List of Cars characters: Difference between revisions

He also appears in Cars 3: Driven to Win which he does post race interviews with Mater, Smokey, Natalie Certain, and Miss Fritter; as well as giving out racing news offering commentary about players' winning/losing performance.

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Jackson Storm

Jackson Storm (voiced by

At the Florida 500, he is overtaken by McQueen's former trainer Cruz Ramirez. He attempts to make her lose focus by telling her that she doesn't belong on a track. Cruz, however, regains her confidence and drives up next to Storm, who rammed her into the SAFER barrier wall, but Cruz flips over him and lands.

Radiator Springs

These characters live in Radiator Springs with Lightning McQueen, his trainer Cruz Ramirez and their hauler, Mack.

Tow Mater

Mater is a rusty tow truck, resembling a 1957 Chevrolet Task Force. He is McQueen's best friend, and Holley Shiftwell's boyfriend. He is voiced by Larry the Cable Guy. Since his heroic actions and exposing Miles Axlerod in London, Mater is now known as "Sir Tow Mater".

Sally Carrera

Sally Carrera is the town's attorney. She is voiced by

Porsche 996 Carrera. In 2022, Porsche made a one-off Porsche 911 as a tribute to the character, referred to as the "Sally Special".^[7]

Doc Hudson (voiced by Paul Newman in the first film and its video game adaptation, Corey Burton in all other related media) was the town's medical doctor, judge, and Lightning McQueen's mentor/crew chief. He was based on the 1951 Hudson Hornet. He did not appear in the second film due to Paul Newman's death, and it is implied that he died as well at some point in between films. He appeared in Cars 3 in McQueen's flashbacks, being voiced by archival recordings of Newman.

He won three consecutive Piston Cups in 1951, 1952 and 1953 as a racer known as The Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and still held the record for the most wins in a single racing season with Smokey as his crew chief, corresponding to the first three of the real-life Hornet's production years.

Sheriff

The Sheriff (voiced by

Luigi (voiced by

Ramone (voiced by

He is a stereotypical hippie,^[15] as he has stickers of the peace sign and flowers with his license plate positioned to resemble a soul patch.

Cars 2

These are characters who have first or only appeared in the film Cars 2 (2011).

Secret agents and spies

Finn McMissile

Finn McMissile (voiced by Michael Caine in the second film, Martin Jarvis in the video games) is a British secret agent who recruits Mater to help in his mission.

His small tailfins were inspired by a 1958 British sports car called the Peerless—one of the few British cars with fins.^[16] His belief about the World Grand Prix turns out to be true, as it was all just a setup by Miles Axlerod to make alternate fuel seem dangerous and make cars run on his own fuel with no choice.

Holley Shiftwell

Holley Shiftwell (voiced by Emily Mortimer) is a British spy-in-training, and Mater's love interest.

Lemons

The Lemons are international criminals that appear in Cars 2.

Sir Miles Axlerod

Sir Miles Axlerod (voiced by Eddie Izzard) is the rival of the second film. Axlerod created the World Grand Prix to promote his new wonder-fuel, Allinol. His "alternative fuel" is actually ordinary gasoline engineered to ignite if hit with electromagnetic pulses from weapons disguised as television cameras. Sir Miles plans to use Professor Zündapp and the Lemon Cars to kill McQueen in the final race, but the EMP weapon fails to finish him off because Sarge switched McQueen's Allinol for Fillmore's organic fuel.

Professor Wolfgang Otto Zündapp

Professor Zündapp (voiced by Thomas Kretschmann), often referred simply as Professor Z, is an internationally wanted weapon designe. Though he initially appears to be the main antagonist, he is eventually revealed to be a secondary antagonist, and subordinate to Miles Axlerod.

World Grand Prix (WGP)

Francesco Bernoulli

Francesco Bernoulli (voiced by John Turturro in Cars 2 and Cars 2: The Video Game, and Roger Craig Smith in Disney Infinity) serves as Lightning McQueen's primary rival in the second film. He is painted in colors similar to the Italian flag.

Cars 3

These are characters who have first or only appeared in the film Cars 3 (2017).

