I FINALLY Gave In And Watched Pixar's *CARS* And God Is It GOOD!

RIP Paul Newman, voice of Doc Hudson. As a NASCAR fan for most of my life, I cannot tell you how HYPED the opening to this movie makes me feel. The classic sights, sounds, camera angles, fans, etc. THEY EVEN BROUGHT IN THE ACTUAL NASCAR BOOTH ANNOUNCERS! They made a real love letter to racing here and I can't get enough of it.

Bilingual bonus: when Guido is yelling at the other forklifts, he's saying "Who do you think you're talking to, huh? Who are you talking to?" The Ferrari says to Guido "I hope your friend gets better. I was told y'all are fantastic."

as a mexican whose family works on low riders, my family loved the low rider w a classic Chicano accent! It was appreciative and not appropriation, in my opinion.

Fun fact: Paul Newman (Doc Hudson) was delighted that for his final film role, he got to play a car, as he was an avid race car driver.

The Ferrari in the tyre shop was voiced by the legendary Michael Schumacher, the #43 car the King was voiced by the King himself Richard Petty, tons of celebrity cameo voice overs in these movies

Cow tipping is actually a myth mainly made by how city folk think country folk act. In fact, it's kind of impossible. Cows can in fact can get up on their own, they don't sleep standing, they're so heavy you can't tip them with even a stronger human body, and they can get mad and hurt you.

I'm going to need you to understand how important the number 43 is in Nascar (and how it relates to this movie). 43 belongs to Richard Petty. The reason it's important they included it, and in Nascar, is that he won 200 races between 1960 and 1984. His career ended in a crash (as did the 43 in this movie). Furthermore, the voice of 43 IS Richard Petty. And yes, that was Mario Andretti, although I don't know why he was there in the first place... He was an Indy driver. Also, those 'car bugs'... They're all Volkswagen. Literally VW "Bugs".

My personal interpretation on why he didn't finish the race - he didn't want a win where one of the other racers was in such a horrible state. It's like if you were running a race against someone who broke his foot, that wouldn't feel like a win. It actually seems to happen in a sports irl, people help their competitors before crossing the finish line. Another assumption is that he didn't want The King to go last. If he had finished the race and then helped him, The King would've been 3rd place. McQueen decided to end up last because he has many more races in his future anyway, but that was The King's last race.

27:59, the fire truck "Red" is emotional because the person who was supposed to voice act him died in a car crash before they could record his lines. And they didnt want to re-cast the voice, as he had worked for Pixar for years as an animator, voice actor, director and writer. Cars was the last movie he co-directed and co-wrote, which is why his name also appears at the end of the movie "Dedicated to Joe Ranft".

As a car guy that has driven parts of route 66 this movie is honestly hard to watch, so many towns and peoples livelihoods were taken away with the Interstates going through. It's sad driving through the towns that are left, so much history gone or boarded up, or dilapidated beyond repair. There is a really good history of Doc someone did on youtube, worth a watch as well.

I’ve never really understood why this movie gets so much hate. I mean, sure, it’s not as good as Pixar’s best movies like The Incredibles or Ratatouille, but it’s still really good. The movie tells a unique story from Pixar’s usual catalog, focusing on the history of the American motorways and putting that in its own universe. The characters are generally pretty good and iconic, Lightning McQueen’s character arc is really good, the world building is flawed but definitely interesting, the score slaps and making things personal for a second, this might be the first movie I ever watched (or at least the first one I can remember, this was probably around 2007) so it’s always been a little bit special in that way.

What I liked about the movie is how it was historically accurate about Route 66 and when it was bypassed for the new Freeway system. Many of the small towns/businesses on Route 66 went under. You can look up the history about Route 66 pretty easily and it's still in existance.

Just hit us real hard with the nostalgia at the beginning with the old dvd fast play menu 😭

The Rusteze guys were the hosts of a radio show called Car Talk. Brothers who helped diagnose and fix cars. They ended every show with "Don't drive like my brother".

Yes, The King was voiced by Richard Petty, a NASCAR legends. The racing commentators were voiced by their real-life counterparts. Paul Newman, Doc's VA, was also a NASCAR racer. Fun fact, The King was literally modelled after Petty's car that he used during his races; a blue 1970 Plymouth Superbird stock car.

"Race cars dont need headlights cause the track is always lit." "Yeah well so is my brother but he still needs headlights".

A little fun fact I learned about: McQueen’s old pit crew chief who claims that his name isn’t Chuck is actually listed as “Not Chuck” in the credits!

It’s hard to find the right words to describe how much this movie meant to me as a child. I remember seeing cars the day it came out and I was obsessed from the start.

I genuinely love this movie. Not the best from Pixar but it’s definitely one of those films that I loved to watch over and over again. I also was a huge Cars nerd back when I was a kid as I had a lot of merchandise from the film.

This was my all time favorite movie growing I had the toys, the clothes, and I remember one year for Halloween I wore a Lightning McQueen racing suit also Dale Earnhardt Jr 8, Mario Andretti, Richard Petty, Darrell Waltrip, Artie Kempner, and Michael Schumacher who was the red Ferrari finally R.I.P to Paul Newman who voiced Doc Hudson 🙏🏽