List of Cars characters

Cars is a media franchise set in the same fictional universe with the following films and television shows:

• the 2006 film Cars
• the 2011 film Cars 2
• the 2017 film Cars 3
• the 2013 film Planes
• the 2014 film Planes: Fire & Rescue
• the 2006 short film Mater and the Ghostlight
• the television series 2008-2014 Cars Toons
• the television series 2022 Cars on the Road

Piston Cup Teams

Main article: Cars (film)

Rust-eze team

Lightning McQueen

Main article: Lightning McQueen

Though much of Lightning Mcqueen's design is unique, loose design cues were taken from the Chevrolet Corvette C6, Dodge Viper ZB I

Montgomery "Lightning" McQueen often referred to as "Lightning McQueen" (voiced by Owen Wilson in the films and first 2 games, Ben Rausch in Cars 3: Driven to Win, Keith Ferguson in all other media) is not modeled directly after a specific make and model, although his design contains some elements inspired by the Chevrolet Corvette C6, Dodge Viper (ZB I), and Gen 4 NASCAR stock cars 2006. He owns a Racing Academy Team with Doc Hudson called the "Doc Hudson Racing Academy" (now it is known as the "Lightning McQueen Racing Academy" after Doc's sudden passing) where he trains rookie racers in the act of speed and good sportsmanship. Together with his friends, Cruz Ramirez and Tow Mater, Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy is a popular racing school in the world of Cars. Throughout his career, he hasn't suffered a DNF, until the third film, when he crashed out in the form of a horrific rollover in an effort to close the gap to Jackson Storm, his high tech next generation rival.

Mack

Mack Super-Liner

Mack (voiced by John Ratzenberger) is a 1985 Mack Super-Liner. Has the role of McQueen's transport, Mack pulls Lightning McQueen's trailer to his races.

McQueen exhorts Mack to drive through the night to his tiebreaker race with Chick Hicks and The King in Los Angeles, despite federal DOT regulations which legally grant Mack ten hours daily of much-needed off-duty rest alongside "all those sleeping trucks" at the last truck stop on I-40. As a result, Mack falls asleep and, distracted by the Delinquent Road Hazards who attempt to push him off the road to the shoulder, loses Lightning. Mack arrives in Radiator Springs after Doc reveals Lightning's location.

Sterling "Rust eze"

The BMW 2000 CS; the basis for the BMW CS Vintage Concept

Sterling (voiced by Nathan Fillion) is a billionaire and one of the main antagonists in Cars 3. He assigns Cruz Ramirez to train McQueen and prepare him for the Florida 500. After watching McQueen's poor performance on the simulator, Sterling attempted to convince McQueen to retire and become a racing brand. McQueen convinces him to give him a chance at winning the Florida 500, then McQueen could decide when to stop racing to which Sterling reluctantly agrees. He is based on a 1966 BMW 2000 CS concept.

Cruz Ramirez

Jaguar F-Type

Chevrolet Corvette (C7)

Ferrari F12 Berlinetta

Cruz Ramirez (voiced by Cristela Alonzo) is Lightning McQueen's trainer and technician at the Rust-eze Racing Center. She is known for training some of the best newer elite rookies through her unconventional training methods. She is assigned to train McQueen for the Florida 500. She attempts to train McQueen at Fireball Beach, but McQueen ends up teaching her how to race on sand. After surviving a Demolition Derby, which Cruz wins, McQueen lashes out on her for wasting his time and humiliating him on TV. Then, Cruz reveals that she always wanted to be a racer, but never found the confidence to do so. She is loosely based on a 2017 Jaguar F-Type, with some elements from the Corvette C7 and the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta.

Cruz and McQueen reconcile and head to Thomasville where they meet the former crew chief of Doc Hudson, Smokey. Smokey trains McQueen and inspires Cruz as well. At the Florida 500, Cruz is sent back to the Racing Center. McQueen exits the race to allow Cruz to race. Using what she's learned on the road, Cruz catches up to Jackson Storm, who tries to overtake her. However, Cruz flips over him (the same move Doc Hudson used back in 1951) and lands in first place. She begins to race for the Dinoco team, sporting Doc's former #51, with McQueen as her mentor. In the post-credits, Cruz has won the Piston Cup with Lightning by her side.

She returned in Cars 3: Driven to Win as one of the main characters and a starting playable character along with Lightning McQueen, Mater, Sally, Ramone and Guido.

Dinoco team

Strip "The King" Weathers

Strip Weathers, better known as The King (voiced by Richard Petty), is a "Dinoco-blue" veteran racecar and racing legend. Weathers is an anthropomorphic version of Petty's aerodynamic 1970 Plymouth Superbird, sporting same shade of blue and Petty's racecar number, 43 and is also a fictionalized version of him. He is one of the racecars in the 2005 Piston Cup three-way tie, along with Chick Hicks and Lightning McQueen. His sponsor (Dinoco), like Petty's (STP), is a well-known oil company.

Richard Petty's #43 Plymouth Superbird

He is Dinoco's "Golden Boy", having won seven Piston Cups, and is hoping for his eighth in the tiebreaker race before entering retirement so he can spend more time with his wife. He tells McQueen to remember the importance of his team, but the rookie does not pay any attention, being more preoccupied with the thought of taking over the Dinoco sponsorship after Weathers' retirement. He is also shown to be a kind, caring, and honorable racer who would never cheat during a race.

On the final lap of the tie-breaker race, Weathers demonstrates good sportsmanship by not trying to get past McQueen all while keeping Hicks from doing any harm to the rookie. Hicks, in a final attempt to try to win the race, rams into Weathers, sending him into a dangerous rollover. When McQueen sees this, he realizes that Weathers' career might end the same way Doc Hudson's did. Not wanting him to suffer the same fate, he stops short of the finish line, allowing Hicks to win, and pushes Weathers across the finish line to help him finish his last race before his retirement so that he can have a better future, much to the audience's delight. As the injured Weathers is helped out by McQueen, he tells him that he just gave up the Piston Cup to save him, but McQueen tells him that he learned a lesson from Doc that "it's just an empty cup", having learned that helping others is important than fame. Weathers' accident resulted in Chick's victory being condemned by the fans and media, not caring that he won the race, while McQueen is praised for his good sportsmanship and for helping Weathers. Weathers is also praised by the fans for his performance and he and McQueen are recognized by the fans as the real winners despite coming in 2nd and 3rd place respectively. McQueen's sportsmanship also results in Tex offering the sponsorship to him, though he turns down and stays with Rust-Eze after learning that there are more important things in life than winning. Following his retirement, Weathers (who has now been repaired) is seen visiting the racing museum in Radiator Springs with his wife and another Piston Cup racer, Junior, stating that Hudson is his inspiration.

He returns in Cars 3 as the crew chief of his nephew and new Dinoco racer Cal Weathers with Richard Petty reprising his role as the voice of The King. He is only shown in the first race of the film, where he tells Cal nice comeback after he gets his tires for a pit stop, and when he and his nephew pass the sponsorship to Cruz Ramirez after she wins the Florida 500.

In the Danish edition of the movie, the King is voiced by nine-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen. In the Finnish edition of the movie, The King is voiced by Finnish two-time Formula One World Champion Mika Häkkinen. In the German edition, he is voiced by Austrian three-time Formula One World Champion Niki Lauda.

Strip Weathers also appears in the film's video game as an unlockable character in the Arcade. He is mentioned by Darrell Cartrip in the game's Story Mode before the first Piston Cup race at the Palm Mile Speedway.

He also appears in Disney Infinity.

Lynda Weathers

1975 Chrysler Town & Country station wagon

Lynda Weathers, also known as "Mrs. The King" (voiced by Lynda Petty), is a 1974 Chrysler Town & Country station wagon who brought the Petty family to "The King"'s races during the 1970s. Like Tex, Lynda followed each race from a Dinoco VIP booth, rooting for her husband. Throughout the film, she is constantly supporting her husband and she worries deeply when he gets kicked and wrecked by Chick Hicks. After the race, while Chick Hicks is booed for wrecking her husband and falsely winning the Piston Cup, she kissed Lightning on the cheek and tells him thanks for helping her husband finish his final race.

