The characters also use their tires as hands and feet, the exceptions being the various tow truck characters that sometimes use their tow hooks, and the various forklift characters, which use their forks. Some cars are shown shuffling sideways by moving their wheels about on their suspensions. Computers used in the development of the film were four times faster than those used in The Incredibles and 1, times faster than those used in Toy Story.
To build the cars, the animators used computer platforms very similar to those used in the design of real-world automobiles. The track on which the opening race Motor Speedway of the South takes place is based on an enlarged version of Bristol Motor Speedway. Lasseter told film critic Joel Williams of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that much of the story is based on the recollections of barber Angel Delgadillo in the Route 66 town of Seligman, Arizona, where business withered soon after the opening of I Willy's Butte resembles the landmark of Mexican Hat, Utah, but also resembles a classic Pontiac hood ornament.
There is an "Ornament Valley" a reference to Monument Valley. The epilogue shows a map of the area of Arizona around Radiator Springs, including car-related place names such as "Carburetor County" and "Cadillac Range". The latter is a large north-to-south mountain range with many fin-backed jagged peaks, a reference to the famous Cadillac Ranch sculpture in Amarillo, Texas.
Where the main road crosses the Cadillac Range is marked "Tailfin Pass " i. The blinking neon lights on the spark plugs blink in the firing order of a Ford flathead V8. The railroad grade crossing at which Lightning McQueen outruns a passenger train on his way to Radiator Springs is protected by a pair of antique "upper-quadrant" wigwag crossing signals which accurately depict those once made by the Magnetic Signal Company in both appearance and start-up.
Few are left in actual operation in the United States, and many have been replaced with modern crossing gates, red lights, and bells. Mack the red Mack Super-Liner comments that "they're just using the same actor over and over", an in-joke referring to John Ratzenberger , who voiced Mack and characters featured in the clips.
There are a few sights of the front page of a newspaper named The Daily Exhaust. Many characters and places in the movie are directly inspired by real Route 66 places and people. To quote the Pixar crew:. The group of small birds from the Pixar short film For the Birds made a cameo appearance in Cars.
As Mack is en route to California at in the film, the group of small birds can briefly be seen and heard sitting on their familiar telephone wire. In addition, the Pizza Planet truck from Toy Story also makes a cameo outside of the race track, at the final race in the movie. Nine tracks on the soundtrack are by popular artists, while the remaining eleven are score cues by Randy Newman. It has two versions of the classic Bobby Troup jazz standard "Route 66" popularized by Nat King Cole , one by Chuck Berry and a new version recorded specifically for the film's credits performed by John Mayer.
Brad Paisley contributed two of the nine tracks to the album, one being "Find Yourself" used for the end credits. Cars was originally going to be released on November 4, , but on December 7, , the movie's release date was changed to June 9, , with Chicken Little taking over its original release date.
Analysts looked at the release date change as a sign from Pixar that they were preparing for the pending end of the Disney distribution contract by either preparing non-Disney materials to present to other studios, or they were buying time to see what happened with Michael Eisner's situation at Disney.
When Steve Jobs made the release date announcement, he stated that the reasoning was due to wanting to put all Pixar films on a Summer release schedule, with DVD sales occurring during the holiday shopping season.
It was released on Disney DVD in two different editions: full-screen and widescreen. Cars opened on June 9 , to positive reviews. William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer praised it as "one of Pixar's most imaginative and thoroughly appealing movies ever" and Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly called it "a work of American art as classic as it is modern.
Some critics expressed that Cars did not hold up to the standard of other Pixar films due to its lengthy story, especially after the acclaim received by The Incredibles , Pixar's previous film. In the United States, the film held onto the No. It was the highest-grossing animated film of in the United States but lost to Ice Age: The Meltdown in worldwide totals. Cars had a highly successful run during the awards season. It also had a version of the Pixar short Boundin' as an Easter Egg. According to the Walt Disney Company, five million copies of the DVD were sold in the first two days it was available.
Unlike previous Pixar DVD releases, there is no two-disc special edition, and no plans to release one in the future. There is an extremely rare VHS that was released on February 19 , that has no previews, and it's 2 hours long.
Target's bonus was a Rev'd Up DVD Disc that featured material that was mostly already released as part of the official Cars podcast and focused on the inspiration and production of the movie. It has also been noted that the plot of Cars bears a striking resemblance to that of Doc Hollywood , the romantic comedy which stars Michael J. Fox as a hotshot young doctor, who, after causing a traffic accident in a small town, is sentenced to work at the town hospital, falls in love with a local law student and eventually acquires an appreciation for small-town values.
A sequel to the film, titled Cars 2 , was released on June 24 , If you need a paint job, Ramone will paint you up right. He especially loves to paint flames. Lightning McQueen, 95, is a hotshot rookie race car who loves going faster than fast.
Mater is the rustiest, trustiest tow truck in Radiator Springs. Sally is a beautiful baby blue Porsche who fell in love with small town life in Radiator Springs.
She runs the Cozy Cone, is the town attorney, and is dedicated to preserving her favorite place to live. Skip Navigation Disney. Disney News D23 Live Shows.
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