List of Cars characters

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Cars is a media franchise including the 2006 film Cars, the 2011 film Cars 2, the 2017 film Cars 3, the 2022 series Cars on the Road, the 2013 film Planes, and the 2014 film Planes: Fire & Rescue. This page is a list of characters that have appeared in the franchise.

Piston Cup Championship[edit]

  • A life-size replica of McQueen at the Petersen Automotive Museum
    Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson in the films, Cars on the Road, video game adaption, Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure, and Lego The Incredibles; Ben Rausch in Cars 3: Driven to Win and Keith Ferguson in all other media[vague]), born Monty McQueen, is a custom-built racecar who competes in the Piston Cup Racing Series. His design bears resemblance to generation 4 NASCAR vehicles as well as the Dodge Viper and Ford GT40. Lightning was initially arrogant and self-centered until becoming stranded in the town of Radiator Springs on U.S. Route 66, where he learned about friendship and the importance of teamwork. He has since taken permanent residence there. He is best friends with Mater and is Sally's boyfriend.
  • Mack (voiced by John Ratzenberger) is a heavily modified 1985 Mack Super-Liner sleeper cab who serves as Lightning's transporter. One night, Lightning convinces Mack to drive to his tiebreaker race in Los Angeles despite federal DOT regulations which legally grant Mack ten hours of rest.[1] As a result, Mack struggles to stay awake, with an ensuing mishap causing Lightning to fall out of Mack's trailer. Mack later arrives in Radiator Springs after Doc Hudson reveals Lightning's location and takes residence there in the film's epilogue.
  • Sterling (voiced by Nathan Fillion[2]) is a wealthy businesscar who briefly becomes the new owner of Rust-eze Bumper Ointment in Cars 3. After meeting Lightning McQueen, Sterling assigns Cruz Ramirez to train him and prepare him for the Florida 500. After watching Lightning's poor performance on the racing simulator, Sterling attempts to convince him into retirement. Lightning agrees to retire if he loses the upcoming Florida 500, but otherwise keeps his right to decide. After Lightning and Cruz win the Florida 500, Cruz declines Sterling and takes up Tex Dinoco's offer, who purchases Rust-eze from Sterling.
  • Cruz Ramirez (voiced by Cristela Alonzo[3]) is Lightning's trainer and technician at the Rust-eze Racing Center. She resembles a Jaguar F-Type and Chevrolet Corvette (C7). Cruz is known for training some of the best rookie race cars through her unconventional training methods. After Sterling introduces Cruz to Lightning, he assigns her to train Lightning for the Florida 500. At the Florida 500, Sterling attempts to send Cruz back to the training center. Lightning, aware of Cruz's dream of becoming a racecar, exits the race to allow Cruz to take his place. Using what she has learned from Lightning and Smokey, Cruz catches up to Jackson Storm. Storm is furious at the thought of a standard production car beating him in a race and rams Cruz into the wall on the final lap in an attempt to stop her, but Cruz evades him and wins. Cruz later returns in Cars 3: Driven to Win.
  • Strip "The King" Weathers (voiced by Richard Petty) is a veteran race car and racing legend. Weathers is an anthropomorphic version of Petty's 1970 Plymouth Superbird, sporting the same shade of blue and Petty's racing number, 43, as well as being a fictionalized version of him.[4] He is one of the racers in the 2005 Piston Cup three-way tie, along with Chick Hicks and Lightning McQueen. Known as Dinoco's "Golden Boy" having won several Piston Cups,[5] Weathers is hoping for his eighth win in the tiebreaker race before entering retirement so he can spend more time with his wife. He returns in Cars 3 as the crew chief of his nephew Cal Weathers.
  • Jackson Storm (voiced by Armie Hammer in the film and[6] AJ Hamilton in Cars 3: Driven to Win) is an arrogant "nextgen" Piston Cup race car, and Lightning's main rival in Cars 3. In the film, Storm appears out of nowhere and starts winning race after race, forcing many last-generation racecars to retire. During the last race of the season, Lightning pushes himself too hard while trying to compete with Storm and damages his engine, resulting in a rollover crash. At the Florida 500, Storm is intimidated by Lightning's former trainer Cruz Ramirez, who replaces Lightning in the race. He attempts to make her lose focus by telling her that she is not the type of car who belongs on a racetrack. Cruz regains her confidence and drives up next to Storm, who rams her into a wall, but she overtakes him with one of Doc Hudson's moves at the last moment. Storm's racing number is 20.