During the ending credits of Cars, Mrs. The King is seen at the Doc Hudson Museum with her husband and Mater as a tour guide throughout the museum. She asked to see and meet Doc Hudson, but Mater is unsure of his whereabouts at the present time – but assumed he is out racing, which turned out to be true.

Calvin "Cal" Weathers

Cal Weathers (voiced by Kyle Petty) is a new Dinoco racer. Took over as Dinoco racer after his uncle Strip Weathers retired and became his crew chief. Cal Weathers is numbered 42, and is a blue Capital Motors Mark II Piston Cup Stock Car with blue rims. He often races with Lightning McQueen and Bobby Swift and constantly pull pranks with each other after a race. Unlike his uncle, he seemed to be one of the weak Dinoco racers and never won any Piston Cups (according to Tex as a joke when he talks to Cruz Ramirez on joining Dinoco which in reality, he won two Piston Cups in the past), though he does win some races as shown when he beats McQueen in a close finish at Rocker Arms Speedway. He later retires when new next gen racers including Jackson Storm take over the sport.

Tex Dinoco

1975 Cadillac Coupe de Ville

Tex Dinoco (voiced by Humpy Wheeler) is the billionaire owner of Dinoco. Packaged as "Tex Dinoco with bullhorns" as a diecast car, he is simply called "Tex" in the film's credits. He speaks with a Carolina accent and resembles a 1975 Cadillac Coupe de Ville at The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo. He is the King's manager and sponsor. Unlike Lightning's agent (Harv, who doesn't watch the race), Tex is an avid race fan who would never miss a race. As a supportive and long-time friend of both Lynda and "The King", he has been a loyal fan of "The King" for many years and boasts that The King "has made Dinoco proud".

After Chick Hicks wins by employing a PIT maneuver to sabotage The King in the final lap of the tiebreaker, sending King into a dangerous rollover crash, Tex (angered by Hicks' unsportsmanlike driving and having refused to sponsor him for hurting The King) offers the lucrative sponsorship to Lightning with the explanation that "there's a whole lot more to racing than just winning" this is an echo of a line that McQueen used at the end of the race shown at the start of the film but with an entirely different meaning. However, McQueen turns down the offer, opting to stay with Rust-Eze. Tex respects his decision, but does tell McQueen, "If there's ever anything he can do for him, just let him know." However, McQueen does ask for one favor: to allow Mater to fly in the Dinoco transport helicopter, fulfilling Mater's dream.

He returns for Cars 3 as the sponsor for Cal Weathers. After Cal retired, Tex sought to have newcomer Cruz Ramirez to race for him after watching her performance in the Florida 500. He also purchases Rust-eze from Sterling after an unseen conversation with him and allows Lightning McQueen to sport a new paint job (it looks just like Doc's old paint job).

HTB team

Chick Hicks

Buick Grand National NASCAR

Chevrolet Monte Carlo NASCAR

Chick Hicks (voiced by Michael Keaton in Cars, the video game adaption, and Cars Race-O-Rama, Bob Peterson in Cars 3) is Lightning McQueen's primary rival in the first film.

He is a green 1979 Shyster Cremlin, "a generic Pixar design, 'a stock 1980s American car'" according to Pixar publicity coordinator Amanda Sorena, and strongly resembles a GM G-body with features from both the 4th generation Chevrolet Monte Carlo NASCAR and the Buick Grand National NASCAR 1987. As the real-life General Motors wanted nothing to do with the character by rejecting an initial Pixar proposal to cast a Chevrolet stock car as the movie's villain, Chick is effectively an orphan. He has spent his entire career trailing Strip "The King" Weathers, and is bitter about this fact.

He returns in Cars 3, being voiced by Bob Peterson due to Keaton's scheduling conflicts with Spider-Man: Homecoming. In this film he now hosts his own talk show, Chick's Picks on Racing Sports Network.

Chick returns in the Cars video game, which is written by Pixar and considered a continuation to the story started in the movie.

Despite the fact he did not appear in Cars 2, he does show up in the film's video game as a downloadable character for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 editions. He also appears in Disney Infinity.

He also appears in Cars 3: Driven to Win which he does post race interviews with Mater, Smokey, Natalie Certain, and Miss Fritter; as well as giving out racing news offering commentary about players' winning/losing performance.

Chick Hicks's Pit Crew

Chick's pit crew are a group of forklifts who do pit stops for Chick Hicks in his races. Like Chick, his pit team are green with black "moustache" grills on their faces and have Hostile Takeover Bank on their sides. One of them is a playable character in Cars Race-O-Rama's Guido Kart races.

Chick Hicks's Students

The Chick Hicks Racing Academy students (voiced by Mark Silverman and Josh Robert Thomson) are a group of race cars who learn to race from Chick Hicks. These cars may look similar to the Doc Hudson Racing Academy students but Chick's students learn how to race dirty like Chick did in the past. Each car is painted green with white, grey and black decals and different modifications. The first one has a white line across the top of his body. The second has white, gray and black diagonal lines across the sides. The third has white on the bottom and top of his body. The fourth has a gray shape that seems to resemble a scratch on the sides. All four of these cars are playable in Cars Race-O-Rama except for the PS2 version where you only play as one. Unlike Candice, El Machismo and Stinger, they do not apologize to McQueen for their previous behavior.

IGNTR team

Jackson Storm

Presentation of Jackson Storm in 2017

Jackson Storm (voiced by Armie Hammer in the film, AJ Hamilton in Cars 3: Driven to Win), an arrogant blue-and-black 2017 custom built "next generation" Piston Cup racer, is a newer rookie that comes into the racing sport, and one of the rivals in the third installment in the franchise. He set records and won many races, including the final race in Los Angeles and presumably achieved the goal of winning the Piston Cup in his rookie year, which McQueen almost did in the first film. Whenever someone intimidates him, he goes back to insult them and make them lose their focus so he can take back the lead. His racing number is 20 (styled as 2.0) and is sponsored by Ignitr Liquid Adrenaline. His pit crew includes Rey Reverham, three pitties and his hauler, Gale Beaufort. Because of Jackson Storm's record breaking performance and a top speed of 214 mph (344 km/h), Piston Cup sponsors either retired or fired their previous veteran racers in the favor of Next-Gen racers to even the competition against Storm.

At the Florida 500, he is overtaken by McQueen's former trainer Cruz Ramirez. He attempts to make her lose focus by telling her that she doesn't belong on a track. Cruz, however, regains her confidence and drives up next to Storm, who rammed her into the SAFER barrier wall, but Cruz flips over him and lands, in exactly the same fashion as Doc Hudson was shown to do in an earlier scene. Since then, he has been hated by his rivals with Cruz in races.

A typical Peugeot Onyx

He returns in Cars 3: Driven to Win. He allows his rivals, Lightning McQueen and Cruz Ramirez time to get prepared to race for the next Piston Cup season as Chick Hicks created the "Lightning Storm Cruise" a head-to-head race featuring Lightning McQueen, Jackson Storm and Cruz Ramirez at the Florida International Speedway. After he lost the race to McQueen, Storm was fed up for losing and was determined he could beat Lightning and anyone, anywhere and anytime. As a result, Lightning and Cruz invite him over to race in Thunder Hollow only to end up being chased by Miss Fritter with Chick Hicks recording it for the RSN.

Jackson Storm is based on the Peugeot Onyx Concept. He also has some elements of the 2014 Nissan GT-R Concept 2020 Vision Gran Turismo and has working laser headlights and taillights (he keeps them off in Piston Cup races). His word Lightyear on his racing tires are blue.

Ray Reverham

Ray Reverham (voiced by Ray Evernham) is a pickup truck and Jackson Storm's crew chief. He is always supportive of Storm's performance, and when Cruz attempts to win, he reminds Jackson at any opportunity he can much to Storm's annoyance and tries to ignore Ray's warnings unless he's that serious.

