![]() ![]() Desperate to win, McQueen rushes to Mack, who forces him to make an appearance at his sponsor's tent, which McQueen hates. After a three-way tie between him, seven-time champion Strip Weathers and consistent runner-up Chick Hicks, Chick makes a bet with McQueen, where the first one to reach the tie-breaker race at the Los Angeles International Speedway wins the Dinoco sponsorship. In Cars, the film opens at the Motor Speedway of the South, where cocky and self-centered Lightning McQueen is competing in the Dinoco 400 for the title of the Piston Cup champion. McQueen's racing abilities eventually garnered the attention of the Piston Cup Racing Series, and he became a rookie in the championship's 2005 season. Though he was initially hesitant due to the sponsor's humiliating demeanor, McQueen agreed as long as Mack could become his transporter. Upon their arrival in Boston, Rusty and Dusty Rust-eze offered a sponsorship to McQueen. During their trip, McQueen and Mack became fast friends. Mack, who had overheard McQueen's termination, approached the young hotshot racer and offered to take him to Boston to meet for a job opportunity with Rust-eze, who had been looking, with little success, for a new spokescar. However, he was fired in favor of another young rookie racer named Sammy Smelter, whose poor racing fit the image of Smell Swell better, according to the representative who fired McQueen. Towards the start of his racing career, Lightning McQueen raced under the sponsorship of Smell Swell Deodorizer. Lightning McQueen in his early racing days. 1.13 Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure.1.10 Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales: The Video Game. ![]() You can stream all the Cars movies on Disney+ right here. So there you have it, Lighting McQueen is not really named or modeled after a specific car, but he could represent several different types of cars at the same time. He’d helped create Woody in Toy Story and Boo in Monsters, Inc., and was working on Finding Nemo at the time of his death. McQueen was actually a tribute to Pixar animator Glenn McQueen, who was only 41 when he succumbed to melanoma in 2002. Most people assume McQueen was named after Steve McQueen, the car-loving, iconic star of Bullitt, Le Mans, and The Getaway. And, over the course of this movie, he has to learn that there are more important things.”Finally, there’s the car’s name. (He’s) somebody that just wants to go fast and has to win. Once they started writing the character as an Owen Wilson (voice of McQueen) character, it really accomplished that.” As for Wilson’s take on his animated alter-ego’s temperament, he explained in a 2007 interview with Artisan News Service, “It’s kind of like, I guess, Maverick in Top Gun. Anyway, Pauley revealed to AutoWeek in 2006 that he “put together a series of little bios of great personalities that were really cocky but really likable, like Muhammad Ali, Charles Barkley, Joe Namath, Kid Rock. Spoiler (and that’s not a pun!) alert: He needs help. So, physically speaking, McQueen is a hybrid of cars that enthusiasts would see circling the tracks at NASCAR and Le Mans races.Personality-wise, McQueen is a cocky-but-lovable rookie who, at least initially, thinks he can win the Piston Cup without any help. But that didn’t satisfy Lasseter, who stated, “Due to aerodynamics, the shape of NASCAR cars is relatively flat and not very interesting.” As a result, Lasseter, directing animators John Ford Murphy and Bobby Podesta, production designer Bob Pauley, and others, incorporated bits of a Ford GT40 and a classic Lola. The Pixar team, with Cars director John Lasseter in the driver’s seat (oh good Lord, we’re so sorry), joined forces with Chevrolet to model McQueen on the company’s then-current Corvette model, the C6. ![]() The goal was to create a car – albeit one with blue eyes and a sly smile – that resembled an actual stock car. And we promise we’ll stop with the automotive puns. Take a drive with Fatherly as we brake, er, break it all down. It’s a question that’s been – ahem, cough, cough - driving us crazy for ages: What kind of car is Lightning McQueen in Disney/Pixar’s Cars universe? The sleek red anthropomorphic talking vehicle sure looks like a Corvette, but he’s not, or not quite. ![]()
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