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*** Cars 3 has a scene similar to the aforementioned one in the first film that's even more beautiful, showing the advancements the animation giant has made over the past 11 years, looking even more photorealistic than it did in 2006.
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* ''Cars: Lightning League'' (2017)
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* ''Cars: Fast as Lightning'' (2014)[[note]]An iOS game released by {{Gameloft}} that features characters from the first two films.[[/note]]
* ''Cars: Fast as Lightning'' (2014)[[note]]An iOS game released by {{Gameloft}} that features characters from the first two films.[[/note]]
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** ''Cars 3'' is ''Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby'' [-WITH CARS!-]!
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* Really700YearsOld: Almost every character, given to the point they do not show any signs of aging as years pass (especially noticeable with Doc, who has the exact same appearance 50 years apart from his crash).
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* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Inverted with Lightning and Sally; she is blue whilst he is red.
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* {{Bookends}}: So far, each film starts and ends with a race, either competitive or friendly. On a side note, the first and third films end with a racing legend becoming a rookie's mentor (Doc Hudson, a retired racer becomes one to Lightning, whilst Lightning himself becomes one to Cruz Ramirez).
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* {{Bookends}}: So far, each film starts and ends with a race, either competitive or friendly. On a side note, [[spoiler: both the first and third films end with a racing legend becoming a rookie's mentor (Doc Hudson, a retired racer becomes one to Lightning, whilst Lightning himself becomes one to Cruz Ramirez).]]
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* MentorArchetype: Doc serves as one to Lightning. After his passing, [[spoiler: Lightning himself eventually becomes one to Cruz.]]
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* RidingIntoTheSunset: So far, every film ends this way.
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* ''Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures'' (2006)
* ''Cars: Mater-National Championship'' (2007)
* ''Cars: Race-O-Rama'' (2008)
* ''Cars 2'' (2011)
* ''Cars 3: Driven to Win'' (2017)
* ''Cars: Mater-National Championship'' (2007)
* ''Cars: Race-O-Rama'' (2008)
* ''Cars 2'' (2011)
* ''Cars 3: Driven to Win'' (2017)
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* MerchandiseDriven: Four years and five new Pixar movies later, you still can see an ad for a new ''Cars'' toy once in a while, and they still take up a good portion of shelf space in stores. A study conducted in 2010 found that 50% of American boys aged 5-13 had at least one Cars shirt in their wardrobe. This is probably the reason that justifies Disney's ExecutiveMeddling in getting Pixar to make a sequel.
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* MerchandiseDriven: Four years and five new Pixar movies later, you still can see an ad for a new ''Cars'' toy once in a while, and they still take up a good portion of shelf space in stores. A study conducted in 2010 found that 50% of American boys aged 5-13 had at least one Cars shirt in their wardrobe. This is probably the reason that justifies Disney's ExecutiveMeddling in getting Pixar to make a sequel. To put it into perspective, ''Cars'' is second only to '''''Star Wars''''' in the value of merchandise sold.
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* LicensedGame: Four in total; ''Cars: The Video Game'', ''Cars Mater-National'', ''Cars Race-O-Rama'' and ''Cars 2: The Video Game''.
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* LicensedGame: Four Five in total; ''Cars: The Video Game'', ''Cars Mater-National'', ''Cars Race-O-Rama'' and Race-O-Rama'', ''Cars 2: The Video Game''.Game'' and ''Cars 3: Driven to Win''.
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*** ''Air Mater'' -- Mater goes to a town inhabited by planes and learns to fly. It was released on the ''Cars 2'' DVD and acts as a set up for the upcoming SpinOff film ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}''.
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*** ''Air Mater'' -- Mater goes to a town inhabited by planes and learns to fly. It was released on the ''Cars 2'' DVD and acts as a set up for the upcoming SpinOff film ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}''.
