Caught Up with Cars All Over Again

Since my friend’s kid was staying with us, we are stuck into watching kiddie films. And this is when I got to see Disney and Pixar’s animated movie, Cars. In this delightful animated film, cars literally rule the world. In fact, they are the inhabitants of the planet and they are really very human inspite of their features, which are well – automobiles. What had made them more human is the fact that their eyes are in their windshields and their wheels function as their arms and legs.

Here is a plot summary from the Internet Movie Database:

Lightning McQueen is a young, hotshot rookie race car in the last race of the season. At the end of the race, he finds out he is tied with Chick Hicks and The King. On the way to the tie-breaker race in Los Angeles, California, some hot punk cars get him lost in a little town called Radiator Springs on the old Route 66 road, which has been long forgotten many years ago. Scared to death, he tears up the town’s main road and is sentenced to community service by Doc Hudson. During this time, he meets a funny, but lovable tow truck named Mater and a beautiful Porsche Carrera named Sally. He also meets some other cars, whom which he finds to be quite odd. All he wants to do is get out of this town and back into the big city, but as the week until the race goes on, the town folk help him discover that life isn’t just about trophies, fame, and sponsorships and McQueen learns about family and friendship. Written by Collin B. (moviemanic122893)

There are lots vehicle types featured in the movie. Every Cars cast have a personality all their own. Here is the list based from Wikipedia:

Race cars

Character	Vehicle Likeness	Gender	Eye Color	Color	Chief Sponsor	Number	Voice Actor
Lightning McQueen	LA Times: “A hybrid between a stock car and a more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racer.”[10] (e.g., Lola and the Ford GT40)	Male	Blue	Red	Rust-Eze Medicated Bumper Ointment	95	Owen Wilson
Chick Hicks	Pixar: “A generic 1980s stock car.”[11] Strongly resembles a 78-88 General Motors G-Body such as Buick Regal or Grand National.	Male	Brown	Green	Hostile Takeover Bank (HTB)	86	Michael Keaton
The King	Richard Petty’s 1970 Plymouth Superbird	Male	Brown (during Piston Cup Race at the end of the movie, Kings’ eyes change from brown to blue)	Blue	Dinoco	43	Richard Petty

Radiator Springs cars

Name	Vehicle Likeness	Gender	Eye Color	Color	License Plate #	Voice Actor
Doc Hudson	1951 Hudson Hornet, later revealed to be the Fabulous Hudson Hornet	Male	Blue	Navy Blue	51HHMD	Paul Newman
Mater	1951 International Harvester L-170 “boom” truck[12] with elements of a mid-1950s Chevrolet[11] One-Ton Wrecker Tow Truck.	Male	Green	Originally turquoise, but is now rusty.	A113	Larry the Cable Guy
Sally Carrera	2002 996-series Porsche 911 Carrera	Female	Blue	Light Blue	301 PCE	Bonnie Hunt
Ramone	1959 Chevy Impala Lowrider	Male	Blue	Various colors (purple with flames at the start of the movie, burnt orange and white in flashback, yellow by the end, dark blue in the “Mater and the Ghostlight” short)	LOWNSLO	Cheech Marin
Luigi	1959 Fiat 500	Male	Brown	Yellow	445 108	Tony Shalhoub
Sheriff	1949 Mercury Club Coupe (police package)	Male	Blue	Black and white	001	Michael Wallis
Fillmore	1960 VW Bus	Male	Brown	Light Green	51237	George Carlin
Sarge	A 1941 Willys model jeep, in the style used by the US Military.	Male	Brown	Military Green	41WW2	Paul Dooley
Flo	1957 Motorama show car	Female	Green	Minty Green	SHO GRL	Jenifer Lewis
Guido	Custom forklift, hybrid between Isetta (front) and Messerschmitt Kabinenroller (back)	Male	Reddish Brown	Sky blue and white.	(none)	Guido Quaroni
Mack	1985 Mack Super-Liner	Male	Blue	Red (Lightning McQueen Style Paint Job.)	RUSTEZ3	John Ratzenberger
Lizzie	1923 Ford Model T	Female	Grey	Black	MT23	Katherine Helmond
Red	1960s style fire truck (most closely resembles a mid-1960s Pirsch pumper but also resembles American LaFrance models)	Male	Brown	Red	002	Joe Ranft

It’s great watching these animated films once in a while. You discover the kid in your heart again.