Lightning McQueen

Lightning McQueen
Occupation: Piston Cup Race Car Performer: Owen Wilson, Keith Ferguson

Lightning McQueen is the protagonist in Cars and the deuteragonist in Cars 2.

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Cars

Lightning is a red racecar sponsored by Rust-eze Medicated Bumper Ointment ("With Just a Little Rust-eze, you can look like Lightning McQueen!"). He is #95 in the movie, and at the beginning of the movie, he is racing his first Piston Cup race in Nashville, Tennessee, and is winning.

At the end of the film, he lost the race out of good intentions, and got a new paint job, but still sponsored by Rust-eze, although at the beginning of the film, he wanted a Dinoco sponsorship.

Cars 2

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.

Specifications

• Make model: Handmade
• Top speed: 200 mph
• Zero to 60: 3.2 seconds
• Engine: V-8
• Horsepower: 750

Appearances

Feature Films

• Cars
• Cars 2

Short Films

• Mater and the Ghostlight
• Rescue Squad Mater
• Mater the Greater
• El Materdor
• Tokyo Mater
• Unidentified Flying Mater
• Heavy Metal Mater
• Monster Truck Mater
• Moon Mater
• Mater Private Eye
• Air Mater
• Time Travel Mater

Video Games

• Cars: The Video Game
• Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures
• Cars: Mater-National Championship
• Cars: Race-O-Rama
• Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales: The Video Game
• Cars 2 The Video Game

Advertisements

• Hertz
• Opel Promotion
• State Farm
• Energizer 
• AT&T Broadband Promotion
• Mom on a Mission
• Russian Traffic Safety
• Answer Seguros
• Cars Land Commercial

Trivia

• His racing number, "95" is a reference to the year 1995, when Pixar's first feature-length film, Toy Story was released. Originally, his number was going to be 57, which is the year John Lasseter was born.
• Lightning's last name "McQueen" is a reference to Glenn McQueen, a supervising animator at Pixar who passed away in 2002.
• In the first official teaser trailer of Cars 2, for unknown reasons, Lightning McQueen has on his Rust-eze customization.
• In Toy Story 3 in the Caterpillar Room at Sunnyside Daycare, you can see one of the kids with a white T-shirt with red sleeves and has in the middle of the shirt the 95 racing number with the lightning bolt of Lightning McQueen. A toy similar to Lightning can also be seen.
• Lightning's back bumper is yellow. This follows NASCAR's tradition of putting yellow rookie stripes on rookie drivers' cars.
• Lightning's design was inspired by stock cars, and a more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racers (Ford GT40).
• After Lightning's redesign in Cars 2, he has working headlights instead of stickers.
• In Tokyo an advertisement for a vaccum cleaner named "Lightning McClean" is seen.

Merchandise

• Cars Diecast Line (regular, Radiator Springs, Dirt Track, Cruisin', Dinoco, Cactus, Bug Mouth, Bling Bling, Tongue, Chase with Bumper Stickers, Spin Out, Tar, Impound, Tumbleweed, Cone, Wet)
• Cars 2 Diecast Line (with Racing Wheels, with Party Wheels, with Travel Wheels, Hudson Hornet Piston Cup)
• Cars Toons Diecast Line (Burnt, Soaked, Daredevil, Dragon, Dragon with Oil Stains, Dragon with Metallic Finish, Heavy Metal, Frightening McMean, Autonaut, Burnt Autonaut, Hawk)
• Micro Drifters (regular, WGP)
• Action Agents
• MEGA BLOKS (regular, Dinoco, Radiator Springs)
• LEGO (regular, Radiator Springs, Cars 2)
• LEGO Duplo
• Disney Store Diecast Line (regular, Dinoco, Epilogue, Radiator Springs, Pinstripe)
• Shake 'N' Go (regular, Dinoco, Radiator Springs, Tongue, Bling Bling)
• Tomica (regular, Dinoco, Radiator Springs, Tongue, Dirt Track, Cars 2)
• Geotrax (regular, Dinoco, Radiator Springs, Cars 2)

Gallery

• Lightning in the World of Cars Online

  Lightning in the World of Cars Online

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  Rescue Squad Mater

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  Time Travel Mater

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  Some magazine covers

• Monster Truck Mater

  Monster Truck Mater

• Moon Mater

  Moon Mater

• Tokyo Mater

  Tokyo Mater

• Lightning with Uncle and Mama Topolino

  Lightning with Uncle and Mama Topolino

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  Lightning and Sally

• Heavy Metal Mater

  Heavy Metal Mater

• Cars 2 The Video Game

  Cars 2 The Video Game

• Rescue Squad Mater

  Rescue Squad Mater

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  Cars the Video Game

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  Cars 2 Trailer

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  Cars 2 Trailer

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  Cars Trailer

• Lightning with Haulers

  Lightning with Haulers

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  Cars The Video Game

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  Cars the Video Game

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  Cars the Video Game

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  Lightning with monster truck wheels

• Racing with Luigi

  Racing with Luigi

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  Radiator Springs Adventure

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• Race O Rama

  Race O Rama

• Racing with Francesco Bernoulli and Rip Clutchgoneski

  Racing with Francesco Bernoulli and Rip Clutchgoneski

• Lightning angry

  Lightning angry

Merchandise Gallery

• Diecast Model

  Diecast Model

• Radiator Springs Diecast Model

  Radiator Springs Diecast Model

• Dirt Track Diecast Model

  Dirt Track Diecast Model

• Cruisin' Diecast Model

  Cruisin' Diecast Model

• Dinoco Diecast Model

  Dinoco Diecast Model

• Cactus Diecast Model

  Cactus Diecast Model

• Diecast Model

  Diecast Model

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  Bling Bling Diecast Model

• Tongue Diecast Model

  Tongue Diecast Model

• Diecast with Bumper Stickers

  Diecast with Bumper Stickers

• Spin Out Diecast Model

  Spin Out Diecast Model

• Tar Diecast Model

  Tar Diecast Model

• Impound Diecast Model

  Impound Diecast Model

• Tumbleweed Diecast Model

  Tumbleweed Diecast Model

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  Micro Drifters

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  Action Agents

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  MEGA BLOKS

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  Radiator Springs MEGA BLOKS

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  Dinoco MEGA BLOKS

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  LEGO

• Radiator Springs LEGO

  Radiator Springs LEGO

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  LEGO Duplo

• Disney Store

  Disney Store

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  Dinoco Disney Store

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  Epilogue Disney Store

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  Shake 'N' Go

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  Dinoco Shake 'N' Go

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  Radiator Springs Shake 'N' Go

• Tongue Shake 'N' Go

  Tongue Shake 'N' Go

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  Bling Bling Shake 'N' Go

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  Cars 2 Shake 'N' Go

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  Burnt Shake 'N' Go

• Tomica

  Tomica

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  Dinoco Tomica

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  Radiator Springs Tomica

• Tongue Tomica

  Tongue Tomica

• Dirt Track Tomica

  Dirt Track Tomica

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  Cars 2 Tomica

• Dragon Tomica

  Dragon Tomica

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  Hawk Tomica

• Lt. Tomica

  Lt. Tomica

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  Geotrax

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  Cars 2 Geotrax

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  Dinoco Geotrax

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  Radiator Springs Geotrax