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** The second movie started the transition from lighthearted fun to darker and more sophisticated plots.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Holy '''shit''', the teaser trailer for ''Cars 3'', which shows that the movie will revolve around Lightning getting into a serious injury in a much, much grittier tone than Pixar's usual output. Although it's suggested by the actual press release that the story will be inspirational in terms of tone (since it revolves around Lightning taking a fan of his under his wing to help him get back into shape to win a major race), [[NeverTrustATrailer the teaser makes it look like]] Lightning actually ''gets killed'' in a racing accident!
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Holy '''shit''', '''crap''', the teaser trailer for ''Cars 3'', which shows that the movie will revolve around Lightning getting into a serious injury in a much, much grittier tone than Pixar's usual output. Although it's suggested by the actual press release that the story will be inspirational in terms of tone (since it revolves around Lightning taking a fan of his under his wing to help him get back into shape to win a major race), [[NeverTrustATrailer the teaser makes it look like]] Lightning actually ''gets killed'' in a racing accident!accident!
** The second movie started the transition from lighthearted fun to darker and more sophisticated plots.
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* ButtMonkey: Lightning in some of the Mater's Tall Tales shorts.
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* ChekhovsSkill: [=McQueen=] learns [[spoiler:drifting and backwards driving from Doc and Mater, respectively]]. They naturally surprise and shock Chick Hicks.
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* ButtMonkey: Lightning in some of the Mater's Tall Tales shorts.
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* CoolCar: The entire cast.
** Moreso in the sequel -- Finn [=McMissile=] (played by Creator/MichaelCaine) is essentially Film/JamesBond in [[WeaponizedCar car form]].
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* CoolCar: The entire cast.
**cast. Moreso in the sequel -- Finn [=McMissile=] (played by Creator/MichaelCaine) is essentially Film/JamesBond in [[WeaponizedCar car form]].form]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: Holy '''shit''', the teaser trailer for ''Cars 3'', which shows that the movie will revolve around Lightning getting into a serious injury in a much, much grittier tone than Pixar's usual output. Although it's suggested by the actual press release that the story will be inspirational in terms of tone (since it revolves around Lightning taking a fan of his under his wing to help him get back into shape to win a major race), [[NeverTrustATrailer the teaser makes it look like]] Lightning actually ''gets killed'' in a racing accident!
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** GeniusDitz: He has a VERY extensive knowledge on car engines and their parts; particularly cars who were pretty bad. [[spoiler:Also don't get us started on his Batman Gambit and analytical skills]].skills.]]
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* ''VideoGame/{{Cars}}'' (2006)
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* RecycledInSpace: ''Cars'' is ''Doc Hollywood'' [-WITH CARS!-]!
** ''Cars 2'' is ''TheManWhoKnewTooLittle'' [-WITH CARS!-]!
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** ''Cars'' is ''Doc Hollywood'' [-WITH CARS!-]!
** ''Cars 2'' is''TheManWhoKnewTooLittle'' ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooLittle'' [-WITH CARS!-]!
** ''Cars'' is ''Doc Hollywood'' [-WITH CARS!-]!
** ''Cars 2'' is
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** Moreso in the sequel -- Finn [=McMissile=] (played by [[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga Michael]] [[HarryBrown Caine]]) is essentially Film/JamesBond in [[WeaponizedCar car form]].
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** Moreso in the sequel -- Finn [=McMissile=] (played by [[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga Michael]] [[HarryBrown Caine]]) Creator/MichaelCaine) is essentially Film/JamesBond in [[WeaponizedCar car form]].
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* MinnesotaNice: Once scene features an overly cheerful lost car named [[MeaningfulName Minnie]] asks for directions in an [[AmericanAccents exaggerated Scandanavian-esque accent]] and mentions that her husband also got them lost in Shakopee.
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* MinnesotaNice: Once scene features an overly cheerful lost car named [[MeaningfulName Minnie]] asks for directions in an [[AmericanAccents [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents exaggerated Scandanavian-esque Scandinavian-esque accent]] and mentions that her husband also got them lost in Shakopee.
