Номер телефона молнии маккуина

Молния Маккуин

Молния Маккуин является главным героем картины, перспективным гоночным автомобилем, прошедшим не одно испытание. Персонаж с номером «95» на борту имеет смелый характер и добрый нрав, любит популярность, но не испорчен ею.

За свои успехи четыре раза получал престижную награду на Кубке Большого Поршня. Имеет много друзей из Радиатор-Спрингс – небольшого городка, куда Молния случайно попал во время своих приключений. В перерывах между тренировками и соревнованиями любит проводить время вместе с Мэтром и Салли – своими лучшими приятелями.

Мэтр

Мэтр – лучший друг Молнии и, пожалуй, самый ржавый эвакуатор во всем Радиатор-Спрингс. Весельчак и балагур, который гордится каждой вмятиной на своем корпусе, никогда не унывает и готов днями напролет пугать тракторов, блуждающих по полю.

В перерывах между развлечениями помогает другим автомобилям выбраться из ям на дорогах или бездорожье. Когда поток туристов хлынул в его родной городок, Мэтр перепробовал много профессий и стал самым приятным и душевным рассказчиком историй. Все любят его басни, среди которых, правда, большая часть – выдумка этого ржавого фантазера.

Салли

Красотка-Порше Каррера 2002 года выпуска переехала в Радиатор-Спрингс после того, как передумала становиться перспективным адвокатом. Познакомившись с Молнией Маккуином, став его возлюбленной и, по совместительству, переняв на себя бразды управления мотелем «У колеса и конуса».

Вместе с ржавым Мэтром, Салли постоянно составляет компанию Молнии во время поездок на очередные соревнования. Правда, из-за того, что гоночный болид постоянно занят на тренировках, героиня частенько скучает и задумывается о том, что бы было, если бы она все таки стала юристом.

Луиджи

Луиджи – это харизматичный весельчак-Фиат, прибывший из далекой Италии. Поселившись в Радиатор-Спрингс вместе с другими тачками, герой стал управлять небольшим магазинчиком, не забывая о своей родине и всем, что с ней связано.

Пожалуй, Луиджи является самым известным спецом, который лучше всех разбирается в покрышках. Вместе со своим другом и коллегой Гвидо, Луиджи является неотъемлемой частью команды непобедимого Молнии Маккуина.

Гвидо

Гвидо относится к классу погрузчиков, и является лучшим другом Луиджи. Трудится в «Каса Делла Шина», фанатеет от Феррари, но, к сожалению, никак не может выучить английский язык, из-за чего вечно попадает в нелепые ситуации.

Помимо привычной работы, Гвидо путешествует вместе с Молнией Маккуином по соревнованиям, на которых оказывает своему другу всестороннюю поддержку. Именно от расторопности и сноровки этого маленького итальянского погрузчика зависят доли секунды, которые гоночный болид экономит для будущей победы на пит-стопах.

Фин Макмисл

Финн Макмисл весьма заслуженно носит звание одного из лучших шпионов во всем мире. Он харизматичный, элегантный и утонченный, имеет много шпионских гаджетов и устройств, которые позволяют ему с успехом выполнять практически каждую поставленную задачу.

Как правило, Финн в своей работе, где ему приходится сталкиваться с множеством опасных злодеев, опирается на скорость и интуицию. Привык действовать в одиночку, но иногда, когда та самая пресловутая интуиция дает сбой, приходится обращаться за помощью к рядовым автомобилям – так он и познакомился со знаменитым Молнией Маккуином.

Франческо Бернулли

Именно Франческо Бернулли создатели «Тачек» сделали главным конкурентом Молнии в борьбе за титул чемпиона мирового гран-при. Вырос он в Италии, и с детства герой мечтал стать прославленным гонщиком, известным на весь мир своей скоростью и маневренностью.

Франческо гордо носит на своем корпусе номер «1», из-за чего можно сразу понять, что он собой представляет. Данный гоночный болид слишком самоуверенный, из-за чего постоянно и страдает. Все мысли Франческо заняты лишь предстоящей гонкой, и по этой причине у него нет друзей.

Мак

Как Луиджи и Гвидо, Мак является верным помощником и спутником Маккуина на очередных соревнованиях. Его основные обязанности заключаются в перевозке гонщика к месту проведения чемпионата, где Мак полностью отдается во власть напряженного противостояния между самыми быстрыми авто.

В отличие от Молнии и других участников коллектива, данный трейлер всегда холоден и расчетлив. Своим спокойствием Мак часто пригождался друзьям, давая им полезные советы, наработанные богатым жизненным опытом.

Холли Делюкс

Холли Делюкс совсем недавно закончила обучение в шпионской академии, после чего перевелась на стажировку в Японию. Она отлично знает теорию, но с практической стороны этой очаровательной героине пока недостает смелости и решительности.

В отличие от Финна, Холли имеет куда более совершенную шпионскую систему, которую не стесняется использовать в поле. Она гордится современными гаджетами и технологиями, которые автомобиль противопоставляет в борьбе со злодеями и с лучшими представителями иностранных разведывательных служб.

Док Хадсон

Док Хадсон является, пожалуй, самым уважаемым жителем Радиатор-Спрингс. В беседе с ним создается впечатление, что он прав абсолютно во всем, а потому к ним за советом обращаются все остальные обитатели этого небольшого городка. И с ними Док с радостью делится своей мудростью, которая, правда, далеко не всегда подсказывает правильное решение.

Мало кто знает, какова истинная история данного персонажа мультфильма «Тачки». В принципе, он никому не вредит своими советами и рекомендациями, а потому соседи и гости Радиатор-Спрингс уважают и ценят помощь доктора и, по совместительству, местного судью.

Рамон

Рамон – настоящий фанат своего дела, герой искусства и, вообще, любитель нанести очередной принт на кузов своего клиента. В мультфильме Рамон является владельцем мастерской боди-арта, куда заглядывают, когда хотят украсить собственный корпус каким-нибудь необычным арт-объектом.

Правда, чаще всего у Рамона клиентов нет, а потому ему только и остается, что упражняться на собственном теле. Он сам признается, что чуть ли не каждый день перекрашивается, чтобы не сидеть без дела и постоянно совершенствовать свой талант.

Виталий Петров

Виталий Петров – гоночный автомобиль с номером «11» на корпусе, который часто становился главным конкурентом Молнии Маккуина на чемпионский титул. Гонщик с русскими корнями не пропускает ни одного соревнования, до конца сражаясь за победу, несмотря на шансы.

Правда, вне трассы Виталий представляет собой весьма общительного и заботливого героя, который никогда не отказывает в общении очередному поклоннику. Но стоит только раздаться сирене, как он превращается в целеустремленного гонщика, не уступающего Молнии в скорости и нацеленности на результат.

Фло

Очаровательная Фло давно известна во всем Радиатор-Спрингс, как держательница кафе с самым лучшим бензином во всем Карбюраторном Округе. Веселая, находчивая и общительная мадам, которая никогда не упускает возможности порадовать посетителей очередным вкусным угощением.

Когда-то давно, когда Фло была юна и неопытна, она колесила по стране в поисках счастья. И во время очередного вояжа она встретилась с Рамоном, который навсегда покорил цельнометаллическое сердце красавицы.

Чикко Хиккс

Чикко Хиккс, как и многие другие персонажи мультфильма «Тачки», часто становился конкурентом Молнии Маккуина в очередных соревнованиях. В частности, именно он боролся за Кубок Большого Поршня и доставил главному претенденту массу проблем. Правда, в течение 20-ти лет Чикко так и не удалось завоевать чемпионский титул, но это не является для него достаточным поводом, чтобы оставить попытки.

Конечно, постоянные неудачи обозлили Чикко и превратили его в вечного ворчуна, обиженного на весь мир. У него только одна цель в жизни – завоевать Кубок, и для этого герой готов пойти на любые, даже не совсем законные поступки.

Очень часто мы совершаем покупки игрушек через интернет. Дешевле, нет необходимости тратить время, бегая по магазинам и удобно, но часто появляются сомнения, связанные с отсутствием потрогать, подержать в руках, получить больше дополнительной информации и возможностях данной игрушки или товаре.
В данном отзыве, хочу подробно рассказать обо всех возможностях «Обучающего телефона Молнии Маккуина» (именно так указано в инструкции).

Упаковка: Телефон упакован в картонную красочную коробку, с открытым верхом. На коробке есть информация о производителе, описание телефона. В комплекте телефона есть так же небольшая инструкция по использованию.

Рекомендуемый возраст: 3-6 лет, но, на мой взгляд, можно использовать и раньше.
Учимся – играя! Обучающий телефон способствует развитию:
Речи:
— развитие слухового внимания;
— выступает как накопитель словарного запаса;
— формирует грамматические навыки;
— обучает связной и диалогической речи.
Зрительное восприятие и память:
— способствует развитию способности запоминания и воспроизведения;
— развивает наглядно-образной, словестно-логической, моторной и эмоциональной памяти.
Самостоятельности:
— развитие познавательной самостоятельности;
— развитие творческое начало;
— развитие навыков самообучения;
— развитие навыков любознательности.
Мелкой моторики:
— развитие координации движений.

С помощью трёх обучающих программ, ребёнок познакомится с цифрами от 0 до 9, так же с друзьями Молнии МакВин, запомнит основные телефонные фразы. Руль, трубка в виде гоночного автомобиля, светящиеся кнопки, забавные звуки и весёлые мелодии, привлекут внимание Вашего ребёнка. Режим вопросов поможет закрепить полученные знания.
Рассмотрим более детально телефон. На верхней панели телефона, расположены переключатель, вращающийся руль и телефонная книжка.
Переключатель режимов:
На выбор ребёнка можно выбрать один из трёх режимов.
Позвони моим друзьям: в данном режиме голос, от Молнии МакВин, предлагает помочь позвонить его другу, называя имя. Для этого необходимо нажать нужную кнопку. При неправильном нажатии, голос говорит о ошибке и проговаривает имя данного героя. Нажав правильно, МакВин предлагает выполнить задание с рулём. Хвалит и продолжает дальше. При длительном неиспользовании телефона, он повторяет свою просьбу.
Цифры: Голос проговаривает задания. Необходимо нажать на любую кнопку, и вы услышите цифру, на которую указал Ваш ребёнок. Можно понаблюдать за светящимися кнопками. Тихо звучит лёгкая музыка.
Повтори за мной: В данном режиме предлагаются определённые задания, называя имена своих друзе в определённом порядке, предлагая повторить их. Хвалит при правильном выполнении и сообщает об ошибке, предлагая снова выполнить задания заново.

Вращающийся Руль: Его можно вращать. Голос сам предлагает, куда его прокрутить. Так же можно играть с ним и без команды.

Телефонная книжка: Содержит один перекидыватель и 4 изображения друзей Молнии МакВин. При переворачивании страницы, голос приветствует друга, называя его по имени. Их четыре, имена указаны под рисунком (Гвидо, Док, Луиджи, Метр).

Телефонная трубка выполнена в виде гоночной машинки Молнии МакВин. С телефоном она соединена жёлтым шнуром. Он, на мой взгляд, кажется мне коротковатым.

К нему необходимо наклоняться, дабы поднести к уху. Опознавательные знаки на машинке, наклеены. При поднятии трубки, звучит голос МакВина, слова приветствия.

Клавиатура. Содержит 10 кнопок с цифрами, кнопку Повтора и Включения/Выключения.
Кнопка Вкл/Выкл позволит ребёнку самостоятельно включить телефон. Для сохранения работоспособности батареек, игрушка автоматически выключится через три минуты, если не будет нажата ни одна кнопка.

Кнопка Повтор может быть использована для повтора последнего задания, либо фразы.
Светящиеся телефонные кнопки выполнены в виде колёс. Имеют красную подсветку, активирующуюся при нажатии. На кнопках изображены друзья Молнии МакВин:
1- Метр, 2- Док, 3- Луиджи, 4 — Мак, 5 – Рамон, 6 – Фло, 7 – Квидо, 8 – Шериф, 9 – Филма, 10 – Сержант.
В разных режимах с ними можно выполнять различные задания, игры, искать по имени, по цифрам и т. п.
С правого бока, есть ручка для удобного ношения в руке. При таком виде, телефонная трубка не падает, она надёжна закреплена.

На нижней стороне телефона размещены ножки-подставки. Очень удобный регулятор громкости с двумя положениями: тише и громче.

Отсек, для 3 батареек класса АА. (закреплён винтом).

Есть отверстия, позволяющие разместить телефон на вертикальной поверхности (для гвоздика).
Материал: пластмасса. Яркий. Цена на момент написания отзыва, около 230 грн.
ТМ: Vtech.
Ребёнок игрушкой доволен!
Рекомендую к приобретению! Признательна за внимание к данному отзыву!

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«Speed. I am speed.»

—Lightning McQueen, Cars

Anthony Montgomery «Lightning» McQueen is the main character of the Cars series. He appears in almost every main installment of the Cars series, with the only exceptions being media based on the Planes series. He is a Piston Cup race car that has won 7^[1] Piston Cups since his debut in the 2006 season. Lightning resides in the small town of Radiator Springs in Carburetor County, where he has his own racing headquarters, as well as his own stadium. He is 41 years old as of 2017.^[2], therefore he is 47 years old in 2021.

Creation and development

During research for the first film, John Lasseter and General Motors designers met to discuss the updated Corvette design, which Lightning McQueen and Chick Hicks were originally intended to be based on. However, changes to the plot resulted in both characters being left as generic stock racers. According to production designer Bob Pauley, Lightning’s final design used elements from GT40s and Chargers, among many other models, to reflect his personality and role. Originally, Lightning’s number was 57, John Lasseter’s birthyear.

Athletic figures such as boxer Muhammad Ali and football quarterback Joe Namath were looked to during development of McQueen’s personality, as well as popular musician Kid Rock, in order to create a cocky-but-likable character. Additionally, Michael Jordan was also looked to by the designers, due to his unique style of playing his sport.

History

Background

Towards the start of his racing career, McQueen raced under sponsorship of Smell Swell Deodorizer. However, he was dropped from the label in favor of another young racer named Sammy Smelter, whose poor racing fit the image of Smell Swell better, according to the representative who fired McQueen.

Mack, who had overheard McQueen’s termination, approached the young hotshot and offered to take him to Boston to meet for a job opportunity with Rust-eze, who had been looking, with little success, for a new spokescar. During their trip, McQueen and Mack became fast friends. Upon their arrival in Boston, Rusty and Dusty Rust-eze offered a sponsorship to McQueen. Though he was initially hesitant due to the sponsor’s humiliating demeanor, McQueen agreed as long as Mack could become his transporter.^[3]

McQueen’s racing abilities eventually garnered the attention of the Piston Cup Racing Series, and he became a rookie in the championship’s 2006 season.

Cars

In Cars, the film opens at the Motor Speedway of the South, where cocky and self-centred Lightning McQueen is competing in the Dinoco 400 for the title of the Piston Cup champion. After a three-way tie between him, seven-time champion Strip Weathers and consistent runner-up Chick Hicks, McQueen makes a bet with Chick, where the first one to reach the tie-breaker race at the Los Angeles International Speedway wins the DINOCO sponsorship. Desperate to win, McQueen rushes to Mack, who forces him to make an appearance at his sponsor’s tent, which McQueen hates. Soon, the two are on the road, and McQueen urges Mack to drive through the night, without resting. A sleepy Mack is later harassed by a gang of delinquents, who accidentally open McQueen’s trailer and unknowingly release him.

Lightning wakes up in the middle of the highway and quickly tries to catch up with Mack. However, after mistaking a Peterbilt truck for him, McQueen figures his best option is to search for help on the Interstate. McQueen rushes past a sleeping police officer named Sheriff, who chases him through the town. Scared, McQueen accidentally rips up the road with a statue of the town’s founder, which ultimately lands him in the town’s impound. When he wakes in the morning, he discovers he is in the deserted town of Radiator Springs, Arizona, where the embarrised residents sentence him to community service and make him fix the road by pulling a road paver named Bessie.

Persistent of making it to Los Angeles before Chick, Lightning first attempts to escape, but runs out of gas and is returned to the town, where he tries to fix the road quickly. The residents feel disrespected due to the rushed bumpy road, and Doc Hudson, the town’s lawyer and doctor, challenges him to a road race, which Lightning loses, due to lack of familiarity with dirt tracks.

Though initially hesitant to affiliate himself with the townsfolk, Lightning ends up making friends with the residents, particularly the absent-minded Mater, and the beautiful attorney Sally Carrera, whom Lightning quickly gains a crush on. After learning of the history behind both the town and Doc Hudson, who was previously a famous Piston Cup dirt track racer,  Lightning begins to marvel at Doc’s skill and the certain racing tricks that Doc knows. After taking a drive with Sally, Lightning finds Doc out at Willy’s Butte. Later, McQueen finishes the road, and while the townsfolk originally think he left without saying goodbyes, McQueen surprises the residents by arriving and asking for a new paint job and new tires. That night, while enjoying a «cruise» with the residents, the Press find McQueen and take him away to the tie-breaker race.

At the race, McQueen is surprised to see his Radiator Springs friends have arrived to serve as his racing team and Doc as his crew chief and with the help of his team, especially Guido, who performs the quickest pit stop in Piston Cup history, Lightning finds himself well ahead of Chick and The King. However, sick of constantly coming in second, Chick performs a PIT maneuver on Weathers, causing him to spin out and crash. When McQueen remembers Doc’s words about winning, Lightning gives up his victory and instead decides to help Strip to the finish line so that Strip can finish his final race, much to the happiness of the fans. Though Chick technically won the race, he is ignored and instead, fans congratulate McQueen. Lightning decides to permanently establish Radiator Springs as his hometown, and the publicity sparks great interest in the town.

Cars: The Video Game

In Cars: The Video Game, which takes place in 2006, one year after the events of Cars, Lightning McQueen appears as the central character of the game’s story mode, as well as the car that the player takes control of throughout the majority of the game. In this game, McQueen finds himself at the beginning of a new Piston Cup season, where Mack asks McQueen to obtain some practice before the first race, and he turns to the Radiator Springs citizens for help. After a few races, Mack and McQueen travel to the first race of the season, where Chick, who Lightning previously spotted observing him practicing, greets him. Upon Lightning’s victory, Chick begins to seek additional help to sabotage McQueen’s chances.

After more practicing and another Piston Cup race, Lightning meets and challenges a gang of race cars from Queens, New York, who later reveal themselves to be allies of Chick. Still not satisfied, Chick continues to search for help, and meets with the same gang of tuner cars who had messed with McQueen the year earlier. The four cars are hired to rob Mack of McQueen’s goods while he is on the Interstate, but McQueen manages to obtain them again by stealing it all back from the cars on the highway, who are then captured and subsequently arrested. They reveal themselves to be under hire of Chick, who Lightning later confronts at the Smasherville International Speedway. There, Lightning declares a three-race «Radiator Springs Grand Prix» event to determine who is the better competitor, an event that is supported by the Piston Cup.

After defeating Chick in all three races, McQueen then manages to win the championship, and upon his return to Radiator Springs, his trophy is put with Doc’s three trophies from his past inside of the clinic.

Lightning also appears as a playable character in the Arcade and Versus modes. He has relatively high statistics in comparison to other characters, and also has the most paint jobs out of all characters.

Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures

Lightning is the main character in Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures. In this game, Lightning must help the residents of Radiator Springs by assisting them with their daily jobs. There are ten additional paint jobs that can be unlocked for McQueen, each one obtained by the player beating their fastest time on each of the default ten minigames.

Mater and the Ghostlight

In Mater and the Ghostlight, McQueen is one of the many who fall victim to Mater’s pranks. While talking to Sally at Flo’s V8 Café, McQueen inspects a pile of cans in the shape of Mater, but once he gets closer, Mater bursts through the stack, scaring McQueen. Mater teases Lightning, claiming he looks as if he has seen the Ghostlight. Sheriff warns Mater not to joke about the Ghostlight, and everyone listens as Sheriff tells a story about the mysterious creature. When Sheriff finishes, everyone hurries to sleep, leaving Mater alone in the streets.

Mater returns home, paranoid about the Ghostlight. Once he reaches his garage, he discovers a blue light behind him, and Mater starts frantically driving around Radiator Springs. Unbeknownst to Mater, the light is actually just a lamp that McQueen and Guido placed on his tow hook as payback for his pranks.

Once Mater loses his breath, he slows down and realizes the light is merely a lamp. McQueen and the other residents tease him, before hurriedly heading to sleep once more.

Cars: Mater-National Championship

In Cars: Mater-National Championship, the direct sequel to Cars: The Video Game, Lightning is again the player character throughout the majority of the game’s story mode. In this game, Lightning meets a variety of new opponents, including Italian Ferrari Giovanni, cocky German champion Otto Von Fassenbottom, Swedish jokester Gudmund, English rally car Emma, and Japanese drift racer Koji, who have arrived in Radiator Springs to compete in the Mater-National series of events, hosted by McQueen and Mater. Lightning also meets British tourist Philip and Russian challenger Yuri, who are simply visiting the town to compete in the various races.

Lightning also appears as a playable character in the game’s Arcade and Versus modes, again with high statistics in comparison to the other vehicles, and a large number of paint jobs, eight of which can be obtained by collecting them at various locations in the game’s explorable hub in story mode.

Cars Toons

Rescue Squad Mater

In Rescue Squad Mater, Lightning and Mater drive past Red while he is watering his flowers, which reminds Mater of his career as a fire truck. As soon as reports of endangered vehicles would come in, Mater would immediately race to the scene, and do whatever he could to save others from fires. Mater tells McQueen that even he was saved by Mater once — after being rescued from a burning building, Lightning was rushed to the hospital for treatment toward his burns, and was operated on by none other than Mater, who also happened to be a doctor.

When Lightning questions the authenticity of this tale, Mater’s former nurse, Nurse GTO, drives by the pair and greets Mater, leaving Lightning in disbelief.

Mater the Greater

In Mater the Greater, Mater tells Lightning the story of how he was once a daredevil who performed a variety of dangerous stunts, including jumping over a wide group of rusty cars, jumping through a ring of fire, diving into a small kiddie pool, and hanging on to an airplane as it made lots of sudden movements. Mater’s greatest stunt, however, was jumping an enormous crater called Carburetor Canyon, which Lightning also participated in. Lightning drove down a very long ramp while being propelled by a rocket strapped to his trunk, and despite coming close, he didn’t make it. Lightning objects and accuses Mater of telling a tale tale, until Lug and Nutty, Mater’s assistants, drive by them.

El Materdor

In El Materdor, Lightning and Mater are strolling through the bulldozer pasture, which leads Mater into a story of his days as a matador. Mater would constantly put his life at risk for the entertainment of others, by battling bulldozers. When Lightning questions this, Mater tells Lightning he was there too, and easily attracted the bulldozers due to his red paint scheme. When Lightning objects, he is then chased by a group of bulldozers, who have somehow escaped from their pasture.

Tokyo Mater

In Tokyo Mater, after Sheriff begins pursuit of three hooligans who drift past the Radiator Springs residents at Flo’s V8 Café, Mater tells everyone about his career as a drift racer. After towing a car to Tokyo, he is challenged to a drift race by Kabuto, and is subsequently modified to look more modern. During the race, Mater goes off-course and finds himself in a halfpipe, where cranes are lifting heavy objects. Suddenly, Lightning Dragon McQueen appears, and helps Mater navigate through the maze of objects and back onto course. Unlike in most other Cars Toons shorts, no evidence is provided to validate Mater’s tale.

Unidentified Flying Mater

In Unidentified Flying Mater, Mater tells McQueen a story of how he met a UFO named Mator. However, Mator was captured by the government and studied, until Mater managed to break in and save him. When the two make their escape, Lightning joins them, but they are soon taken aboard a large UFO that is revealed to be Mator’s mother. She drops them off in Radiator Springs, and Mator and his mother return home. As always, Lightning doubts this happened, but after McQueen leaves, Mater manages to fly again, just like how Mator taught him to.

Monster Truck Mater

In Monster Truck Mater, Mater’s story this time is about his monster truck career; he was once a famous monster truck wrestler nicknamed «The Tormentor.» While Mater fought many tough opponents, the biggest threat he faced was a giant construction vehicle named Dr. Frankenwagon’s Monster. When Lightning curiously asks what happened, Mater tells him he was there as well, on a tag-team with Mater. The two managed to defeat the monster by flipping the ring over and on top of him.

Heavy Metal Mater

In Heavy Metal Mater, Mater tells Lightning a story of how he was once a popular heavy metal artist; after producing the hit Dad Gum, Mater’s band, titled Heavy Metal Mater, began to play live shows, with Lightning as the keyboardist. Right after Lightning objects, both of them look up to see a giant Mater balloon floating above them, the same one that Mater claimed would often be flown above the stage while they performed.

Moon Mater

In Moon Mater, Lightning plays a role in Mater’s tale about how he became an astronaut and helped stranded agent Impala XIII, in which he is seen traveling down to the earth at incredible speeds, and eventually catches ablaze, before landing in the ocean. The rescue of the endangered astronaut makes the headlines, and Lightning, Mater, and Impala XIII are interviewed by newspapers and television shows. Despite McQueen’s denial, Roger, Mater’s shuttle, arrives and tells him he must go on another mission, and the two blast off into outer space, leaving Lightning in disbelief.

Mater Private Eye

In Mater Private Eye, Lt. McQueen and his assistants arrest Big D, after Mater discovers that he and his henchman have been manufacturing counterfeit tires. As always, Lightning denies any truth in Mater’s detective story, Carmen, one of the cars Mater mentioned in his story, arrives and starts a conga dance, which Mater follows.

Air Mater

In Air Mater, Mater informs Lightning of his supposed relationship with popular air performers The Falcon Hawks, and how he filled in for one of the performers when his wing was damaged. However, during the performance, Mater’s wings break, and he begins to fall. However, Lightning McQueen Hawk saves him, and subsequently assists him in the big finish, by throwing Mater up into the air, and then catching him and safely landing. As McQueen objects, Mater receives a recruitment call from the Falcon Hawks, and they arrive to pick him up.

Time Travel Mater

In Time Travel Mater, Mater travels back in time and finds himself face-to-face with Stanley, prior to Radiator Springs’ foundation. Stanley asks him whether or not he would like to purchase a hubcap and, when Mater’s rejects the offer, Stanley decides to leave the oasis. Realizing what will happen if Stanley doesn’t found Radiator Springs, Mater returns to the present to get Lightning, and the two go back to the past.

However, things do not go as planned — Lizzie begins to fall in love with Lightning, so the two have to make sure that Stanley and Lizzie meet and get married, in order to save the future from being rewritten. Lizzie and Stanley eventually marry, and Radiator Springs is successfully founded.

Hiccups

In Hiccups, Lightning acquires a case of the hiccups, and the others at Flo’s V8 Café attempt to cure him. Guido suggests holding his breath, but Guido faints, and when Lightning starts to breathe in, he realizes the method was not successful. Luigi tries to scare the hiccups away, Sarge tries to order the hiccups away, and Sheriff tells Red to spray water into McQueen’s mouth. However, the only method that works is Sally’s, who simply kisses him.

Spinning

In Spinning, when Luigi orders Guido to spin a sign outside of the tire shop, Lightning and the other Radiator Springs residents and passersby notice his talents, and a large crowd forms.

The Radiator Springs 500½

In The Radiator Springs 500½, McQueen dresses up as Stanley for the town’s annual «Stanley Days» celebration, planning to do a leisurely drive with the townsfolk, until a group of Baja racers led by Sandy Dunes arrive to challenge him to a race, which he gets customized for off-road racing. However, during the race, McQueen and the other racers take a wrong turn after Mater confused them with saying that left is right when he actually meant that it is correct. Following this, they go over bumpy hills and a cliff, drive through a cactus patch, get covered in soot from some tailpipes in a cavern, and come across a spooky forest, where they get frightened by all of the corpses scattered around, before arriving back in Radiator Springs.

The World of Cars Online

In The World of Cars Online, Lightning could often be found outside of his racing headquarters, allowing players to shop inside of the store. He was also a playable character in the Lightning Storm McQueen minigame, in which he, with the help of Luke Pettlework, would fight against the Zurg Train.

Cars: Race-O-Rama

In Cars: Race-O-Rama, Lightning is helping out at the Doc Hudson Racing Academy, and is racing against them in a competition at Radiator Springs Speedway. After Lightning sees how the green racers are behaving, he confronts them, only to find out that they are being trained by none other than Chick Hicks. As the story continues on, Lightning meets more of Chick’s goons, who he befriends after they turn on Chick and apologize for their rude behavior.

In arcade mode, Lightning is unlocked as a playable character from the start of the game. Additionally, various other versions of Lightning can be unlocked, including his «beach racer» attire and his «off-road racer» attire.

Cars Toons: Mater’s Tall Tales: The Video Game

In Cars Toons: Mater’s Tall Tales: The Video Game, Lightning appears in all of the sets of minigames.

Cars 2

In Cars 2, Lightning McQueen returns, but as the deuteragonist.

Lightning returns to Radiator Springs from his latest Piston Cup racing season, and is happily greeted by all of the townsfolk, especially Mater, who takes him on various activities. After a long day of messing around with Mater, Lightning tells him that he would like some quiet time with Sally at the Wheel Well Motel. Feeling left out, Mater poses as a waiter at the motel, but while attempting to prepare their orders, Mater is distracted by the Mel Dorado Show on one of the televisions, which is currently featuring Italian champion Francesco Bernoulli, who begins to trashtalk Lightning. Mater calls into the show to argue, and manages to secure Lightning a spot in the World Grand Prix, a series of three worldwide races, hosted by oil baron Miles Axlerod.

In preparation, Ramone gives Lightning a fancy new paint job and spoiler, and Lightning, Mater, Luigi, Guido, Sarge, and Fillmore set off for Tokyo, which is where the welcome party is being hosted, as well as the first race. On the journey, McQueen and Mater are enjoying their time together: watching a game show on their plane’s television, amazed by Tokyo’s neon signs, and attending a karate show. At the opening ceremony, McQueen meets up with fellow racers Lewis Hamilton and Jeff Gorvette, but he soon notices that Mater has been acting the same since living in Radiator Springs, and tries to explain that he should change his behavior so to get used to all the different things outside Radiator Springs. However, Mater does not completely understand, deciding to help McQueen by introducing him to Italian racer Francesco Bernoulli. Although reluctant by this, McQueen is forced to mention to Francesco that it is an honor for them to meet. They both agree to have a toast, but both of them make the same dedication of their own win in the initial race to Sally. Lightning is later asked to take the stage with Axlerod, but the interview is interrupted when Mater, who has just consumed a high amount of wasabi, bursts onto the stage, and drinks water from the display. Embarrassed, Mater is surprised to find out that he has leaked oil, and quickly hurries to the bathroom to clean up. However, an American secret agent who is being assaulted places his tracking beacon onto Mater. British agent Holley Shiftwell meets Mater, and he thinks that she is asking him out on a date.

Moments before the first race begins, McQueen makes his usual preparations, closing his eyes and talking to himself about keeping focus, only for Francesco to immediately mock him by making the same preparations. Annoyed, McQueen once again comments about his goal to beat Francesco. As the race begins, McQueen makes his way up the field, getting up to second place and behind Francesco. However, McQueen is not able to get past Francesco until they come up to the dirt section, where Mater, who is working as McQueen’s crew chief, gives him the advice of using the same trick Doc had taught him. With Francesco struggling to drive on the dirt, McQueen makes an easy pass at the following chicane and takes the lead. However, drama occurs as a couple of the racecars flame out, leaving fans wondering if allinol is responsible for the accidents. Next, McQueen begins hearing random words from Mater through his team radio, unaware that Mater is actually talking to someone else. Still being confused by Mater’s words, McQueen moves to the outside of the loop up to Rainbow Bridge, enabling Francesco to snatch the lead. Shocked by what happened, McQueen goes after Francesco and goes side-by-side with him as they head towards the finish line. However, Francesco is able to cross the finish line first, while McQueen suddenly spins out and finishes Third.

Feeling bossy, McQueen is left wondering why this all happened, as Francesco brags during the podium interview about making a move whenever someone makes a mistake. Just then, McQueen notices Mater driving to the pits, and when no one is looking, he drives out of the podium interview and meets up with Mater, asking him why he was talking nonsense throughout the race. Mater explains that he had been away from the track because he heard a woman’s voice talking to him out of nowhere and directing him through the streets, where he had seen a couple of cars involved in a fight and using flame-throwers. McQueen becomes mad, telling Mater that it is all his fault for making him fail the race and that he should not have brought him along so he could spend time imagining a girlfriend and watching people using flame-throwers in fights. Realizing what McQueen meant, Mater tries to make up by suggesting to talk to someone about what happened, but McQueen is growling, berating poor Mater by saying that he wouldn’t need his help from him at all. poor Mater sadly gulped, and decides to return home, and heads to the Tokyo airport (unbeknownst to McQueen and his team). However, at the airport, Finn McMissile, who thinks Mater is a spy, leads him away from the line and introduces himself. However, two lemons named Grem and Acer, who are on the lookout for McMissile, spot him, and the two make an escape on Siddeley, Finn’s plane.

Meanwhile, Team McQueen finds a note from Mater saying that he has decided to head back home following his argument with McQueen, not wanting to be responsible ever again for making him losing any future races. However, McQueen begins to feel down, as he did not mean for Mater to leave. Despite being relieved that he would know Mater would be safe being in Radiator Springs, McQueen still feels down, thinking that he should not have been too hard on him. Arriving in Italy, McQueen and his team come across Luigi and Guido’s old hometown, Carsoli, where the latter two are proud to be reunited with Uncle and Mama Topolino. The whole village hosts a celebration of Luigi and Guido’s return, but Uncle Topolino begins to notice how down McQueen is. Having been told the whole thing by Luigi, Uncle Topolino explains to McQueen that everyone, even best friends, get into fights, as he remembers Luigi and Guido fighting all the time when they used to live with him.

Meanwhile, many of the fans of the World Grand Prix are still wondering if allinol is safe, leading to Axlerod telling them that the fuel has been examined and is proven to be safe, leaving the second race to remain, taking place in Porto Corsa. However, Team McQueen begin to notice that McQueen feels sad. Fillmore advises him not to worry about his fuel, but McQueen admits that he is actually missing Mater. Furthermore, he gets insulted by Francesco saying that he is glad to be at home with his mother and fans. As the race goes ahead, Francesco soars into the lead as McQueen follows, trying to make numerous moves such as at the town’s hairpin. On the final lap, McQueen temporarily leads, but as they approach the finish line, he and Francesco begin fighting for the lead, ending with McQueen crossing the finish line just ahead of Francesco. With this, McQueen celebrates his victory, but it immediately ends as numerous ambulances rush past, making McQueen and Francesco notice on the television screen that the other racecars have involved a large crash, created by Grem and Acer’s electromagentic pulse camera, which blows their engines.This leads to everyone now completely concerned about its safety, which makes Axlerod decide that the last race in London will still be held, but no longer to be run on Allinol.

McQueen, however, feels that it is impossible for something like that to occur, furthermore declaring that he will be using Allinol for the final race. Meanwhile, Mater, who has infiltrated the Lemons’ meeting, watches in horror as they pick their next target, McQueen. Revealing himself, Mater uses his spy tools to escape. Soon, as a press liaison is leading him to the press, McQueen starts to hear Mater’s voice from somewhere in the crowd. Taking another look, he sees a flash of Mater’s roof in the distance, while the photographers try to get his attention. Trying to get closer, McQueen moves through the crowd, as the press liaison calls out to come back. However, as all the photographers finally move out of the way, McQueen instead finds a blue tow truck known as Ivan, saying that it was him who called out. As the press liaison takes him away, McQueen starts to get confused, pretty sure that he saw and heard Mater in the crowd. Before heading to London, McQueen contacts Radiator Springs so to talk to Mater, but he finds out that Mater had not been there at all. As he comes to his pit stall, he finds Sally and the rest of his friends present, having heard about what happened. While Sarge leaves with Sheriff to search for Mater, the rest of the townsfolk stay behind to assist McQueen in the race. However, still feeling concerned about Mater, McQueen is unsure about if he can keep his focus on the race, but Axlerod comes to thank him for his decision to use allinol, encouraging him to prove to the world that they had been wrong about it being unsafe. Plus, Sally advises him to do the race for Mater.

As the race begins, Francesco gets into the lead as they head up to the Victoria Memorial, but after they go through Admiralty Arch, McQueen snatches the lead. As McQueen soon comes in for his pit stop, he is glad to find Mater already there. However, in a panic, Mater drives onto the racetrack, ordering McQueen to keep away from him. Misunderstanding, McQueen chases after Mater, trying to tell him that what he said before no longer matters. Still panicking, Mater yells out that «he’s the bomb», making McQueen believe that he is saying he is excellent. Again, Mater yells out to keep away, but McQueen refuses to listen, not wanting to lose Mater again, and grabs onto his tow hook, which causes Mater to activate a pair of rocket jets, making the two friends zoom along the track’s straight, past a shocked Francesco, and go off the circuit at the following corner, zooming through the streets of London. However, McQueen declines Mater’s request to let go, still not understanding what is going on. 

As the two friends finally screech to a halt, British secret agents Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell arrive, convincing McQueen that some thugs had planted a bomb on Mater so that they could try and kill them both, all because of McQueen’s decision to use allinol in the race. McQueen is left wondering who would do that to Mater, to which Finn brings in a captive Professor Zündapp, who angrily questions about his electromagnetic pulse generator not working right. McQueen is now left completely shocked by the fact that Zündapp had been having those same thugs try to kill him with the emitter when it was supposed to come into contact with allinol, only that he did not explode when the plan was being performed. Finn demands answers from Zündapp about how to deactivate the bomb, and as the bomb begins to tick, Zündapp reveals that the only way to turn it off is to get a voice command from the person who turned it on in the first place. To make matters worse, the thugs, who reveal themselves as lemons, block any chance of McQueen, Mater, Finn, and Holley escaping, but they are soon taken out by McQueen and Mater’s friends. Sarge arrives with the British Military who presumably take the villains away.

