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'''''Cars 3''''' is a computer-animated feature film by [[Pixar Animation Studios]], released on June 16, 2017.<ref name="finaldate" /> It is the third film in the [[Cars (series)|''Cars'' series]], and it is a direct sequel to the 2006 and 2011 films ''[[Cars]]'' and ''[[Cars 2]]''. The film is directed by [[Brian Fee]] and produced by [[Kevin Reher]], with screenplay by [[Kiel Murray]], [[Bob Peterson]], and Mike Rich, and music by [[Randy Newman]]. The film's story takes place during the 2016-2017 [[Piston Cup Racing Series|Piston Cup]] seasons. Long-time champion [[Lightning McQueen]] is beginning to struggle with new next-generation competitors, including the cocky [[Jackson Storm]]. Following a large crash, McQueen turns to racing trainer and technician [[Cruz Ramirez]] for help with recovery.<ref name="firstteasertrailer" />

"''Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen (voice of [[Owen Wilson]]) is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician, Cruz Ramirez, with her own plan to win, plus inspiration from the late [[Doc Hudson|Fabulous Hudson Hornet]] and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn't through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing’s biggest stage!''"<ref name="firstteasertrailer" />

Now a 7-time Piston Cup champion, Lightning McQueen is racing with his long time friends, Bobby Swift and Cal Weathers. The three have mutual respect as they trade victories throughout the series. Whoever wins can count on getting pranked by the others, all in good fun. During one race, Bobby and Lightning are fighting toward the finish, when a rookie named Jackson Storm whizzes past them both, taking the checkered flag. Lightning watches the replay on the Jumbotron, seeing Storm seemingly come from nowhere to beat him. Chick Hicks, Lightning's old rival and now an announcer for the Racing Sports Network, introduces his show's co-host, Natalie Certain, a statistical analyst who explains that Storm is part of a new generation of race cars who use the latest technology to run faster than the veterans. At the next race, there are six next-gen rookies ([[Tim Treadless]], [[H.J. Hollis]], [[Ryan Laney|Ryan "Inside" Laney]], [[Ed Truncan]], [[Aaron Clocker]], and [[Harvey Rodcap]]) and they race with precision, cutting off Lightning at each turn. Storm wins again, with Lightning finishing third. With Storm piling up more wins, the announcers spend all their time talking about him, and how he trains on the latest simulators. Towards the end of the season, Lightning finds out that Cal, Bobby, and the most of the veterans have either retired or been dismissed by their sponsors.

At the final race of the season, nearly all the racers are Next Gens and Lightning is really determined to beat Storm. After a pit stop, Lightning has the lead, but it doesn't take long for Storm to catch up and overtake him. Lightning falls into fourth place and unsuccessfully tries to catch up to Storm by pushing himself past his limit. Unfortunately, his predicament worsens when his right-rear tire blows out and his engine overheats, causing him to spin out of control and collide into the track's outside wall at the exit of turn four. He is sent airborne and into a violent, near-fatal, rollover crash. Shortly after, Lightning comes to a stop and is left sitting on his tires on the track's apron at the beginning of turn one, severely damaged and seemingly unconscious. Sally, Mater, Luigi, Guido, and multiple first responders rush to his aid

Four months later, Lightning is recovering back in Radiator Springs. He watches some old footage of his mentor, the late Doc Hudson, when he had his wreck at the Fireball Beach 500, his last race. Lightning remembers his words, "''When I got put back together, I went back expecting a big welcome. You know what they said? 'You're history.' Moved right on to the next rookie in line. There was a lot left in me. I never got a chance to show 'em.''" Sally greets him, and he tells her he doesn't want to be forced into retiring, like Doc, but he can't keep doing the same thing that hasn't been working. She tells him to try something new, and not be afraid of failure, but of never having the chance. Mater shows up, and Lightning tells him that he's ready to start training again. But first he needs to talk to Rusty and Dusty, Lightning's longtime sponsors.

A while later, Mack has left. Cruz and Lightning are back in Mack's trailer, with Cruz next to a large trophy, trying to hide the fact that she's giddy about having won a race. A frustrated Lightning yells at her that he had wasted his time training to be faster than Storm, since he had to spend the whole week taking care of her. He says that the next race is his last chance, something she wouldn't understand because she isn't a racer and, in a fit of anger, slams his wheel against the trailer wall, knocking over Cruz's trophy and breaking it. She angrily tells Mack to pull over, and then gets out of the trailer. She angrily talks to Lightning and asks him if he thinks she dreamed of becoming a trainer. It is then revealed that she wanted to become a racer her whole life because of him. But when she got to her first race, she saw all the other cars looking bigger, stronger, and more confident than she was, making her actually believe she wasn't meant to be a racer in the first place, and so she left. She asks him how he felt at his first race, and he says that he never thought that he couldn't do it. She says she wished she knew how that felt, and she drives off back to the center.

