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Cars

Lightning McQueen

Generic make and model
Voiced by:
Owen Wilson (Films)
Keith Ferguson (TV)


Sir Tow Mater

1955-57 Chevrolet truck
Voiced by:
Larry the Cable Guy



Doc Hudson/ Fabulous Hudson Hornet

1951 Hudson Hornet
Voiced by:
Paul Newman (Film)
Corey Burton (Video Games)


Sally Carrera

Porsche 911 Carrera (996)
Voiced by:
Bonnie Hunt



Fillmore

VW Microbus (T1)
Voiced by:
George Carlin (Cars)
Lloyd Sherr (Cars 2)



Sarge

Willys Jeep MB
Voiced by:
Paul Dooley



Luigi and Guido

Isetta-based forklift and Fiat 500
Voiced by:
Tony Shalhoub (Luigi)
Guido Quaroni (Guido)



Flo

Generic design
Voiced by:
Jennifer Lewis



Ramone

1959 Chevrolet Impala
Voiced by:
Cheech Marin



Red

Generic design
Voiced by:
Joe Ranft (Cars)


Sheriff

1949 Mercury
Voiced by:
Michael Wallis


Lizzie

Ford Model T
Voiced by:
Katherine Helmond


Mack

Mack Superliner
Voiced by:
John Ratzenberger


  • Actor Allusion: During the credits, Mack is watching car-ified versions of previous Pixar films and points out how |Hamm, P.T. Flea and Yeti all share the same voice actor (John Ratzenberger, who also voices Mack himself).
  • Gentle Giant
  • Nice Hat: The large sail on his roof resembles a trucker cap.

Strip “The King” Weathers

1969 Plymouth Superbird
Voiced by:
Richard Petty


  • Big Good
  • Doomed Moral Victor: Although he doesn’t die, he becomes severely injured by a crash caused by Chick Hicks during the final lap of the tie-breaker race.
  • Ink Suit Actor: The King is based on a racecar his actor, Richard Petty's owned; the Plymouth Superbird.
  • Reality Subtext: His near-fatal crash, caused by Chick Hicks is a frame-by-frame recreation of a particular crash his actor lived through.


Chick Hicks

1986 Buick Regal
Voiced by:
Michael Keaton


  • Arrogant Racer Guy
  • Big Bad: Of the video game, in which he gets revenge on McQueen for defeating him.
  • Classic Villain
  • Disc One Final Boss: He is about to be the Big Bad of the movie, but he becomes the main henchman to Doc. The beginning thinks he is the Big Bad, but Doc takes over this role.
  • The Dragon: To Doc Hudson.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Lightning McQueen. Chick starts off as a more extreme version of McQueen, but eventually becomes this after Lightning undergoes Character Development.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Chick is deeply envious The King’s status as Dinoco’s golden boy. Plus he’s green to boot.
  • Heel Face Turn: He has one at the end of the movie, winning the race.
  • Jerkass: Through and through.
  • Porn Stache: His grill resembles one.
  • Pyrrhic Villainy: He wins the Piston Cup, but only because he caused The King to crash horribly and Lightning went back to help him. Chick doesn’t get his Dinoco sponsor like he dreamed and is booed off the stage at the cup presentation.
  • Unnecessary Roughness: He causes a massive thirty-car pileup in the opening to try and shake McQueen, and later causes The King to crash in the tie-breaker match.