With the lemons arrested, everyone tries to figure out a way to get rid of the bomb. Thinking of only one option, Guido makes an attempt to unfasten the bolts, but his wheel gun would not fit. Then, Mater figures out who had put the bomb on, but he does not reveal it straight away, worried that no one will believe him, but McQueen encourages him, telling him to just be his regular self and that anyone not believing him should instead change themselves, not Mater himself. With no time to lose, Mater grabs McQueen and heads off to Buckingham Palace, where Axlerod is waiting with the Queen of England. With the Queen’s bodyguards preventing Mater from getting any closer, Mater explains to them, McQueen, Finn and Holley that Axlerod is the one who activated the bomb, remembering that the bomb is attached with the same bolts used on an old engine shown on a photo that Finn and Holley had got, also that old engines contain oil. Axlerod, however, tries to tell everyone that none of this is true, but Mater keeps on talking, saying that Axlerod is the leader of Professor Zündapp and the lemons, trying to make the world dismiss alternative fuel and buy regular oil from a secret oil reserve, because they had been laughed at for their entire lives. As the bomb gets closer to detonation, everyone braces themselves, while Axlerod tries to take Mater’s comments as lies, but as he is encountered by Mater, he is forced to make a voice command, which successfully turns off the bomb, and proves that Mater was right about everything.

To congratulate his bravery, the Queen makes Mater a knight, which also makes him as popular as his best friend McQueen. As they arrive back in Radiator Springs, Mater tells McQueen and their friends about how he met Finn and Holley and helped them to learn information about Professor Zündapp and the lemons. Just then, Finn and Holley arrive, paying Mater and his friends a visit. McQueen is also given the time to ask how come he did not explode when the lemons were using their EMP emitter on him in London, but Finn and Holley point out that they do not know the reason, but also found out that allinol was just gasoline upgraded by Axlerod to blow up when coming into contact with an electromagnetic pulse. McQueen then begins to realize that Fillmore had told him back in Italy that allinol was safe, and everyone assumes that something had been done to McQueen’s supply of allinol before the race. Fillmore does note that before the race, McQueen’s supply was replaced by his own organic fuel, but that Sarge actually did it, not Fillmore.

Later, McQueen invites all of the World Grand Prix racers to compete in Radiator Springs’ unofficial Grand Prix, as a way to treat them to a great race, even knowing that thanks to the fate of the World Grand Prix, still no one knows who is the fastest in the world. Before lining up on the grid, McQueen has Francesco meet Sally, who is honored by Francesco’s comment about McQueen being very lucky to be racing, especially when racing against his rivals. Not long before the race, McQueen adds to Sally to wish him luck, to which Sally knows he will be lucky enough to win. This time, McQueen and Francesco are calmer towards each other, both having grins as they battle for the lead, while the other racers are enjoying it. Not long after, Mater joins in, having been given his rocket jets by Finn and Holley, and he and McQueen happily race each other to the end of the Radiator Springs Grand Prix, as Finn and Holley leave for their next mission.

Cars 2: The Video Game

In Cars 2: The Video Game, Lightning is a playable character, and is one of the ten characters unlocked from the beginning the game. He also has two other skins, Carbon Fiber Lightning, which can be unlocked by earning the «Agent — Third Class» crest, and Radiator Lightning, which can be unlocked by earning the «Runway Pancake» crest. Additionally, Lightning has two more downloadable costumes that can be purchased from the Xbox or PlayStation stores; Dragon Lightning and Daredevil Lightning.

Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure

In Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure, Lightning is an unlockable playable character, that can be unlocked by obtaining all four Buddy Coins that are hidden in the three Cars levels.

He also appears in the first Cars level, Fancy Drivin’, where he is looking for a new car for his racing team, which is the player, who must compete in various challenges, including the Tow Mater Fancy Drivin’ Challenge, in which the player follows Mater throughout his tricky course. Impressed with the player’s performance, Lightning accepts the player on his team, and the level is completed.

Disney Infinity

In Disney Infinity, Lightning is one of the four playable characters from the Cars franchise, and his figure can be obtained with Holley Shiftwell’s in the Cars Play Set Pack. Like the other characters, Lightning possesses all capabilities that a non-car character has while driving inside of a ground vehicle, including accelerating, braking, reversing, drifting, and boosting, though all Cars characters have one more boost segment than ground vehicles do, for a grand total of four. He can also tow other players with a tow hook. If attempting to tow a non-car character, that character will ride on a small wagon behind Lightning.

Lightning’s packs and tools consist of various weapons, which are the same ones that are used during battle races, including Machine Guns, Missile Launchers, and more.

In the Cars Play Set, Lightning’s toy chests will unlock the Lightning McQueen Paint Job, as well as three random toys pertaining to Cars, including cast members, set pieces, skies, and more, all of which can be used in the Toy Box. Lightning’s unique adventure is Lightning’s Collector Course, in which Lightning must navigate through a large stunt course, while obtaining a set amount of collectibles, which changes with each difficulty level, in the given time limit.

Planes: Fire & Rescue

In Planes: Fire & Rescue, while he does not make a physical appearance, an image of Lightning can be seen on the sports-related newspaper that Dusty and his friends are looking at. This image is actually the same promotional artwork that was released of Lightning in his Cars 2 attire.

Disney Infinity: 2.0 Edition

In Disney Infinity: 2.0 Edition, Lightning returns alongside all other Disney Infinity characters from the first title, though he has not received any major changes, apart from receiving four skill trees, which feature abilities that can be upgraded to be improved. Additionally, Lightning can now be leveled up to level 20, as opposed to level 15, as in the previous game.

To obtain the Lightning McQueen Paint Job, Fillmore, Flo, Ramone, and The Radiator Cap toys, the player must simply take ownership of Lightning for the first time.

Cars: Fast as Lightning

In Cars: Fast as Lightning, Lightning is the final unlockable playable character, though two races must be completed while playing as him in the tutorial of the game. When he is unlocked, Lightning’s Pit and the Doc Hudson Statue will be unlocked for use on tracks and in town.

Prior to being unlocked, Lightning will join Mater andLizzie in giving the player missions to complete. In contrast to Mater’s, which revolve primarily around town-related tasks, Lightning’s revolve around race-related tasks, such as completing a set amount of tricks in races, or building a certain amount of objects on a character’s race track.

Disney Infinity: 3.0 Edition

In Disney Infinity: 3.0 Edition, Lightning makes another appearance as a playable character, and has received no noticeable changes from his previous appearance in Disney Infinity: 2.0 Edition. When the player takes ownership of Lightning for the first time, the Lightning McQueen Paint Job will be unlocked, along with the Fillmore, Flo, Ramone, and The Radiator Cap toys.

Cars 3

In Cars 3, Lightning McQueen returns as the protagonist.

By Cars 3, Lightning has been racing in the Piston Cup for over 10 years. He has struck up friendships with fellow racers Cal Weathers — who is now racing for Dinoco with his uncle Strip «The King» Weathers as his crew chief — and Bobby Swift. Tex Dinoco would still like McQueen to race for him, even courting him within earshot of Cal. During the season, a newcomer named Jackson Storm seemingly comes out of nowhere and wins. McQueen later congratulates him only for Storm to state it was an honor to «finally beat [him]», later telling his crew that he «struck a nerve», showing that he likes to use emotional manipulation to get into his opponents’ heads. Also, Storm uses the latest technology to train, making him a highly-skilled precision racer.

The season goes on with Jackson continuing to rack up wins, and more advanced, rookie racers begin supplanting the older generation. Cal chooses to retire, telling McQueen how much he valued their friendship. Bobby is fired by his sponsor and replaced with Daniel Swervez. On the next race, McQueen gets increasingly desperate to win, but fortunately Guido is still fast at pit stops and gets him back out, with Sally and Mater cheering him on. Storm continues to mock him on the track, passing him. Swervez and Chase Racelott — another next-gen racer — also pass McQueen. Lightning pushes himself as hard as he can, but his right rear tire blows out and he suffers a major crash. Sally, Mater, Guido and Luigi go out to see if he’s okay while emergency responders check on him.
Four months later, McQueen has recovered and is back in Radiator Springs. He’s in Doc’s old garage watching footage of the crash that ended his career. Sally then checks on him. Lightning doesn’t want to end up like Doc who was forced to retire. Sally tells him not to fear failure, reminding him that he has a chance. She resorts to some reverse psychology to get him going. McQueen tells all his friends he intends to keep racing. After Ramone re-paints McQueen in his original racing color scheme, Mack takes him, Guido and Luigi to the new Rust-eze Racing Center. He’s surprised to learn that Dusty and Rusty sold Rust-eze to billionaire Sterling, who appears to be a big fan. He has McQueen fitted with a new suit which tracks his speed and vital signs. Sterling shows off all the high-tech training equipment, including the most advanced simulator available.

McQueen is introduced to Cruz Ramirez, a friendly and enthusiastic trainer who first riles McQueen up by saying he’s an impostor, but this was quickly shown as a motivational tactic. Cruz trains McQueen, who’s itching to try the simulator. Unfortunately, it goes badly when McQueen rams into various objects, catches on fire, flies off the restraints and crashes into the screen. Sterling then calls him into his office, showing him lots of merchandise with his likeness. McQueen realizes that Sterling doesn’t want him racing anymore, so he makes a wager: if McQueen wins his next race, he retires whenever he wants; if not, he’ll sell all the merchandise he can. McQueen, Guido, Luigi and Mack head to Fireball Beach to train, with Cruz following them to help.

Cruz will run alongside him using her digital assistant Hamilton to gauge his top speed, but will have to stay very close. This proves easier said than done since Cruz doesn’t know how to race on sand. It takes until sunset to get it right. McQueen’s top speed is gauged at 198 mph, which is still slower than Storm. He decides to head to Thunder Hollow which has a dirt track, but when Luigi gets worried about the press finding him there, Mack assures him he can give McQueen a disguise.

When they get there, McQueen is covered in mud to mask his appearance, going by the name Chester Whipplefilter. They realize too late that it’s a Demolition Derby, and Cruz now has to take part too. The champion is a monster school bus named Miss Fritter. Both McQueen and Cruz barely avoid getting hit, but McQueen has to protect Cruz from Fritter. Cruz wins the derby, but accidentally trips Mr. Drippy over and inadvertently washes McQueen off, blowing his cover.

An angry McQueen lashes out at Cruz in Mack’s trailer, complaining that he spent the entire day having to take care of her. He states that he has to win his next race to continue in the sport, saying she wouldn’t understand since she’s not a racer. Feeling hurt by McQueen, Cruz orders Mack to pull over and angrily snaps back at Lightning. She never wanted to be a trainer, but a racer like him. She got to her first race, but felt she didn’t belong and left. Lightning admits — at Cruz’s urging — that he never felt he didn’t belong. She wishes she knew what that felt like. Cruz drives off on her own.

Mack spends the night sleeping under a bridge while McQueen watches TV. Footage of the demolition derby plays. Also, analyst Natalie Certain reports that Storm has set a new record for fastest lap, making him the heavy favorite at 95.2%. McQueen calls Mater who fortunately was still awake. Mater initially can’t come up with good advice until McQueen says he wishes he could talk to Doc again. Mater makes an off-handed comment that the car who taught Doc would know more about racing than him. With that, McQueen catches up to Cruz and convinces her to come with him to Doc’s hometown of Thomasville.

Once arriving, Lightning and Cruz get a look at the dirt track where Doc used to race. They meet Doc’s mentor Smokey, who takes them to a bar with fellow racing legends River Scott, Junior Johnson, and Louise Nash. McQueen tells Smokey that he wishes he could’ve seen Doc during his racing days when he was at his happiest. Smokey tells McQueen that he never heard from Doc after he moved to Radiator Springs, but one day he started getting letters from him. Smokey shows McQueen a wall with pictures of McQueen and Doc, revealing that coaching Lightning was the happiest time of his life.^[4] Smokey tells him he can’t be faster than Storm, but he can be smarter than him, as evidenced by making it through the derby without a scratch.

Since McQueen missed the qualifiers, he’ll have to start from behind and Jackson will start in front. Cruz has a spoiler installed and black tape is used to make her resemble Storm so she can be a «sparring partner» for McQueen. The two will race on the speedway with the latter only having three laps to overtake her, but he can’t. They use other techniques to train: dodging thrown bales of hay and other obstacles, maneuvering through a tractor stampede, and driving through a forest at night without their headlights on. The two get the hang of the exercises. While night driving, McQueen’s suit gets torn off by the trees, giving him back his original racing colors.

During this, Lightning and Cruz watch old footage of Doc’s races. They see that he used the drafting technique to gain speed and see him use the barricade to flip over another car who tried to ram him into the wall. On their final day of training, McQueen manages to pull ahead on the speedway, but Cruz still wins. They have to head to Florida for the race.

While Sheriff, Lizzie, and Red stayed behind, the rest of Radiator Springs arrived in Florida to cheer McQueen on, with Smokey acting as his crew chief. McQueen starts out last but gains ground. Sterling orders Cruz to leave. This doesn’t sit well with McQueen, who hears the conversation, and wants her back. After a wreck occurs, Lightning makes the call that Cruz will finish the race for him. She is quickly prepared by Ramone, Luigi, and Guido while Mater keeps Sterling away. With the #95, racing tires, and a spoiler, Cruz officially joins the race. Through Smokey, McQueen relays advice to her but takes over as her crew chief. Cruz puts all the training to great use and makes it near the top. While Storm is in first, he purposely falls back to second place as Cruz makes it to third place. He resorts to psychological warfare against her but McQueen tells her Jackson sees her as a threat or he would not be using such tactics.

The final lap comes. Cruz is right behind Jackson who cannot shake her. Storm rams her into the wall but she uses Doc’s flipping move to escape and take the lead. Cruz wins the race to the delight of the crowd.

Everyone congratulates her on the win. As Lightning is about to accept his fate as Sterling’s product, he checks the scoreboard to see that he won the race alongside Cruz. At the end, McQueen decides to hold a friendly exhibition race with Cruz for all of their friends, with McQueen sporting Doc’s racing number and color, continuing Doc’s legacy.

Cars 3: Driven to Win

Lightning is one of six playable characters, the other five being Cruz Ramirez, Mater, Sally, Ramone, and Guido, who are available from the start in Cars 3: Driven to Win. His «fabulous» paint job was also made available in a free update, which was released to coincide with the cinematic release of Cars 3.

Miss Fritter’s Racing Skoool

In Miss Fritter’s Racing Skoool, McQueen and Cruz Ramirez watch a commercial for Miss Fritter’s Racing Skoool. Later after watching the commercial, McQueen notices one of his trophies toppled and broke, explaining to Cruz that going to Miss Fritter’s school program is too dangerous to attend.

Other appearances

As the main character of the Cars series, Lightning appears in nearly every book, comic, and magazine ever written, most of which he has a lead role in.

Cars Land

A model based on Lightning McQueen makes two different appearance in Cars Land. In one, he is driving through Radiator Springs, talking with the guests. There, he appeared in his Cars 2 attire until 2017 when he was changed to his Cars 3 attire.

Lightning’s other appearance is in the Radiator Springs Racers attraction. In the ride, after the guests escape Frank, Lightning and Sally greet them and direct them towards either Luigi’s Casa Della Tires for new tires or to Ramone’s House of Body Art for a new paint job. After the race, he and Mater congratulate the guests on their performance and state that «you can’t win if you don’t race!», among other phrases.

General information

Physical description

Lightning’s model is a hand-built racing car, built for racing purposes specifically. He is a mix of a stock car and a more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racer. He has modifications like a red spoiler, and for a short time did not have headlights, only stickers. He has coil-over shocks with tubular A arm front suspension, a solid axle rear end and vented disc brakes at all four wheels. He also has air flaps on his roof to prevent flipping. His engine is a V-8, having a horsepower of 750. In Cars 2, his 0-60 speed is 3.2 seconds, and his top speed is 200 mph. In Cars 3, his 0-60 speed is 4 seconds, and his top speed is 198 mph.

Many fans claim that he either resembles a Dodge Viper, Ford GT40 or a tuned Mazda MX5. McQueen’s appearance bears very little resemblance to modern NASCAR sedans. He instead resembles a C6 Corvette, but using NASCAR technology.

In Cars, Lightning wears his Piston Cup paint scheme. He is painted red, with an orange and yellow lightning bolt design on his doors, along with the number «95» and a variety of sponsor stickers. He has the Rust-eze logo on his hood, as well as on his spoiler and rear fenders. On his yellow rear bumper written «Medicated Ointment». In Radiator Springs, McQueen was repainted to maroon with the white oval on his doors and little yellow lightning on it, paint job is similar to 1959 Chevy Corvette’s one. Spoiler, logos and number was removed. Before the final race of 2006 spoiler regained and Lightning was repainted back to his Piston Cup paint job. In the epilogue scene and credits of Cars Lightning again shown in the maroon and white paint job, but now number 95 is painted on his doors and roof, surrounded by a white circle, now he has Rust-eze logos and some stickers, his rear bumper now lacks any logos. In Cars Toons he continues to use it on daily basis, but, according to Cars 3 flashbacks, McQueen often switched this paint job to the original Piston Cup one.

At the beginning of Cars 2, Lightning is shown in his old Piston Cup design, he no longer painted maroon, he painted in old red color that was used on his first paint job on doors seen little bit modified old lightning silhouette, painted in deeper red, yellow lightning from white oval became bigger and now big «95» placed on it. Doc Hudson Piston Cup logo was added to his doors, also there were only three sponsor stickers. Later in the film, Lightning received an entirely new design, which brings back his original lightning bolt pattern while changing it to look more like a flame, Rust-eze logos were replaced with Piston Cup emblem and the «WGP 95» stickers were added on the doors, he got a new spoiler with World Grand Prix logo on top and flames on sides, on his new door skirts is now written «WORLD GRAND PRIX allinol» and on the rear bumper is written «WGP 95 POWERED BY allinol». His headlight stickers were replaced by actual headlights. In the final scene of Cars 2 seen, that all his World Grand Prix stickers, except «WGP 95» and on rear is now seen a sticker, saying «Ka-Ciao, Francesco». During Cars Toons he has a «transition» paint job, Lightning’s spoiler now has a Radiator Springs logo on top, Francesco sticker was replaced by Hudson Hornet Piston Cup logo, on his rear bumper is now seen his signature and his bolt, sponsor stickers were regained at the place of «WGP 95».

McQueen’s design received another update in Cars 3, now it mostly resemble the original one, but with rebranded Piston Cup and Rusteze logos. Old spoiler was regained, number 95 is now seen under his left headlight, on his hood is now seen a lightning bolt with Rusteze logo. After his crash McQueen seen primer with red «95» on his doors. When Lightning was brought to Rust-eze Racing Center, Ramone repainted McQueen back into 2016 Piston Cup paint job, but without lightning bolt on hoodm old Rust-eze logos and WGP-like flaming bolt. At the Rust-eze Racing Center he receives an electronic suit heat-shrunk onto him with its own decal scheme. The yellow lightning bolt design with Rust-eze ghost pattern on his doors now extends all the way to his rear fender, and a large Rust-eze logos are now present on his rear end, spoiler and hood,^[5] sponsor stickers disappeared. However, the suit is accidentally torn to shreds during training at Thomasville and Lightning competed in next race in Ramone’s paint job. When McQueen becomes Cruz Ramirez’ crew chief, he receives entirely new paint job, inspired by the Fabulous Hudson Hornet’s appearance. Now he is painted blue, on his roof seen 4 yellow 95 numbers and one on his rear fenders, old yellow Rust-eze wordmarks on his hood and spoiler, instead of lightning bolt on his doors is now written «Fabulous McQueen». Hudson Hornet logo is now replaces Rust-eze logo on the rear, rear bumper reads «95 For Doc Hudson», the stickers and 95 under left headlight was removed.

