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A series of computer-animated films from [[Pixar]] and directed by John Lasseter, who also directed the first two ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' movies and ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]''. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|True to the title]], the stories take place in a world entirely populated by anthropomorphic cars and other vehicles -- aside from plants, there are no organic life-forms of any sort. Just about everything else is reinterpreted into automotive counterparts, such as insects becoming [[Stealth Pun|Volkswagen Beetles]] and rock formations in the shape of car bodies.
Not to be confused with the song by Gary Numan, or [[The Cars|Ric Ocasek's band]].
* ''[[Cars 2]]'' (2011)
* ''[[Cars 3]]'' (2017)
[[Pixar]] has also produced a number of ''Cars''-related shorts, such as "Mater and the Ghostlight" (included with the ''Cars'' DVD release) and the "Mater's Tall Tale" series. More information about these can be found on the [[Pixar Shorts]] page.
DisneyToon Studios
[[Cars (franchise)/Characters|The Character Sheet can be found here]].
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* [[Animate Inanimate Object]]: Every. Single. Character.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_beJRyq4a0 This State Farm commercial] features toy cars, airplanes, and trains as the world's equivalent of pets.
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* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Lightning McQueen for starters. The other racecars are no slouches in the naming department either.
* [[The Big Race]]
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: McQueen loses the race and Chick quits his job as Piston Cup racer. Doc lets McQueen, the King, and his wife stay at Radiator Springs.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Guido (voiced by Guido Quaroni) ''only'' speaks in (correct) Italian.
** The second movie takes this [[Up to Eleven]] as the action goes to Japan, France and Italy.
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* [[Punny Name]]: Done with many of the characters names, like Jay Limo, Darryl Cartrip, Jeff Gorvette, David Hobbscap, and Brent Mustangburger.
** Befitting its globetrotter plot, the sequel expands the puns to places and things, such as Petrodilly Circus and Big Bentley in London, the Republic of Rearendia, and the Running of the Bulldozers in Pamplona.
* [[Real Place Allusion]]: "Radiator Springs", since Michael Wallis, an Oklahoma historian, led Pixar's crew on research trips over a 1200-mile stretch of the former US Route 66 through many little places from Baxter Springs, Kansas to Peach Springs, Arizona before they created their cartoon caricature village as a [https://www.route66news.com/2006/06/09/a-route-66-guide-to-cars-movie/ composite of multiple real places]. The fictional town's location (in the map in the flashback) matches Peach Springs, but there are so many references to individual landmarks, people and businesses in every town along the way that [https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Radiator_Springs Wikivoyage makes an entire itinerary of this].
** "Ornament Valley" is Monument Valley in northern Arizona – the same iconic scenery often seen in historic Westerns.
** The "Motor Speedway of the South" is a larger-than-life version of a NASCAR track in Bristol, Tennessee.
* [[Real Place Background]]: Pixar made multiple research trips to the former US Route 66 from Baxter Springs KS through Peach Springs AZ before creating [[wikivoyage:Radiator Springs|Radiator Springs]].<!-- A route66news.com post from 2006 is "the" master list, there's a list of people Pixar visited in the film's closing credits and a few local news articles. Wikivoyage retraces this trip as east->west itinerary, visiting real places caricatured in the film.--> "Ornament Valley" uses Monument Valley AZ scenery, for example, and Pixar visited multiple real NASCAR tracks as research for the film. The map of [[wikipedia:Radiator Springs|Radiator Springs]] in the flashback uses [[wikivoyage:Peach Springs|Peach Springs]]' location.
* [[Running Gag]]: This film seems awfully fond of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|butt jokes]]. To wit:
** Lizzie slaps a sticker on the bumper of a couple passing through that reads "[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Nice Butte!]]"
** Mater places his towing hook in a rather uncomfortable spot when he tows Lightning away.
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** Ramone flashes his undercarriage Von Dutch-style pinstriping at the lost tourists.
** Not to mention where Sally keeps her [[Embarrassing Tattoo]].
** The fuel pumps in the forecourt of the "Wheel Well Motel" bear the wordmark "Butte Gas" in the logo.
** Rip Clutchgoneski, one of the racecars from the sequel, hails from the [[Ruritania|Republic of New Rearendia]].
* [[Scenery Porn]]: It ''is'' a Pixar work.
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* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Mater is one, as evident in his "Tall Tales" shorts. This becomes a plot point for ''Cars 2''.
* [[World of Funny Animals]]: A rare non-animal example.
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[[Category:The Millennium Age of Animation]]
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