is a fishing vessel that is based on the F/V Northwestern, a boat captained by Hansen and featured in the American reality TV series Deadliest Catch. Crabby is painted and designed like the Northwestern. He is seen in the beginning of the film with Finn McMissile aboard him. Finn has paid Crabby to bring him to a certain location in the ocean so he can look for a car, a request that greatly puzzles Crabby. Once they reach the spot, Tony Trihull (see below) intercepts Crabby and threatens him with a missile launcher, forcing him to turn back. Crabby apologizes to Finn as he heads home, not knowing that Finn has already slipped off board and hitched onto Tony to continue his mission.

Zil

Zil was to be the main villain, leader of the lemons, in a first draft of the plot. He was removed from the story in early 2010, following major changes in the film's plot.^[36] His design is based on the 1951 ZIL 112/1, a race car made in the Soviet Union that performed poorly.

Cars Toons

These are characters that only appear in the Cars Toons shorts, chiefly Mater's Tall Tales. Mia and Tia have minor roles in most shorts.

Rescue Squad Mater

• Rescue Squad Choppers -
• Rescue Squad Trooper -
• Rescue Squad Ambulance - (voiced by Taborah Johnson)
• Orderly Pitties - Male nurse pitties who assist the doctors in the hospital.
• Nurse GTO - The head nurse, a yellow Pontiac GTO, who assists Dr. Mater in repairing an overheating Lightning McQueen. At the end of the short, when McQueen refuses to believe Mater saved his life, she passes by them, which somewhat shocks McQueen, leaving him to wonder if the events were actually real.

Mater the Greater

• Buck the Tooth Vendor - A hawker selling faux plastic buck teeth at the arena where Mater the Greater is performing.
• Lug and Nutty - The two pitties which assist Mater the Greater in his various daredevil acts. Their names together is a play on lug nut, a fastener used to secure wheels on a vehicle. Like Mater, they have buck teeth. At the end of the short, when Mater leaves the scene, they come in to clean up the cans Mater landed in at the start of the short.

El Materdor

• Chuy - An angry yellow bulldozer who is the first bulldozer that El Materdor (Mater as a bull-fighter) faces in the bull-ring. When El Materdor receives applause for defeating Chuy, the bulldozer hits him back, seemingly burying the tow truck in the dirt and giving the vehicles in attendance the impression that Chuy has killed El Materdor. When El Materdor re-emerges, Chuy brings in reinforcements in the form two more bulldozers, which later becomes a dozen.
• Padre - A Hispanic priest watching El Materdor's performance and is highly enjoying the bull fight. He also gives a funeral speech when El Materdor was supposedly buried alive.

(U.F.M.) Unidentified Flying Mater

• Mator - A small white UFO with large goo goo eyes, buck teeth identical to Mater and a highly robotic voice. As the story progressses, Mator takes part in various activities with Mater (such as tractor-tipping) until he is abducted by the military and taken to Parking Area 51. He later escapes the lab where he is kept captive (with Mater's help) and is rescued by his mother
• Mator's Mother - A colossal UFO who rescues Mater and Mator while they escape the secret facility. She says nothing, quickly rescues Mater, McQueen and Mator, flies back to Radiator Springs and drops McQueen and Mater off. Simply referred to by Mater as Miss UFO, the nickname may be a play on words of mothership.
• Dr. Abschlepp Wagen - A German doctor working at the top-secret Government Research laboratory which abducts Mator for examination. Mater (poorly disguised as the doctor) enters the hangar where Mator is being held for Dr. Wagen to examine (Dr. Wagen was summoned by a pitty to find out what "Dad Gum", which Mator had learned from Mater, meant). Dr. Wagen, though not seen, is possibly a tow truck ("Abschleppwagen" is the German word for tow truck) with design inspired by the Volkswagen Beetle.

Tokyo Mater

• Kabuto (voiced by Mach Tony Kobayashi) challenges Mater to a drift race (when the tow truck gently bumped into him). In the end, he loses to Mater and is reduced to a "stock" car. With his modifications, he resembles Boost. Kabuto is inspired by a Nissan Silvia (particularly as "stock"). He later makes a cameo in Cars 2.
• Ito-San (voiced by Robert Ito) - Ito-san is a Toyota Century who breaks down in Radiator Springs, and upon Mater's friendly assistance gets towed (by Mater) all the way through the Pacific Ocean, to Tokyo. He also suggests to Mater about getting modified for the drift race and even explains the rules of the race to the two racers.
• Teki and Paki - Two Japanese pitties who fit Mater with modifications for his race with Kabuto. They are the only pitties in the Tall Tales who resemble Guido.
• Komodo and Yokoza - Two modified cars who resemble Wingo and DJ respectively.
• Patokaa - A Japanese police car who chases Mater after he nearly crashes into several cars. Patokaa later leaves Mater after following him to a donut disco club (of which he is an ardent fan).