Boost, Wingo, DJ, and Snot Rod

Generic designs
Voiced by:
Jonas Rivera (Boost)
E.J. Holowicki (DJ)
Adrian Ochoa (Wingo)
Lou Romano (Snot Rod)


Tractors, Frank, and Vroomaroundus Bugus

Mia and Tia

Mazda Miata
Voiced by:
Lindsey Collins (Mia)
Elissa Knight (Tia)


Minny and Van

Generic designs
Voiced by:
Edie McClurg (Minny)
Richard Kind (Van)


  • Directionless Driver: Van refuses to ask for directions while the two of them are looking for an on-ramp, claiming that he can use the GPS. Unsurprisingly, they end up getting lost in the desert.
  • Happily Married


RustEze Pit Crew Members, Sponsors, and Associates


Dinoco Pit Crew Members, Sponsors, and Associates

Hostile Takeover Bank Pit Crew Members

Piston Cup Racecars

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Piston Cup R Vs, Pit Crews, Facility, and Audience

Car Media Reporters, Anchors, and Celebrities

Cars on the Highway

Stanley


Bessie

Alarm Clock

Cars in Flashback

Trev Diesel and Aircraft

Cars in Epilogue

Pixar Cameos


Cars 2

Finn McMissile

Voiced by:
Michael Caine



Holley Shiftwell

Voiced by:
Emily Mortimer


Siddeley

Voiced by:
Jason Isaacs


Leland Turbo

Voiced by:
Jason Isaacs



Rod "Torque" Redline

Voiced by:
Bruce Campbell



Francesco Bernoulli

Voiced by:
John Turturro



Professor Zündapp

1959 Zündapp Janus
Voiced by:
Thomas Kretschmann


Sir Miles Axlerod

Voiced by:
Eddie Izzard


Grem and Acer

AMC Gremlin and AMC Pacer
Voiced by:
Joe Mantegna (Grem)
Peter Jacobson (Acer)


The Lemon Family Heads

Voiced by:
Stanley Townshend (Victor Hugo/Vladimir Trunkov)
Brad Lewis (Tubbs Pacer)
John Mainieri (J. Curby Gremlin)


  • The Alleged Car: All are modeled after some of the most notorious Alleged Cars of all time; besides Gremlin, Pacer and Yugo the Trunkovs are based on ZAZ Zaporozhets, the smallest and cheapest Soviet car.
  • Creator Cameo: Tubbs is voiced by Brad Lewis, one of the film's co-directors.
  • The Don: The four heads of the lemon families: J. Curby Gremlin, Vladimir Trunkov , Victor Hugo and Tubbs Pacer
  • Husky Russkie: Vladimir.
  • The Mafia: The Hugo family especially, but all four count.
  • Motor City: J. Curby and his family come from here.
  • Name's the Same: Victor Hugo shares his name with a famous French writer.
  • Talking to Himself: Vladimir, Victor and Ivan all share the same voice actor.

Alexander Hugo

Yugo Koral/GV/45

Voiced by:

Velibor Topic


  • Bland-Name Product: Besides the similar name, the Hugos have quad headlights but are based on a model that only ever had single headlights.
  • Elite Mook
  • I Have Many Names: He’s been known to go by the aliases of "Chop Shop Alex", "Alexander the "Not So" Great" and "Alexander Hu "Don’t" Go".
  • The Mafia

Ivan

1955-57 Chevrolet truck
Voiced by:
Stanley Townshend


  • Costume Copycat: Mater disguises himself as Ivan to infiltrate the Lemons' meeting in Porto Corsa.
  • Evil Counterpart: Can be seen as this to Mater.
  • Husky Russkie
  • Lzherusskie : Ivan is meant to be Russian, but plot necessity forced him to have the same Chevrolet-based cab design as Mater.

Tony Trihull

Voiced by:
Lloyd Sherr


Lemon Mooks

Other Lemon Vehicles

Jeff Gorvette

Chevrolet Corvette
Voiced by:
Jeff Gordon


Lewis Hamilton

Voiced by:
Lewis Hamilton


Raoul Ça Roule

Voiced by:
Unknown


Nigel Gearsley

Aston Martin
Voiced by:
Greg Ellis


Max Schnell

Mercedes C-Class DTM racer
Voiced by:
Unknown


Miguel Camino

Voiced by:
Unknown


Carla Veloso

Voiced by:
Jossara Jinaro


Shu Todoroki

Voiced by:
Erik Passoja


Rip Clutchgoneski

Voiced by:
None


  • Advertised Extra: Barely even that. Clutchgoneski doesn’t have any toys of him and didn’t even appear in the video game.
  • Ruritania: His homeland is the “Republic of New Rearendia”.
  • The Voiceless