Gale Beaufort

Gale Beaufort is Jackson Storm's hauler and painted in the same livery as him. Like Storm, she has working laser headlights and taillights. She is a Next-Gen Semi Hauler. Gale Beaufort represents the pinnacle of next-gen transporters. Whenever she isn't on the road, she's buffing and shining her glossy black paint. Jackson Storm wouldn't have it any other way, as he only wants the best for his racing team. In Cars 3, she is seen after Storm wins his first race at Arizona's Cooper Canyon Speedway who rolls into his trailer, saying he touched a nerve before blasting his hip hop music from the speakers and closed it, allowing Gale to drive away.

Radiator Springs

These characters live in Radiator Springs with Lightning McQueen, his trainer Cruz Ramirez and their hauler, Mack.

Tow Mater

Main article: Mater (Cars)

Chevrolet Task Force

Mater is a rusty tow truck, resembling a 1957 Chevrolet Task Force. He is McQueen's best friend, and Holley Shiftwell's boyfriend. He is voiced by Larry the Cable Guy. Since his heroic actions and exposing Miles Axlerod in London, Mater is now known as "Sir Tow Mater".

Sally Carrera

Main article: Sally Carrera

Sally Carrera is the town's attorney and McQueen's girlfriend. She is voiced by Bonnie Hunt, and she is a 2002 Porsche 996 Carrera. In 2022 Porsche Made as a tribute to the Sally Carrera a one-off Porsche 911 Sally Special

Sally as Eddie Paul custom vehicle for Cars promotional tour

Doc Hudson

Main article: Doc Hudson

1951 Hudson Hornet similar to Doc Hudson

Doc Hudson (voiced by Paul Newman in the first film and its video game adaptation, Corey Burton in all other related media) was the town's medical doctor, judge, and Lightning McQueen's mentor/crew chief. He was based on the 1951 Hudson Hornet. He did not appear in the second film due to Newman's death, and it is implied that he died at some point in between the films. He appeared in Cars 3 in McQueen's flashbacks, being voiced by archival recordings of Newman.

He won three consecutive Piston Cups in 1951, 1952 and 1953 as a racer known as The Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and still held the record for the most wins in a single racing season with Smokey as his crew chief, corresponding to the first three of the real-life Hornet's production years.

Sheriff

1949 Mercury Eight coupe

The Sheriff (voiced by Michael Wallis) is a 1949 Mercury Eight Police Cruiser police car, bearing Carburetor County license plate 001. Sheriff is painted in the classic law enforcement black and white with a single red light dome, two sirens, and curb feelers. Sheriff was the first resident of Radiator Springs to appear in the original film and the first to meet Lightning McQueen during a police chase when McQueen was speeding through the town, attempting to locate Mack. Upon catching McQueen, who had become ensnared in wires and fencing, Sheriff paraphrases a line used by actor Joe Higgins, who played a sheriff in early 1970s Dodge commercials, as "Boy, you're in a heap of trouble.".

Sheriff was known to distrust McQueen; at one point when Sally gives McQueen some gasoline, Sheriff notices McQueen smiling at the road as if he is planning to escape. In reply, Sheriff with a glare turns on his gumball in case. Lightning chooses to accompany Sally, rather than making an escape attempt, resulting in Sheriff switching off his emergency lighting while Flo mocks him for thinking that McQueen would try to escape. This marks the beginning of trust in Lightning by Sheriff. He later befriends Lightning McQueen, offering him a police escort to California and even giving a few sniffles when he thought Lightning had left after finishing fixing the road (though he denied it, claiming he was glad Lightning was gone), and joins his pit crew for the championship race. In the end credits, Sheriff arrests the Road Hazards (the same ones who separated McQueen from Mack) caught racing illegally (via speeding) to Radiator Springs and have them impounded. As punishment for their crimes, he and Doc force them to repave the roads with Bessie.

Sheriff reappears in Cars 2, seeing Lightning and his race crew off to the World Grand Prix. When Mater goes missing, Ramone mentions that Sheriff has Scotland Yard scouring London for Mater. During the climax of the film, Sheriff arrives with the other Radiator Springs residents as new members of McQueen's pit crew in England, and is informed by Mater of the Lemons cars' plot to kill McQueen in order to turn all vehicles in the world against alternate energy and rely on gasoline for profit. Sheriff then has Red the Firetruck squirt water on the Lemon cars during the final battle, and arrests most of the defeated ones with help from Sarge. Then the next day Sheriff cheers Mater on when he is knighted for foiling the evil plot led by surprisingly, the race and Allinol inventor Sir Miles Axlerod.

Luigi

Fiat 500

Luigi (voiced by Tony Shalhoub in the films and video games, Michael Shalhoub in Disney Infinity) is a 1959 Fiat 500. He is a Scuderia Ferrari fan (as he is part of the tifosi), and has followed racing his entire life. His license plate reads 445–108, which is the latitude and longitude for the main Ferrari factory in Maranello, Italy. Luigi owns a tire shop, Casa Della Tires, which is known for its "Leaning Tower of Tires", a tower of several tires shaped like the Leaning Tower of Pisa. His assistant is an Italian forklift truck named Guido.

Inside his shop are many framed pictures of World Sportscar Championship endurance racing Ferraris from various points in history. At first, Luigi and Guido do not respect Lightning McQueen when he comes to Radiator Springs because he is not a Ferrari, but later on they learn to show courtesy to McQueen, fitting him with whitewall tires, since Luigi is a fan of white tires (having a pair himself). During the final race, Luigi and Guido work as part of Lightning's pit crew, and Guido sets the Piston Cup record in changing tires, taking only 4 seconds to change all the tires, sending the other pit crew into shock. He later congratulates McQueen when he helps The King finish his last race. After the race, a group of Italian sports cars – a Ferrari F430 (voiced by Michael Schumacher) and two Maserati Quattroportes – arrive at his shop, explaining that "Lightning McQueen told me this was the best place in the world to get tires" and requesting "three or four sets each". The presence of a celebrity Ferrari in their store causes both Luigi and Guido to faint from shock and happiness.

For the Italian version of the film, Luigi was voiced by comedian Marco Della Noce; one of Della Noce's most popular characters was "Oriano Ferrari", a parody character meant to represent the leader of Ferrari's pit stop crew.

In Cars 2, Luigi is a part of Lightning's pit crew, in charge of the racer's tires. In Japan, he is naturally overjoyed to see so many Ferraris at a party prior to the first race of the World Grand Prix. He also hesitantly begins to explain to Mater what a rendezvous is, but he and Guido do not believe Mater when he believes he has a date. Luigi and Guido are overjoyed to be back in their home of Italy, and rejoin their large group of family and friends. A little more is discussed of Luigi's past with Guido: Luigi's Uncle Topolino mentions that Luigi and Guido often fought when they worked for him, but they always made up after their fights. Luigi joins his friends in a mêlée against Professor Zündapp's Lemons at the film's climax, and finally believes Mater's claims of a girlfriend when Holley Shiftwell confirms the fact in person at Radiator Springs.

Guido

Guido (voiced by Guido Quaroni) is a 1959 BMW Isetta mix forklift truck, who works at Luigi's Casa Della Tires, and is Luigi's best friend. Like Luigi, he is also part of the tifosi, as he is also a Scuderia Ferrari fan. The only language Guido can speak and understand fluently is Italian, though he appears to understand English, and even speaks a few phrases, including "Pit stop" but pronounced "Peet stop!". His dream is to perform a pit stop for a real racecar. Near the end of the first movie, as a member of Lightning's new pit crew, he performs the fastest pit stop in Piston Cup history, speed-changing all four tires in only 4 seconds, shocking Chick Hicks' pit crew who had earlier made fun of him.

In Cars 2, Guido serves the same purpose he served in the first film's climax in Lightning's pit crew throughout the film. He also removed all tires from some of the Lemons when they surrounded Lightning and Mater, but is unable to remove the bomb from Mater. Guido does not believe Mater when he says he has a date, and is shocked to discover that Mater was telling the truth about his new girlfriend Holley Shiftwell.

Guido also appeared in Cars 3. He was first seen giving McQueen a new set of tires at the Motor Speedway of the South race, and again during a pit stop before McQueen's career-defining crash. When McQueen came into the pit road during the Florida 500, Guido initially unscrewed some of the bolts on McQueen's front right tire before giving the set of tires to Cruz Ramirez.