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*** ''Time Travel Mater'' -- Mater accidentally travels back in time to when Stanley first discovered the original Radiator Springs and with Lightning, ensures that history remains on course. Premiered at [[DisneyThemeParks Disney California Adventure]] and features locations introduced in the Cars Land expansion of the park where Stanley set up the beginnings of the town as a rest stop for traveling cars.
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*** ''Time Travel Mater'' -- Mater accidentally travels back in time to when Stanley first discovered the original Radiator Springs and with Lightning, ensures that history remains on course. Premiered at [[DisneyThemeParks [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney California Adventure]] and features locations introduced in the Cars Land expansion of the park where Stanley set up the beginnings of the town as a rest stop for traveling cars.
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* ''[[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Mater and the Ghostlight]]'' (2006): follow-up to ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''.[[/index]]
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A series of computer-animated films from Creator/{{Pixar}} and directed by John Lasseter, who also directed ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' and ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin True to the title]], the stories take place in a world entirely populated by anthropomorphic cars and other vehicles -- aside from plants, there are no organic life-forms of any sort. Just about everything else is reinterpreted into automotive counterparts, such as insects becoming [[StealthPun Volkswagen Beetles]] and rock formations in the shape of car bodies.
The main films:
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' (2006)
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'' (2011)
* ''Cars 3'' (in pre-production)
Spin-offs:
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'' (2013): Produced by [=DisneyToon=] Studios, not Pixar.
* ''WesternAnimation/PlanesFireAndRescue'' (2014): Same as above.
Shorts:
* ''[[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Mater and the Ghostlight]]'' (2006): follow-up to ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''.[[/index]]
* ''Cars Toons'': Produced for Creator/DisneyChannel.
** ''Mater's Tall Tales'':
*** ''Rescue Squad Mater'' -- Mater tells a story about how he was a firetruck. Oh, and he was a doctor too.
*** ''Mater The Greater'' -- Mater claims to have been an Evel-Knievel-style daredevil in a previous life.
*** ''El Materdor'' -- Mater is now a bullfighter. The bulls in question are bulldozers.
*** ''Tokyo Mater'' (played before ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'') -- The first Pixar short to play before a ''non''-Pixar film, and their first theatrical short to be based on a previous movie, ''Tokyo Mater'' centers around a story Mater tells about him getting involved in a drift race in Tokyo.
*** ''Unidentified Flying Mater'' -- Mater makes friends with a small flying saucer spaceship that speaks in a strange robotic voice. The UFM (called "Mator") teaches Mater how to fly, but gets taken away to [[{{Area 51}} Parking Area 51]].
*** ''Monster Truck Mater'' -- Mater becomes a monster truck wrestler and fights various other monster trucks (such as [[BadHumorTruck Ice Screamer]], [[TankGoodness Captain Collision]], [[DreadlockRasta Rastacarian]], [[DeadlyDoctor Dr. Feelbad]], and [[{{Oireland}} Paddy O'Concrete]]) until he qualifies to the championship round against [[HerrDoktor Dr. Frankenwagon]] and [[FrankensteinsMonster his monster]].
*** ''Heavy Metal Mater'' -- During a night of karaoke at Flo's, Mater recounts how he used to be a big rock star in a heavy metal band.
*** ''Moon Mater'' -- Mater is inducted into the NASCA space program. His mission: Rescue Impala XIII, who has broken down on the moon.
*** ''Mater Private Eye'' -- Private investigator Mater must solve a case about counterfeit tyres and track down the whereabouts of Tia's sister, Mia, who's been car-napped.
*** ''Air Mater'' -- Mater goes to a town inhabited by planes and learns to fly. It was released on the ''Cars 2'' DVD and acts as a set up for the upcoming SpinOff film ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}''.
*** ''Time Travel Mater'' -- Mater accidentally travels back in time to when Stanley first discovered the original Radiator Springs and with Lightning, ensures that history remains on course. Premiered at [[DisneyThemeParks Disney California Adventure]] and features locations introduced in the Cars Land expansion of the park where Stanley set up the beginnings of the town as a rest stop for traveling cars.
