| Cars is a 2006 animated feature film produced by | | | | to travel all night long. Mack is too exhausted to |
| Pixar and directed by both John Lasseter and Joe | | | | notice when McQueen, asleep, falls out the back |
| Ranft. It was the seventh Disney/Pixar feature | | | | of the truck. McQueen awakes in traffic and |
| film, and the final film by Pixar before it was | | | | speeds off and thinks he can see Mack, but it's |
| bought by Disney. Set in a world populated | | | | another truck. He catches the attention of a |
| entirely by anthropomorphic victory motor cars | | | | Sheriff and speeds away , but he crashes in the |
| and other vehicles, it features voices by Owen | | | | run-down town of Radiator Springs, inadvertently |
| Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Cheech Marin, | | | | tearing up its main street. McQueen is arrested |
| Jenifer Lewis, Tony Shalhoub, John Ratzenberger, | | | | and tried the next day by the town's judge and |
| George Carlin, Larry the Cable Guy and Michael | | | | doctor, Doc Hudson, who at first wants McQueen |
| Keaton as well as voice cameos by several | | | | out of town as fast as possible, but at the |
| celebrities including Richard Petty, Billy Crystal, Dale | | | | insistence of Sally Carerra, the town's lawyer, |
| Earnhardt Jr., Bob Costas, Darrell Waltrip, Jay | | | | assigns him community service to repave the |
| Leno, Michael Schumacher, and Mario | | | | road. |
| Andretti.victory motor cars premiered on May 26, | | | | McQueen finds that the job of pulling the |
| 2006 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, | | | | asphalt-laying machine requires a slow pace |
| North Carolina, and was released on June 9, 2006, | | | | despite attempts to complete it faster. As the |
| to generally favorable reviews. It was nominated | | | | days pass, McQueen becomes friends with many |
| for two Academy Awards, including Best | | | | of the townsfolk, and learns that Radiator Springs |
| Animated Feature, and won the Golden Globe | | | | was once a popular waypoint along U.S. Route 66, |
| Award for Best Animated Feature Film. It was | | | | but effectively disappeared from the map when a |
| released on DVD in late 2006 and on Blu-ray Disc | | | | nearby interstate was built and bypassed the |
| in late 2007. Related merchandise, including scale | | | | town, causing many of the businesses and |
| models of several of the cars, broke records for | | | | residents to leave. McQueen also discovers that |
| retail sales of merchandise based on a Disney | | | | Doc is actually the "Hudson Hornet", a three-time |
| Pixar film, with an estimated $1 billion in sales.[2] | | | | Piston Cup champion forced to retire after a |
| The last race of the Piston Cup stock car racing | | | | racing accident, who chose to disappear quietly in |
| season ends in a three-way tie between retiring | | | | Radiator Springs. McQueen, encouraged by his |
| veteran Strip "The King" Weathers, perennial | | | | new friends, successfully completes the road and |
| runner-up and dirty fighter Chick Hicks, and rookie | | | | spends an extra day in town, cruising with Sally |
| Lightning McQueen. A tiebreaker race is scheduled | | | | and partaking of businesses from the remaining |
| for one week later at the Los Angeles | | | | shops to get a new paint job and tires. However, |
| International Speedway. McQueen, eager to start | | | | that night, Mack, followed by the media, finally |
| practice in California as soon as possible in order | | | | catches up to McQueen, who reluctantly leaves |
| to become Cup champion and gain the | | | | Radiator Springs in order to make the race on |
| sponsorship of Dinoco Oil, pushes his driver Mack | | | | time. |