Ramone

1959 Chevrolet Impala coupe

Ramone (voiced by Cheech Marin in the films and video games, Milton James in Cars 3: Driven to Win) is a 1959 Chevrolet Impala coupé Lowrider that owns the Ramone's House of Body Art store, where he paints himself and other cars, including Lightning McQueen later in the film. His garage employs the distinctive architecture of the Tower Station (U-Drop Inn) in Shamrock, Texas. His license plate reads "L0WNSL0", which is a reference to his catchphrase, "Low and slow". He is married to Flo, whose restaurant is next door to his store. Ramone is usually depicted as purple with a yellow and orange flame job, but throughout the film, he changes his paint job every morning to keep his skills sharp, owing to a lack of customers. This situation changes after Radiator Springs becomes vibrant again. He also likes to drive slow and very low on the road, and is overjoyed when the road is asphalted, enjoying the smoothness of the road. However, he does seem to have a childish side in his personality, as in a scene after Lightning McQueen has destroyed the town's main road, Sally asked Flo what she had in her store, the latter responding "I have gas, lots of gas!", and Ramone and Mater burst out laughing.

Ramone reappears in Cars 2, making a few appearances in the Radiator Springs scenes, though he joins everyone else to help McQueen in England. In the melee scene, Ramone disables one of the lemon cars by spraying paint into the car's eyes, blinding him.

Flo

Flo (voiced by Jenifer Lewis) is the owner of Radiator Springs only gas diner, "Flo's V-8 Café", and is married to Ramone. Her license plate reads "SHOGRL", the same as the license plates applied to many Motorama show cars and an abbreviation of the term "showgirl". During the cruising scene, "Motorama 1957" appears above her license plate. According to a deleted scene, she is a Motorama showcar who came to Radiator Springs during a national tour (although there wasn't a Motorama show held in 1957). Ramone custom painted her crew all except her. She asks "What's the matter, you too good to paint me?", and Ramone said "No baby, you're too good for me to paint.". They immediately fell in love. She appears to be inspired by two early- to mid-1950s show cars: the 1951 Buick XP-300 (side trim), 1951 General Motors Le Sabre and the 1957 Chrysler Dart concept car (front view) or 1960 Chrysler 300F 2 doors hardtop custom (cockpit, deck lid, and big tailfins rear).

Flo reappears in Cars 2 to help Lightning and Mater battle the Lemons (who were sent to kill Lightning by Miles Axlerod). Later, she and Sally are seen swooning over Francesco.

Fillmore

Waldmire's van in Route 66 Hall of Fame

Fillmore (based on Route 66 artist Bob Waldmire and voiced by George Carlin in Cars, the video game, Mater and the Ghostlight, and Cars Toons (via archival recordings), Brian George in Cars Mater-National Championship, Mark Silverman in Cars Race-O-Rama, Lloyd Sherr in Cars 2, the second Cars video game and Cars 3) is a Volkswagen Type 2 microbus of early 1960s vintage as evidenced by his pointed front turn signals and small rear window. Fillmore's license plate reads "51237", an easter egg which is a reference to May 12, 1937, the birthdate of Carlin, and is also the ZIP code of George, Iowa.

He is a stereotypical hippie, as he has stickers of the peace sign and flowers with his license plate positioned to resemble a soul patch. His name is a reference to the Fillmore East, a venue that was an epicenter for rock performances throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He owns an organic fuel shop (Fillmore's Organic Fuel) which features several flavors, and believes gasoline companies are lying to the public. He is implied to smoke marijuana, as it is indirectly referenced when he speaks of his organic fuel use.

Fillmore reappears in Cars 2, joining McQueen's pit crew as the fuel expert for the World Grand Prix. Fillmore was re-cast due to Carlin's death, and was voiced by Lloyd Sherr. Fillmore initially supports Allinol as it does not use oil, even convincing McQueen it is safe after several accidents involving other cars using Allinol. However, for the final race, Sarge replaces McQueen's Allinol with Fillmore's organic fuel, which is what prevents Lightning from being killed in the race. He appears in Cars 3, once again a member of Lightning's pit crew as his fueler with Luigi and Guido handling McQueen's tires.

Sarge

Willys MB Jeep

Sarge (voiced by Paul Dooley) is a 1942 Willys Jeep. A veteran with a military green paint job and a slightly stylized Sergeant Major (E-9) insignia on his sides, he appears to be a World War II era Willys MB. His license plate reads "41WW2", which indicates the date the Willys MB entered the service of the U.S. Army (1941 World War II). He runs a surplus store, named "Sarge's Surplus Hut", next door to Fillmore and acts as part of Lightning's pit crew, gassing him up during the race. Near the end of the film, he operates a boot camp to train SUVs and 4×4s (some of whom had never been off-road) in rugged and dirt terrain. His recruits include T.J. Hummer, Murphy, Frank "Pinky" Pinkerton, and Charlie Cargo. During the Cars Video Game, Sarge trains McQueen in his boot camp as well by having some formal off-road racing training who McQueen passed in flying colors.

Sarge reappears in Cars 2, using assistance from the British Army to aid in the melee against the Lemons. Prior to the final leg of the World Grand Prix, he secretly switches McQueen's supply of Allinol for Fillmore's organic fuel. Like Fillmore he became suspicious of the fuel after the incidents in Japan and Italy. The change saves McQueen from being killed as part of Axlerod's plot to discredit alternative fuel.

Lizzie

1919 Model T Coupe

Lizzie (voiced by Katherine Helmond), a 1924 Ford Model T Coupe, is the widow of Radiator Springs' founder, Stanley, and the elderly owner of a roadside souvenir and accessory shop. Her license plate, "MT23", is a reference to her model and year. Her name is derived from Tin Lizzie, one of the Model T's popular nicknames. She appears to have gone somewhat senile, and has a crush on Lightning McQueen. When she is shown teasing Luigi and Guido in the film, stating "The new road makes your place look like a dump.", Luigi angrily says that she is a crazy, devilish old woman but despairs at the truth of her words and sets to work repainting the Casa della Tires garage to its original appearance. She appears extremely motherly.

Lizzie reappears in Cars 2 with a minor role. In the beginning she greets Lightning when he returns, but didn't even know he was gone all this time. She isn't present at the airport but is seen in the end talking to Mack about how crazy Holley Shiftwell is for keeping a dent. She also appears in Cars 3, which would be Helmond's final role before her death.

She appears in the Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales episode "Time Travel Mater", where her and Stanley's backstories are revealed.

Lizzie was originally going to be named Henry F. Ord, after Henry Ford. She also, at one point, originally resembled a Ford Model T "Center Door" Sedan.

Red

Whitney Seagrave

Red (voiced by Joe Ranft in the first film, Jerome Ranft in the third film) is a 1960s closed-cab Whitney Seagrave Fire Apparatus fire engine, bearing Carburetor County license plate "002". He is shy and emotional which explains why he cries and drives away at the same time. He spends most of his time gardening and washing things, such as the statue of Stanley in front of his fire station. It was stated by Mater that Red "hated" Lightning McQueen, because he accidentally killed his flowers. Later, it is clear that Red had forgiven Lightning McQueen and warmed up to him, especially when he burst into tears and fled when he mistakenly thought that Lightning McQueen left without saying goodbye. While he gasped and sobbed in the film, he didn't really talk. In the first film, he seems to know about tractor-tipping as he used his horn to try and stop a stampede of tractors out of trying to protect his flowers. He formerly dislikes Lightning McQueen and he also dislikes crying and feeling upset and people vandalizing his flowers.

Red reappears in Cars 2 as a non-speaking character. He only makes a small appearance at the airport crying as he sees Team McQueen taking off for Tokyo, also in the battle against the Lemons, where he arrives just in time to blast some of the Lemons away with his fire hose.

Red appears in the Tales from Radiator Springs short film: Bugged, voiced by Jerome Ranft.