Personality and traits

Lightning is kind, positive, courageous and brave, and enjoys having fun and spending time with his friends, especially Mater. Prior to his arrival in Radiator Springs, Lightning was cocky and self-centered, only caring about two things: winning and the pride that comes with it. At the time, Lightning had no friends besides Mack and Harv, leaving him with limited social skills. Regardless, he was still a popular name in the racing world, and was constantly being interviewed by the Press and admired by fans, much to his liking. When two fangirls drove up to him, they were taken away by security, after Lightning simply said «I love being me.» Though the Radiator Springs residents were not very fond of him at first, they later befriended Lightning, and McQueen learned why it is important to have good friends. Lightning established Radiator Springs as his home base, and the wide publicity sparked interest in the town, which was soon put back on the map.

Lightning’s best friend is Mater, whom he met when he awoke in the Impound. While Lightning did not like Mater at first, he began to like him after he took Lightning tractor tipping in the middle of the night. Mater and McQueen do several things together, including going tractor tipping regularly, driving backwards, driving along the Ornament Valley railroad tracks without tire treads, and occasionally racing each other. However, the two have their fair share of fights; most notably when Mater accidentally through Lightning off during the first race of the World Grand Prix, due to Lightning mistaking his banter with Holley Shiftwell for advice. Angry, Lightning yells at Mater and tells him he neither needs or wants his help anymore. Saddened by this, Mater decides to return home to avoid making Lighting lose another race and apologizes to Lighting through a note. However, at the end of the film, Lightning and Mater make up, and together they expose Miles Axlerod and his plan.

Lightning’s primary interest when he is not spending quiet time with his friends is racing. As a famous Piston Cup race car himself, Lightning has a remarkable talent for it, and enjoys practicing and competing in road races whenever he is not out on the Piston Cup track. McQueen has many formidable opponents; the many inhabitants of Radiator Springs, a group of British and Mexican rivals, various allies of Chick Hicks, international superstars, and other Piston Cup racers, notably Chick Hicks and, for a short time, The King. Lightning’s obsession with victory and fame came to a close once he remembered the words of his mentor, Doc Hudson: «It’s just an empty cup.» Lightning gave up his win at the tie-breaker race to help The King finish his last race. Lightning still enjoys spending quiet time with his friends, especially Sally Carrera, his girlfriend. Some of their favorite activities are taking a drive through the beautiful scenery of Tailfin Pass, and enjoying dates at the Wheel Well Motel and other locations in Carburetor County.

Powers and abilities

As a world-famous race car, Lightning is incredibly gifted, and can perform a variety of stunts to assist him in winning his races. In terms of statistics, Lightning is usually portrayed with having outstanding acceleration, speed, handling, stability, agility, and boost, the latter of which he learned from his friend Fillmore, and in Cars: The Video Game and Cars: Mater-National Championship, he has three boost tanks, which he has earned throughout his time in Radiator Springs.

Lightning can also tilt, which allows him to take turns sharper, as well as squeeze by opponents, which he once did in a Piston Cup race, where he used the wall to squeeze through the space between it and another racer. He can also jump, which allows him to hop over obstacles and other cars. McQueen is a very talented drifter as well; he learned this skill from Doc Hudson, who used to be a famous dirt track racer. Drifting, also called powersliding in some Cars media, allows Lightning to take sharp turns without losing control and driving off of the track. His top speed is around 200 MPH with 750 HP and a 0-60 of 4 seconds.

In all three installments of the Disney Infinity series, Lightning also has a tow hook, which can be used to tow other vehicles, a skill that is utilized for some missions in the Cars Play Set. If Lightning uses this ability on a player or toy that is not a car, such as Jack Sparrow, they will ride in a small wooden wagon that Lightning can pull around.
In Cars 2: The Video Game and the Disney Infinity games, McQueen can also use weapons if he picks up one while racing. When using a Machine Gun or Missile Launcher, the compartments on his sides will open, allowing Lightning to fire them. In Mater’s tall tales from the Cars Toons episodes, Lightning has been shown with a variety of other abilities, including:

• Performing stunts, though he did not successfully jump the Carburetor Canyon (Mater the Greater)
• Fighting Bulldozers and angering them with his red paint job (El Materdor)
• Possessing skills that resemble that of a dragon, and defeats Kabuto’s Ninjas with little to no trouble (Tokyo Mater)
• Singing and playing the keyboard (Heavy Metal Mater)
• Monster Truck wrestling (Monster Truck Mater)
• Exploring space (Moon Mater)
• Taking care of crime (Mater Private Eye)
• Performing stunts in the air (Air Mater)

Relationships

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Occupations

Lightning is a Piston Cup champion race car known all over the world for his quick and skillful style of racing. He has won four Piston Cups over the years, and is currently working on his fifth. After his fourth win, he was accepted into the World Grand Prix, a championship involving 11 racers, each from a different part of the world. After he finished, he presumably went back to the Piston Cup. In 2017, he became Cruz Ramirez’s crew chief. Additionally, Mater has told many tall tales that have featured McQueen in different professions than he usually can be seen in. Some of them include:

Aliases

Throughout the series, McQueen has been seen with various different names and appearances, notably in the Cars Toons shorts.

In El Materdor, McQueen is a bulldozer fighter named El McQueen.

In Tokyo Mater, McQueen goes under the name of Lightning Dragon McQueen, a drift car that helps Mater during his race with Kabuto.

In Monster Truck Mater, Lightning’s stage name is «Frightening McMean», dubbed by the Referee Pitty after he mishears what McQueen says.

In Mater Private Eye, Lt. McQueen is the detective alias of McQueen.

In Air Mater, once Lightning joins the Falcon Hawks with Mater after one of the members is damaged, Lightning is called Lightning McQueen Hawk as to fit in with the names of the other Falcon Hawks.

He is usually referred to by Sally as «Stickers», because of him originally having headlight stickers rather than real ones. However, there are a couple of times when Sally refers to him by his actual name, as she says McQueen’s surname when the press are in Radiator Springs in the first film, and she says McQueen’s first name while he is dreaming of racing in the Radiator Springs Grand Prix in the video game, along with mentioning to Mia and Tia about the winner of the Sally’s Sunshine Circuit taking a drive with him.

He is occasionally referred to as «buddy» by Mater, who also at one time calls him «Mr. I Can’t Turn On Dirt» in the first film, when he thinks about going tractor tipping.

Movie Variants

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Profiles and statistics

Cars

• Bios
  • «Lightning is built for speed and has just two things on his mind: winning and the perks that come with it. In his fast-paced life he has little time for anything or anyone, but who needs friends when you’ve got a stadium full of fans.«^[6]
  • «To Lightning McQueen, the world’s fastest race car, appearance is everything. Fans expect a celebrity like him to look great all the time: fresh, shiny, spotless! If only his fans could see him now.«^[6]
  • «Lightning McQueen’s dream is to be sponsored by Dinoco Oil! In his daydreams he looks great with his new Dinoco blue paint job and his very own brand of Lightning McQueen racing tires complete with custom spinners. Hey, and why decide on either gold or silver spinners when you can have both?«^[6]
  • «The town fixed up Lightning McQueen just in time for a cruise down the strip, and Radiator Springs looks pretty cool on him. Then again, everything looks pretty cool under the glow of the neon on Route 66.«^[6]
  • «Could anything be more embarrassing than being splashed in the face with mud right in front of the girl of your dreams? I don’t think so.«^[6]
  • «Could anything be more embarrassing than being splashed in the face with mud right in front of the girl of your dreams? Well, maybe being covered with leaves right after that. Yes, that would be more embarrassing…«^[6]
  • «After winning the Piston Cup and getting The King’s coveted Dinoco Sponsorship, McQueen imagines a movie deal will be the next logical step. He sees himself doing action movies, with a hint of comedy, a touch of drama and a truck load of explosions.«^[6]
  • «Turning on dirt is not only harder than Lightning McQueen thought, it’s also a lot more embarrassing.«^[6]
  • «Some lessons have to be learned the hard way. Turn right to go left sounds easy enough, but McQueen’s finding out it’s a lot more painful than it seems.«^[6]
  • «Lightning McQueen never stops for tires, even if it means driving right through them.«^[6]
  • «When you don’t have a nose to win by, a tongue is the next best thing.«^[6]

Cars: The Video Game

Lightning

• Stats
  • Speed: 5
  • Acceleration: 4
  • Handling: 3
  • Stability: 3

Lightning (Monster truck)

• Stats
  • Speed: 4
  • Acceleration: 3
  • Handling: 2
  • Stability: 3

Cars: Mater-National Championship

Lightning

• Stats
  • Boost: 3
  • Acceleration: 4
  • Handling: 4
  • Stability: 3

Monster McQueen

• Stats
  • Boost: 3
  • Acceleration: 3
  • Handling: 2
  • Stability: 4

Cars 2

• Bios
  • «Number 95 Lightning McQueen is still a hotshot racecar, but his rookie days are past him. Now a permanent resident of Radiator Springs, Lightning has become a bona fide worldwide celebrity as winner of four Piston Cups. After his latest win, Lightning returns home to enjoy life in the slow lane for a while with sweetheart Sally, best friend Mater and the rest of his Radiator Springs family. His off-season is unexpectedly cut short when Mater inadvertently prompts Lightning to enter the World Grand Prix, a high profile, three-part exhibition race that will take him around the globe. With a fresh custom paint job and real, working headlights, Lightning sets off to Japan, Italy and England with Mater in tow for the adventure of a lifetime. But competing against the fastest cars in the world tests more than his racing skills when Lightning realizes his wide-eyed best friend may not be the pit chief nor ambassador he needs to navigate the unfamiliar international terrain.«^[7]

Portrayals

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«Speed. I am speed.»

—Lightning McQueen, Cars

Anthony Montgomery «Lightning» McQueen is the main character of the Cars series. He appears in almost every main installment of the Cars series, with the only exceptions being media based on the Planes series. He is a Piston Cup race car that has won 7^[1] Piston Cups since his debut in the 2006 season. Lightning resides in the small town of Radiator Springs in Carburetor County, where he has his own racing headquarters, as well as his own stadium. He is 41 years old as of 2017.^[2], therefore he is 47 years old in 2021.

Creation and development

During research for the first film, John Lasseter and General Motors designers met to discuss the updated Corvette design, which Lightning McQueen and Chick Hicks were originally intended to be based on. However, changes to the plot resulted in both characters being left as generic stock racers. According to production designer Bob Pauley, Lightning’s final design used elements from GT40s and Chargers, among many other models, to reflect his personality and role. Originally, Lightning’s number was 57, John Lasseter’s birthyear.

Athletic figures such as boxer Muhammad Ali and football quarterback Joe Namath were looked to during development of McQueen’s personality, as well as popular musician Kid Rock, in order to create a cocky-but-likable character. Additionally, Michael Jordan was also looked to by the designers, due to his unique style of playing his sport.

History

Background

Towards the start of his racing career, McQueen raced under sponsorship of Smell Swell Deodorizer. However, he was dropped from the label in favor of another young racer named Sammy Smelter, whose poor racing fit the image of Smell Swell better, according to the representative who fired McQueen.

Mack, who had overheard McQueen’s termination, approached the young hotshot and offered to take him to Boston to meet for a job opportunity with Rust-eze, who had been looking, with little success, for a new spokescar. During their trip, McQueen and Mack became fast friends. Upon their arrival in Boston, Rusty and Dusty Rust-eze offered a sponsorship to McQueen. Though he was initially hesitant due to the sponsor’s humiliating demeanor, McQueen agreed as long as Mack could become his transporter.^[3]

McQueen’s racing abilities eventually garnered the attention of the Piston Cup Racing Series, and he became a rookie in the championship’s 2006 season.

Cars

In Cars, the film opens at the Motor Speedway of the South, where cocky and self-centred Lightning McQueen is competing in the Dinoco 400 for the title of the Piston Cup champion. After a three-way tie between him, seven-time champion Strip Weathers and consistent runner-up Chick Hicks, McQueen makes a bet with Chick, where the first one to reach the tie-breaker race at the Los Angeles International Speedway wins the DINOCO sponsorship. Desperate to win, McQueen rushes to Mack, who forces him to make an appearance at his sponsor’s tent, which McQueen hates. Soon, the two are on the road, and McQueen urges Mack to drive through the night, without resting. A sleepy Mack is later harassed by a gang of delinquents, who accidentally open McQueen’s trailer and unknowingly release him.

Lightning wakes up in the middle of the highway and quickly tries to catch up with Mack. However, after mistaking a Peterbilt truck for him, McQueen figures his best option is to search for help on the Interstate. McQueen rushes past a sleeping police officer named Sheriff, who chases him through the town. Scared, McQueen accidentally rips up the road with a statue of the town’s founder, which ultimately lands him in the town’s impound. When he wakes in the morning, he discovers he is in the deserted town of Radiator Springs, Arizona, where the embarrised residents sentence him to community service and make him fix the road by pulling a road paver named Bessie.

Persistent of making it to Los Angeles before Chick, Lightning first attempts to escape, but runs out of gas and is returned to the town, where he tries to fix the road quickly. The residents feel disrespected due to the rushed bumpy road, and Doc Hudson, the town’s lawyer and doctor, challenges him to a road race, which Lightning loses, due to lack of familiarity with dirt tracks.

Though initially hesitant to affiliate himself with the townsfolk, Lightning ends up making friends with the residents, particularly the absent-minded Mater, and the beautiful attorney Sally Carrera, whom Lightning quickly gains a crush on. After learning of the history behind both the town and Doc Hudson, who was previously a famous Piston Cup dirt track racer,  Lightning begins to marvel at Doc’s skill and the certain racing tricks that Doc knows. After taking a drive with Sally, Lightning finds Doc out at Willy’s Butte. Later, McQueen finishes the road, and while the townsfolk originally think he left without saying goodbyes, McQueen surprises the residents by arriving and asking for a new paint job and new tires. That night, while enjoying a «cruise» with the residents, the Press find McQueen and take him away to the tie-breaker race.

At the race, McQueen is surprised to see his Radiator Springs friends have arrived to serve as his racing team and Doc as his crew chief and with the help of his team, especially Guido, who performs the quickest pit stop in Piston Cup history, Lightning finds himself well ahead of Chick and The King. However, sick of constantly coming in second, Chick performs a PIT maneuver on Weathers, causing him to spin out and crash. When McQueen remembers Doc’s words about winning, Lightning gives up his victory and instead decides to help Strip to the finish line so that Strip can finish his final race, much to the happiness of the fans. Though Chick technically won the race, he is ignored and instead, fans congratulate McQueen. Lightning decides to permanently establish Radiator Springs as his hometown, and the publicity sparks great interest in the town.

Cars: The Video Game

In Cars: The Video Game, which takes place in 2006, one year after the events of Cars, Lightning McQueen appears as the central character of the game’s story mode, as well as the car that the player takes control of throughout the majority of the game. In this game, McQueen finds himself at the beginning of a new Piston Cup season, where Mack asks McQueen to obtain some practice before the first race, and he turns to the Radiator Springs citizens for help. After a few races, Mack and McQueen travel to the first race of the season, where Chick, who Lightning previously spotted observing him practicing, greets him. Upon Lightning’s victory, Chick begins to seek additional help to sabotage McQueen’s chances.

After more practicing and another Piston Cup race, Lightning meets and challenges a gang of race cars from Queens, New York, who later reveal themselves to be allies of Chick. Still not satisfied, Chick continues to search for help, and meets with the same gang of tuner cars who had messed with McQueen the year earlier. The four cars are hired to rob Mack of McQueen’s goods while he is on the Interstate, but McQueen manages to obtain them again by stealing it all back from the cars on the highway, who are then captured and subsequently arrested. They reveal themselves to be under hire of Chick, who Lightning later confronts at the Smasherville International Speedway. There, Lightning declares a three-race «Radiator Springs Grand Prix» event to determine who is the better competitor, an event that is supported by the Piston Cup.

After defeating Chick in all three races, McQueen then manages to win the championship, and upon his return to Radiator Springs, his trophy is put with Doc’s three trophies from his past inside of the clinic.

Lightning also appears as a playable character in the Arcade and Versus modes. He has relatively high statistics in comparison to other characters, and also has the most paint jobs out of all characters.

Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures

Lightning is the main character in Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures. In this game, Lightning must help the residents of Radiator Springs by assisting them with their daily jobs. There are ten additional paint jobs that can be unlocked for McQueen, each one obtained by the player beating their fastest time on each of the default ten minigames.

Mater and the Ghostlight

In Mater and the Ghostlight, McQueen is one of the many who fall victim to Mater’s pranks. While talking to Sally at Flo’s V8 Café, McQueen inspects a pile of cans in the shape of Mater, but once he gets closer, Mater bursts through the stack, scaring McQueen. Mater teases Lightning, claiming he looks as if he has seen the Ghostlight. Sheriff warns Mater not to joke about the Ghostlight, and everyone listens as Sheriff tells a story about the mysterious creature. When Sheriff finishes, everyone hurries to sleep, leaving Mater alone in the streets.

Mater returns home, paranoid about the Ghostlight. Once he reaches his garage, he discovers a blue light behind him, and Mater starts frantically driving around Radiator Springs. Unbeknownst to Mater, the light is actually just a lamp that McQueen and Guido placed on his tow hook as payback for his pranks.

Once Mater loses his breath, he slows down and realizes the light is merely a lamp. McQueen and the other residents tease him, before hurriedly heading to sleep once more.

Cars: Mater-National Championship

In Cars: Mater-National Championship, the direct sequel to Cars: The Video Game, Lightning is again the player character throughout the majority of the game’s story mode. In this game, Lightning meets a variety of new opponents, including Italian Ferrari Giovanni, cocky German champion Otto Von Fassenbottom, Swedish jokester Gudmund, English rally car Emma, and Japanese drift racer Koji, who have arrived in Radiator Springs to compete in the Mater-National series of events, hosted by McQueen and Mater. Lightning also meets British tourist Philip and Russian challenger Yuri, who are simply visiting the town to compete in the various races.

Lightning also appears as a playable character in the game’s Arcade and Versus modes, again with high statistics in comparison to the other vehicles, and a large number of paint jobs, eight of which can be obtained by collecting them at various locations in the game’s explorable hub in story mode.

Cars Toons

Rescue Squad Mater

In Rescue Squad Mater, Lightning and Mater drive past Red while he is watering his flowers, which reminds Mater of his career as a fire truck. As soon as reports of endangered vehicles would come in, Mater would immediately race to the scene, and do whatever he could to save others from fires. Mater tells McQueen that even he was saved by Mater once — after being rescued from a burning building, Lightning was rushed to the hospital for treatment toward his burns, and was operated on by none other than Mater, who also happened to be a doctor.

When Lightning questions the authenticity of this tale, Mater’s former nurse, Nurse GTO, drives by the pair and greets Mater, leaving Lightning in disbelief.

Mater the Greater

In Mater the Greater, Mater tells Lightning the story of how he was once a daredevil who performed a variety of dangerous stunts, including jumping over a wide group of rusty cars, jumping through a ring of fire, diving into a small kiddie pool, and hanging on to an airplane as it made lots of sudden movements. Mater’s greatest stunt, however, was jumping an enormous crater called Carburetor Canyon, which Lightning also participated in. Lightning drove down a very long ramp while being propelled by a rocket strapped to his trunk, and despite coming close, he didn’t make it. Lightning objects and accuses Mater of telling a tale tale, until Lug and Nutty, Mater’s assistants, drive by them.