World Grand Prix Pit Crew and Audience

Cars in Radiator Springs

Cars in Tokyo


  • Acrofatic: Kingpin Nobunaga, Pinion Tanaka, and Kimura Kaizo the sumo vans.
  • The Cameo: Many of the characters from Tokyo Mater return.
  • Geisha: Okuni and Shigeko from the Kabuki theatre. The two of them plus another, named Tamiko, appear at the party as well.
  • Idol Singer: News reporter Chuki moonlights as the lead vocalist of the popular band "Grid Lock".
  • Nice Hat: The Zen Master wears a coolie hat on his roof.
  • Old Master: The Zen Master.

Crabby

Voiced by:
Sig Hansen


Cars in Paris

Tomber

Reliant Regal
Voiced by:
Michel Michelis


Stephenson

Cars in Porto Corsa

Mama and Uncle Topolino

Voiced by:
Vanessa Redgrave (Mama Topolino)
Franco Nero (Uncle Topolino)


Cars in London

The Queen and Prince Wheeliam

Frosty

Voiced by:
Mark Winterbottom


Fernando Alonso

Voiced by:
Fernando Alonso


Vitaly Petrov

Voiced by:
Vitaly Petrov


Flash

Voiced by:
Janne Nilsson


Memo Rojas Jr

Voiced by:
Memo Rojas Jr


Long Ge

Voiced by:
Unknown


Mater's Tall Tales

Characters in Rescue Squad Mater


Characters in Mater the Greater

Characters in El Materdor

Characters in Tokyo Mater

Kabuto

Voiced by:
Mach Tony Kobayashi


Characters in UFM: Unidentified Flying Mater


Characters in Heavy Metal Mater


  • A Good Name for a Rock Band: Mater’s band was originally called “Mater and the Gas Caps”, but later chose the name “Heavy Metal Mater” when a pitty carrying a 1-ton weight came in after the recording session and asked “Where do you want this heavy metal, Mater?”
  • Audience Participation Song: “Dad-Gum”

Mater: Let me hear you! Dad-Gum!
Audience: Dad-Gum!
Mater: Dad-Gum!
Audience: Dad-Gum!
Mater: DAD-GUUUUUUU-!

  • Hell-Bent for Leather: The entire band becomes this as “Heavy Metal Mater”.
  • I'm Your Biggest Fan: Rodney the rocker
  • No Name Given: The drummer pitty in the band never had a toy released of him, so his name is unknown.
  • Rockers Smash Guitars: Mater kicks the microphone with his back tyre after the recording session.
  • Shout-Out: Rocky’s heavy metal outfit resembles Slash.
  • Title-Only Chorus: Heavy Metal Mater’s first and most popular song is “Dad-Gum”, of which the lyrics consist of only the title phrase.

Characters in Monster Truck Mater


Characters in Moon Mater


Characters in Mater, Private Eye

Characters in Air Mater


Planes

Dusty Crophopper

Voiced by: Jon Cryer

Possibly a Cessna 188


Skipper

Voiced by: Stacy Keach

A Vought F4U Corsair


Sparky


Judge Davis

Voiced by: Jonathan Adams

He looks to be either an early North American P-51 Mustang, a Curtiss P-40, or a combination of the two.

Chug

Voiced by: Brad Garrett

El Chupacabra

Voiced by: Carlos Alazraqui

Ripslinger


Other

Characters in Cars: The Video Game

Characters in Cars: Maternational

Characters in Cars: Race-O-Rama

Characters in Cars Storytellers

State Farm Commercial

Other commercials

The Screaming Banshee

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