Mel Dorado

Mel Dorado
Vehicle type	1976 Cadillac Eldorado
Occupation	Host of The Mel Dorado Show
Main portrayer(s)	Patrick Walker
Character information Gender Male Home Wheel Creek

"Tonight on the Mel Dorado Show... His story gripped the world. Oil billionaire Miles Axlerod, in an attempt to become the first car to circumnavigate the globe without GPS, ironically ran out of gas, and found himself trapped in the wild."

—Mel Dorado, Cars 2

Mel Dorado is a talk show host.

Bio

You know him better than you know your own brother, even if you don’t have a brother. He’s the Caddy with the golden touch, Mel ‘Are you there, Caller?’ Dorado — host of the 14 Gold Fender-winning syndicated talk show, the ‘Mel Dorado Show.’ With a career spanning more than three decades, when he started as an assistant at WCNC (World Car News Chicago), nobody steers an interview quite like Mel.

History

Cars 2

At the occasion of the forthcoming World Grand Prix, Mel Dorado interviewed Miles Axlerod and Francesco Bernoulli on his show before receiving Mater as a caller.

Livery

Mel is painted gold, with a chrome grille and bumper. The back of his roof is tan. He has chrome rims and lining.

Gallery

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  Diecast

• 2011 release

  2011 release

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  2022 release

Portrayals

• Patrick Walker (US)
• Alf Tande-Petersen (Norwegian)

Names in other languages

• Croatian: Filip Tariković
• Greek: Μελ Ντοράντο (transcription: Mel Ntoránto)
• Lithuanian: Melas Doradas
• Norwegian: Kjell Dorado
• Russian: Мел Дорадо (transcription: Mel Dorado)

Trivia

• Mel Dorado has a similar car body to Tex Dinoco, a similar character from the first Cars movie who owns Dinoco, and Dex, the record company owner in Heavy Metal Mater.
• His name is a play on the Cadillac Eldorado.