He is not based on any particular type of vehicle, but seems to most closely resemble a C6 Chevrolet Corvette and Dodge Viper. His body is painted red with yellow and orange lightning bolt stickers featuring his racing number on his sides.
Is Lightning McQueen a Corvette? While McQueen is certainly partly inspired by the C6. R Corvette, his bodywork is an original design inspired by many different race cars, but mainly based on the Generation 4 NASCARs that made up the top level Stock Car field when the movie was released in 2006.
Her license plate reads '"C01-06A". She takes some inspiration from the Jaguar F-Type SVR , Chevrolet Corvette C7, and the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta. While training with McQueen, Cruz has a yellow livery with the Rust-eze Racing Center emblem on her doors.
Chick is a 1979 Shyster Cremlin, a fictional car based on and designed after a 1986 Buick Regal in NASCAR form. Chick is painted green, with the number 86 painted on his doors, and has yellow rims. He also has a grille, which serves as a mustache.
Flo is simply based on a Motorama Show Girl, modeled after a 1957 GM Motorama Show Car. She is a modified 1955 Lincoln Futura with large tail fins. Her license plate reads "SHO GRL", a reference to the fact that she was a show girl before she came to Radiator Springs.
In the movie, he's younger, fitter, and faster than the lead. He's called a 2017 Custom-built “Next-Gen” Piston Cup Racer. In real life, he most resembles the 2002 Cadillac Cien supercar concept.
Background. Mater's design is based on a 1955-57 Chevrolet Task Force Tow truck once used to lift equipment from mine shafts in Cherokee County, Kansas.
The King is painted Dinoco Blue, with the Dinoco sponsor and the number "43". On his trunk, he has a giant, tall blue spoiler. The King is a 1970 Plymouth Superbird with a 426 Hemi V8 engine, the car Richard Petty drove.
He is a Capitol Motors Mark II. He resembles a Ford Fusion in NASCAR. The nephew of seven-time Piston Cup champion Strip "The King" Weathers, Cal grew up watching his uncle tear up the track, and he became the Dinoco racer following his uncle's retirement.
Doc Hudson (also known as The Fabulous Hudson Hornet, Hud, or simply Doc) is an anthropomorphic 1951 Hudson Hornet who appears in the 2006 Pixar film Cars.
Tow Mater is a 1951 International Harvester L-170 and yes probably so it was a kind of tow truck but I wasn't born around that time. I was born later. HERE HE IS!!
Disney and Pixar's Cars may have hit theaters in the summer of 2006, but production of the film started many years earlier, with production designer Bob Pauley first sketching the film's female protagonist, Sally Carrera, in 2002. As her surname suggests, Sally is an anthropomorphic Porsche 911 Carrera.
Luigi is a 1959 Fiat 500 who runs the local tire shop, Luigi's Casa Della Tires, “Home of the Leaning Tower of Tires.” He loves changing tires for racecars like Lightning McQueen, but nothing makes him happier than when a real Ferrari comes through his door.
A 2017 Custom built Next-Gen Piston Cup Racer, his chassis is built with hydroformed alloy and steel. His Maximum Performance V-8 engine with 850 horsepower is responsible for his ability to reach 0-60 in 3.6 seconds, as well as his top speed of 214 miles per hour.
Finn is said to be a 1965 Faultless GT, which is a fictional model name, and an allusion to the 1958 Peerless GT, one of Finn's design main inspirations. Finn's tires read "Firewall". Finn's grille resembles a Van Dyke mustache. According to Cars 2: The Video Game, "Finn McMissile" may not be his real name.
Also John Lasseter said that Mater is this idiot-savant when it comes to minute rare car parts. The term 'idiot-savant' is an old term for someone who is an autistic savant.
Lightning and Chick are generic personifications of certain eras in NASCAR's history. They're not based on specific real drivers. Chick is a typical '80s stock car, modeled after a Buick Grand National.
Sheriff is a 1949 Mercury Police Cruiser that is painted black and white, with the Radiator Springs Police Department badge on both of his doors. He has a siren on his roof.
Despite Frosty racing in the V8 Supercar series he does not resemble a V8 Supercar race car himself. Rather, resembling a DTM race car like Max Schnell and many others.
Consequently, Lightning McQueen is a hybrid based on a stock car and a Le Mans endurance racer, which has a more curvaceous body. Lasseter added that the character also has "some Lola and some [Ford] GT40".
Sterling is a Revere Motors Model AG, a car based on the BMW CS Vintage Concept. His paintjob consists of silver and chrome. His license plate reads "STER-LING" and above it states "Illinoil".