Monster Truck Mater

• Referee Pitty - A white pitty who is refereeing the Monster Truck Wrestling matches.
• Biggest Fan - A minivan who is a die-hard fan of the Tormentor (as Mater's monster-truck avatar is called). He was initially a die-hard fan of the I-Screamer until he was defeated by Mater. At the end of the short, when McQueen refuses to believe Mater's story, the fan arrives in Radiator Springs and gets Mater's autograph (a tire mark) stamped on his side, claiming that he will never wash himself ever again.
• I-Screamer - The I-Screamer is an ice cream monster truck who was Mater's opponent in the tow truck's qualifying match (quoting "I'm gonna make you SCREAM!"). He was defeated when Mater poorly disguised himself as a child and asked for a double dipped, dipstick sundae and when I-Screamer's back was turned, Mater used his tow hook to flip him over. To add insult to injury, Mater sprayed the entire contents of a fire extinguisher onto him, and topped it off with the empty extinguisher.
• Captain Collision - A militaristic monster truck modelled on the Hummer H2. Ironically, he ordered Tormentor to "Drop and give me 20!" when Tormentor "gave him 3" by launching himself from the ropes and flipping Collision over.
• Rasta Carian - A Jamaican Rastafarian (as his name suggests) monster-truck with long, beaded hair. He tries to crush Tormentor using his signature dread lock (pulling using his hair: "Me be jammin' now, mon!") but is quickly flipped and defeated by Tormentor (who had ripped Rasta Carian's hair off in the process, asking the audience while wearing it "Who be jammin' now?", to which the audience replies "You be jammin' now!").
• Dr. Feel Bad - An ambulance monster truck who threatens Tormentor with packing the tow truck off to hospital ("Your next stop is the hospital!"); ironically, a sneaky slingshot from the ropes by Tormentor sends Feel Bad flying out of the arena and crashing into the hospital opposite the arena, into the Emergency room through the windows.
• Paddy O'Concrete - An Irish concrete mixer monster truck who attempts to pour liquid concrete over Tormentor ("Here comes a nice, fresh pour!"), but the tow truck diverts the flow towards Paddy himself; the end result is Paddy entombing himself in a huge concrete cube (with Tormentor on the top as the champion).
• Dr. Frankenwagon - A tiny little German van and the World Champion of the Monster Truck Wrestling federation, whose Monster (a combination of parts from construction vehicles, similar to the Banshee) is pitted against a tag-team made of Tormentor and McQueen (misheard by the Referee Pitty as Frightening McMean). He is a spoof of Dr. Victor Frankenstein.

Heavy Metal Mater

• Dex - A red version of Tex who is the CEO of Dinoco Records and suggests the name change to Mater's garage band.
• Eddie & Rocky - Pitty guitarists of Heavy Metal Mater. Before the change to Heavy Metal Mater, Eddie and Rocky were orange and green respectively. Unlike most forklifts, their forks appear to have been modified to allow them to play guitars.
• Drummer Pitty - A forklift drummer of Heavy Metal Mater. He was yellow before the change to Heavy Metal Mater. Again, his forks have been modified to allow him to play the drums. He was also responsible for the band's heavy metal style by accident because he went crazy on the drums while trying to kill a fly during a recording session.

Moon Mater

• Roger - A space shuttle who carries Mater to the moon (Roger is also very enthusiastic about his flights, saying "Let's burn this candle!" before launch). In the end, when McQueen refuses to believe Mater's tale, Roger himself is sent by the Command Centre in Houston to fetch Mater from Radiator Springs for another space mission. Roger is based on NASA's Space Shuttle orbiter and his name, "Roger" is actually the word used during communication by the NASA with the astronauts to tell them that their comments or actions have been understood.
• Impala XIII - A white-and-blue Chevrolet Impala astronaut who gets his rear tires stuck in a large crater while exploring the Moon. In a frenzy to rescue him, the Command Centre at Houston frantically searches for someone to tow Impala, when they notice Mater nearby, pulling a broken-down car. Name is based on the Apollo 13 incident.

Mater Private Eye

• Big D (voiced by Fred Dalton Thompson) - A rich, 1930s style roadster who runs a night club and kidnaps Mia. He is also the mastermind of a conterfeit tire ring involving the production of fake Lightyear tires (they're labeled as "Lite Yeer") that easily cause blowouts. Big D's design is inspired by the 1930 Bentley 8 Litre.
• Clyde and Claude - Big D's henchmen forklifts. Clyde is a normal-sized forklift whereas Claude is far too large for being a forklift. Claude's arms allow him to pick up smaller vehicles, and Clyde's left arm appears to be modified to take headlights out of cars. They are seen taking Mater out of the Carbacabana, when Clyde takes out Mater's right headlight and later near the end of the short, where Claude is seen carrying Mia.
• Carmen - A Spanish singer who performs at the Carbacabana, a yellow-painted version of Flo. At the end of the short, when McQueen refuses to believe Mater's story, she and her mariachi pitties pass by and Mater follows them. She wears a fruit hat, bearing a resemblance to Carmen Miranda.
• Stinky - A garbage truck who acts as an informant for Mater, and gives him the clue that leads Mater to the docks where Big D and his henchmen have held Mia captive.

Air Mater

• The Falcon Hawks - A group of stunt planes, similar to the Red Arrows. Their names appear to be based on their individual eye colors ("Green Hawk", "Red Hawk", etc.). At the end of the short, when McQueen refuses to believe Mater's story, Mater receives word that the Falcon Hawks are down one plane and they pick him up from Radiator Springs.
• Skipper (voiced by Stacy Keach) - A character from Planes, he teaches Mater how to fly. He is based on a Chance-Vought F4 Corsair.
• Sparky (voiced by Danny Mann) - Skipper's pittie mechanic/assistant. Yellow and white color and brown eye color in the short, but gray color and blue eye color in Planes.
• Judge Davis (voiced by Jonathan Adams) - The judge of the annual air show in Propwash Junction. He is based on a North American P-51 Mustang. He also makes a brief cameo in Planes.

Planes

Planes: Fire & Rescue

References

External links

• Disney World of Cars Official Site

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