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[[File:London_overview.jpg|thumb|200px]]{{Quote|"What's everybody on the wrong side of the road for?"|[[Mater]] driving in London}}
[[File:London_overview.jpg|thumb|200px]]{{Quote|"What's everybody on the wrong side of the road for?"|'''[[Tow Mater]]''', ''[[Cars 2]]''}}'''London''' is a British city located in [[England]], and the location of the third [[World Grand Prix]] race in ''[[Cars 2]]''.
'''London''' is a British city located in [[England]]. London was the place where the third race of the [[World Grand Prix]] was run and where it was discovered that the World Grand Prix was a farce staged to discredit alternative fuels.


London is the capital city of the United Kingdom. The town has a rich past, and it still has numerous historical buildings and monuments. It hosts the last race of the [[World Grand Prix]].
London is the capital city of the United Kingdom. The town has a rich past, and it still has numerous historical buildings and monuments. It hosts the last race of the World Grand Prix.


This [[London Circuit|race track]] passes, as for the two other races, on the streets of the host town, in this case notably borrowing the Mall, and getting in front of [[Buckingham Palace]].
The [[London Circuit|race track]] passes, as for the two other races, on the streets of the host town, in this case notably borrowing the Mall, and getting in front of [[Buckingham Palace]].
==Residents==
 
*[[The Queen]]
London also appears in ''[[Cars 2: The Video Game]]'', where many races and other missions take place.
*[[Prince Wheeliam]]
*[[Sgt. Highgear]]
*[[Topper Deckington III]]
*[[Chauncy Fares]]
*[[Mark Wheelsen]]
*[[Doug Speedcheck]]
*[[Mike Lorengine]]
*[[Maurice]]
*[[Victor Paveone]]
*[[Josh Coolant]]
*[[Holley Shiftwell]]