** ''Tales from Radiator Springs'':
*** ''Hiccups'': Lightning [=McQueen=] gets hiccups from drinking his breakfast of champions: oil. Many of the Radiator Springs residents give him advice on how to cure the "annoyingness", but none of the ideas work—until Sally Carrera, Lightning [=McQueen=]'s girlfriend, kisses him on the cheek... and his hiccups disappear.
*** ''Bugged'': Red’s peaceful morning routine is interrupted by a pesky visitor.
*** ''Spinning'': Guido discovers he has a hidden talent as a street corner sign spinner.
*** ''The Radiator Springs 500½'': Radiator Springs celebrates a Founders Day honoring the late Stanley when a gang of Baja racers descend on the town and challenge Lightning [=McQueen=] to a race.
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!!The ''Cars'' films and shorts contain examples of the following tropes
* AnimateInanimateObject: Every. Single. Character.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_beJRyq4a0 This State Farm commercial]] features toy cars, airplanes, and trains as the world's equivalent of pets.
* AuthorAppeal: John Lasseter admits he made this movie cause he likes cool cars.
** Several of the senior animators and designers at Pixar are also car enthusiasts, and the company regularly holds in-company car shows where staffers bring in their vintage and exotic automobiles.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Lightning [=McQueen=] for starters. The other racecars are no slouches in the naming department either.
* TheBigRace
* BilingualBonus: Guido (voiced by Guido Quaroni) ''only'' speaks in (correct) Italian.
** The second movie takes this UpToEleven as the action goes to Japan, France and Italy.
* [[BreakoutCharacter Breakout Car-acter]]: If it hasn't been obvious in the past several years since the first movie, Mr. Tow Mater.
** WordOfGod is that the genesis for ''Cars 2'' came while John Lasseter was doing international promotional tours for ''Cars'', then musing, "How would Mater respond to this?"
* ButtMonkey: Lightning in some of the Mater's Tall Tales shorts.
** TheAce: in others
* ChekhovsSkill: [=McQueen=] learns [[spoiler:drifting and backwards driving from Doc and Mater, respectively]]. They naturally surprise and shock Chick Hicks.
** Both of which resurface again in ''Cars 2''. Heck, the way [[spoiler:the Radiator Springs crew all use their skills to curbstomp a band of {{Mooks}} practically screams PlotTailoredToTheParty]].
* ConjoinedEyes
* CoolCar: The entire cast.
** Moreso in the sequel -- Finn [=McMissile=] (played by [[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga Michael]] [[HarryBrown Caine]]) is essentially Film/JamesBond in [[WeaponizedCar car form]].
* TheDitz: Mater.
** GeniusDitz: He has a VERY extensive knowledge on car engines and their parts; particularly cars who were pretty bad. [[spoiler:Also don't get us started on his Batman Gambit and analytical skills]].
* EnormousEngine: Snot Rod.
* FeatherFingers: They're cars, and yet they manage to write, paint, and hold microphones.
* [[FourTemperamentEnsemble Five-Temperament Ensemble]]: [=McQueen=] (sanguine/choleric), Sheriff (choleric), Doc Hudson (melancholic/choleric), Red (melancholic), Sally (phlegmatic), Mater and "The King" Weathers (sanguine), and Mack (leukine).
* HippieVan: Literally, in the case of Fillmore; he's a hippie who ''is'' a van, rather than driving one.
* LicensedGame: Four in total; ''Cars: The Video Game'', ''Cars Mater-National'', ''Cars Race-O-Rama'' and ''Cars 2: The Video Game''.
** Pretty much averting TheProblemWithLicensedGames since they have all gotten at least decent reviews and from all reports are actually pretty fun and represent a lot of the racing "feel" of the movies. Then again, how hard can it be to make a game based on movies about race cars?
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* MatryoshkaObject: The closing credits of ''Cars 2'' showed Fillmore, Sarge, Luigi, and Guido as nesting dolls.
* MeaningfulName: A lot of the names are from Creator/IsaacAsimov's short story "Sally", which is about sentient (robotic) cars.