Miss Fritter

Miss Fritter (voiced by

• T-33 Shooting Star
  wings and a Skyslicer MK V propeller. At the end of the film, he has a Jolly Wrenches paint job while racing with Skipper, having been made an honorary Jolly Wrench. He returned in Planes 2 as a firefighter in training for Piston Peak Air Attack Team as a SEAT (Single Engined Air Tanker). His callsign is Crophopper 7.
• Stacy Keach as Skipper Riley, a Vought F4U Corsair and Dusty's mentor. His sole mission was a routine patrol that turned disastrous when his squadron stumbled upon an enemy fleet, leaving him as the sole survivor.
• Danny Mann as Sparky, a forklift and good friend of Chug and Skipper's assistant and mechanic
• Priyanka Chopra as Ishani, a Pan-Asian champion from India,^[21] based on the AeroCad AeroCanard^[22] with over a billion racing fans. She's painted orange and yellow with the number 6 in green. She is Dusty's good friend and Ripslinger's hated rival and former ally and teammate.
• Brad Garrett as Chug, a fuel truck^[23] and Dusty's best friend.
• Teri Hatcher as Dottie, a forklift^[23] and Dusty's friend and mechanic.
• Cedric the Entertainer as Leadbottom, a biplane^[23] inspired by the Boeing-Stearman Model 75^[22] with a partial engine cowl.
• Naka Riisa
  ), and "Yún Yàn Fēi" in the Chinese/Putonghua version (voiced by Yù Tóu). There's also a French version of Rochelle in the France version of Disney Planes. She may look similar to the Canadian Rochelle because of her paintwork and the French language she speaks. But the French Rochelle does not have the red maple leaf decals on her body.
• contra-rotating propeller. Rip is captain of Team RPX and Dusty's hated rival in the film. His race number is 13. He later damaged Skipper's vertical stabilizer during the Mexico-New York leg.^[23][26]
  He returned as a main antagonist for Planes: the Video Game attempting to ruin Dusty's fame, wreck his town, paint Dusty graffiti on the Great Wall of China while disguised as him, and even cause trouble for Dusty's international friends including ruining the Diwali Festival in Ishani's home country.
• Gabriel Iglesias as Ned and Zed, henchmen of Ripslinger and his teammates^[23] inspired by the Zivko Edge 540 and MX Aircraft MXS.^[22] Ned is green with white wings and the number 0 in orange, while Zed is white with green wings and the number 00 in orange. They are twin brothers from New Zealand (They represent the United States with Ripslinger in the film) who try to sabotage the other racers by flying aggressively (this was best demonstrated when they cut off Dusty's antenna, forcing him to land on the USS Dwight D. Flysenhower), allowing Ripslinger to take the win with Ned and Zed finishing second and third. They were later thwarted by Dusty when Ned hit a rock with his left wing, sending him into a barrel roll and trapping both him and Zed into a narrow gap that only Dusty was able to fly through.
• de Havilland DH.88 Comet
  from the United Kingdom, painted blue and white on his chassis and red wings. He has the Union Jack painted up front with the number 11 in black inside a white circle on his sides and wings. He was saved from crashing by Dusty in the Iceland-Germany leg.
• Gee Bee Model R^[20][27]
  and Dusty's good friend and Rochelle's boyfriend. He is racer number 5 from Mexico.
• Brent Mustangburger, a 1964½ Ford Mustang
  and main announcer for the RSN and the Wings Around The Globe rally.

• C-415 SuperScooper^[29]
  She is also Dusty's biggest fan and love interest.
• Curtis Armstrong as Maru, a forklift mechanic at the Piston Peak Air Attack base^[30][31]
• Ed Harris as Blade Ranger, a veteran fire-and-rescue helicopter. He used to play a police helicopter in CHoPs with Nick "Loop'n" Lopez but became a firefighter when Nick died.^[31] Blade is inspired by the AgustaWestland AW109, AgustaWestland AW139^[32] and Bell 429 GlobalRanger^[29]
• Wes Studi as Windlifter, a Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane heavy-lift helicopter who used to work as a lumberjack before Planes 2^[29][31][32]
• Dale Dye as Cabbie, a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar retired from military service who airdrops the Smokejumpers to fire sites^[31][32]
• Regina King as Dynamite, the leader of The Smokejumpers, a team of ground vehicles which parachute into fire sites^[31]
• Corri English as Pinecone, a smokejumper equipped with a rake tool to clear brush and debris^[31]
• Bryan Callen as Avalanche, a bulldozer and a smokejumper^[31]
• Danny Pardo as Blackout, a smokejumper equipped with a circular saw^[31]
• Matt L. Jones as Drip, a smokejumper equipped with a skid-steer claw to clear fallen trees and brush^[31]
• Fred Willard as Secretary of the Interior, a green four-wheel-drive with a roof rack^[31]
• Jerry Stiller as Harvey, an RV and Winnie's husband.^[31]
• Anne Meara as Winnie, an RV and Harvey's wife.^[31]
• Erik Estrada as Nick "Loop'n" Lopez, a helicopter TV actor who was the co-star of CHoPs. He was killed during filming of the series's one-hundred-thirty-ninth episode, and is the reason Blade became a firefighter (Blade couldn't save him in time).^[31]
• John Michael Higgins as Cad Spinner, a second generation Cadillac Escalade and the park superintendent of the Piston Peak Fusalodge^[31]
• Barry Corbin as Ol' Jammer, a tour bus at Piston Peak. He later was promoted as superintendent after Cad was fired from his selfishness^[31]
• Hal Holbrook as Mayday, an old fire and rescue truck from Propwash Junction^[31]
• Kevin Michael Richardson as Ryker, a transportation management safety truck with a roof-mounted watercannon for firefighting. Ryker made a camo appearance at the end of Planes cheering for Dusty Crophopper after he won his first ever WATG rally against Ripslinger.^[31]
• fire truck at Piston Peak with a roof-mounted watercannon for firefighting.^[31] Pulaski's namesake,^[29] Ed Pulaski, was known for his heroism in saving most of his crew during the Great Fire of 1910
  by sheltering in an abandoned mine.
• Brad Paisley as Bubba, a Pickup truck^[33]
• Kari Wahlgren as Patch^[34]
• René Auberjonois as Concierge^[34]
• Steve Schirripa as Steve^[34]
• John Ratzenberger as Brodi^[34]

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