El Materdor

In El Materdor, Lightning and Mater are strolling through the bulldozer pasture, which leads Mater into a story of his days as a matador. Mater would constantly put his life at risk for the entertainment of others, by battling bulldozers. When Lightning questions this, Mater tells Lightning he was there too, and easily attracted the bulldozers due to his red paint scheme. When Lightning objects, he is then chased by a group of bulldozers, who have somehow escaped from their pasture.

Tokyo Mater

In Tokyo Mater, after Sheriff begins pursuit of three hooligans who drift past the Radiator Springs residents at Flo’s V8 Café, Mater tells everyone about his career as a drift racer. After towing a car to Tokyo, he is challenged to a drift race by Kabuto, and is subsequently modified to look more modern. During the race, Mater goes off-course and finds himself in a halfpipe, where cranes are lifting heavy objects. Suddenly, Lightning Dragon McQueen appears, and helps Mater navigate through the maze of objects and back onto course. Unlike in most other Cars Toons shorts, no evidence is provided to validate Mater’s tale.

Unidentified Flying Mater

In Unidentified Flying Mater, Mater tells McQueen a story of how he met a UFO named Mator. However, Mator was captured by the government and studied, until Mater managed to break in and save him. When the two make their escape, Lightning joins them, but they are soon taken aboard a large UFO that is revealed to be Mator’s mother. She drops them off in Radiator Springs, and Mator and his mother return home. As always, Lightning doubts this happened, but after McQueen leaves, Mater manages to fly again, just like how Mator taught him to.

Monster Truck Mater

In Monster Truck Mater, Mater’s story this time is about his monster truck career; he was once a famous monster truck wrestler nicknamed «The Tormentor.» While Mater fought many tough opponents, the biggest threat he faced was a giant construction vehicle named Dr. Frankenwagon’s Monster. When Lightning curiously asks what happened, Mater tells him he was there as well, on a tag-team with Mater. The two managed to defeat the monster by flipping the ring over and on top of him.

Heavy Metal Mater

In Heavy Metal Mater, Mater tells Lightning a story of how he was once a popular heavy metal artist; after producing the hit Dad Gum, Mater’s band, titled Heavy Metal Mater, began to play live shows, with Lightning as the keyboardist. Right after Lightning objects, both of them look up to see a giant Mater balloon floating above them, the same one that Mater claimed would often be flown above the stage while they performed.

Moon Mater

In Moon Mater, Lightning plays a role in Mater’s tale about how he became an astronaut and helped stranded agent Impala XIII, in which he is seen traveling down to the earth at incredible speeds, and eventually catches ablaze, before landing in the ocean. The rescue of the endangered astronaut makes the headlines, and Lightning, Mater, and Impala XIII are interviewed by newspapers and television shows. Despite McQueen’s denial, Roger, Mater’s shuttle, arrives and tells him he must go on another mission, and the two blast off into outer space, leaving Lightning in disbelief.

Mater Private Eye

In Mater Private Eye, Lt. McQueen and his assistants arrest Big D, after Mater discovers that he and his henchman have been manufacturing counterfeit tires. As always, Lightning denies any truth in Mater’s detective story, Carmen, one of the cars Mater mentioned in his story, arrives and starts a conga dance, which Mater follows.

Air Mater

In Air Mater, Mater informs Lightning of his supposed relationship with popular air performers The Falcon Hawks, and how he filled in for one of the performers when his wing was damaged. However, during the performance, Mater’s wings break, and he begins to fall. However, Lightning McQueen Hawk saves him, and subsequently assists him in the big finish, by throwing Mater up into the air, and then catching him and safely landing. As McQueen objects, Mater receives a recruitment call from the Falcon Hawks, and they arrive to pick him up.

Time Travel Mater

In Time Travel Mater, Mater travels back in time and finds himself face-to-face with Stanley, prior to Radiator Springs’ foundation. Stanley asks him whether or not he would like to purchase a hubcap and, when Mater’s rejects the offer, Stanley decides to leave the oasis. Realizing what will happen if Stanley doesn’t found Radiator Springs, Mater returns to the present to get Lightning, and the two go back to the past.

However, things do not go as planned — Lizzie begins to fall in love with Lightning, so the two have to make sure that Stanley and Lizzie meet and get married, in order to save the future from being rewritten. Lizzie and Stanley eventually marry, and Radiator Springs is successfully founded.

Hiccups

In Hiccups, Lightning acquires a case of the hiccups, and the others at Flo’s V8 Café attempt to cure him. Guido suggests holding his breath, but Guido faints, and when Lightning starts to breathe in, he realizes the method was not successful. Luigi tries to scare the hiccups away, Sarge tries to order the hiccups away, and Sheriff tells Red to spray water into McQueen’s mouth. However, the only method that works is Sally’s, who simply kisses him.

Spinning

In Spinning, when Luigi orders Guido to spin a sign outside of the tire shop, Lightning and the other Radiator Springs residents and passersby notice his talents, and a large crowd forms.

The Radiator Springs 500½

In The Radiator Springs 500½, McQueen dresses up as Stanley for the town’s annual «Stanley Days» celebration, planning to do a leisurely drive with the townsfolk, until a group of Baja racers led by Sandy Dunes arrive to challenge him to a race, which he gets customized for off-road racing. However, during the race, McQueen and the other racers take a wrong turn after Mater confused them with saying that left is right when he actually meant that it is correct. Following this, they go over bumpy hills and a cliff, drive through a cactus patch, get covered in soot from some tailpipes in a cavern, and come across a spooky forest, where they get frightened by all of the corpses scattered around, before arriving back in Radiator Springs.

The World of Cars Online

In The World of Cars Online, Lightning could often be found outside of his racing headquarters, allowing players to shop inside of the store. He was also a playable character in the Lightning Storm McQueen minigame, in which he, with the help of Luke Pettlework, would fight against the Zurg Train.

Cars: Race-O-Rama

In Cars: Race-O-Rama, Lightning is helping out at the Doc Hudson Racing Academy, and is racing against them in a competition at Radiator Springs Speedway. After Lightning sees how the green racers are behaving, he confronts them, only to find out that they are being trained by none other than Chick Hicks. As the story continues on, Lightning meets more of Chick’s goons, who he befriends after they turn on Chick and apologize for their rude behavior.

In arcade mode, Lightning is unlocked as a playable character from the start of the game. Additionally, various other versions of Lightning can be unlocked, including his «beach racer» attire and his «off-road racer» attire.

Cars Toons: Mater’s Tall Tales: The Video Game

In Cars Toons: Mater’s Tall Tales: The Video Game, Lightning appears in all of the sets of minigames.

Cars 2

In Cars 2, Lightning McQueen returns, but as the deuteragonist.

Lightning returns to Radiator Springs from his latest Piston Cup racing season, and is happily greeted by all of the townsfolk, especially Mater, who takes him on various activities. After a long day of messing around with Mater, Lightning tells him that he would like some quiet time with Sally at the Wheel Well Motel. Feeling left out, Mater poses as a waiter at the motel, but while attempting to prepare their orders, Mater is distracted by the Mel Dorado Show on one of the televisions, which is currently featuring Italian champion Francesco Bernoulli, who begins to trashtalk Lightning. Mater calls into the show to argue, and manages to secure Lightning a spot in the World Grand Prix, a series of three worldwide races, hosted by oil baron Miles Axlerod.

In preparation, Ramone gives Lightning a fancy new paint job and spoiler, and Lightning, Mater, Luigi, Guido, Sarge, and Fillmore set off for Tokyo, which is where the welcome party is being hosted, as well as the first race. On the journey, McQueen and Mater are enjoying their time together: watching a game show on their plane’s television, amazed by Tokyo’s neon signs, and attending a karate show. At the opening ceremony, McQueen meets up with fellow racers Lewis Hamilton and Jeff Gorvette, but he soon notices that Mater has been acting the same since living in Radiator Springs, and tries to explain that he should change his behavior so to get used to all the different things outside Radiator Springs. However, Mater does not completely understand, deciding to help McQueen by introducing him to Italian racer Francesco Bernoulli. Although reluctant by this, McQueen is forced to mention to Francesco that it is an honor for them to meet. They both agree to have a toast, but both of them make the same dedication of their own win in the initial race to Sally. Lightning is later asked to take the stage with Axlerod, but the interview is interrupted when Mater, who has just consumed a high amount of wasabi, bursts onto the stage, and drinks water from the display. Embarrassed, Mater is surprised to find out that he has leaked oil, and quickly hurries to the bathroom to clean up. However, an American secret agent who is being assaulted places his tracking beacon onto Mater. British agent Holley Shiftwell meets Mater, and he thinks that she is asking him out on a date.

Moments before the first race begins, McQueen makes his usual preparations, closing his eyes and talking to himself about keeping focus, only for Francesco to immediately mock him by making the same preparations. Annoyed, McQueen once again comments about his goal to beat Francesco. As the race begins, McQueen makes his way up the field, getting up to second place and behind Francesco. However, McQueen is not able to get past Francesco until they come up to the dirt section, where Mater, who is working as McQueen’s crew chief, gives him the advice of using the same trick Doc had taught him. With Francesco struggling to drive on the dirt, McQueen makes an easy pass at the following chicane and takes the lead. However, drama occurs as a couple of the racecars flame out, leaving fans wondering if allinol is responsible for the accidents. Next, McQueen begins hearing random words from Mater through his team radio, unaware that Mater is actually talking to someone else. Still being confused by Mater’s words, McQueen moves to the outside of the loop up to Rainbow Bridge, enabling Francesco to snatch the lead. Shocked by what happened, McQueen goes after Francesco and goes side-by-side with him as they head towards the finish line. However, Francesco is able to cross the finish line first, while McQueen suddenly spins out and finishes Third.

Feeling bossy, McQueen is left wondering why this all happened, as Francesco brags during the podium interview about making a move whenever someone makes a mistake. Just then, McQueen notices Mater driving to the pits, and when no one is looking, he drives out of the podium interview and meets up with Mater, asking him why he was talking nonsense throughout the race. Mater explains that he had been away from the track because he heard a woman’s voice talking to him out of nowhere and directing him through the streets, where he had seen a couple of cars involved in a fight and using flame-throwers. McQueen becomes mad, telling Mater that it is all his fault for making him fail the race and that he should not have brought him along so he could spend time imagining a girlfriend and watching people using flame-throwers in fights. Realizing what McQueen meant, Mater tries to make up by suggesting to talk to someone about what happened, but McQueen is growling, berating poor Mater by saying that he wouldn’t need his help from him at all. poor Mater sadly gulped, and decides to return home, and heads to the Tokyo airport (unbeknownst to McQueen and his team). However, at the airport, Finn McMissile, who thinks Mater is a spy, leads him away from the line and introduces himself. However, two lemons named Grem and Acer, who are on the lookout for McMissile, spot him, and the two make an escape on Siddeley, Finn’s plane.

Meanwhile, Team McQueen finds a note from Mater saying that he has decided to head back home following his argument with McQueen, not wanting to be responsible ever again for making him losing any future races. However, McQueen begins to feel down, as he did not mean for Mater to leave. Despite being relieved that he would know Mater would be safe being in Radiator Springs, McQueen still feels down, thinking that he should not have been too hard on him. Arriving in Italy, McQueen and his team come across Luigi and Guido’s old hometown, Carsoli, where the latter two are proud to be reunited with Uncle and Mama Topolino. The whole village hosts a celebration of Luigi and Guido’s return, but Uncle Topolino begins to notice how down McQueen is. Having been told the whole thing by Luigi, Uncle Topolino explains to McQueen that everyone, even best friends, get into fights, as he remembers Luigi and Guido fighting all the time when they used to live with him.

Meanwhile, many of the fans of the World Grand Prix are still wondering if allinol is safe, leading to Axlerod telling them that the fuel has been examined and is proven to be safe, leaving the second race to remain, taking place in Porto Corsa. However, Team McQueen begin to notice that McQueen feels sad. Fillmore advises him not to worry about his fuel, but McQueen admits that he is actually missing Mater. Furthermore, he gets insulted by Francesco saying that he is glad to be at home with his mother and fans. As the race goes ahead, Francesco soars into the lead as McQueen follows, trying to make numerous moves such as at the town’s hairpin. On the final lap, McQueen temporarily leads, but as they approach the finish line, he and Francesco begin fighting for the lead, ending with McQueen crossing the finish line just ahead of Francesco. With this, McQueen celebrates his victory, but it immediately ends as numerous ambulances rush past, making McQueen and Francesco notice on the television screen that the other racecars have involved a large crash, created by Grem and Acer’s electromagentic pulse camera, which blows their engines.This leads to everyone now completely concerned about its safety, which makes Axlerod decide that the last race in London will still be held, but no longer to be run on Allinol.

McQueen, however, feels that it is impossible for something like that to occur, furthermore declaring that he will be using Allinol for the final race. Meanwhile, Mater, who has infiltrated the Lemons’ meeting, watches in horror as they pick their next target, McQueen. Revealing himself, Mater uses his spy tools to escape. Soon, as a press liaison is leading him to the press, McQueen starts to hear Mater’s voice from somewhere in the crowd. Taking another look, he sees a flash of Mater’s roof in the distance, while the photographers try to get his attention. Trying to get closer, McQueen moves through the crowd, as the press liaison calls out to come back. However, as all the photographers finally move out of the way, McQueen instead finds a blue tow truck known as Ivan, saying that it was him who called out. As the press liaison takes him away, McQueen starts to get confused, pretty sure that he saw and heard Mater in the crowd. Before heading to London, McQueen contacts Radiator Springs so to talk to Mater, but he finds out that Mater had not been there at all. As he comes to his pit stall, he finds Sally and the rest of his friends present, having heard about what happened. While Sarge leaves with Sheriff to search for Mater, the rest of the townsfolk stay behind to assist McQueen in the race. However, still feeling concerned about Mater, McQueen is unsure about if he can keep his focus on the race, but Axlerod comes to thank him for his decision to use allinol, encouraging him to prove to the world that they had been wrong about it being unsafe. Plus, Sally advises him to do the race for Mater.

As the race begins, Francesco gets into the lead as they head up to the Victoria Memorial, but after they go through Admiralty Arch, McQueen snatches the lead. As McQueen soon comes in for his pit stop, he is glad to find Mater already there. However, in a panic, Mater drives onto the racetrack, ordering McQueen to keep away from him. Misunderstanding, McQueen chases after Mater, trying to tell him that what he said before no longer matters. Still panicking, Mater yells out that «he’s the bomb», making McQueen believe that he is saying he is excellent. Again, Mater yells out to keep away, but McQueen refuses to listen, not wanting to lose Mater again, and grabs onto his tow hook, which causes Mater to activate a pair of rocket jets, making the two friends zoom along the track’s straight, past a shocked Francesco, and go off the circuit at the following corner, zooming through the streets of London. However, McQueen declines Mater’s request to let go, still not understanding what is going on. 

As the two friends finally screech to a halt, British secret agents Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell arrive, convincing McQueen that some thugs had planted a bomb on Mater so that they could try and kill them both, all because of McQueen’s decision to use allinol in the race. McQueen is left wondering who would do that to Mater, to which Finn brings in a captive Professor Zündapp, who angrily questions about his electromagnetic pulse generator not working right. McQueen is now left completely shocked by the fact that Zündapp had been having those same thugs try to kill him with the emitter when it was supposed to come into contact with allinol, only that he did not explode when the plan was being performed. Finn demands answers from Zündapp about how to deactivate the bomb, and as the bomb begins to tick, Zündapp reveals that the only way to turn it off is to get a voice command from the person who turned it on in the first place. To make matters worse, the thugs, who reveal themselves as lemons, block any chance of McQueen, Mater, Finn, and Holley escaping, but they are soon taken out by McQueen and Mater’s friends. Sarge arrives with the British Military who presumably take the villains away.

With the lemons arrested, everyone tries to figure out a way to get rid of the bomb. Thinking of only one option, Guido makes an attempt to unfasten the bolts, but his wheel gun would not fit. Then, Mater figures out who had put the bomb on, but he does not reveal it straight away, worried that no one will believe him, but McQueen encourages him, telling him to just be his regular self and that anyone not believing him should instead change themselves, not Mater himself. With no time to lose, Mater grabs McQueen and heads off to Buckingham Palace, where Axlerod is waiting with the Queen of England. With the Queen’s bodyguards preventing Mater from getting any closer, Mater explains to them, McQueen, Finn and Holley that Axlerod is the one who activated the bomb, remembering that the bomb is attached with the same bolts used on an old engine shown on a photo that Finn and Holley had got, also that old engines contain oil. Axlerod, however, tries to tell everyone that none of this is true, but Mater keeps on talking, saying that Axlerod is the leader of Professor Zündapp and the lemons, trying to make the world dismiss alternative fuel and buy regular oil from a secret oil reserve, because they had been laughed at for their entire lives. As the bomb gets closer to detonation, everyone braces themselves, while Axlerod tries to take Mater’s comments as lies, but as he is encountered by Mater, he is forced to make a voice command, which successfully turns off the bomb, and proves that Mater was right about everything.

To congratulate his bravery, the Queen makes Mater a knight, which also makes him as popular as his best friend McQueen. As they arrive back in Radiator Springs, Mater tells McQueen and their friends about how he met Finn and Holley and helped them to learn information about Professor Zündapp and the lemons. Just then, Finn and Holley arrive, paying Mater and his friends a visit. McQueen is also given the time to ask how come he did not explode when the lemons were using their EMP emitter on him in London, but Finn and Holley point out that they do not know the reason, but also found out that allinol was just gasoline upgraded by Axlerod to blow up when coming into contact with an electromagnetic pulse. McQueen then begins to realize that Fillmore had told him back in Italy that allinol was safe, and everyone assumes that something had been done to McQueen’s supply of allinol before the race. Fillmore does note that before the race, McQueen’s supply was replaced by his own organic fuel, but that Sarge actually did it, not Fillmore.

Later, McQueen invites all of the World Grand Prix racers to compete in Radiator Springs’ unofficial Grand Prix, as a way to treat them to a great race, even knowing that thanks to the fate of the World Grand Prix, still no one knows who is the fastest in the world. Before lining up on the grid, McQueen has Francesco meet Sally, who is honored by Francesco’s comment about McQueen being very lucky to be racing, especially when racing against his rivals. Not long before the race, McQueen adds to Sally to wish him luck, to which Sally knows he will be lucky enough to win. This time, McQueen and Francesco are calmer towards each other, both having grins as they battle for the lead, while the other racers are enjoying it. Not long after, Mater joins in, having been given his rocket jets by Finn and Holley, and he and McQueen happily race each other to the end of the Radiator Springs Grand Prix, as Finn and Holley leave for their next mission.

Cars 2: The Video Game

In Cars 2: The Video Game, Lightning is a playable character, and is one of the ten characters unlocked from the beginning the game. He also has two other skins, Carbon Fiber Lightning, which can be unlocked by earning the «Agent — Third Class» crest, and Radiator Lightning, which can be unlocked by earning the «Runway Pancake» crest. Additionally, Lightning has two more downloadable costumes that can be purchased from the Xbox or PlayStation stores; Dragon Lightning and Daredevil Lightning.

Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure

In Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure, Lightning is an unlockable playable character, that can be unlocked by obtaining all four Buddy Coins that are hidden in the three Cars levels.

He also appears in the first Cars level, Fancy Drivin’, where he is looking for a new car for his racing team, which is the player, who must compete in various challenges, including the Tow Mater Fancy Drivin’ Challenge, in which the player follows Mater throughout his tricky course. Impressed with the player’s performance, Lightning accepts the player on his team, and the level is completed.

Disney Infinity

In Disney Infinity, Lightning is one of the four playable characters from the Cars franchise, and his figure can be obtained with Holley Shiftwell’s in the Cars Play Set Pack. Like the other characters, Lightning possesses all capabilities that a non-car character has while driving inside of a ground vehicle, including accelerating, braking, reversing, drifting, and boosting, though all Cars characters have one more boost segment than ground vehicles do, for a grand total of four. He can also tow other players with a tow hook. If attempting to tow a non-car character, that character will ride on a small wagon behind Lightning.

Lightning’s packs and tools consist of various weapons, which are the same ones that are used during battle races, including Machine Guns, Missile Launchers, and more.

In the Cars Play Set, Lightning’s toy chests will unlock the Lightning McQueen Paint Job, as well as three random toys pertaining to Cars, including cast members, set pieces, skies, and more, all of which can be used in the Toy Box. Lightning’s unique adventure is Lightning’s Collector Course, in which Lightning must navigate through a large stunt course, while obtaining a set amount of collectibles, which changes with each difficulty level, in the given time limit.

Planes: Fire & Rescue

In Planes: Fire & Rescue, while he does not make a physical appearance, an image of Lightning can be seen on the sports-related newspaper that Dusty and his friends are looking at. This image is actually the same promotional artwork that was released of Lightning in his Cars 2 attire.

Disney Infinity: 2.0 Edition

In Disney Infinity: 2.0 Edition, Lightning returns alongside all other Disney Infinity characters from the first title, though he has not received any major changes, apart from receiving four skill trees, which feature abilities that can be upgraded to be improved. Additionally, Lightning can now be leveled up to level 20, as opposed to level 15, as in the previous game.

To obtain the Lightning McQueen Paint Job, Fillmore, Flo, Ramone, and The Radiator Cap toys, the player must simply take ownership of Lightning for the first time.

Cars: Fast as Lightning

In Cars: Fast as Lightning, Lightning is the final unlockable playable character, though two races must be completed while playing as him in the tutorial of the game. When he is unlocked, Lightning’s Pit and the Doc Hudson Statue will be unlocked for use on tracks and in town.

Prior to being unlocked, Lightning will join Mater andLizzie in giving the player missions to complete. In contrast to Mater’s, which revolve primarily around town-related tasks, Lightning’s revolve around race-related tasks, such as completing a set amount of tricks in races, or building a certain amount of objects on a character’s race track.

Disney Infinity: 3.0 Edition

In Disney Infinity: 3.0 Edition, Lightning makes another appearance as a playable character, and has received no noticeable changes from his previous appearance in Disney Infinity: 2.0 Edition. When the player takes ownership of Lightning for the first time, the Lightning McQueen Paint Job will be unlocked, along with the Fillmore, Flo, Ramone, and The Radiator Cap toys.

Cars 3

In Cars 3, Lightning McQueen returns as the protagonist.

By Cars 3, Lightning has been racing in the Piston Cup for over 10 years. He has struck up friendships with fellow racers Cal Weathers — who is now racing for Dinoco with his uncle Strip «The King» Weathers as his crew chief — and Bobby Swift. Tex Dinoco would still like McQueen to race for him, even courting him within earshot of Cal. During the season, a newcomer named Jackson Storm seemingly comes out of nowhere and wins. McQueen later congratulates him only for Storm to state it was an honor to «finally beat [him]», later telling his crew that he «struck a nerve», showing that he likes to use emotional manipulation to get into his opponents’ heads. Also, Storm uses the latest technology to train, making him a highly-skilled precision racer.

The season goes on with Jackson continuing to rack up wins, and more advanced, rookie racers begin supplanting the older generation. Cal chooses to retire, telling McQueen how much he valued their friendship. Bobby is fired by his sponsor and replaced with Daniel Swervez. On the next race, McQueen gets increasingly desperate to win, but fortunately Guido is still fast at pit stops and gets him back out, with Sally and Mater cheering him on. Storm continues to mock him on the track, passing him. Swervez and Chase Racelott — another next-gen racer — also pass McQueen. Lightning pushes himself as hard as he can, but his right rear tire blows out and he suffers a major crash. Sally, Mater, Guido and Luigi go out to see if he’s okay while emergency responders check on him.
Four months later, McQueen has recovered and is back in Radiator Springs. He’s in Doc’s old garage watching footage of the crash that ended his career. Sally then checks on him. Lightning doesn’t want to end up like Doc who was forced to retire. Sally tells him not to fear failure, reminding him that he has a chance. She resorts to some reverse psychology to get him going. McQueen tells all his friends he intends to keep racing. After Ramone re-paints McQueen in his original racing color scheme, Mack takes him, Guido and Luigi to the new Rust-eze Racing Center. He’s surprised to learn that Dusty and Rusty sold Rust-eze to billionaire Sterling, who appears to be a big fan. He has McQueen fitted with a new suit which tracks his speed and vital signs. Sterling shows off all the high-tech training equipment, including the most advanced simulator available.

McQueen is introduced to Cruz Ramirez, a friendly and enthusiastic trainer who first riles McQueen up by saying he’s an impostor, but this was quickly shown as a motivational tactic. Cruz trains McQueen, who’s itching to try the simulator. Unfortunately, it goes badly when McQueen rams into various objects, catches on fire, flies off the restraints and crashes into the screen. Sterling then calls him into his office, showing him lots of merchandise with his likeness. McQueen realizes that Sterling doesn’t want him racing anymore, so he makes a wager: if McQueen wins his next race, he retires whenever he wants; if not, he’ll sell all the merchandise he can. McQueen, Guido, Luigi and Mack head to Fireball Beach to train, with Cruz following them to help.

Cruz will run alongside him using her digital assistant Hamilton to gauge his top speed, but will have to stay very close. This proves easier said than done since Cruz doesn’t know how to race on sand. It takes until sunset to get it right. McQueen’s top speed is gauged at 198 mph, which is still slower than Storm. He decides to head to Thunder Hollow which has a dirt track, but when Luigi gets worried about the press finding him there, Mack assures him he can give McQueen a disguise.

When they get there, McQueen is covered in mud to mask his appearance, going by the name Chester Whipplefilter. They realize too late that it’s a Demolition Derby, and Cruz now has to take part too. The champion is a monster school bus named Miss Fritter. Both McQueen and Cruz barely avoid getting hit, but McQueen has to protect Cruz from Fritter. Cruz wins the derby, but accidentally trips Mr. Drippy over and inadvertently washes McQueen off, blowing his cover.

An angry McQueen lashes out at Cruz in Mack’s trailer, complaining that he spent the entire day having to take care of her. He states that he has to win his next race to continue in the sport, saying she wouldn’t understand since she’s not a racer. Feeling hurt by McQueen, Cruz orders Mack to pull over and angrily snaps back at Lightning. She never wanted to be a trainer, but a racer like him. She got to her first race, but felt she didn’t belong and left. Lightning admits — at Cruz’s urging — that he never felt he didn’t belong. She wishes she knew what that felt like. Cruz drives off on her own.

Mack spends the night sleeping under a bridge while McQueen watches TV. Footage of the demolition derby plays. Also, analyst Natalie Certain reports that Storm has set a new record for fastest lap, making him the heavy favorite at 95.2%. McQueen calls Mater who fortunately was still awake. Mater initially can’t come up with good advice until McQueen says he wishes he could talk to Doc again. Mater makes an off-handed comment that the car who taught Doc would know more about racing than him. With that, McQueen catches up to Cruz and convinces her to come with him to Doc’s hometown of Thomasville.

Once arriving, Lightning and Cruz get a look at the dirt track where Doc used to race. They meet Doc’s mentor Smokey, who takes them to a bar with fellow racing legends River Scott, Junior Johnson, and Louise Nash. McQueen tells Smokey that he wishes he could’ve seen Doc during his racing days when he was at his happiest. Smokey tells McQueen that he never heard from Doc after he moved to Radiator Springs, but one day he started getting letters from him. Smokey shows McQueen a wall with pictures of McQueen and Doc, revealing that coaching Lightning was the happiest time of his life.^[4] Smokey tells him he can’t be faster than Storm, but he can be smarter than him, as evidenced by making it through the derby without a scratch.

Since McQueen missed the qualifiers, he’ll have to start from behind and Jackson will start in front. Cruz has a spoiler installed and black tape is used to make her resemble Storm so she can be a «sparring partner» for McQueen. The two will race on the speedway with the latter only having three laps to overtake her, but he can’t. They use other techniques to train: dodging thrown bales of hay and other obstacles, maneuvering through a tractor stampede, and driving through a forest at night without their headlights on. The two get the hang of the exercises. While night driving, McQueen’s suit gets torn off by the trees, giving him back his original racing colors.

During this, Lightning and Cruz watch old footage of Doc’s races. They see that he used the drafting technique to gain speed and see him use the barricade to flip over another car who tried to ram him into the wall. On their final day of training, McQueen manages to pull ahead on the speedway, but Cruz still wins. They have to head to Florida for the race.

While Sheriff, Lizzie, and Red stayed behind, the rest of Radiator Springs arrived in Florida to cheer McQueen on, with Smokey acting as his crew chief. McQueen starts out last but gains ground. Sterling orders Cruz to leave. This doesn’t sit well with McQueen, who hears the conversation, and wants her back. After a wreck occurs, Lightning makes the call that Cruz will finish the race for him. She is quickly prepared by Ramone, Luigi, and Guido while Mater keeps Sterling away. With the #95, racing tires, and a spoiler, Cruz officially joins the race. Through Smokey, McQueen relays advice to her but takes over as her crew chief. Cruz puts all the training to great use and makes it near the top. While Storm is in first, he purposely falls back to second place as Cruz makes it to third place. He resorts to psychological warfare against her but McQueen tells her Jackson sees her as a threat or he would not be using such tactics.

The final lap comes. Cruz is right behind Jackson who cannot shake her. Storm rams her into the wall but she uses Doc’s flipping move to escape and take the lead. Cruz wins the race to the delight of the crowd.

Everyone congratulates her on the win. As Lightning is about to accept his fate as Sterling’s product, he checks the scoreboard to see that he won the race alongside Cruz. At the end, McQueen decides to hold a friendly exhibition race with Cruz for all of their friends, with McQueen sporting Doc’s racing number and color, continuing Doc’s legacy.

Cars 3: Driven to Win

Lightning is one of six playable characters, the other five being Cruz Ramirez, Mater, Sally, Ramone, and Guido, who are available from the start in Cars 3: Driven to Win. His «fabulous» paint job was also made available in a free update, which was released to coincide with the cinematic release of Cars 3.

Miss Fritter’s Racing Skoool

In Miss Fritter’s Racing Skoool, McQueen and Cruz Ramirez watch a commercial for Miss Fritter’s Racing Skoool. Later after watching the commercial, McQueen notices one of his trophies toppled and broke, explaining to Cruz that going to Miss Fritter’s school program is too dangerous to attend.

Other appearances

As the main character of the Cars series, Lightning appears in nearly every book, comic, and magazine ever written, most of which he has a lead role in.

Cars Land

A model based on Lightning McQueen makes two different appearance in Cars Land. In one, he is driving through Radiator Springs, talking with the guests. There, he appeared in his Cars 2 attire until 2017 when he was changed to his Cars 3 attire.

Lightning’s other appearance is in the Radiator Springs Racers attraction. In the ride, after the guests escape Frank, Lightning and Sally greet them and direct them towards either Luigi’s Casa Della Tires for new tires or to Ramone’s House of Body Art for a new paint job. After the race, he and Mater congratulate the guests on their performance and state that «you can’t win if you don’t race!», among other phrases.

General information

Physical description

Lightning’s model is a hand-built racing car, built for racing purposes specifically. He is a mix of a stock car and a more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racer. He has modifications like a red spoiler, and for a short time did not have headlights, only stickers. He has coil-over shocks with tubular A arm front suspension, a solid axle rear end and vented disc brakes at all four wheels. He also has air flaps on his roof to prevent flipping. His engine is a V-8, having a horsepower of 750. In Cars 2, his 0-60 speed is 3.2 seconds, and his top speed is 200 mph. In Cars 3, his 0-60 speed is 4 seconds, and his top speed is 198 mph.

Many fans claim that he either resembles a Dodge Viper, Ford GT40 or a tuned Mazda MX5. McQueen’s appearance bears very little resemblance to modern NASCAR sedans. He instead resembles a C6 Corvette, but using NASCAR technology.

In Cars, Lightning wears his Piston Cup paint scheme. He is painted red, with an orange and yellow lightning bolt design on his doors, along with the number «95» and a variety of sponsor stickers. He has the Rust-eze logo on his hood, as well as on his spoiler and rear fenders. On his yellow rear bumper written «Medicated Ointment». In Radiator Springs, McQueen was repainted to maroon with the white oval on his doors and little yellow lightning on it, paint job is similar to 1959 Chevy Corvette’s one. Spoiler, logos and number was removed. Before the final race of 2006 spoiler regained and Lightning was repainted back to his Piston Cup paint job. In the epilogue scene and credits of Cars Lightning again shown in the maroon and white paint job, but now number 95 is painted on his doors and roof, surrounded by a white circle, now he has Rust-eze logos and some stickers, his rear bumper now lacks any logos. In Cars Toons he continues to use it on daily basis, but, according to Cars 3 flashbacks, McQueen often switched this paint job to the original Piston Cup one.

At the beginning of Cars 2, Lightning is shown in his old Piston Cup design, he no longer painted maroon, he painted in old red color that was used on his first paint job on doors seen little bit modified old lightning silhouette, painted in deeper red, yellow lightning from white oval became bigger and now big «95» placed on it. Doc Hudson Piston Cup logo was added to his doors, also there were only three sponsor stickers. Later in the film, Lightning received an entirely new design, which brings back his original lightning bolt pattern while changing it to look more like a flame, Rust-eze logos were replaced with Piston Cup emblem and the «WGP 95» stickers were added on the doors, he got a new spoiler with World Grand Prix logo on top and flames on sides, on his new door skirts is now written «WORLD GRAND PRIX allinol» and on the rear bumper is written «WGP 95 POWERED BY allinol». His headlight stickers were replaced by actual headlights. In the final scene of Cars 2 seen, that all his World Grand Prix stickers, except «WGP 95» and on rear is now seen a sticker, saying «Ka-Ciao, Francesco». During Cars Toons he has a «transition» paint job, Lightning’s spoiler now has a Radiator Springs logo on top, Francesco sticker was replaced by Hudson Hornet Piston Cup logo, on his rear bumper is now seen his signature and his bolt, sponsor stickers were regained at the place of «WGP 95».

McQueen’s design received another update in Cars 3, now it mostly resemble the original one, but with rebranded Piston Cup and Rusteze logos. Old spoiler was regained, number 95 is now seen under his left headlight, on his hood is now seen a lightning bolt with Rusteze logo. After his crash McQueen seen primer with red «95» on his doors. When Lightning was brought to Rust-eze Racing Center, Ramone repainted McQueen back into 2016 Piston Cup paint job, but without lightning bolt on hoodm old Rust-eze logos and WGP-like flaming bolt. At the Rust-eze Racing Center he receives an electronic suit heat-shrunk onto him with its own decal scheme. The yellow lightning bolt design with Rust-eze ghost pattern on his doors now extends all the way to his rear fender, and a large Rust-eze logos are now present on his rear end, spoiler and hood,^[5] sponsor stickers disappeared. However, the suit is accidentally torn to shreds during training at Thomasville and Lightning competed in next race in Ramone’s paint job. When McQueen becomes Cruz Ramirez’ crew chief, he receives entirely new paint job, inspired by the Fabulous Hudson Hornet’s appearance. Now he is painted blue, on his roof seen 4 yellow 95 numbers and one on his rear fenders, old yellow Rust-eze wordmarks on his hood and spoiler, instead of lightning bolt on his doors is now written «Fabulous McQueen». Hudson Hornet logo is now replaces Rust-eze logo on the rear, rear bumper reads «95 For Doc Hudson», the stickers and 95 under left headlight was removed.

Personality and traits

Lightning is kind, positive, courageous and brave, and enjoys having fun and spending time with his friends, especially Mater. Prior to his arrival in Radiator Springs, Lightning was cocky and self-centered, only caring about two things: winning and the pride that comes with it. At the time, Lightning had no friends besides Mack and Harv, leaving him with limited social skills. Regardless, he was still a popular name in the racing world, and was constantly being interviewed by the Press and admired by fans, much to his liking. When two fangirls drove up to him, they were taken away by security, after Lightning simply said «I love being me.» Though the Radiator Springs residents were not very fond of him at first, they later befriended Lightning, and McQueen learned why it is important to have good friends. Lightning established Radiator Springs as his home base, and the wide publicity sparked interest in the town, which was soon put back on the map.

Lightning’s best friend is Mater, whom he met when he awoke in the Impound. While Lightning did not like Mater at first, he began to like him after he took Lightning tractor tipping in the middle of the night. Mater and McQueen do several things together, including going tractor tipping regularly, driving backwards, driving along the Ornament Valley railroad tracks without tire treads, and occasionally racing each other. However, the two have their fair share of fights; most notably when Mater accidentally through Lightning off during the first race of the World Grand Prix, due to Lightning mistaking his banter with Holley Shiftwell for advice. Angry, Lightning yells at Mater and tells him he neither needs or wants his help anymore. Saddened by this, Mater decides to return home to avoid making Lighting lose another race and apologizes to Lighting through a note. However, at the end of the film, Lightning and Mater make up, and together they expose Miles Axlerod and his plan.

Lightning’s primary interest when he is not spending quiet time with his friends is racing. As a famous Piston Cup race car himself, Lightning has a remarkable talent for it, and enjoys practicing and competing in road races whenever he is not out on the Piston Cup track. McQueen has many formidable opponents; the many inhabitants of Radiator Springs, a group of British and Mexican rivals, various allies of Chick Hicks, international superstars, and other Piston Cup racers, notably Chick Hicks and, for a short time, The King. Lightning’s obsession with victory and fame came to a close once he remembered the words of his mentor, Doc Hudson: «It’s just an empty cup.» Lightning gave up his win at the tie-breaker race to help The King finish his last race. Lightning still enjoys spending quiet time with his friends, especially Sally Carrera, his girlfriend. Some of their favorite activities are taking a drive through the beautiful scenery of Tailfin Pass, and enjoying dates at the Wheel Well Motel and other locations in Carburetor County.

Powers and abilities

As a world-famous race car, Lightning is incredibly gifted, and can perform a variety of stunts to assist him in winning his races. In terms of statistics, Lightning is usually portrayed with having outstanding acceleration, speed, handling, stability, agility, and boost, the latter of which he learned from his friend Fillmore, and in Cars: The Video Game and Cars: Mater-National Championship, he has three boost tanks, which he has earned throughout his time in Radiator Springs.