** [=McQueen=]'s name gets some confusion though as people believe he's based on a famous race car legend. He's actually named after Glenn [=McQueen=], a Pixar worker who died during ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'''s production.
* MerchandiseDriven: Four years and five new Pixar movies later, you still can see an ad for a new ''Cars'' toy once in a while, and they still take up a good portion of shelf space in stores. A study conducted in 2010 found that 50% of American boys aged 5-13 had at least one Cars shirt in their wardrobe. This is probably the reason that justifies Disney's ExecutiveMeddling in getting Pixar to make a sequel.
** And seeing as this is a movie about [[StealthPun cars]]... [[HilariousInHindsight heheheh]].
* MilestoneCelebration: Both films have specialized logos for Creator/{{Pixar}}, due to being released on their 20th and 25th anniversaries, respectively.
* MinnesotaNice: Once scene features an overly cheerful lost car named [[MeaningfulName Minnie]] asks for directions in an [[AmericanAccents exaggerated Scandanavian-esque accent]] and mentions that her husband also got them lost in Shakopee.
* MultipleDemographicAppeal
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Filmore.
* [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed No Celebrity Cars Were Harmed]]: Many characters are in-universe automobile versions of real celebrities, voiced by the same people they were based from. See the individual movie entries below for details.
* OddCouple: Lighting and Mater (worldly/naive), Sarge and Fillmore (army/hippie), Ramone and Flo ("gangster"/showgirl)
* OrWasItADream: How almost all of ''Mater's Tall Tales'' end. Even though [=McQueen=] is in all of them despite a)him not remembering any of it, and b)the events taking places years before the two met.
* PimpedOutCar: It was bound to happen, when you have a "Body Paint" store at Radiator Springs.
* PunnyName: Done with many of the characters who are automotive versions of their real selves, like Jay Limo, Darrell Cartrip, Jeff Gorvette, David Hobbscap, and Brent Mustangburger. Averted with Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s cameo as his #8 DEI Chevrolet Monte Carlo: he is called "Junior", which is used often by NASCAR broadcasts.
** Befitting its globetrotter plot, the sequel expands the puns to places and things, such as Petrodilly Circus and Big Bentley in London, the Republic of Rearendia, and mentions about the Running of the Bulldozers in Pamplona.
* RecycledInSpace: ''Cars'' is ''Doc Hollywood'' [-WITH CARS!-]!
** ''Cars 2'' is ''TheManWhoKnewTooLittle'' [-WITH CARS!-]!
* RunningGag: This film seems awfully fond of butt jokes. To wit:
** Lizzie slaps a sticker on the bumper of a couple passing through that reads "Nice Butte!"
** Mater places his towing hook in a rather uncomfortable spot when he tows Lightning away.
** Lightning catches Sheriff in a compromising position on the hydraulic lift at Doc's office/garage.
** "Rust-Eze medicated bumper ointment, new rear-end formula!"
** Ramone flashes his undercarriage Von Dutch-style pinstriping at the lost tourists.
** Not to mention where Sally keeps her EmbarrassingTattoo.
** Rip Clutchgoneski, one of the racecars from the sequel, hails from the [[{{Ruritania}} Republic of New Rearendia]].
* SceneryPorn: It ''is'' a Pixar work.
** The "Life Is a Highway" segment from the first film is especially noteworthy.
*** The sequel shows us '''''beautiful''''' scenes of Italy, France, Japan and England!
* ShownTheirWork: Watch the DVD extras to see the amount of work that went into even minor details that virtually nobody will notice.
** This is especially noticed in the second film. [[spoiler:Especially when many of the Mooks turn out to be Lemons and Mater's spiel about car parts]].
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The male-to-female ratio is 9:3. In the first film, [[ViewerGenderConfusion the racecar sponsoring RevNGo]] is actually the only female competing in the Piston Cup, and in the sequel, Carla Veloso, the Brazilian racecar is the only female competing in the World Grand Prix.
* TechnologyPorn: With all the cars in this movie, is this a surprise?
