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Memorable Movie Quotes
Lightning McQueen: Okay. Here we go. Focus. Speed. I am speed. One winner. 42 losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast? Brekkie could be good for me. No no no. Focus. Speed. Faster than fast, quicker than quick. I am Lightning.
Lightning McQueen: Wow, this organic fuel is great! Why haven't I heard about it before?
Filmore: It's a conspiracy, man! The oil companies got a grip on the government. They're feeding us a bunch of lies, man!
Mater: Tractors is so dumb.
Mater: Ain't no need to watch where I'm goin', just need to know where I've been.
Trivia
The music that opens the teaser trailer of this movie is the main theme to A Bug's Life.
The film's animators drew up over 43,000 sketches for designs of the cars.
Mia and Tia are modeled after the first-generation Mazda MX-5 Miata.
Instead of making the cars' headlights the eyes, as is done on most cartoons, the Pixar artists decided to put the eyes up on the windshield, because that made the characters more expressive. This idea was largely influenced by the Disney cartoon Susie the Little Blue Coupe (1952), one of director John Lasseter's favorite cartoons.
Flo isn't based on any single car but shares elements of the 1951 Buick LeSabre, the 1951 Buick XP-300, and the 1957 Chrysler Dart - all actual show cars.
The neon lights on Flo's V8 Cafe in the movie flash in the proper firing order for a Ford flathead V8.
The number on the train that Lightning out runs is A113, a reference to California Institute of the Arts, where many Pixar animators studied.
The character Lightning McQueen is a reference to Glenn McQueen, a Pixar animator who died in 2002.
If you look closely at one of the racing cars, it's white, has the Apple logo, and the number is 84. 1984 was the year Apple released the Macintosh, the computer that revolutionized Apple as a company. Pixar was previously owned by Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple.
Among the cities closed for race day is the city of Emeryville, California, the home of Pixar.
WILHELM SCREAM: Used by one of the cars in Lightning's dream sequence.
The fictional town of Radiator Springs was inspired by several real life locations along historic Route 66. In 2001, a creative team from Pixar, including directors John Lasseter and Joe Ranft, toured parts of Route 66 in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Their guide along the way was author and Route 66 historian Michael Wallis. Wallis went on to provide the voice of the Sheriff car in the film.
Though not credited as such, Michael Keaton is the voice of the security guard who yells "Hey, no press!" during the instant replay sequence after the first race.
Fillmore, the VW Microbus voiced by George Carlin, has license plate '51237'. This is Carlin's birth date; May 12, 1937. It's entirely coincidental, but 51237 is also the ZIP code for George, Iowa.
When Lighting McQueen finally gets pulled over by the sheriff after destroying the road, the Sheriff says, "You're in a heap o' trouble, boy." This is a direct reference to Dodge commercials featuring Joe Higgins as the sheriff which aired in the early 70's.
Dinoco, the big sponsor Lightning McQueen is chasing after in Cars, is also the gas station Buzz Lightyear and Woody are stranded at in Toy Story.
The red-and-white metal-flake paint job that Ramon does for McQueen duplicates that of the Corvette used in the television series "Route 66"
The voice of Lightning McQueen's agent Harv, is provided by Jeremy Piven who also plays Vincent Chase's agent in the TV-series "Entourage" (2004). The UK release used the outspoken Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson as the voice of Harv.
The character "Mack", Lightning McQueen's transport driver, is based on a Mack Superliner semi-truck.
The King is a 1970 Plymouth Superbird, one of Richard Petty's most famous rides. The Superbird was created to get him back into a Plymouth for the 1970 racing season and Petty himself provides the voice. The King's paint scheme is exactly as King Richard's was in the 1970 NASCAR season.
The character of Fillmore, voiced by George Carlin, is a version of Al Sleet, the hippie-dippy weatherman, a popular skit that Carlin performed in the 60's and 70's.
Even with a farm of computers that ran four times faster than the ones on The Incredibles (2004) each frame of Cars (2006) took an average of 17 processor hours to render.
'John Lasseter ' came out with the premise of the story after his soul-searching trip in 2000 along Route 66.
If you look at any sky scenes, all the jet contrails are tire marks.
The design of "Los Angeles International Speedway" is based on 3 venues located in southern California. The outer facade is similar to the LA Memorial Coliseum, the speedway's seating bowl and interior architecture is much like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, and the track layout is reminiscent of California Speedway in Fontana.
The make of the white wall tires Lightning McQueen gets from Guido and Luigi is "Fettuccini Alfredo."
The King's wife is voiced by Lynda Petty, who is Richard Petty's real-life wife. Mrs. "The King" is a 1974 Chrysler Town and Country station wagon, modeled after the car in which the Pettys drove themselves and their children to the races during the 1970s.
In The Credits
The credits contain a dedication and retrospective of characters voiced by
Joe Ranft, a Pixar writer who died in 2005.
At the end, the couple that were looking for directions to the Interstate,
end up all dusty and still looking for the Interstate.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget $120,000,000
Opening Weekend $60,119,509
Gross $244,052,771