Stanley

Stanley steam car

Stanley (voiced by John Michael Higgins) is Lizzie's late husband and the founder of Radiator Springs. Stanley was probably based on and named after a Stanley Steamer, a steam-powered automobile. A statue of Stanley stands outside the town hall, and although it was broken off its pedestal and dragged through the streets on a wire by Lightning McQueen, it was fortunately undamaged, and ultimately returned to its pedestal. Although dead, Stanley continues to exert an influence on the town, particularly over Lizzie, who often talks to his statue in memory of him.

Stanley's statue reappears in Cars 2 where it was shown to be less old and broken, possibly renovated.

In the Cars Toon, Time Travel Mater, Stanley appears alive for the first time. In the Cars Land theme park, signage commemorating "The Original Radiator Spring" claims that "On this site in the summer of 1909 Stanley, exploring out west, overheated as his radiator water boiled away. Coasting into the shade, he happened upon a life-saving natural spring. Upon this most fortunate discovery, Stanley founded the first settlement in Ornament Valley, and in honor of the oasis, christened it Radiator Springs.". Stanley's Oasis is listed as the first local business in Radiator Springs, although condensers only appeared on Stanley steam cars beginning in 1915. The revised Timeline of the toon shows Lightning and Mater travelling back to 1909, meeting Stanley, and pointing Lizzie out to Stanley, prompting him to approach her to make a sale. A quick stop on their way back to the present allows Lightning and Mater to witness Stanley and Lizzie's wedding.

Stanley makes a silent cameo in the Pixar short, Boundin'.

Bessie

Bessie is a non-anthropomorphic tarmac-laying road paving machine that is used to fix roads in Radiator Springs. She was often used by one of the citizens of Radiator Springs, referenced as "Big Al", before the citizen in question left 15 years ago. When Lightning McQueen accidentally destroys the road by dragging the statue of Stanley, Radiator Springs traffic court judge Doc Hudson sentences him to fix the road with her. While Doc insists "this here is Bessie, finest road-paving machine ever built", a construction trade publication's August 2006 editorial describes her as a "tar-spewing hybrid paver/compactor" and "an ecological disaster" as sometimes Bessie boils over and splats tar onto the car(s) pulling her.

"If she doesn't hit you with a stray spray of hot asphalt burbling in two tanks heated by open flames, the fumes emanating from every orifice would prompt an asthma attack. Aggregate jostles loose in a top hopper, and her black-smoke-extruding exhaust pipes are coated with the remains of decades of paving seasons... In fact, everything is wrong about Bessie except the product she produces when Lightning finally decides to get serious about his civic duty."

— Equipment World

During the epilogue, the Delinquent Road Hazards have to fix a road in Radiator Springs with her as punishment for speeding. Bessie is a non-living vehicle; she cannot move by herself and she has no voice actress in the film.

Frank and the Tractors

Frank is a 1970s generic red combine harvester that resembles a bull (his roof mounted exhaust pipes resemble horns and he has a nose ring), and the guardian of the tractors (which "moo" as cows). After Lightning McQueen's first encounter with Frank during a night of tractor tipping with Mater, Lightning starts dreaming that he, The King, and Chick Hicks (the last of whom does not survive, getting chopped up while The King and McQueen move out of the way) are beaten by Frank in the tie-breaker race. Frank wins the Piston Cup and gets kissed while Lightning is surrounded by the tractors who are licking him. Later, the tractors end up stampeding into Radiator Springs following a mishap with them on Mater's part. He is last seen with the tractors at the drive-in theatre scenes behind the fence far behind Mack, watching the movie as well. He is also seen in the short Mater and the Ghostlight when Mater races past him, waking him up, but does not chase him. Frank seems to be the soothing and kind master of the tractors and the leader of the herd and also hates trespassers (especially but mostly Mater) who step into his farm and bother the tractors. The tractors also appear in Planes and are shown to be sacred in India (India's residents believing they will be reincarnated as tractors). In Planes: Fire & Rescue, the tractors have to clear the road before Dusty Crophopper can take off due to Propwash Junction being shut down. Several tractors are also present in Piston Peak National Park with one having to be rescued from a wildfire by Blade Ranger shortly after Dusty's arrival.

Former residents

A flashback in the original film devotes a little over a minute to show Radiator Springs in a pre-freeway era when all cross-country traffic would by necessity pass through the town's busy main street. Various old cars appear very briefly in this segment with no names and no dialogue, only to vanish when the town is bypassed.

Miles "Meattruck" Malone was a red-cab delivery truck serving the Ornament Valley region; Dustin Mellows, a yellow delivery truck, bore the logo and initials TS for Trophy Sparkplugs. Local cars included Mildred Bylane (a light-brown car), Percy Hanbrakes (a brown car), Edwin Kranks (a two-tone apple-green car), Hank "Halloween" Murphy (a two-tone orange "Rumbler" with tail fins, named as a parody of the Nash/AMC Rambler) Milton Calypeer (a blue car), Greta (a two-tone black car), Timothy Timezone (a light-blue two-tone coupe) and Derek "Decals" Dobbs (a green two-tone coupe).

Bugs

In Radiator Springs and the surrounding desert area of Carburetor County, insects are depicted as small, winged early 60s VW Bugs (or beetles). The bugs appear at least three times in the original film, hovering around fluorescent lighting at Flo's V8 Café on Lightning's initial arrival, swarming around the windows and the one missing fuel pump at the Wheel Well Motel before its historic restoration, and in the desert where Minny and Van are still quite clearly lost at the end of the film, after the closing credits. (One bumps on the camera lens, leaving a mark on it, and flies off eventually) One also appears in Mater and the Ghostlight, which Mater had confused for the Ghostlight (despite the yellow headlights). The bugs are alive but do not speak (Vroomaroundus Bugus merely buzz with sped-up sounds of an air-cooled VW engine) so they are not named individually and they have no voice actors.

Piston Cup announcer and analyst

Bob Cutlass

Bob Cutlass (voiced by Bob Costas) is an announcer for the Piston Cup races and friend of Darrell Cartrip. The character's name is a reference to the Oldsmobile Cutlass. He does not appear in any of the video games. However, he did return for Cars 3.

Natalie Certain

Natalie Certain (voiced by Kerry Washington), a red sedan, is an RSN statistical analyst in Cars 3 who also is a friend to Chick Hicks. She returns for Cars 3: Driven To Win. She slightly resembles a 2017 Tesla Model S.

Race fans

Mia and Tia Miata

1992 Mazda MX-5

Mia (voiced by Lindsey Collins) and Tia (voiced by Elissa Knight) are identical twin 1997 Mazda MX-5 ("Miata") sisters who are Lightning McQueen's self-proclaimed biggest fans in the first film. In Lightning McQueen's daydream about the Dinoco Sponsorship, the twins are Dinoco blue, except for the scene in the penthouse, where they are painted gold. After McQueen's disappearance, the twins are devastated that McQueen apparently will not make it to the race. Chick Hicks then swoops in and consoles them, loading them up with his own merchandise and a free Hostile Takeover Bank-sponsored green paint job. Mia and Tia accept the offer, not because they are Chick's fans, but because green complements their eyes. They soon return to being McQueen's fans, turning against Hicks after he deliberately causes Strip "The King" Weathers to wreck in the tie-breaker race.

Mia and Tia eventually move to Radiator Springs and are visible briefly as waitresses at Flo's V8 Café during the end credits. Their characters are based on sisters Mary Lou and Christina Mendez at the Midpoint Café in Adrian, Texas, where the café's (now semi-retired) owner Fran Houser is the basis for "Flo".

Other race cars

"Junior" #8

Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s #8 Budweiser Chevrolet Monte Carlo during a pit stop at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2006

Dale Earnhardt Jr., often referred to as "Junior" or "Dale Jr." (voiced by himself), is a Gen 4 Chevrolet SS stock cars that the NASCAR Cup Series used prior to 2007. He closely resembles the #8 Budweiser Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS that he drove from his Sprint Cup debut in 1999 until his departure to the team his maternal grandfather Robert Gee, Sr. started, Hendrick Motorsports, in 2008. The car's Budweiser stickers are replaced by Dale Earnhardt Inc. stickers; these stickers refer to the same change made in NASCAR games as well as toys in order to avoid alcohol advertising. Junior is seen during the first race (Dinoco 400) and is involved in the wreck caused by Chick Hicks. When McQueen goes missing, Junior tells the Competition Racing Sports Network "I sure hope that Lightning is okay. I would hate to see anything bad happen to him!". At the tie-breaker, Junior wishes The King good luck in his last race, as "you've been an inspiration to me". Junior is last seen at the Radiator Springs racing museum with The King and his wife Lynda, amazed by Doc Hudson's many season winnings during the 1950s.