** With both cars and spies, this is taken UpToEleven in the sequel, especially whenever Finn [=McMissile=] appears.
* TrailerParkTornadoMagnet: Mater remarks that he's "as happy as a tor-nado in a trailer park!"
* UnreliableNarrator: Mater is one, as evident in his "Tall Tales" shorts. This becomes a plot point for ''Cars 2''.
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: A rare non-animal example.
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A series of computer-animated films from Creator/{{Pixar}} and directed by John Lasseter, who also directed ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' and ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin True to the title]], the stories take place in a world entirely populated by anthropomorphic cars and other vehicles -- aside from plants, there are no organic life-forms of any sort. Just about everything else is reinterpreted into automotive counterparts, such as insects becoming [[StealthPun Volkswagen Beetles]] and rock formations in the shape of car bodies.
The main films:
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' (2006)
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'' (2011)
* ''Cars 3'' (in pre-production)
Spin-offs:
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'' (2013): Produced by [=DisneyToon=] Studios, not Pixar.
* ''WesternAnimation/PlanesFireAndRescue'' (2014): Same as above.
Shorts:
* ''[[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Mater and the Ghostlight]]'' (2006): follow-up to ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''.[[/index]]
* ''Cars Toons'': Produced for Creator/DisneyChannel.
** ''Mater's Tall Tales'':
*** ''Rescue Squad Mater'' -- Mater tells a story about how he was a firetruck. Oh, and he was a doctor too.
*** ''Mater The Greater'' -- Mater claims to have been an Evel-Knievel-style daredevil in a previous life.
*** ''El Materdor'' -- Mater is now a bullfighter. The bulls in question are bulldozers.
*** ''Tokyo Mater'' (played before ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'') -- The first Pixar short to play before a ''non''-Pixar film, and their first theatrical short to be based on a previous movie, ''Tokyo Mater'' centers around a story Mater tells about him getting involved in a drift race in Tokyo.
*** ''Unidentified Flying Mater'' -- Mater makes friends with a small flying saucer spaceship that speaks in a strange robotic voice. The UFM (called "Mator") teaches Mater how to fly, but gets taken away to [[{{Area 51}} Parking Area 51]].
*** ''Monster Truck Mater'' -- Mater becomes a monster truck wrestler and fights various other monster trucks (such as [[BadHumorTruck Ice Screamer]], [[TankGoodness Captain Collision]], [[DreadlockRasta Rastacarian]], [[DeadlyDoctor Dr. Feelbad]], and [[{{Oireland}} Paddy O'Concrete]]) until he qualifies to the championship round against [[HerrDoktor Dr. Frankenwagon]] and [[FrankensteinsMonster his monster]].
*** ''Heavy Metal Mater'' -- During a night of karaoke at Flo's, Mater recounts how he used to be a big rock star in a heavy metal band.
*** ''Moon Mater'' -- Mater is inducted into the NASCA space program. His mission: Rescue Impala XIII, who has broken down on the moon.
*** ''Mater Private Eye'' -- Private investigator Mater must solve a case about counterfeit tyres and track down the whereabouts of Tia's sister, Mia, who's been car-napped.
*** ''Air Mater'' -- Mater goes to a town inhabited by planes and learns to fly. It was released on the ''Cars 2'' DVD and acts as a set up for the upcoming SpinOff film ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}''.
*** ''Time Travel Mater'' -- Mater accidentally travels back in time to when Stanley first discovered the original Radiator Springs and with Lightning, ensures that history remains on course. Premiered at [[DisneyThemeParks Disney California Adventure]] and features locations introduced in the Cars Land expansion of the park where Stanley set up the beginnings of the town as a rest stop for traveling cars.
** ''Tales from Radiator Springs'':
*** ''Hiccups'': Lightning [=McQueen=] gets hiccups from drinking his breakfast of champions: oil. Many of the Radiator Springs residents give him advice on how to cure the "annoyingness", but none of the ideas work—until Sally Carrera, Lightning [=McQueen=]'s girlfriend, kisses him on the cheek... and his hiccups disappear.