Radiator Springs[edit]

  • Doc Hudson (voiced by Paul Newman in the first and third films and the video game adaptation of the first film and Corey Burton in all other related media) was Radiator Spring's medical doctor, judge, and Lightning's mentor/crew chief. He is a 1951 Hudson Hornet. Doc does not appear in Cars 2 (Paul Newman's death) Doc appeared in Cars 3 in flashbacks being voiced by archival recordings of Newman.
  • Sheriff (voiced by Michael Wallis) is a 1949 Mercury Eight police car.[8] Sheriff is painted in classic black and white with a single red light dome, two sirens, and curb feelers. Sheriff was the first resident of Radiator Springs to appear in Cars and the first to meet Lightning. Sheriff reappears in Cars 2, seeing Lightning and his race-crew off to the World Grand Prix. During the climax of the film, Sheriff arrives with the other Radiator Springs residents as new members of Lightning's pit crew in England, and is informed by Mater of the Lemons cars' plot to kill Lightning in order to turn all vehicles in the world against alternative fuel and rely on gasoline for profit. Sheriff returns as a supporting character in Cars 3.

Cars 2[edit]

These are characters who have first or only appeared in the film Cars 2 (2011).

  • Finn McMissile (voiced by Michael Caine in Cars 2 and Martin Jarvis in the video games) is a British secret agent who recruits Mater to help in his mission. His model, a fictional 1965 Fautless GT according to Pixar's Meet the Cars book, is a Pixar in-house design. He is based on classic European sports cars such as the Aston Martin DB5 and BMW 507, while his small tail fins were inspired by a 1958 British sports car called the Peerless—one of the few British cars with fins.[16] Finn's engine type, a 4.2-liter straight six with triple 2V carbs, is an engine commonly found in the Jaguar E-Type. Finn's suspicions about the World Grand Prix turn out to be correct, as the event was revealed to be a cover-up by Miles Axelrod to turn the world against alternative fuel. He was born in London's Kensington district in 1973. He is currently 51 years old.
  • Holley Shiftwell (voiced by Emily Mortimer) is a British spy-in-training, and Mater's love interest. According to Pixar's Meet the Cars book, Holley's model is a Pixar in-house design known as a 2008 MT-R Mark II. Her model name appears to be in reference with a TVR sports car called the Tuscan Mark II, one of Holley's design inspirations. She bears resemblance to the 2008 RMC Scorpion, along with having a similar 3.5-liter V6 engine to this vehicle.
  • Rod "Torque" Redline (voiced by Bruce Campbell) is an American spy who is captured and murdered by the Lemons in Tokyo. His design is based on modern American muscle cars such as the Dodge Challenger and Ford Mustang.
  • The Lemons are international criminals that appear in Cars 2. They are all cars with a negative reputation and consist of four families: the AMC Pacer, the AMC Gremlin, the Hugo (based on the Yugo 45), and the Trunkov (based on the ZAZ-968).
  • Tomber (voiced by Michel Michelis) is a French auto-parts dealer, and Finn McMissile's underground informant. He is a blue Reliant Regal threewheeler, with a few added features including the headlights of a Citroën Ami.
  • Sir Miles Axlerod (voiced by Eddie Izzard) is the main antagonist of Cars 2. His design is based on the Range Rover Classic and Land Rover Defender 90, two cars famous for poor build quality. Axlerod created the World Grand Prix to promote his new biofuel called Allinol that turns out to be ordinary gasoline engineered to ignite when hit with an electromagnetic pulse. Axlerod planned to use Professor Zündapp and the Lemons to kill Lightning in the final race, but the EMP weapon failed because Sarge had switched Lightning's Allinol for Fillmore's organic fuel before the start of the race. His engine, quoted as "the worst motor ever made" in the film, is based on the Lucas fuel injected 3.5L Rover V8.
  • Professor Wolfgang Otto Zündapp (often referred simply as Professor Z) (voiced by Thomas Kretschmann) is a 1957 Zündapp Janus and an internationally wanted weapon designer. Though he initially appears to be the main antagonist, he is eventually revealed to be the secondary antagonist, and subordinate to Miles Axlerod.
  • Francesco Bernoulli (voiced by John Turturro in Cars 2 and Cars 2: The Video Game, and Roger Craig Smith in Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure and Disney Infinity) serves as Lightning's primary racing rival in the World Grand Prix. He is based on modern Formula One cars and is painted in the colors of the Italian flag.