Lightning can also tilt, which allows him to take turns sharper, as well as squeeze by opponents, which he once did in a Piston Cup race, where he used the wall to squeeze through the space between it and another racer. He can also jump, which allows him to hop over obstacles and other cars. McQueen is a very talented drifter as well; he learned this skill from Doc Hudson, who used to be a famous dirt track racer. Drifting, also called powersliding in some Cars media, allows Lightning to take sharp turns without losing control and driving off of the track. His top speed is around 200 MPH with 750 HP and a 0-60 of 4 seconds.

In all three installments of the Disney Infinity series, Lightning also has a tow hook, which can be used to tow other vehicles, a skill that is utilized for some missions in the Cars Play Set. If Lightning uses this ability on a player or toy that is not a car, such as Jack Sparrow, they will ride in a small wooden wagon that Lightning can pull around.
In Cars 2: The Video Game and the Disney Infinity games, McQueen can also use weapons if he picks up one while racing. When using a Machine Gun or Missile Launcher, the compartments on his sides will open, allowing Lightning to fire them. In Mater’s tall tales from the Cars Toons episodes, Lightning has been shown with a variety of other abilities, including:

• Performing stunts, though he did not successfully jump the Carburetor Canyon (Mater the Greater)
• Fighting Bulldozers and angering them with his red paint job (El Materdor)
• Possessing skills that resemble that of a dragon, and defeats Kabuto’s Ninjas with little to no trouble (Tokyo Mater)
• Singing and playing the keyboard (Heavy Metal Mater)
• Monster Truck wrestling (Monster Truck Mater)
• Exploring space (Moon Mater)
• Taking care of crime (Mater Private Eye)
• Performing stunts in the air (Air Mater)

Relationships

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Occupations

Lightning is a Piston Cup champion race car known all over the world for his quick and skillful style of racing. He has won four Piston Cups over the years, and is currently working on his fifth. After his fourth win, he was accepted into the World Grand Prix, a championship involving 11 racers, each from a different part of the world. After he finished, he presumably went back to the Piston Cup. In 2017, he became Cruz Ramirez’s crew chief. Additionally, Mater has told many tall tales that have featured McQueen in different professions than he usually can be seen in. Some of them include:

Aliases

Throughout the series, McQueen has been seen with various different names and appearances, notably in the Cars Toons shorts.

In El Materdor, McQueen is a bulldozer fighter named El McQueen.

In Tokyo Mater, McQueen goes under the name of Lightning Dragon McQueen, a drift car that helps Mater during his race with Kabuto.

In Monster Truck Mater, Lightning’s stage name is «Frightening McMean», dubbed by the Referee Pitty after he mishears what McQueen says.

In Mater Private Eye, Lt. McQueen is the detective alias of McQueen.

In Air Mater, once Lightning joins the Falcon Hawks with Mater after one of the members is damaged, Lightning is called Lightning McQueen Hawk as to fit in with the names of the other Falcon Hawks.

He is usually referred to by Sally as «Stickers», because of him originally having headlight stickers rather than real ones. However, there are a couple of times when Sally refers to him by his actual name, as she says McQueen’s surname when the press are in Radiator Springs in the first film, and she says McQueen’s first name while he is dreaming of racing in the Radiator Springs Grand Prix in the video game, along with mentioning to Mia and Tia about the winner of the Sally’s Sunshine Circuit taking a drive with him.

He is occasionally referred to as «buddy» by Mater, who also at one time calls him «Mr. I Can’t Turn On Dirt» in the first film, when he thinks about going tractor tipping.

Movie Variants

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Profiles and statistics

Cars

• Bios
  • «Lightning is built for speed and has just two things on his mind: winning and the perks that come with it. In his fast-paced life he has little time for anything or anyone, but who needs friends when you’ve got a stadium full of fans.«^[6]
  • «To Lightning McQueen, the world’s fastest race car, appearance is everything. Fans expect a celebrity like him to look great all the time: fresh, shiny, spotless! If only his fans could see him now.«^[6]
  • «Lightning McQueen’s dream is to be sponsored by Dinoco Oil! In his daydreams he looks great with his new Dinoco blue paint job and his very own brand of Lightning McQueen racing tires complete with custom spinners. Hey, and why decide on either gold or silver spinners when you can have both?«^[6]
  • «The town fixed up Lightning McQueen just in time for a cruise down the strip, and Radiator Springs looks pretty cool on him. Then again, everything looks pretty cool under the glow of the neon on Route 66.«^[6]
  • «Could anything be more embarrassing than being splashed in the face with mud right in front of the girl of your dreams? I don’t think so.«^[6]
  • «Could anything be more embarrassing than being splashed in the face with mud right in front of the girl of your dreams? Well, maybe being covered with leaves right after that. Yes, that would be more embarrassing…«^[6]
  • «After winning the Piston Cup and getting The King’s coveted Dinoco Sponsorship, McQueen imagines a movie deal will be the next logical step. He sees himself doing action movies, with a hint of comedy, a touch of drama and a truck load of explosions.«^[6]
  • «Turning on dirt is not only harder than Lightning McQueen thought, it’s also a lot more embarrassing.«^[6]
  • «Some lessons have to be learned the hard way. Turn right to go left sounds easy enough, but McQueen’s finding out it’s a lot more painful than it seems.«^[6]
  • «Lightning McQueen never stops for tires, even if it means driving right through them.«^[6]
  • «When you don’t have a nose to win by, a tongue is the next best thing.«^[6]

Cars: The Video Game

Lightning

• Stats
  • Speed: 5
  • Acceleration: 4
  • Handling: 3
  • Stability: 3

Lightning (Monster truck)

• Stats
  • Speed: 4
  • Acceleration: 3
  • Handling: 2
  • Stability: 3

Cars: Mater-National Championship

Lightning

• Stats
  • Boost: 3
  • Acceleration: 4
  • Handling: 4
  • Stability: 3

Monster McQueen

• Stats
  • Boost: 3
  • Acceleration: 3
  • Handling: 2
  • Stability: 4

Cars 2

• Bios
  • «Number 95 Lightning McQueen is still a hotshot racecar, but his rookie days are past him. Now a permanent resident of Radiator Springs, Lightning has become a bona fide worldwide celebrity as winner of four Piston Cups. After his latest win, Lightning returns home to enjoy life in the slow lane for a while with sweetheart Sally, best friend Mater and the rest of his Radiator Springs family. His off-season is unexpectedly cut short when Mater inadvertently prompts Lightning to enter the World Grand Prix, a high profile, three-part exhibition race that will take him around the globe. With a fresh custom paint job and real, working headlights, Lightning sets off to Japan, Italy and England with Mater in tow for the adventure of a lifetime. But competing against the fastest cars in the world tests more than his racing skills when Lightning realizes his wide-eyed best friend may not be the pit chief nor ambassador he needs to navigate the unfamiliar international terrain.«^[7]

Portrayals

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«Скорость. Я — скорость!»

—-Молния МакКуин. «Тачки»

Молния МакКуин (англ. Lightning McQueen) — главный герой франшизы, легендарный гоночный автомобиль, который выиграл 8 трофеев Кубка Поршня с момента начала своей карьеры в 2005 году. На данный момент Молния проживает в небольшом городке Радиатор-Спрингс, где у него есть собственная штаб-квартира и стадион.

История

Предыстория МакКуина

К началу своей гоночной карьеры МакКуин мчался под спонсором Smell Swell Deodorizer, но он был заменён молодым гонщиком по имени Сэмми Смилтер, чья гонка соответствовала образу Smell Swell по словам представителя, который уволил МакКуина.

Грузовик Мак, узнав об этом предложил отвезти МакКуина в Бостон, чтобы встретиться со спонсором Rust-eze, владельцы которого с небольшим успехом смотрели на нового представителя. Во время поездки МакКуин и Мак стали друзьями. По прибытию в Бостон, владельцы компании предложили перспективному гонщику спонсорство. Изначально тот сомневался из-за унизительного поведения спонсора, но согласился, а Мак стал его транспортёром.

Гоночные способности МакКуина в конечном итоге привлекли внимание организаторов Кубка Большого Поршня, и МакКуин стал новичком в сезоне чемпионата 2005 года.

Тачки

События

фильма разворачиваются на Южном Мототреке, где дерзкий и эгоцентричный Молния МакКуин участвует в гонке Диноко 400 за титул чемпиона Кубка Большого Поршня с тем условием, что победитель станет заменой старому талисману Диноко, Ченгу Тюнингу. Однако ситуация складывается так, что МакКуин одновременно приходит к финишу вместе с Кингом и Чико Хиксом. Отчаявшись, МакКуин едет к своему грузовику-перевозчику Маку, который вынуждает юного гонщика пробраться в палатку своих спонсоров, поскольку он оставил свой трейлер у неё. После небольшого диалога со своими спонсорами, МакКуин и Мак отправляются в путь. Ближе к вечеру МакКуин убеждает Мака ехать всю ночь без остановок вместо того, чтобы выспаться и продолжить дорогу утром. Ночью уставший и полусонный Мак подвергается шутливым издёвкам со стороны банды уличных стритрейсеров, действия которых заставляют одну из игрушек с полки в трейлере упасть на аварийную кнопку и открыть дверцу, после чего спящий МакКуин начинает медленно выкатываться из своего грузовика.

Молния просыпается посреди шоссе и быстро пытается догнать Мака. Однако, приняв незнакомый грузовик Питербилт за Мака, МакКуин решает, что его лучшим вариантом будет поиск помощи на Межштатном шоссе. МакКуин мчится мимо спящего полицейского по имени Шериф, который преследует его через город. Испугавшись, МакКуин случайно разрывает дорогу статуей основателя города, которая в конечном итоге заставляет его повиснуть на проводах. Когда он просыпается утром, он обнаруживает, что находится в заброшенном городе Радиатор-Спрингс, где жители приговаривают его к общественным работам и заставляют починить дорогу, с помощью Бесси, дорожного асфальтоукладчика.

Он постоянно думает о гонке в Лос-Анджелесе и пытается сбежать, но у него заканчивается топливо и его возвращают в город, где он пытается починить дорогу. Жители вызывающе отчитывают его из-за ухабистой плохой дороги, и Док Хадсон, судья и доктор города, бросает ему вызов, который Молния.

Хотя первоначально он не решается наладить отношения с жителями, Молния сблизился со всеми, особенно с рассеянным Мэтром, и прекрасным адвокатом Салли Каррерой. Узнав историю города и Дока Хадсона, который раньше был знаменитым гонщиком, Молния застаёт мастерские способности Дока около Холма Вилли. Позже МакКуин окончательно ремонтирует дорогу, и, горожане предполагают, что он ушел, не попрощавшись, МакКуин удивляет жителей, прибывая и требуя новую краску и новые шины. Наслаждаясь «круизом» с жителями, пресса находит МакКуина и забирает его на гонку в Лос-Анджелесе.

День гонки прибывает. МакКуин готовится к гонке вместе с Маком. У МакКуина возникают проблемы, так как он не может перестать думать о Салли и Радиатор-Спрингс, что не может дать ему сосредоточиться на гонке. Затем он удивляется, когда слышит Дока, который выступает главой и шефом команды МакКуина, большая часть города служит в качестве команды МакКуина, в то время как Салли, Шланг и Лиззи остались позади, чтобы посмотреть гонку в городе. С новыми трюками МакКуин начинает навёрстывать потерянный круг. Он отлично пользуется задним вождением, чтобы преодолеть грязную тактику Чико. У МакКуина лопается шина, но Гвидо делает рекордный пит-стоп, возвращая его в гонку вовремя, чтобы обыграть соперников. Чико вновь играет грязно, выкинув его на травяное покрытие, но техника дрифта позволяет МакКуину взять на себя инициативу.

На последнем круге Чико борется с Кингом, вызвав сильную катастрофу. Молния видит, что это происходит на большом экране и тормозит, отказываясь от победы. Он толкает Кинга до финишной черты, чтобы тот мог закончить свою карьеру достойно. Толпа разражается в ура для двух гонщиков. Хикс осуждается фанатами и СМИ. Жена Кинга — Линда, целует его в благодарность за то, что он сделал для ее мужа.

Тех Диноко предлагает ему стать частью Диноко. Хотя это все, о чем когда-либо мечтал МакКуин, он вежливо отказывается и остается у своих спонсоров «Ржавейка», поскольку они открыли ему дорогу в большой спорт. Tex уважает его решение и сообщает, что будет готов оказать ему любую услугу. МакКуин решает дать Мэтру возможность покататься на Вертолете Диноко.

После гонки МакКуин приехал в Радиатор-Спрингс, вернувшись в городок. Он встречается с Салли у Мотеля Колеса, говоря ей, что он скучал по ней. Они начинают отношения, когда возвращаются к Кафе Фло. Док берет МакКуина под свое крыло, демонстрируя ему новые трюки.

Мэтр и Призрачный свет

МакКуин является одним из многих, кто стал жертвой шалостей Мэтра. Во время разговора с Салли в кафе Фло V-8, МакКуин осматривает кучу банок с маслом в виде Мэтра, но как только он приближается, Мэтр прорывается сквозь него, сильно испугав МакКуина. Мэтр дразнит Молнию, ​​утверждая, что он выглядит так, как будто он увидел Полночный Свет. Шериф предупреждает Мэтр не шутить о Полночном Свете, и он рассказывает жителям историю о загадочном духе, Полночном Свете, который появляется в тёмную ночь и нападает на заплутавших автомобилей. Когда Шериф заканчивает историю, все спешат по домам, оставляя Мэтра одного на улице. Мэтр возвращается домой, параноидально думая обо всём. Как только он добирается до своей свалки, он обнаруживает голубой свет позади себя и начинает спешно разъезжать вокруг Радиатор-Спрингс и кричать от страха. Однако, голубой свет позади него на самом деле был обычной лампой, которую МакКуин и Гвидо прикрепили к его буксировочному крюку в качестве наказания за его шалости. Как только Мэтр переводит дыхание, он замедляется и обнаруживает это. МакКуин и другие жители дразнят его, прежде чем поспешно отправиться спать.

Тачки 2

Молния МакКуин возвращается в Радиатор-Спрингс после трудного гоночного сезона Кубка Поршня и с радостью встречает всех своих друзей, особенно Мэтра, который подготовил для него много развлечений. После нескольких дней веселья с Мэтром, Молния говорит ему, что он хотел бы немного отдохнуть наедине с Салли в мотеле «Колесо». Оставшись один, Мэтр изображает официанта в мотеле, пытаясь угодить Молнии и Салли. Позже Мэтр отвлекается на шоу Мел Дорадо на одном из телевизоров, в котором показывали итальянского чемпиона болида Франческо Бернулли, который начинает оскорблять Молнию. Мэтр звонит в шоу, чтобы возразить итальянцу, и ему удается обеспечить Молнии место на Мировом Гран-При, серию из трех мировых гонок, организованных нефтяным магнатом Майлсом Карданвалом.

В процессе подготовки Рамон дает Молнии необычную новую тонировку, спойлер и настоящие фары. Молния, Мэтр, Луиджи, Гвидо, Сержант и Филмор отправляются в Токио, где проходит первая гонка Мирового Гран-При. После воссоединения со старыми друзьями и неприятного разговора с Франческо, Молнию попросили выйти на сцену, но его интервью прерывается, когда Мэтр с криками проезжает мимо, из-за большого количество васаби, которое он съел, перепутав с мороженным. Он въезжает на сцену, чтобы попить воды с дисплея. Мэтр удивлен, узнав, что он течёт маслом и он быстро спешит в уборную, чтобы привести себя в порядок. Однако американский агент — Род Редлайн, который подвергается нападению Грэма и Эйсера, помещает свой маячок слежения на Мэтра. Британская шпионка Холли Делюкс встречает Мэтра, думая, что он и есть американский агент. На первой гонке Франческо берёт на себя инициативу на ранней стадии, но Молния обгоняет его, когда у Франческо возникают проблемы со скольжением в грунтовой части трека. Так же, победа Молнии высоко гарантируется, но Мэтр, который помогает ему, получает голосовое сообщение от Холли, на которое он отвечает. Однако, Молния ошибается, думая, что Мэтр советует правильно, и поворачивает снаружи, позволяя Франческо пройти мимо него и выиграть гонку. Разозленный на Мэтра, Молния отчитывает его и Мэтр с грустью решает вернуться домой и отправляется в аэропорт в Токио (причём МакКуин и его команда не знает об этом). Однако в аэропорту Финн МакМиссл, который думает, что Мэтр является американским шпионом, ведет его подальше от аэропорта и представляется. Тем не менее, двое вёдер, Грэм и Эйсер, которые ищут МакМисла, заметили его, и начали преследовать, но Мэтру и Финну удается сбежать и улететь на шпионском самолёте Сиддели.

Между тем, команда МакКуина получают письма от Мэтра, и они узнают о том, что он полетел домой, но всё же, решают поехать на следующую гонку в Порто-Корса, Италии. Все, кроме МакКуина остаются с тетей Луиджи, а Дядя Тополино дает советы Молнии о том, как важна дружба. На гонке Молния и Франческо отделяются от других гонщиков, которым, без ведома сжигают моторы созданной импульсной камерой, которой управляют Грэм и Эйсер. Мэтр, который проникает на собрание Лимонов, в ужасе наблюдает, за их действиями. Случайно раскрыв себя, Мэтр использует свои шпионские оружия, которыми его оборудовал Финн, чтобы сбежать, но всё же его похищают Лимоны и помещают в Биг-Бен, большую башню с часами в Лондоне, где проводится финальная гонка Мирового Гран-При.

Молния решает заправиться Аллинолом, несмотря на предположения, относительно того, что из-за него моторы многих участников были выведены из строя. Когда Лимоны направляют камеру на МакКуина, ему удаётся выйти за пределы диапазона, а гонка вскоре прерывается Мэтром, который врывается на трассу, чтобы эвакуировать остальных, сообщая, что на пит-лейне заложена бомба, но вскоре узнаёт, что она на самом деле была установлена у него самого в воздушном фильтре. Мэтр пытается предупредить МакКуина, чтобы тот держался от него подальше и он всячески пытается не позволить ему догнать себя. Спустя некоторое время на них нападают Лимоны, чтобы уничтожить их, но друзья Мэтра и МакКуина из Радиатор-Спрингс помогают в сражении с ними и Шериф арестовывает их всех. Потом они летят к Королеве Великобритании, срывая гонку. Мэтр обвиняет Майлса Карданвала в том, что он стоит за всем заговором, относительно саботажа. Карданвал вынужден отключить бомбу, в довершение ко всему, когда он открывает свой капот, выясняется, что на самом деле он не первый в мире электромобиль, а простая дефектная машина с двигателем внутреннего сгорания, и что якобы изобретённый им «Аллинол» — никакое не экологически чистое топливо, а самый обычный бензин. Скотланд-Ярд арестовывает его за мошенничество и манипуляцию.

После всей этой истории Мэтра посвящает в рыцари сама королева Великобритании, затем он вместе с друзьями отправляется домой. В «Радиатор-Спрингс», Молния принимает участие в соревновании, приглашая всех гонщиков Гран-При в «Радиатор-Спрингс» в качестве замены для прерванной третьей гонки. Перед началом гонки Филмор рассказывает МакКуину, что Сержант заменил «Аллинол» на самое настоящее биотопливо, поскольку не доверял Карданвалу. Это и уберегло гонщика от гибели. Мэтр оставляет себе реактивные турбины, так что теперь он может соревноваться со своим другом. Из всего пережитого, Молния понимает, что хотя Мэтр и не идеальный руководитель команды, он идеальный друг и начинает лучше относится к нему.