*** ''Bugged'': Red’s peaceful morning routine is interrupted by a pesky visitor.
*** ''Spinning'': Guido discovers he has a hidden talent as a street corner sign spinner.
*** ''The Radiator Springs 500½'': Radiator Springs celebrates a Founders Day honoring the late Stanley when a gang of Baja racers descend on the town and challenge Lightning [=McQueen=] to a race.
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!!The ''Cars'' films and shorts contain examples of the following tropes
* AnimateInanimateObject: Every. Single. Character.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_beJRyq4a0 This State Farm commercial]] features toy cars, airplanes, and trains as the world's equivalent of pets.
* AuthorAppeal: John Lasseter admits he made this movie cause he likes cool cars.
** Several of the senior animators and designers at Pixar are also car enthusiasts, and the company regularly holds in-company car shows where staffers bring in their vintage and exotic automobiles.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Lightning [=McQueen=] for starters. The other racecars are no slouches in the naming department either.
* TheBigRace
* BilingualBonus: Guido (voiced by Guido Quaroni) ''only'' speaks in (correct) Italian.
** The second movie takes this UpToEleven as the action goes to Japan, France and Italy.
* [[BreakoutCharacter Breakout Car-acter]]: If it hasn't been obvious in the past several years since the first movie, Mr. Tow Mater.
** WordOfGod is that the genesis for ''Cars 2'' came while John Lasseter was doing international promotional tours for ''Cars'', then musing, "How would Mater respond to this?"
* ButtMonkey: Lightning in some of the Mater's Tall Tales shorts.
** TheAce: in others
* ChekhovsSkill: [=McQueen=] learns [[spoiler:drifting and backwards driving from Doc and Mater, respectively]]. They naturally surprise and shock Chick Hicks.
** Both of which resurface again in ''Cars 2''. Heck, the way [[spoiler:the Radiator Springs crew all use their skills to curbstomp a band of {{Mooks}} practically screams PlotTailoredToTheParty]].
* ConjoinedEyes
* CoolCar: The entire cast.
** Moreso in the sequel -- Finn [=McMissile=] (played by [[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga Michael]] [[HarryBrown Caine]]) is essentially Film/JamesBond in [[WeaponizedCar car form]].
* TheDitz: Mater.
** GeniusDitz: He has a VERY extensive knowledge on car engines and their parts; particularly cars who were pretty bad. [[spoiler:Also don't get us started on his Batman Gambit and analytical skills]].
* EnormousEngine: Snot Rod.
* FeatherFingers: They're cars, and yet they manage to write, paint, and hold microphones.
* [[FourTemperamentEnsemble Five-Temperament Ensemble]]: [=McQueen=] (sanguine/choleric), Sheriff (choleric), Doc Hudson (melancholic/choleric), Red (melancholic), Sally (phlegmatic), Mater and "The King" Weathers (sanguine), and Mack (leukine).
* HippieVan: Literally, in the case of Fillmore; he's a hippie who ''is'' a van, rather than driving one.
* LicensedGame: Four in total; ''Cars: The Video Game'', ''Cars Mater-National'', ''Cars Race-O-Rama'' and ''Cars 2: The Video Game''.
** Pretty much averting TheProblemWithLicensedGames since they have all gotten at least decent reviews and from all reports are actually pretty fun and represent a lot of the racing "feel" of the movies. Then again, how hard can it be to make a game based on movies about race cars?
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* MatryoshkaObject: The closing credits of ''Cars 2'' showed Fillmore, Sarge, Luigi, and Guido as nesting dolls.
* MeaningfulName: A lot of the names are from Creator/IsaacAsimov's short story "Sally", which is about sentient (robotic) cars.
** [=McQueen=]'s name gets some confusion though as people believe he's based on a famous race car legend. He's actually named after Glenn [=McQueen=], a Pixar worker who died during ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'''s production.
* MerchandiseDriven: Four years and five new Pixar movies later, you still can see an ad for a new ''Cars'' toy once in a while, and they still take up a good portion of shelf space in stores. A study conducted in 2010 found that 50% of American boys aged 5-13 had at least one Cars shirt in their wardrobe. This is probably the reason that justifies Disney's ExecutiveMeddling in getting Pixar to make a sequel.