Junior does not appear in the video game nor the third film, due to his sponsor not returning in both, likely because it has gone out of business. The real-life Earnhardt Jr., his sister Kelley Miller, and their uncles Robert Gee Jr. and Jimmy Gee, currently operate a second-tier NASCAR team.

A replica of the red livery, with the Hendrick #88 on a Gen 6 Holden Commodore with Hendrick's current Axalta Coating Systems sponsor decals, was used for Earnhardt's final race as a full-time Cup driver in 2017.

Mario Andretti #11

1967 Ford Fairlane

Mario Andretti (voiced by himself) is a former racecar that believes every day is a great day for racing. He is based on the 1967 Holman Moody Ford Fairlane that Andretti drove to victory lane in the 1967 Daytona 500. In the Spanish edition of the movie, Andretti is voiced by Spanish Formula One champion Fernando Alonso.

A small green car seen beside Andretti at the entrance to pit lane is identified in the "Car Finder" game as Patty, Mario's personal assistant. She does not have a speaking role in the film.

The actual Ford Fairlane that Andretti drove was rebuilt as a Mercury Cyclone by Robert Gee (Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s maternal grandfather), driven in 1971 by German F1 and sportscar driver Rolf Stommelen for his only NASCAR start at Talladega Superspeedway, then sold to Darrell Waltrip for use his five races in 1972 and the first half of the 1973 season. It later became a Sportsman racer for Waltrip, but was crashed in 1975 at the Permatex 300 Sportsman race (now Xfinity Series race). Abandoned by Gee, it stayed there until a few NASCAR mechanics restored the car in its 1972 configuration as a 1971 Mercury Cyclone (brown #95) in the mid-1990s for a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Waltrip's first Cup start. It is displayed at Waltrip's museum in Harrisburg, North Carolina, and part of an Andretti exhibit at the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 2013. (A replica of the car as it looked in 1966 was also part of it.)

Michael Schumacher

Ferrari F430

Michael Schumacher (voiced by himself) is a 2005 Ferrari F430 sports car. He is a Ferrari in reference to five of his seven Formula One championships which were achieved with Ferrari F1. He appears at Luigi's shop at the end of the movie after being told by Lightning McQueen that "this is the best place in the world to buy tires", and asks to order a few sets of tires for himself and a pair of Maserati Quattroportes who accompany him. After Luigi faints from the excitement of having "a real Michael Schumacher Ferrari in his store", Schumacher speaks to Guido in Italian, and Guido subsequently faints. The Italian phrase he speaks is, "I hope that your friend recovers, I was told that you are fantastic." Because of licensing issues, in the Cars toyline, his name is called Ferrari F430 instead of his name himself.

Darrell Cartrip

Waltrip's 1977 Chevrolet Monte Carlo

Darrell Cartrip (voiced by Darrell Waltrip), a 1977 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, is a Piston Cup announcer in the first and the third film. A former Piston Cup racer, the enthusiastic Cartrip uses Waltrip's catchphrase "Boogity boogity boogity! Let's go racing, boys!".

Cartrip appears in the Cars video game as a solo announcer; he is a playable character in the Piston Cup VS. and Arcade mode. He returns in the second film as a World Grand Prix announcer.

A real-life 1977 Monte Carlo was driven by Waltrip with DiGard Motorsports, finishing a very close second-place finish (11 points behind Richard Petty) for the 1979 championship Cup. Waltrip raced from midway through the 1975 season until the 1980 season driving for the team. The real-life car's original number (DiGard's #88) and green-and-white Gatorade livery do not appear on the character (the livery's design is now owned by PepsiCo). The film's credits list Darrell Waltrip Motorsports (his licensing arm) as the "#17 Car" (known for his Hendrick Motorsports and own efforts in winning three of NASCAR's four majors); Waltrip's various NASCAR entries have included a #17 (three times—two of those he owned, the other belonging to Hendrick Motorsports) and a #95 (the one he drove in his 1972 debut was at one time the real-life former Mario Andretti #11 from 1967 seen in the Cars franchise, is one such).

The most famous of the real-life 1977 DiGard Monte Carlos was the infamous "Bertha", displayed at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Talladega, known for a weight-reduction scheme (devised by Gary Nelson and Buddy Parrott) where up to 100 pounds (45 kg) of buckshot is dropped on-track on parade laps to lighten the car. A subsequent NASCAR rule change to weigh cars after the race now prevents this type of ruse. Bertha won 19 NASCAR premiership races in its career, including the 1978 Coca-Cola 600, Waltrip's first major.

He is the main announcer for the Piston Cup races, along with Bob Cutlass; announcer in Cars and Cars 3; he is voiced by Darrell Waltrip.

Other vehicles

Van and Minny

Saturn Relay (Van)

Dodge Grand Caravan (Minny)

Van (voiced by Richard Kind) and Minny (voiced by Edie McClurg) are husband and wife. In the first film, they are lost and pass through Radiator Springs while trying to find their way back to Interstate 40. Van refuses to ask directions, claiming not to need them due to having a GPS. Minny mentions that Van did the same when they were heading up to the "Crazy Days" (a parody of Derby Days) in Shakopee. U.S. Route 66, taken off the map in 1985, is conspicuously absent from stored maps in automotive aftermarket GPS units — an omission also noted by Harv, Lightning's agent, and a minor running joke in the film. After the credits, they get lost and are dirty in the desert. Minny asks Van for directions, but Van, driven to insanity, still refuses and says that there is an on-ramp close.

Both are equipped with car alarms, which they arm after their encounter with Lightning McQueen when he begs them to call for help (they dismissed his plea as madness). After the final credits, Van and Minny are shown dirty and lost somewhere in the desert, having never asked for directions, with Van almost driven to insanity. Their names combine as a pun on "minivan". Van loosely resembles a 2006 Saturn Relay and Minny appears to be a 1996 Dodge Caravan. Minny speaks with a pronounced Minnesota accent.

Van and Minny reappear near the end of the second film. While Minny is mesmerized by Mater's spy story, Van does not believe one word of it until British agent Holley Shiftwell arrives to confirm it, which surprises Van, leaving him mesmerized by her and annoying Minny. In the final scene, when a rocket-propelled Mater rushes past Van, maps that Van was carrying are sent flying.

Cars 2

These are characters who have first or only appeared in the film Cars 2 (2011).

Secret agents and spies

Finn McMissile

Finn McMissile borrowed various design cues from 1960s sportscars, including the (from top to bottom; Peerless, Aston Martin DB5 and BMW 507

Finn McMissile (voiced by Michael Caine in the second film, Martin Jarvis in the video games) is a British secret agent who recruits Mater to help in his mission. His design is inspired by several cars: the roofline and doors of the Volvo P1800 (possibly inspired by Roger Moore's ownership of one while filming The Saint TV espionage series in the early 1960s, as Moore also portrayed Bond from 1973 to 1985), the grill and fenders of the BMW 507, and some major elements of the iconic James Bond Aston Martin DB5, debuting in Goldfinger (including its sound, as clearly heard in the intro of GoldenEye). The grille looks like a suave mustache. His license plate is 314 FMCM, which includes a reference to his initials. The number 314 indicates Caine's birthday, March 14, the same day as Billy Crystal, another actor for Pixar.

