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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]].
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'''Mater, Ramone, Flo, Luigi, Sarge, Fillmore:''' Hi, Sally!
'''Sally:''' All right, what's going on? }}
* [[Actor Allusion]]: During the [[Credits Montage]], Mack (voiced by John Ratzenberger) is watching ''Cars''-universe versions of Pixar movies, and initially praises the voice actor for [[Toy Story (franchise)||Hamm Truck]] and [[Monsters, Inc.|the Abominable Snowplow]] [[But He Sounds Handsome|(John Ratzenberger)]] ... but by the time ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]'' rolls around, he [[Lampshade Hanging|realizes they're just reusing the same voice actor]] and [[Self-Deprecation|criticizes them for it]].
** The King is voiced by Richard Petty, and is also modelled and painted after Petty's 1970 Plymouth Superbird. He is described as having won seven Piston Cups - which is also the number of Winston Cup Championships that Petty won in his racing career (he is also the only seven time winner of the Daytona 500). And his wreck at the end of the film appears to be nod back to Petty's wreck in the 1988 Daytona 500.
** In the US version, Jeremy Piven is the voice of McQueen's agent Harv. Piven is known for his role as Hollywood superagent Ari Gold on the HBO series [[Entourage]]. Meanwhile, the UK version uses [[Jeremy Clarkson]], known for his part in the [[BBC]] series ''[[Top Gear]]''.
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* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Mater's "Holy shoot!"
* [[Hanging Judge]]: Doc Hudson if his opening speech is anything to go by.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Lampshaded in the credits - John Ratzenberger, who's been in every single Pixar film to date, plays Mack. During the end credits, Mack goes to a drive-in featuring car versions of ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'', ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'', and ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]''. Mack [[But He Sounds Handsome|praises the John Ratzenberger characters]] at first, until he realizes...
{{quote|'''Mack:''' [[Hypocritical Humor|Wait a minute here... they're just using the same actor over and over! What kind of a cut-rate production is this?!]]}}
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: The King. Though he was one of Lightning's opponents, The King treats him fairly and respectfully.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Like every Pixar movie, it contains references to other Pixar films (both short and feature-length).
** The name McQueen itself is a reference to Glenn McQueen, a senior animator on early Pixar films who died of cancer in 2002; Lightning is named as a tribute. The [[Pixar]] staff takes pains to point out that it wasn't, as is commonly thought, a reference to Steve McQueen, he of the [[Bullitt|famous car chases]].
** Lightning himself uses [[Toy Story (franchise)||Lightyear Buzzard]] brand tires, and the Lightyear blimp can be seen at races. This one is a twofer: a hark back to Buzz Lightyear and an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] on Goodyear Eagle tires. Additionally, the Dinoco brand is the name of the gas station Woody and Buzz get stuck at. And Lightning's number, #95, is a reference to the year ''Toy Story'' was released.
** Can't forget the Drive-In scene. I sure wonder how ''Toy Car Story'', ''Monster Trucks, Inc.'' and ''A Bug's Life'' were received by car critics.
** One of the Piston Cup racers, Mac iCar, is sponsored by [[Apple Macintosh]]. The late Apple CEO Steve Jobs was also one of the founders of [[Pixar]]. May also count as [[Product Placement]].
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* [[Parodic Table of the Elements]]: The Automotive Table of the Elements.
* [[The Pollyanna]]: Mater.
* [[The Power of Trust]]
* [[Product Placement]]: Mater sings the State Farm Insurance jingle when making a joke about Finn and Holly being "agents" (alluding to "insurance agents", not "secret agents") a few scenes after he meets them. The film has major tie-ins with State Farm, and Pixar even animated an entire commercial featuring an anthropomorphic State Farm vehicle voiced by their regular ad announcer.
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Sarge, {{spoiler|1=who saves McQueen's life by secretly swapping out his sabotaged Allinol fuel with Fillmore's organic biofuel, because he's naturally distrustful of oil companies.}}
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[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
[[Category:Sports Stories]]
[[Category:Cars]]▼
[[Category:Western Animation]]
[[Category:Pixar]]
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