==Places in London==
==Places==


*[[Buckingham Palace]]
*[[Buckingham Palace]]
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*[[Lewis Performance Parts]]
*[[Lewis Performance Parts]]
*[[Trafalgear]]: Destination of a double decker bus
*[[Trafalgear]]: Destination of a double decker bus
*[[Killswitch]]: Destination of #13 double decker bus [[Topper Deckington III]]
*[[Killswitch]]: Destination of #13 double decker bus Topper Deckington III
*[[Petroldilly Circus]]: Part of the circuit of Topper Deckington III
*[[Petroldilly Circus]]: Part of the circuit of Topper Deckington III
==Ways and streets==
==Ways and streets==
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*[[Piper Lane]]
*[[Piper Lane]]
*[[The Mall]]
*[[The Mall]]
==Trivia==
==Residents==
*[[File:Capture_plein_écran_2011-06-17_073912.jpg|thumb]]An advertisement for "[[Lassetyre|LasseTyre]]" is seen around the World Grand Prix race track. The brand's name is a play on the last name of [[John Lasseter]], and happen to be the same as for [[John Lassetire]]'s last name.
*[[The Queen]]
*The dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral is shaped like a car’s differential gear casing.
*[[Prince Wheeliam]]
*Big Ben is renamed Big Bentley in Cars 2, and is made up of Bentley grilles and hood ornaments. Production Designer [[Harley Jessup]] added that "In order to make it fit into the Cars world, we scaled it up about 250 percent — even the clockworks, which would actually fit in a conference room, were scaled up by at least 50 times their normal size."
*[[Sir Harley Gassup]]
*The Latin inscription below the clock dial on Big Bentley reads “God Salvage Crown Victoria the First” – a reference to the Ford Crown Victoria.
*[[Sgt. Highgear]]
*The Lucite canopy over the Queen’s platform is based on the canopy built for Prince Charles’ investiture as the Prince of Wales.
*[[Topper Deckington III]]
*The architecture of the race pits in London is based on Landau bars, a design feature used on cars to simulate the look of a convertible.
*[[Chauncy Fares]]
*For the London race course, [[Pixar]] had to create nearly 20 miles of landscape and environment.
*[[Mark Wheelsen]]
*The fight between the Lemons and Mater and his friends takes place at the intersection of Tyre Iron Street and Sixth Gear Road.
*[[Siren Carbarini]]
*A road is named "Lasseter Way".
*[[Doug Speedcheck]]
*In the movie, Tower Bridge is named Tyre Bridge.
*[[Scott Spark]]
*The knighting room is decorated with "car-ified" ancient paintings, featuring notably a battle of sailing ships.
*[[Mike Lorengine]]
*The tie-in storybooks for some reason showed Holley Shiftwell's escape from Big Bentley as showing her smashing apart an entire clock face. In the actual film, Holley only smashed away the "5."
*[[Gearett Taylor]]
*In the film, Trafalgar is renamed Trafalgear, and Piccadilly Circus is renamed Petroldilly Circus.
*[[Maurice Wheelks]]
*In the comic, Acer and Grem were thrown into a garbage truck instead of Ye Left Turn Inn.
*[[Victor Paveone]]
*[[Jumpstart J. Ward]]
*[[Scott Motorse]]
*[[Josh Coolant]]
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" spacing="small" bordersize="none">
<gallery position="center" hideaddbutton="true" captionalign="center" spacing="small" bordersize="none" widths="125">
LondonPanorama.jpg|A beautiful panorama
LondonPanorama.jpg|A panorama
London parliament.jpg
London parliament.jpg
Cars-2-landmark-concept-art-image-2.jpg|The [[Houses of Parliament]]
Cars-2-landmark-concept-art-image-2.jpg|The [[Houses of Parliament]]
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the_art_of_cars_-_st_pauls_cathedral.jpg|St. Paul's Cathedral concept art
the_art_of_cars_-_st_pauls_cathedral.jpg|St. Paul's Cathedral concept art
</gallery>
</gallery>
==Trivia==
*[[File:Capture_plein_écran_2011-06-17_073912.jpg|thumb]]An advertisement for "[[Lassetyre|LasseTyre]]" is seen around the World Grand Prix race track. The brand's name is a play on the last name of [[John Lasseter]], and happen to be the same as for [[John Lassetire]]'s last name.
*The Lucite canopy over the Queen’s platform is based on the canopy built for Prince Charles’ investiture as the Prince of Wales.
*The architecture of the race pits in London is based on Landau bars, a design feature used on cars to simulate the look of a convertible.
*For the London race course, [[Pixar]] had to create nearly 20 miles of landscape and environment.
*The fight between the Lemons and Mater and his friends takes place at the intersection of Tyre Iron Street and Sixth Gear Road.
*A road is named "Lasseter Way".
*The knighting room is decorated with "car-ified" ancient paintings, featuring notably a battle of sailing ships.
*The tie-in storybooks for some reason showed Holley Shiftwell's escape from Big Bentley as showing her smashing apart an entire clock face. In the actual film, Holley only smashed away the "5."
*In the film, Trafalgar is renamed Trafalgear, and Piccadilly Circus is renamed Petroldilly Circus.
[[Category:Places and Locations]]
[[Category:Places and Locations]]
[[Category:Cities]]
[[Category:Cities]]

Revision as of 08:42, 14 July 2015

File:London overview.jpg
""What's everybody on the wrong side of the road for?""
—'Tow Mater', Cars 2, [[{{{3}}}]]

London is a British city located in England, and the location of the third World Grand Prix race in Cars 2.

London is the capital city of the United Kingdom. The town has a rich past, and it still has numerous historical buildings and monuments. It hosts the last race of the World Grand Prix.

The race track passes, as for the two other races, on the streets of the host town, in this case notably borrowing the Mall, and getting in front of Buckingham Palace.

London also appears in Cars 2: The Video Game, where many races and other missions take place.

Places

Ways and streets

Residents

Gallery

Trivia

  • An advertisement for "LasseTyre" is seen around the World Grand Prix race track. The brand's name is a play on the last name of John Lasseter, and happen to be the same as for John Lassetire's last name.
  • The Lucite canopy over the Queen’s platform is based on the canopy built for Prince Charles’ investiture as the Prince of Wales.
  • The architecture of the race pits in London is based on Landau bars, a design feature used on cars to simulate the look of a convertible.
  • For the London race course, Pixar had to create nearly 20 miles of landscape and environment.
  • The fight between the Lemons and Mater and his friends takes place at the intersection of Tyre Iron Street and Sixth Gear Road.
  • A road is named "Lasseter Way".
  • The knighting room is decorated with "car-ified" ancient paintings, featuring notably a battle of sailing ships.
  • The tie-in storybooks for some reason showed Holley Shiftwell's escape from Big Bentley as showing her smashing apart an entire clock face. In the actual film, Holley only smashed away the "5."
  • In the film, Trafalgar is renamed Trafalgear, and Piccadilly Circus is renamed Petroldilly Circus.