Cars 3[edit]

  • Miss Fritter (voiced by Lea DeLaria[17]) is a school bus modified for demolition derby racing, and a minor antagonist in Cars 3. Miss Fritter appears in the Crazy Eight demolition derby at the Thunder Hollow Speedway and nearly saws Cruz with her stop sign blades until Lightning stops her, only to get his tire shredded. Cruz Ramirez ends up winning the race. Miss Fritter later appeared in the Cars 3 short film "Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool" shooting a commercial for demolition derby racing along with her friends from Thunder Hollow. She returned in "Cars 3: Driven to Win" as a boss and playable character.

Planes[edit]

  • Dusty Crophopper (voiced by Dane Cook)[18][19] was inspired by the Air Tractor AT-502, Cessna and the PZL-Mielec M-18 Dromader.[20] He is painted white and orange with some black stripes. After his training, he has the black Jolly Wrenches insignia Skipper earned him up front as well as "D7" on his rudder. Since the Germany leg in the WATG rally, he gained blue racing stripes and the number 7 in a white circle on his body and wings. After becoming severely damaged en route to Mexico in the storm, most Wings Around The Globe racers gave him new parts as well as gaining T-33 Shooting Star wings and a Skyslicer MK V propeller. At the end of the film, he has a Jolly Wrenches paint job while racing with Skipper, having been made an honorary Jolly Wrench.
  • Skipper Riley (voiced by Stacy Keach) is a Vought F4U Corsair and Dusty's mentor. His sole mission was a routine patrol that turned disastrous when his squadron stumbled upon an enemy fleet, leaving him as the sole survivor.
  • Sparky (voiced by Danny Mann) is a forklift and good friend of Chug and Skipper's assistant and mechanic.
  • Ishani (voiced by Priyanka Chopra) is a Pan-Asian champion from India,[21] based on the AeroCad AeroCanard[22] with over a billion racing fans. She's painted orange and yellow with the number 6 in green. She is Dusty's good friend and Ripslinger's hated rival and former ally and teammate.
  • Chug (voiced by Brad Garrett) is a fuel truck[23] and Dusty's best friend.
  • Dottie (voiced by Teri Hatcher) is a forklift[23] and Dusty's friend and mechanic.
  • Leadbottom (voiced by Cedric the Entertainer) is a biplane[23] inspired by the Boeing-Stearman Model 75[22] with a partial engine cowl.
  • Rochelle (voiced by Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is a racing plane from Canada[23] inspired by the Bay Super V, a conversion of the V-tail Model 35 Beechcraft Bonanza[22] painted pink and white with some red maple leaf designs and the number 22. Originally from Quebec,[23] her flag and paint job is localized in 11 countries.[24] She is also El Chupacabra's girlfriend. In Australia and New Zealand, Rochelle is re-contextualized as a former Tasmanian mail delivery plane, and is voiced by Jessica Marais.[25]
  • Ripslinger (voiced by Roger Craig Smith) is a custom-built carbon-fiber race plane with green decals, orange flame designs, several racing sponsors and his name painted on his body and wings. He also has a four bladed contra-rotating propeller. Rip is captain of Team RPX and Dusty's hated rival in the film. His race number is 13. He later damaged Skipper's vertical stabilizer during the Mexico-New York leg.[23][26] He returned as a main antagonist for Planes: the Video Game attempting to ruin Dusty's fame, wreck his town, paint Dusty graffiti on the Great Wall of China while disguised as him, and even cause trouble for Dusty's international friends including ruining the Diwali Festival in Ishani's home country.
  • Ned and Zed (both voiced by Gabriel Iglesias) are the henchmen of Ripslinger and his teammates[23] inspired by the Zivko Edge 540 and MX Aircraft MXS.[22] Ned is green with white wings and the number 0 in orange, while Zed is white with green wings and the number 00 in orange. They are twin brothers from New Zealand (They represent the United States with Ripslinger in the film) who try to sabotage the other racers by flying aggressively (this was best demonstrated when they cut off Dusty's antenna, forcing him to land on the USS Dwight D. Flysenhower), allowing Ripslinger to take the win with Ned and Zed finishing second and third. They were later thwarted by Dusty when Ned hit a rock with his left wing, sending him into a barrel roll and trapping both him and Zed into a narrow gap that only Dusty was able to fly through.
  • El Chupacabra (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui) is a red, white and green Gee Bee Model R[20][27] and Dusty's good friend and Rochelle's boyfriend. He is racer number 5 from Mexico.

Planes: Fire & Rescue[edit]

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