He narrowly avoids losing the race when he sticks his tongue out, leading to a three-way tie with Strip "The King" Weathers and Chick Hicks. As a result, both rear tires blow out on the last lap. During a pit stop, he foolishly refuses the advice of his pit crew to replace his tires because he wants to remain in the lead. It is noted that he previously fired three crew chiefs. He is certain Dinoco will offer to sponsor him if he wins the prized Piston Cup.Īt the beginning of the film, McQueen is portrayed as being ungrateful, obnoxious, selfish, and sarcastic. McQueen is sponsored by Rust-eze Medicated Bumper Ointment, which uses the catchphrase, "With Just a Little Rust-eze, you can look like Lightning McQueen!" However, he secretly disdains Rust-eze, and hopes to be chosen for sponsorship by the much more glamorous and successful Dinoco oil company. Lightning McQueen is a racer participating in the Piston Cup. McQueen appears in Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure. By the start of Cars 2, he has won four Piston Cup championships. In the original film, McQueen is one of the three contestants in a Piston Cup tiebreaker race before an audience of "more than two hundred thousand cars" in Los Angeles, California. The end result is a character which, despite the usually-meticulous approach to "truth to material" in which each car's animation is mechanically consistent with its respective model's capabilities, can occasionally bend the rules to move more like an athlete than a motorcar. James Ford Murphy, Cars directing animator. In Cars 2, some of his engine sounds come from a Gen 5 COT NASCAR, and some come from the Chevrolet Corvette C6.R, and in Cars 3, his engine sounds come from a Gen 6 NASCAR. In Cars, his engine sounds come from a Gen 4 NASCAR. His number was originally set to be 57, Lasseter's birth year, but was changed to 95, the release year of Pixar's first film Toy Story. " During the scene where he helps restore Radiator Springs to its 1950s heyday, he is painted much like a 1950s Chevrolet Corvette C1, once again hinting at his Corvette lineage. He also has some curvaceous cues from the Ford GT40 and Lola T70, along with cab cues from a 1990s Porsche 911, although he is primarily and mainly based on NASCAR stock cars. His body comes from various Gen 4 NASCARs, however, he has a curvaceous design like that of the Plymouth Superbird and Dodge Charger Daytona NASCARs, the exhaust pipes come from the 1970s Dodge Charger NASCARs, but with four (two on each side) instead of two on one side or one on both sides. His design is inspired by NASCAR stock cars.
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The character is not named after actor and race driver Steve McQueen, but after Pixar animator Glenn McQueen who died in 2002.
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Montgomery "Lightning" McQueen is an anthropomorphic stock car in the animated Pixar film Cars (2006), its sequels Cars 2 (2011), Cars 3 (2017), and TV shorts known as Cars Toons. Piston Cup Racer (in Cars and in Cars 3), World Grand Prix racer (in Cars 2), Mater's best friend and Cruz Ramirez's crew chief (in Cars 3) Keith Ferguson ( Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales, Cars Mater-National Championship, Cars Race-O-Rama, Cars 2: The Video Game, Cars Toons: Tales from Radiator Springs, and "Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool") Owen Wilson ( Cars, Mater and the Ghostlight, Cars: The Video Game, Cars 2, Cars Toons: Tales from Radiator Springs, and Cars 3)