Like Bond's car, Finn has plenty of gadgets. His small tailfins were inspired by a 1958 British sports car called the Peerless—one of the few British cars with fins. Finn is fluent in many languages, most notably English, Japanese, French, and Italian. He is outfitted with a plethora of gadgets, including: two grappling hooks, a spy camera, a missile launcher, a deployable glass cutter, front wheel hub magnetic explosives launchers, deployable machine guns, surveillance probes, a miniature car called a "skate jack", an undercarriage mounted quad harpoon gun, a hydrofoil for oversea travel, a hologram generator, and a submarine-mode for underwater escapes. His belief about the World Grand Prix turns out to be true, as it was all just a setup by Miles Axlerod to make alternate fuel seem dangerous and make cars run on his own fuel with no choice.

Finn McMissile appears in Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure. It was revealed that Finn was a spy who was on the biggest oil platform in the world before he met Mater. None of them knew that Mater was not a spy. He just answered the question correctly.

Holley Shiftwell

Holley Shiftwell's design is heavily influenced by Jaguar supercars; the C-X75 and XJR-15

Holley Shiftwell (voiced by Emily Mortimer) is a British spy-in-training, and Mater's love interest. She is loosely based on the Jaguar C-X75 and Jaguar XJR-15.

Holley's name is a reference to Holley Performance Products, Inc., a manufacturer of high-performance carburetors and fuel systems located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Her design was made from a Jaguar XJR-15. Her name is possibly also a reference to Bond Girl Holly Goodhead. Her license plate is HS1201, which includes her initials. The number 1201 is Emily Mortimer's birthday in American date order (December 1).

Holley is equipped with gadgets including: (front) projection lamps above headlights that emit a heads-up display, headlight cameras; a (side) right wheel concealed gun and an electro-shock device, a telescoping utility arm, (undercarriage) mounted dual trackball platforms for controlling the heads-up display, and retractable wings for flight.

Holley Shiftwell appears in Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure. She is a playable character in the Disney Infinity series.

Siddeley

Gulfstream V jet

Siddeley (voiced by Jason Isaacs) is a Gulfstream V spy jet. He is 176 feet long with a 157-foot wingspan (53 and 48 meters respectively) and is shown to possess afterburners, though no aspect of his airframe is suited to supersonic flight, In addition, he has VTOL (vertical-takeoff and landing) capabilities. His tail has A113 painted on it, a recurring gag in the Pixar films. Siddeley is also seen once in the Mexican Airport in the spinoff movie Planes as a background jet, and twice in its sequel Planes: Fire and Rescue as a visiting VIP (Very Important Plane), and was mentioned to be the cause of the massive wildfire during the third-fourth of the movie.

Lemons

The Lemons are international criminals that appear in Cars 2.

Sir Miles Axlerod

Land Rover Discovery

Sir Miles Axlerod (voiced by Eddie Izzard) is the rival of the second film. Axlerod created the World Grand Prix to promote his new wonder-fuel, Allinol. His "alternative fuel" is actually ordinary gasoline engineered to ignite if hit with electromagnetic pulses from weapons disguised as television cameras. Sir Miles plans to use Professor Zündapp and the Lemon Cars to kill McQueen in the final race, but the EMP weapon fails to finish him off because Sarge switched McQueen's Allinol for Fillmore's organic fuel. He is based on a 2011 Land Rover Discovery and possibly on Ernst Stavro Blofeld from the James Bond films.

Professor Wolfgang Otto Zündapp

Zündapp Janus

Professor Zündapp (voiced by Thomas Kretschmann), often referred simply as Professor Z, is an internationally wanted weapon designer who is modelled after a 1958 Zündapp Janus 250 with a broken roof rack that evokes the look of a comb over. Though he initially appears to be the main antagonist, he is eventually revealed to be a secondary antagonist, and subordinate to Miles Axlerod.

Grem and Acer

Grem (voiced by Joe Mantegna) is a dented, rusty orange AMC Gremlin. Acer (voiced by Peter Jacobson) is a beat-up green AMC Pacer. Both of these "lemon" cars are henchmen for Professor Zündapp, Grem and Acer mistake Mater for an American agent with top-secret information, chasing him around the globe. Even though they don't have all the spy weapons and gadgets they are still tough and will do anything and everything to stop secret agents.

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  1976 AMC Pacer

World Grand Prix (WGP)

Francesco Bernoulli

Francesco Bernoulli (voiced by John Turturro in Cars 2 and Cars 2: The Video Game, and Roger Craig Smith in Disney Infinity) serves as Lightning McQueen's primary rival in the second film. He is a 2009 Formula FB1 Prototype Racer, according to Meet the Cars and other books. He is painted in colors similar to the Italian flag.

Jeff Gorvette

Chevrolet Corvette C6R

Jeff Gorvette (voiced by Jeff Gordon) is a now-retired 2009 Chevrolet Corvette C6R. He appeared in Cars 2 at the World Grand Prix, he's is Lightning McQueen's good friend, and he is now an announcer for the Piston Cup races in Cars 3 along with his real-life broadcast partner.

Shu Todoroki

Shu Todoroki (voiced by Erik Passoja in Cars 2: The Video Game) is a Japanese Le Mans endurance race car. According to Meet the Cars and other books, he is a 2006 Le Motor Prototype J8 Racer, a Pixar in-house design inspired on the 2007 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP. His flat underside and diffuser represent that of a 1999 BMW V12 LMR which has a 6.0-liter V12 engine. The year 2006 is a reference to when the 908 concept car was introduced at the 2006 Paris Motor Show.

Carla Veloso

Carla Veloso ,voiced by Claudia Leitte in the Brazilian version of the film, one of many characters voiced by Barbara Kottmeier,

According to Meet the Cars and other books, she is a 2009 Le Motor Prototype B12 racer, based on and a reference to the 2009 Drayson Lola B09/60 Judd, later known as a Lola-Drayson B12/69 EV.

McLaren MP4-12C GT3 car

Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton (voiced by himself) is a 2009 Grand Touring Sports Special GBG racer. He is based on a McLaren MP4 12c GT3. He is named after the Formula 1 racing driver of the same name. The McLaren chassis is also a reference to the first F1 team the real life Hamilton drove for: McLaren.

Aston Martin DBR9

Nigel Gearsley

Nigel Gearsley (voiced by Greg Ellis) is a British Racing Green 2008 Aston Martin DBR9 GT1.

Citroen C4 WRC

Max Schnell

Max Schnell (voiced by James Rankin) is a champion of the fictional World Torque Championship League (WtCL). According to Meet the Cars and other books, he is a 2009 World Torque League Championship Racer.

World Grand Prix announcers

Brent Mustangburger

Brent Mustangburger, a 1965 Ford Mustang in traditional racing blue, is based on ESPN/ABC sportscaster Brent Musburger, who provides the character's voice. He re-appears in the spin-off film Planes.

David Hobbscap

Jaguar E Type

David Hobbscap, a British racing green 1963 Jaguar Coombs Lightweight E-Type, is a former champion from 24 Heures du Mans turned television sportscaster. His character is based on the real life former British racing driver and current NBC Sports commentator David Hobbs, who provides the character's voice. Jacques Villeneuve voices the character in the French and Quebec versions of Cars 2. He joins Brent Mustangburger and Darrell Cartrip.

Cars 3

Main article: Cars 3

These are characters who have first or only appeared in the film Cars 3 (2017).

Miss Fritter

International S Series

Miss Fritter (voiced by Lea Delaria) is a villainous demolition derby-inspired school bus with 4x4 jacked up wheels, with some elements from the 1970 International S Series and the Ford B series, with various license plates hanging down her left side, smoke stacks of doom that release fire and her race number 58 on her sides, and a main Antagonist in the third film as well. She is Lightning McQueen's nemesis, an undefeated Crazy-8 champion in the movie. She appears at a demolition derby at Thunder Hollow Speedway. She nearly saws Cruz with her Stop sign saw blades until Lightning McQueen, disguised as Chester Whipplefilter stops her only to get his tire shredded because the saw was lodged between his rear fender and tire. Cruz Ramirez ends up winning the race. At the end, Miss Fritter is serving as a turn friended big fan of Lightning McQueen and she was very happy to see him after his disguise came out. Miss Fritter is then seen cheering for McQueen and Cruz, watching the Florida 500 on TV.