** And seeing as this is a movie about [[StealthPun cars]]... [[HilariousInHindsight heheheh]].
* MilestoneCelebration: Both films have specialized logos for Creator/{{Pixar}}, due to being released on their 20th and 25th anniversaries, respectively.
* MinnesotaNice: Once scene features an overly cheerful lost car named [[MeaningfulName Minnie]] asks for directions in an [[AmericanAccents exaggerated Scandanavian-esque accent]] and mentions that her husband also got them lost in Shakopee.
* MultipleDemographicAppeal
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Filmore.
* [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed No Celebrity Cars Were Harmed]]: Many characters are in-universe automobile versions of real celebrities, voiced by the same people they were based from. See the individual movie entries below for details.
* OddCouple: Lighting and Mater (worldly/naive), Sarge and Fillmore (army/hippie), Ramone and Flo ("gangster"/showgirl)
* OrWasItADream: How almost all of ''Mater's Tall Tales'' end. Even though [=McQueen=] is in all of them despite a)him not remembering any of it, and b)the events taking places years before the two met.
* PimpedOutCar: It was bound to happen, when you have a "Body Paint" store at Radiator Springs.
* PunnyName: Done with many of the characters who are automotive versions of their real selves, like Jay Limo, Darrell Cartrip, Jeff Gorvette, David Hobbscap, and Brent Mustangburger. Averted with Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s cameo as his #8 DEI Chevrolet Monte Carlo: he is called "Junior", which is used often by NASCAR broadcasts.
** Befitting its globetrotter plot, the sequel expands the puns to places and things, such as Petrodilly Circus and Big Bentley in London, the Republic of Rearendia, and mentions about the Running of the Bulldozers in Pamplona.
* RecycledInSpace: ''Cars'' is ''Doc Hollywood'' [-WITH CARS!-]!
** ''Cars 2'' is ''TheManWhoKnewTooLittle'' [-WITH CARS!-]!
* RunningGag: This film seems awfully fond of butt jokes. To wit:
** Lizzie slaps a sticker on the bumper of a couple passing through that reads "Nice Butte!"
** Mater places his towing hook in a rather uncomfortable spot when he tows Lightning away.
** Lightning catches Sheriff in a compromising position on the hydraulic lift at Doc's office/garage.
** "Rust-Eze medicated bumper ointment, new rear-end formula!"
** Ramone flashes his undercarriage Von Dutch-style pinstriping at the lost tourists.
** Not to mention where Sally keeps her EmbarrassingTattoo.
** Rip Clutchgoneski, one of the racecars from the sequel, hails from the [[{{Ruritania}} Republic of New Rearendia]].
* SceneryPorn: It ''is'' a Pixar work.
** The "Life Is a Highway" segment from the first film is especially noteworthy.
*** The sequel shows us '''''beautiful''''' scenes of Italy, France, Japan and England!
* ShownTheirWork: Watch the DVD extras to see the amount of work that went into even minor details that virtually nobody will notice.
** This is especially noticed in the second film. [[spoiler:Especially when many of the Mooks turn out to be Lemons and Mater's spiel about car parts]].
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The male-to-female ratio is 9:3. In the first film, [[ViewerGenderConfusion the racecar sponsoring RevNGo]] is actually the only female competing in the Piston Cup, and in the sequel, Carla Veloso, the Brazilian racecar is the only female competing in the World Grand Prix.
* TechnologyPorn: With all the cars in this movie, is this a surprise?
** With both cars and spies, this is taken UpToEleven in the sequel, especially whenever Finn [=McMissile=] appears.
* TrailerParkTornadoMagnet: Mater remarks that he's "as happy as a tor-nado in a trailer park!"
* UnreliableNarrator: Mater is one, as evident in his "Tall Tales" shorts. This becomes a plot point for ''Cars 2''.
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: A rare non-animal example.
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