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** Why did parts of Axlerod's already cliched backstory of "businessman gains more respect for the natural world after getting stranded in a rainforest or some other untouched place" sound fabricated? Because ''they actually were''.
** Why did parts of Axlerod's already cliched backstory of "businessman gains more respect for the natural world after getting stranded in a rainforest or some other untouched place" sound fabricated? Because ''they actually were''.
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: [http://rwarn17588.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/lawsuit-seeks-to-prevent-release-of-cars-2/ Those potshots taken at the first film for being unoriginal now officially fall into] [[Dude, Not Funny]] territory.
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: [http://rwarn17588.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/lawsuit-seeks-to-prevent-release-of-cars-2/ Those potshots taken at the first film for being unoriginal now officially fall into] [[Dude, Not Funny]] territory.
* [[Genius Bonus]]: Francesco Bernoulli is named after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_effect air-flow physics] that is used by [[Formula One]] cars' characteristic wings to obtain [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downforce downforce].
* [[Genius Bonus]]: Francesco Bernoulli is named after the [[wikipedia:Bernoulli effect|air-flow physics]] that is used by [[Formula One]] cars' characteristic wings to obtain [[wikipedia:Downforce|downforce]].
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: Connect Doc's "they quit on me" speech with the fact that this was one of Paul Newman's last major roles.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: Connect Doc's "they quit on me" speech with the fact that this was one of Paul Newman's last major roles.
** Narrowly averted in ''Cars 2'': The weakness/trigger of the new fuel was supposed to be radiation but after the nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan they changed it to radio waves (as of John Lasseter's "Day in the Life" documentary).
** Narrowly averted in ''Cars 2'': The weakness/trigger of the new fuel was supposed to be radiation but after the nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan they changed it to radio waves (as of John Lasseter's "Day in the Life" documentary).
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