Then she appeared in a Cars 3 short film "Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool" shooting a commercial for demolition derby racing along with her friends from Thunder Hollow. She returned in "Cars 3: Driven to Win" as an unlockable playable character and the first Master Event Boss Character. She is unlocked by completing and defeating her in the Master-level event, Miss Fritter Battle Race. She also chased Jackson Storm, an arrogent Next-Gen Piston Cup racer determined to beat anyone anywhere, at Thunder Hollow after the player beats him to the finish in the master-level event, Jackson Storm Race.

Planes

Main article: Planes (film)

• Dane Cook as Dusty Crophopper. He was inspired by the Air Tractor AT-502, Cessna and the PZL-Mielec M-18 Dromader. He is painted white and orange with some black stripes. After his training, he has the black Jolly Wrenches insignia Skipper earned him up front as well as "D7" on his rudder. Since the Germany leg in the WATG rally, he gained blue racing stripes and the number 7 in a white circle on his body and wings. After becoming severely damaged en route to Mexico in the storm, most Wings Around The Globe racers gave him new parts as well as gaining T-33 Shooting Star wings and a Skyslicer MK V propeller. At the end of the film, he has a Jolly Wrenches paint job while racing with Skipper, having been made an honorary Jolly Wrench. He returned in Planes 2 as a firefighter in training for Piston Peak Air Attack Team as a SEAT (Single Engined Air Tanker). His callsign is Crophopper 7.
• Stacy Keach as Skipper Riley, a Vought F4U Corsair and Dusty's mentor. His sole mission was a routine patrol that turned disastrous when his squadron stumbled upon an enemy fleet, leaving him as the sole survivor.
• Danny Mann as Sparky, a forklift and good friend of Chug and Skipper's assistant and mechanic
• Priyanka Chopra as Ishani, a Pan-Asian champion from India, based on the AeroCad AeroCanard with over a billion racing fans. She's painted orange and yellow with the number 6 in green. She is Dusty's good friend and Ripslinger's hated rival and former ally and teammate.
• Brad Garrett as Chug, a fuel truck and Dusty's best friend.
• Teri Hatcher as Dottie, a forklift and Dusty's friend and mechanic.
• Cedric the Entertainer as Leadbottom, a biplane inspired by the Boeing-Stearman Model 75 with a partial engine cowl.
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Rochelle, a racing plane from Canada inspired by the Bay Super V, a conversion of the V-tail Model 35 Beechcraft Bonanza painted pink and white with some red maple leaf designs and the number 22. She is sponsored by Powder Propellers. Originally from Quebec, her flag and paint job is localized in 11 countries. She is also El Chupacabra's girlfriend. In Australia and New Zealand, Rochelle is re-contextualized as a former Tasmanian mail delivery plane, and is voiced by Jessica Marais. For other international release of Planes, Rochelle was named and painted differently. She was known as "Carolina" for the Brazilian version (voiced by Ivete Sangalo), "Tanya" in the Russian version, "Heidi" in the German version, "Azzurra" in the Italian version (voiced by Micaela Ramazzotti), "Sakura" in the Japanese version (voiced by Naka Riisa), and "Yún Yàn Fēi" in the Chinese/Putonghua version (voiced by Yù Tóu). There's also a French version of Rochelle in the France version of Disney Planes. She may look similar to the Canadian Rochelle because of her paintwork and the French language she speaks. But the French Rochelle does not have the red maple leaf decals on her body.
• Roger Craig Smith as Ripslinger, a custom-built carbon-fiber race plane with green decals, orange flame designs, several racing sponsors and his name painted on his body and wings. He also has a four bladed contra-rotating propeller. Rip is captain of Team RPX and Dusty's hated rival in the film. His race number is 13. He later damaged Skipper's vertical stabilizer during the Mexico-New York leg. He returned as a main antagonist for Planes: the Video Game attempting to ruin Dusty's fame, wreck his town, paint Dusty graffiti on the Great Wall of China while disguised as him, and even cause trouble for Dusty's international friends including ruining the Diwali Festival in Ishani's home country.
• Gabriel Iglesias as Ned and Zed, henchmen of Ripslinger and his teammates inspired by the Zivko Edge 540 and MX Aircraft MXS. Ned is green with white wings and the number 0 in orange, while Zed is white with green wings and the number 00 in orange. They are twin brothers from New Zealand (They represent the United States with Ripslinger in the film) who try to sabotage the other racers by flying aggressively (this was best demonstrated when they cut off Dusty's antenna, forcing him to land on the USS Dwight D. Flysenhower), allowing Ripslinger to take the win with Ned and Zed finishing second and third. They were later thwarted by Dusty when Ned hit a rock with his left wing, sending him into a barrel roll and trapping both him and Zed into a narrow gap that only Dusty was able to fly through.
• John Cleese as Bulldog, a de Havilland DH.88 Comet from the United Kingdom, painted blue and white on his chassis and red wings. He has the Union Jack painted up front with the number 11 in black inside a white circle on his sides and wings. He was saved from crashing by Dusty in the Iceland-Germany leg.
• Carlos Alazraqui as El Chupacabra, a red, white and green Gee Bee Model R and Dusty's good friend and Rochelle's boyfriend. He is racer number 5 from Mexico.
• Brent Musburger as Brent Mustangburger, a 1964½ Ford Mustang and main announcer for the RSN and the Wings Around The Globe rally.

Planes 2: Fire & Rescue

Main article: Planes: Fire & Rescue

• Julie Bowen as Lil' Dipper, a Super Scooper based on the Grumman G-21 Goose and C-415 SuperScooper She is also Dusty's biggest fan and love interest.
• Curtis Armstrong as Maru, a forklift mechanic at the Piston Peak Air Attack base
• Ed Harris as Blade Ranger, a veteran fire-and-rescue helicopter. He used to play a police helicopter in CHoPs with Nick "Loop'n" Lopez but became a firefighter when Nick died. Blade is inspired by the AgustaWestland AW109, AgustaWestland AW139 and Bell 429 GlobalRanger
• Wes Studi as Windlifter, a Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane heavy-lift helicopter who used to work as a lumberjack before Planes 2
• Dale Dye as Cabbie, a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar retired from military service who airdrops the Smokejumpers to fire sites
• Regina King as Dynamite, the leader of The Smokejumpers, a team of ground vehicles which parachute into fire sites
• Corri English as Pinecone, a smokejumper equipped with a rake tool to clear brush and debris
• Bryan Callen as Avalanche, a bulldozer and a smokejumper
• Danny Pardo as Blackout, a smokejumper equipped with a circular saw
• Matt L. Jones as Drip, a smokejumper equipped with a skid-steer claw to clear fallen trees and brush
• Fred Willard as Secretary of the Interior, a green four-wheel-drive with a roof rack
• Jerry Stiller as Harvey, an RV and Winnie's husband.
• Anne Meara as Winnie, an RV and Harvey's wife.
• Erik Estrada as Nick "Loop'n" Lopez, a helicopter TV actor who was the co-star of CHoPs. He was killed during filming of the series's one-hundred-thirty-ninth episode, and is the reason Blade became a firefighter (Blade couldn't save him in time).
• John Michael Higgins as Cad Spinner, a second generation Cadillac Escalade and the park superintendent of the Piston Peak Fusalodge
• Barry Corbin as Ol' Jammer, a tour bus at Piston Peak. He later was promoted as superintendent after Cad was fired from his selfishness
• Hal Holbrook as Mayday, an old fire and rescue truck from Propwash Junction
• Kevin Michael Richardson as Ryker, a transportation management safety truck with a roof-mounted watercannon for firefighting. Ryker made a camo appearance at the end of Planes cheering for Dusty Crophopper after he won his first ever WATG rally against Ripslinger.
• Patrick Warburton as Pulaski, a structural firefighting fire truck at Piston Peak with a roof-mounted watercannon for firefighting. Pulaski's namesake, Ed Pulaski, was known for his heroism in saving most of his crew during the Great Fire of 1910 by sheltering in an abandoned mine.
• Brad Paisley as Bubba, a Pickup truck
• Kari Wahlgren as Patch
• René Auberjonois as Concierge
• Steve Schirripa as Steve
• John Ratzenberger as Brodi

External links

• Disney World of Cars Official Site