Тачки 3

Молния уже более 10 лет участвует в ассоциации Кубка Поршня. Он завязал дружеские отношения с Кэлом Реверсом — который сейчас гоняется за Диноко, а его дядя-чемпион Ченг «Кинг Тюнинг» работает в качестве руководителя его команды — иБобби Вжиком. Тех Диноко по-прежнему хотел бы, чтобы МакКуин выступал за него, даже говоря ему это за пределами слышимости Кэла. В течение сезона новоприбывший гоночный автомобиль по имени Джексон Шторм, кажется, выходит из ниоткуда и выигрывает гонку. МакКуин поздравляет его, на что Шторм заявляет, что было честью и счастьем «выиграть у второго номера в спорте», а затем рассказывает своей команде, что он якобы «зацепил МакКуина», показывая, что ему нравится использовать эмоциональные манипуляции, чтобы попасть в головы своих оппонентов. Кроме того, Шторм использует новейшие технологии для обучения, что делает его высококвалифицированным гонщиком.

Сезон продолжается, а Джексон продолжает побеждать, и более продвинутые, новички-гонщики начинают вытеснять старшее поколение. Кэл уходит на пенсию, рассказывая МакКуину, сколько он ценит их дружбу. Бобби уволен его спонсором и заменен Дэнни Виражизом. На следующей гонке МакКуин полон уверенности выиграть, и, к счастью, Гвидо быстро обслуживает его на пит-стопе, а Салли и Мэтр подбадривают его. Шторм продолжает изгаляться над ним на трассе, проходя мимо него. Виражиз и Глянцелотт — еще одни гонщики нового поколения — которые также обгоняют МакКуина. Молния напрягает себя так сильно, как только может, но его правая задняя шина выдувается, и он попадает в крупную аварию. Салли, Мэтр, Гвидо и Луиджи выходят на трассу, проверить в порядке ли он, в то время как экстренная служба забирает его с трассы. Четыре месяца спустя МакКуин восстановился и вернулся в Радиатор-Спрингс. Он находится в старом гараже Дока, наблюдая за кадром аварии, которая закончилась его карьерой. Затем Салли навещает его. Молния не хочет заканчивать так же, как Док, который был вынужден уйти в отставку. Салли говорит ему не бояться неудачи, напоминая ему, что у него есть шанс. Она прибегает к какой-то реверсивной психологии, чтобы заставить его передумать. МакКуин рассказывает всем своим друзьям, что он собирается продолжать карьеру. После того, как Рамон перекрасил МакКуина в его оригинальную гоночную цветовую гамму, Мак везет его, Гвидо и Луиджи в Гоночный Спорт-Комплекс Ржавейка. Он удивлен, узнав, что его спонсоры Звяк и Бряк продали Ржавейку миллиардеру Стерлингу, который, кажется, его большой поклонник.

У него находится костюм для МакКуина, который отслеживает его скорость и жизненно важные признаки. Стерлинг демонстрирует все оборудования для высокотехнологичного обучения, в том числе самый современный симулятор. МакКуин познакомился с Круз Рамирез, дружелюбным и восторженным тренером, которая сначала не узнает гонщика, заявляя, что он самозванец, но это было нужно только, чтобы привести его в правильный настрой. Круз тренирует МакКуина, который безуспешно просит её опробовать симулятор. К сожалению, тренировка на симуляторе проходит плохо, поскольку МакКуин врезается в различные объекты, загорается, слетает с ограничений и врезается в экран симулятора. Затем Стерлинг зовет его в свой кабинет, показывая ему различные товары на его тематику, тем самым представляя его в качестве будущего бренда. МакКуин понимает, что Стерлинг не желает, чтобы ветеран продолжал карьеру, поэтому он предлагает Стерлингу сделку: если МакКуин победит в следующей гонке во Флориде, он уйдёт в отставку, когда захочет этого сам; если же нет, он заканчивает свою карьеру в качестве гонщика. МакКуин, Гвидо, Луиджи и Мак отправляются на Форсажный Пляж для тренировок, а Круз следует за ними, чтобы помочь.

Круз должна будет ехать рядом с ним, используя своего цифрового помощника Гамильтона, чтобы отслеживать его максимальную скорость, но ему придется находится очень близко с ней. Легче сказать, чем сделать, поскольку Круз не знает, как гоняться по грунту. До захода солнца МакКуин помогает ей учится ездить. Максимальная скорость МакКуина — 198 миль/ч, что, однако, медленнее, чем у Шторма. Он решает отправиться в Овраг Грома, где есть грунтовые трассы, но когда Луиджи беспокоится о том, что пресса может узнать его, Мак уверяет, что он может помочь МакКуину в маскировке.

Когда они добираются туда, МакКуин покрывается грязью, чтобы замаскировать свой внешний вид, беря псевдоним Честер Фильтропродули. Однако позднее они осознают, что это Дерби, и Круз тоже ошибочно принимает участие. Легенда дерби — школьный автобус-монстр по имени Мисс Крошка. И МакКуин, и Круз едва избегают столкновений, но МакКуину приходиться защитить Круз от Крошки. В итоге Круз выигрывает дерби, но случайно опрокидывает Мистера Капли, в результате чего он смывает с МакКуина маскировку.

Разгневанный МакКуин ругает Круз в трейлере, жалуясь, что весь день ему пришлось печься о ней. Он утверждает, что он должен выиграть свою следующую гонку, чтобы продолжить карьеру в спорте, заявив, что она не поймет, так как она не гонщик. Чувствуя боль от слов МакКуина, Круз приказывает Маку остановиться и сердито выезжает из трейлера Молнии. Она никогда не хотела быть тренером, ведь ее всегда восхищал Молния. Она пыталась участвовать в гонках, но чувствовала, что ей это не под силу и уехала. Молния говорит Круз, что никогда не чувствовал, что у него может не получиться участвовать в гонках. Она мечтает, чтобы у нее сложилось также. Однако Круз решает вернуться в Спорт-Комплекс и уезжает самостоятельно.

Мак проводит ночь, ночуя под мостом, а МакКуин смотрит телевизор. Ведется отснятый момент из дерби. Также аналитик Натали Дайджест сообщает, что Шторм установила новый скоростной рекорд, в результате чего шансы его победы во Флориде ровняются 95,2%. МакКуин звонит Мэтру, который, к счастью, все еще не спит. Первоначально Мэтр не может найти хороших советов, пока МакКуин не вспоминает о Доке. Мэтр рассказывает, что автомобиль, который учил Дока, явно знал бы больше о гонках, чем он сам. МакКуин решает догнать Круз и убеждает ее поехать с ним в родной город Дока Томасвилль.

Прибыв, Молния и Круз взглянули на грунтовой трек, где когда-то Док участвовал в гонках. Они встречаются с наставником Дока Выхлопом, который берет их в бар, где они также знакомятся с другими гоночными легендами Ривером Скоттом, Сэмми Гоном и Луизой Нэш. МакКуин говорит Выхлопу, что хотел бы увидеть Дока во время его гоночной карьеры, когда он был самым счастливым. Выхлоп рассказывает МакКуину, что он долгое время не слышал ничего от Дока после того, как он переехал в Радиатор-Спрингс, но однажды он начал получать от него письма. Выхлоп показывает ему стену с фотографиями МакКуина и Дока, показав, что обучение Молнии было самым счастливым временем в его жизни. Выхлоп говорит ему, что он не может быть быстрее Шторма, но он может быть умнее, чем он, о чем свидетельствует его прохождение через дерби без царапины.

Поскольку МакКуин пропустил квалификацию, ему придется начинать сзади, в то время как Джексон начнет стартовать впереди. Круз устанавливают спойлер, а также черные инициалы, чтобы сделать ее похожей на Шторма, дабы она смогла стать «спарринг-партнером» для МакКуина. Они будут гоняться на треке, а последний будет иметь только три круга, чтобы нагнать ее, но у него не получается. Они используют другие методы для обучения: уклонение брошенных тюков сена и других препятствий, маневрирование через отторжение тракторов и прохождение по лесу ночью без использования фар. Эти двое выполняют все упражнения. Во время ночного вождения костюм МакКуина разорвался о деревья, оставляя ему свои оригинальные гоночные инициалы.

Во время этого, Молния и Круз смотрят старые отснятые кадры гонок Дока. Они видят, что он использовал умелую технику, чтобы получить преимущество над соперниками и узнали, что он так же выполнил переворот, чтобы оторваться от другой машины, которая пыталась прижать его к стене. В последний день обучения МакКуин умудряется прорваться вперед на треке, но Круз все равно выигрывает. Теперь они должны отправиться во Флориду на гонку.

В то время как Шериф, Лиззи и Шланг остались в городе, остальные жители Радиатор-Спрингс прибыли во Флориду, чтобы подбодрить МакКуина, а Выхлоп принял роль руководителя. МакКуин стартует последним, но без особого труда обгоняет конкурентов. Стерлинг приказывает Круз покинуть трек и вернуться в Спорт-Комплекс. Это не очень хорошо влияет на МакКуина, который слышит их разговор и желает, чтобы она вернулась. После случайной аварии, возникшей во время гонки, Молния звонит Круз, чтобы она закончила гонку вместо него. Она была быстро подготовлена Рамоном, Луиджи и Гвидо, в то время как Мэтр отводит Стерлинга. С номером 95, гоночными шинами и спойлером, Круз официально присоединяется к гонке. Через Выхлопа МакКуин передает ей советы, но берет на себя роль её наставника. Круз приводит и использует всю тренировку и трюки в отличное пользование и прорывается ближе к первым позициям. Шторм намеренно отступает на вторую позицию, поскольку Круз переходит в тройку лидеров. Он прибегает к психологическому унижению против нее, но МакКуин говорит, что Джексон считает ее угрозой, и он поверил в её способность к конкуренции.

Наступает последний круг. Круз находится прямо за Джексоном, который не может поколебать ее. Шторм таранит ее в стену, но она использует приём Дока, чтобы оторваться и взять на себя инициативу. Круз выигрывает гонку до радости толпы.

Все поздравляют ее с победой. Поскольку Молния собирается принять свою судьбу, стать брендом Стерлинга, он проверяет табло, чтобы понять, что он вместе с Круз выиграл гонку. В конце концов, он решает провести дружескую выставочную гонку с Круз для всех своих друзей, а также он перекрашивается в спортивный цвет Дока, продолжив таким образом его наследие.

Тачки Мультачки

Мэтр — Команда спасения

Молния и Мэтр проезжают мимо Шланга, который поливает свои цветы, что напоминает Мэтру о его карьере в качестве пожарного. Как только появляются сообщения о находящихся под угрозой исчезновения транспортных средствах, Мэтр немедленно отправляется на место происшествия и делает все возможное, чтобы спасти других от пожара. Мэтр говорит МакКуину, что он спас его — после того, как потушил горящее здание. Он отвозит Молнию в больницу для лечения его ожогов и там он оказывается врачом. Когда Молния задает вопрос об правдивости этой истории, бывшая медсестра Мэтра, медсестра ГТО, проезжает мимо них и приветствует Мэтра, оставляя Молнию в недоумении.

Мэтр Каскадёр

Мэтр рассказывает Молнии историю о том, как он когда-то был каскадёром, который выполнял множество опасных трюков, в том числе прыгал через широкую группу ржавых машин, прыгал через огненное кольцо, нырял в небольшой детский бассейн и прицепившись к самолёту совершил много неожиданных трюков. Величайший трюк Мэтра это прыжок через огромный каньон под названием «Карбюраторный Каньон», в котором также участвовал Молния. Молния пролетел очень длинный путь, поскольку к нему была приделана ракета и он пролетел до середины. Молния не верит рассказам Мэтра, пока мимо них не проезжают механики-помощники Мэтра в его карьере каскадёра.

Эль Мэтрдор

Молния и Мэтр прогуливаются по бульдозерному пастбищу и Мэтр рассказывает Молнии историю его дней как матадора. Мэтр постоянно ставил свою жизнь под угрозу для развлечения других, сражаясь с бульдозерами. Когда Молния спрашивает об этом, Мэтр говорит Молнии, что он был в этой истории тоже и он легко привлек всех бульдозеров из-за его красного кузова. Когда Молния не верит Мэтру, его преследует группа бульдозеров, которые каким-то образом выбралась с пастбищ.

Токио Мэтр

Неопознанный Летающий Мэтр

Мэтр рассказывает МакКуину историю о том, как он встретил НЛО по имени Мэйтрон. Однако Мэйтрон был похищен правительством и учёными, пока Мэтр не смог проникнуть на их базу и спасти его. Когда они убегают, Молния присоединяется к ним, но вскоре они встречают большое НЛО, которое, как выяснилось, является матерью Мэйтрона. Она подбрасывает их в Радиатор-Спрингс, а Мэйтрон и его мать возвращаются домой. Как всегда, Молния сомневается насчёт истории, но после ухода МакКуина Мэтр умудряется снова полететь, точно так же, как учил его Мэйтрон.

Мэтр — великий рестлер

Мэтр-металлист

Мэтр на Луне

Мэтр-детектив

Лейтенант МакКуин и его помощники арестовывают Большого Ди, после того как Мэтр обнаруживает, что он и его приспешники производят поддельные шины. Как всегда, Молния отрицает какую-либо правду в детективном романе Мэтра, однако, Кармен, одна из автомобилей, упомянутых в рассказе Мэтра, прибывает и начинает танцевать танец конго, и Мэтр и другие жители присоединяются.

Мэтр — Машина времени

Мэтр возвращается в прошлое и оказывается лицом к лицу со Стэнли до основания Радиатор-Спрингс. Стэнли спрашивает его, хочет ли он купить колпачок для радиатора, и когда Мэтр отвергает это предложение, Стэнли решает покинуть оазис. Понимая, что произойдет, если Стэнли не создаст Радиатор-Спрингс, Мэтр возвращается в настоящее время, чтобы Молния помог ему, и они возвращаются в прошлое.

Однако все идет не так, как планировалось — Мэтр ошибочно принимает мнение, что Лиззи влюбилась в Молнию, поэтому они должны убедиться, что Стэнли и Лиззи начнут встречаться и выйдут друг за друга, чтобы спасти будущее от перезаписи. Лиззи и Стэнли в конце концов женятся, и Радиатор-Спрингс успешно открывается.

Основная информация

Физическое описание

Молния МакКуин — гоночный автомобиль, за внешний вид которого взяты различные автомобили гоночной серии (в том числе NASCAR), такие как Dodge Viper, Ford GT40, Chevrolet Corvette и другие. У него есть такие модификации, как короткий спойлер, и на короткое время не было фар (только наклейки). У него есть обмоточные амортизаторы с трубчатой ​​передней подвеской, упорным задним концом и дисковыми тормозами на всех четырех колесах. Кроме того, у него имеются воздушные заслонки на крыше. Его двигатель V-8 имеет мощность 750 л/с. В Тачки 2 его скорость с 0-60 составляет 3,2 секунды, а его максимальная скорость — 200 миль/ч. В Тачки 3 его скорость с 0-60 составляет уже 4 секунды, а максимальная скорость — 198 миль/ч.

До того как стать звездой Кубка Поршня, Молния был полностью окрашен в красный цвет, за исключением логотипа Smell Swell на капоте и числа 95, изображенного на обеих дверях и крыше. При поиске нового спонсора логотип был удален. Тем не менее, после того, как его наняли Звяк и Бряк из Rust-eze, Молния получил совершенно новую краску для своей карьеры гонщика Кубка Поршня.

В первом фильме он окрашен в красный цвет с оранжевыми и желтыми рисунками молний на дверях, вместе с номером «95» и множеством спонсорских наклеек. У него есть логотип Rust-eze на капоте, а также на спойлере и бензобаке. На заднем бампере у него жёлтыми буквами расписаны слова «Лечебная мазь». В Радиатор-Спрингс, МакКуин был перекрашен в бордовый цвет с небольшим белым овалом на дверях и маленькой желтой молнией, а сам дизайн внешне напоминал Chevy Corvettes 1959 года. Спойлер, логотипы и номер были убраны на некоторое время. До финальной гонки 2006 года спойлер был возвращён, а Молния снова приобрёл свой старый дизайн Кубка Поршня. В эпилоге, МакКуин снова покрасился в темно-бордовый и белый цвет, но теперь на его дверях и крыше есть номер 95, окруженный белым кругом с логотипом Rust-eze, а также у него теперь меньше наклеек от спонсоров, а его задний бампер теперь полностью красный.

Личность и черты характера

Молния МакКуин — добрый, позитивный и смелый персонаж. Он любит веселиться и проводить время со своими друзьями, особенно с Мэтром. До прибытия в Радиатор-Спрингс МакКуин был дерзким и эгоистичным, его заботили только две вещи: победа и престиж. У Молнии совсем не было друзей, из-за чего он жил с ограниченными социальными навыками. Будучи известной и талантливой личностью в гоночном мире, пресса и поклонники восхищались его навыками и харизмой, а когда близняшки Мия и Тия решили выразить гонщику своё восхищение, Молния сказал: «Хорошо быть мной!», что подчёркивало его самолюбие.

Попав в Радиатор-Спрингс, местные жители не очень-то жаловали Молнию. И только подружившись со всеми, МакКуин осознал, что в жизни есть много других вещей, помимо денег и славы. Молния остался жить в Радиатор-Спрингс, чем вызвал общественный интерес к городу и вдохнул в него новую жизнь.

Лучшим другом Молнии является Мэтр, с которым он познакомился, когда пребывал на штраф-стоянке Радиатор-Спрингс. Изначально МакКуин не воспринимал Мэтра всерьёз, однако вскоре нашёл с ним общий язык и они стали хорошими друзьями. Мэтр и МакКуин часто проводят время вместе: шугают тракторов ночью, ездят задним ходом, катаются по железнодорожным путям без резины, а иногда даже соревнуются друг с другом.

Навыки и способности

Как всемирно известный гоночный автомобиль, Молния невероятно одарен и может выполнять различные трюки во время гонки, преодолевая преграды и облегчая себе дорогу к победе.

Во время финальной гонки Диноко 400 Молния продемонстрировал технику наклона, что позволило ему разом обойти нескольких противников, используя бортик трека.

Интересные факты

• Гоночный номер «95» ссылается на 1995 год, когда был выпущен первый полнометражный мультфильм студии Pixar — «История игрушек». Первоначально номером МакКуина должен был быть «57», год рождения аниматора и режиссёра Джона Лассетера.
• Фамилия Молнии — отсылка на Гленна МакКуина, аниматора Pixar, который скончался в 2002 году.
• В первом фильме задний бампер Молнии жёлтый. Это одна из традиций NASCAR, когда на бампер автомобиля новичка наносят жёлтые полоски.
• Игрушечные модели Молнии МакКуина вместе с Чико Хиксом и Брашом Кербером появились на одной из выставок «Наука за Pixar».
• Существует говорящая игрушка Молнии МакКуина, созданная в Венгрии. Однако её гоночный номер «63», а не «95».
• Ранние концепт-арты показывают, что изначально цвет кузова Молнии должен был быть синим, а не красным.

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