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Returning to the Piston Cup for the 2006 season, Lightning was able to win his first Piston Cup. Afterwards, he was able to gain two more trophies, before earning is fourth Piston Cup in the 2011 season.
Returning to the Piston Cup for the 2006 season, Lightning was able to win his first Piston Cup. Afterwards, he was able to gain two more trophies, before earning is fourth Piston Cup in the 2011 season.


Four years later, 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.    
Four years later, 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.
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.
==Persona==
When Lightning first entered the racing world, he was very self-centered and only cared about winning. After being lost in Radiator Springs, Lightning discovered that there's more to life than winning, and has now become a loyal friend to the other townfolk.


==Specifications==
==Specifications==

Revision as of 07:11, 27 December 2012

Lightning McQueen

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

File:CARS 2 - Lightning McQueen - Disney Pixar - Owen Wilson - On Blu-ray & DVD & 3D Blu-ray NOVEMBER 9

Bio

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.

Returning to the Piston Cup for the 2006 season, Lightning was able to win his first Piston Cup. Afterwards, he was able to gain two more trophies, before earning is fourth Piston Cup in the 2011 season.

Four years later, 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.

Persona

When Lightning first entered the racing world, he was very self-centered and only cared about winning. After being lost in Radiator Springs, Lightning discovered that there's more to life than winning, and has now become a loyal friend to the other townfolk.

Specifications

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

Appearances

Feature Films

Short Films

Video Games

Advertisements

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)[2].
  • 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, Bling Bling, Gold)
  • 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)

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