Nervously, Cruz pulls out of the pits and joins the rest of the cars, still under caution. When the green flag comes out, Cruz isn't accelerating, but Lightning has Smokey pass on her derby alias and that the school bus of death is after her. Smokey continues to pass on that she's a fluffy cloud to get her to loosen up, but refuses to say, "all the crabbies have gone night-night" and instead has Lighting take the headset instead, who reminds her of the beach, and of teaching her to pick a line and sticking to it. Getting more confident, Cruz pulls into the pack of racers. Reminded of the tractor exercise, she imagines the other races as tractors and picks her way between them, quickly moving up. In the announcers' booth, Natalie says that she doesn't have any stats on Lightning's replacement, except that she recently won at [[Thunder Hollow]].

*[[Owen Wilson]] as [[Lightning McQueen]]<ref>[http://www.vanityfair.it/show/cinema/16/02/08/zoolander-2-intervista-owen-wilson Owen Wilson: "Men trust the chicks" (in Italian)]</ref>

*[[Armie Hammer]] as [[Jackson Storm]]<ref name="EntertainmentWeekly" />

*[[Nathan Fillion]] as [[Sterling]]<ref name="filliondelaria">[http://ew.com/movies/2017/03/09/cars-3-photos-kerry-washington-nathan-fillion/ ''Cars 3'' photos introduce Kerry Washington, Nathan Fillion as new characters]</ref>

*[[Paul Dooley]] as [[Sarge]]<ref>[http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-paul-dooley-20160605-snap-htmlstory.html After playing on-screen dad to Molly, Helen and Julia, Paul Dooley gets to play himself]</ref><ref name="AMKeyCast" />

*[[Jenifer Lewis]] as [[Flo]]<ref name="AMKeyCast">[http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/disney-pixar-cars-3-key-cast-and-characters-roll-out/ Disney-Pixar ''Cars 3'' Key Cast and Characters Roll Out]</ref>

*[[Lloyd Sherr]] as [[Fillmore]]<ref name="AMKeyCast" />

*Steve Blum as [[Dr. Damage]]

*[[Richard Petty]] as [[Strip Weathers]]<ref name="NASCAR">[http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2017/2/23/disney-pixar-cars-3-gears-up-for-season-long-ride-with-nascar.html ''Cars 3'' gears up for season-long ride with NASCAR]</ref>

*[[Ryan Blaney]] as [[Ryan Laney]]<ref name="NASCAR" />

*[[Lewis Hamilton (person)|Lewis Hamilton]] as [[Hamilton]]<ref name="Hamilton">[http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a823099/cars-3-kerry-washington-nathan-fillion-lewis-hamilton-characters/ ''Cars 3'' reveals new details about Kerry Washington, Nathan Fillion and Lewis Hamilton's characters]</ref><ref>Channel 4 F1 coverage of the 2017 Russian Grand Prix.</ref>

*[[Ryan Laney]]

*[[Sally Carrera]]

*[[Steve LaPage]] (''cameo'')

On February 23, 2017, Pixar and NASCAR announced a ''Cars 3'' tour to occur throughout the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and [[Owen Wilson]] to be grand marshal for the Daytona 500, along with [[Richard Petty]], [[Jeff Gordon]], [[Darrell Waltrip]], and [[H. A. Wheeler]] reprising their roles in the film, and eight more new characters to be voiced by [[Kyle Petty]], [[Shannon Spake]], [[Ray Evernham]], [[Chase Elliott]], [[Ryan Blaney]], [[Darrell "Bubba" Wallace Jr.|Bubba Wallace]], [[Daniel Suárez]], and [[Mike Joy]].<ref name="NASCAR" />

* Lightning's crash mirrors the crash of [[Strip Weathers|The King]] (and by extension the crash of Doc Hudson) in the way he tumbles sideways on a considerable distance, the only difference is that Lightning tumbled sideways on hard concrete, while The King and Doc tumbled sideways on grass and sand respectively.

*Near the end of the movie when several next-generation race cars are being interviewed about the disappearance of Lightning, one of the racers, [[Ryan Laney]], says, "''Didn't he pull this when he was a rookie?''" referencing the events of the first movie where Lightning got lost in Radiator Springs on his way to the Los Angeles International Speedway.

* The image [[Cruz Ramirez]] displays for [[Gabriel]], a homesick trainee, is [[Miguel]]'s hometown from [https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Coco ''Coco''].

*A miniature of Cinderella's carriage from the 1950 Disney movie of the same name appears on a shelf in Sterling's office.

===Gallery===

* Archive records of the late [[Paul Newman]] are used in this movie, for a series of flashbacks of [[Doc Hudson]] talking and racing with [[Lightning McQueen]]. Some quotes are taken from ''[[Cars: The Videogame]]''. [[Tom Magliozzi]], the voice of [[Rusty Rust-eze]], also passed away in 2014. However, despite his death, Rusty still has the same actor unchanged, so it is likely that archive records were used for him as well.

*[[Mia and Tia|Mia]], [[Mia and Tia|Tia]], [[Van]], and [[Minny]] are the only characters who appeared in the first two films that did not make an appearance in this film.