Hot Wheels World Race

Hot Wheels World Race
Genre	Action Adventure Sci-Fi
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Television
Directed by	Andrew Duncan William Lau
Produced by	Jeff Gomez Gio Corsi Ian Richter Sharan Wood
Written by	Mark Edens Jeff Gomez Fabian Nicieza
Starring	Andrew Francis Michael Donovan Kathleen Barr Brian Drummond Kevan Ohtsji
Production company	Mattel, Inc. Mainframe Entertainment
Country	United States
Original channel	Cartoon Network
Release date	December 2, 2003
Running time	110 minutes
Followed by	Hot Wheels AcceleRacers Hot Wheels Battle Force 5

Hot Wheels World Race is a computer-animated, feature-length made-for-TV movie based on the Hot Wheels television show and toy line made by Mattel. The film was distributed on DVD by Family Home Entertainment and distributed on TV by Warner Bros. Television. The video game Hot Wheels World Race was based on the television series film. It premiered on Cartoon Network on July 12, 2003.

Plot

Vert Wheeler is a naive teenager who, on his 16th birthday, finds his dream car, a real life Hot Wheels Deora II, parked right outside of his garage. The door on the front of the car opens, and a monitor shows a recording of a mysterious man named Dr. Peter Tezla. The recording of Tezla says Vert gets to keep the car, but there is a catch; he must race in Highway 35, a multidimensional grand prix (created by extraterrestrial beings called Accelerons) against other drivers from all over the world. However, a group, called CLYP, find out about Highway 35 and intend to use it for other purposes besides racing.

Characters

• Vert Wheeler - A naive teenager from California who gets the chance to fulfill his dream of becoming the world's greatest race car driver when he finds a Deora II parked outside his garage.

• Kurt Wylde - An aggressive street racer chosen for the World Race who used to be a Grand Prix driver, but was banned after being framed for illegally modifying his race car.

• Taro Kitano - A Japanese drift racer who has skied down Mount Everest twice. He was chosen for the World Race due to his daring skills behind the wheel of a race car.

• Banjee Castillo - A Spanish road racer who got chosen for the World Race due to being arrested many times for reckless driving. He also has experience in motocross.

• Dr Peter Tezla - A car designer/scientist for a company called the Scrim Corporation. He is the one who discovered Highway 35 when test-driving one of his cars.