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'''''The World of Cars Online''''' was an online computer game, previously available to play on the Disney Official Website.

In January 5, 2012, Disney announced the game would be closing, and finally closed in February 8, 2012 most likely due to a low amount of paid members/could also be due to low ratings.

Players can create an account, and then create a [[Race car (The World of Cars Online)|car]] - the player can customize their eyes and body color, name it with a variety of names and surnames given by the game system, and choose and customize their racing number. Once their car has been created, they can go into the counties of [[Downtown Radiator Springs|Radiator Springs]] - the town itself, [[Willy's Butte]], [[Fillmore's Fields]] and [[Redhood Valley]] (the entrance to [[Tailfin Pass]]) which was added a few months later. There the player can roam around while chatting with other players, playing minigames and doing [[quests]].

Sponsorship was the paid subscription in-game, which costed USD $5.95 a month. They could have gotten access to tons of extra things - unlimited customization in [[Radiator Springs]] buildings and your yard, starting your Racing career in [[Piston Cup Racing Series|Piston Cup]] races (named Pro tracks) and joining different sponsors. Due to the game closure, from January 5, 2012 to February 8, 2012, every player got free sponsorship. The very low number of paid members between June 2010 and December 2011 was one of the reasons the game closed.

*[[Mater]]

*[[Sally Carrera]]

*[[Francesco Bernoulli]] (since summer 2011)

*[[Ramone]]

*[[Lizzie]]

*[[Red]]

*[[DJ]]

*[[Wingo]]

*[[Brush Curber]]

*[[Haul Inngas]]

*[[Sage VanDerSpin]]

*[[Greg Candyman]]

==Locations==

*[[Downtown Radiator Springs]]  

*[[Willy's Butte]]

*[[Redhood Valley]]

*[[Tailfin Pass]]

*[[Wheel Well]]

There were 10 tracks which users were allowed to race on. Only sponsored cars could race in [[Piston Cup]] races.

*[[Carburetor County Speedway]]

*[[Willy's Butte Rally]]  

*[[Twistin Tailfin Trails]]

*[[Tailgator Speedway]]

*[[Big Heartland Speedway]]

*[[Petroleum City Super Speedway]]

*[[Los Angeles International Speedway]]

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![[Doc Hudson]]'s Training Exercise

![[Lightning McQueen]]'s Racing Series

![[Doc Hudson]]'s Training Exercise

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|336 coins and 672 racing points  

|200 coins and 400 racing points

|378 coins and 756 racing points

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|160 coins and 320 racing points

|168 coins and 336 racing points

|100 coins and 200 racing points

|240 coins and 480 racing points

|240 coins and 480 racing points

|52 coins and 105 racing points

|120 coins and 240 racing points

|120 coins and 240 racing points

|126 coins and 252 racing points

Race points were a rewarding system to unlock the Piston Cup races. You could have enough Race points for all Piston Cup races, but you still had to beat them in order of Race points to unlock the next one. After you beat [[Los Angeles International Speedway]] you will win the [[Piston Cup (trophy)|Piston Cup trophy]], which you can use as an item in your yard. The limit of Race points a player could reach was 1,000,001 points.  

*'''60,000 points''' - [[Tailgator Speedway]]

*'''380,000 points''' - [[Backfire Canyon Speedway]]  

*'''640,000 points''' - [[Petroleum City Super Speedway]]

*'''1,000,001 points '''- [[Los Angeles International Speedway]]

The World of Cars Online was closed on February 8, 2012, just 9 days after another MMOG, LEGO Universe, closed. Disney is expected to refund up to $8,000 in membership fees that cannot be concluded with game time.

A lot of content shown in trailers were cut in the final version of the game, such as adding buildings and roads in your yard and [[Tractor Tippin' (The World of Cars Online)|Tractor Tippin']] game.

{{ForSubpage|list of glitches|The World of Cars Online/Glitches}}

''For this subject's list of patches, see [[The World of Cars Online/Patches]]''

{{ForSubpage|list of staff (also known as Pit Crew)|Pit Crew}}

{{ForSubpage|image gallery|The World of Cars Online/Gallery}}

*The website domain was registered to Disney around March, 2008.

*In summer of 2011, the game was updated for ''[[Cars 2]]''. Some of these updates included a [[World Grand Prix]] party, adding hidden spy-gadget shops around Radiator Springs, updating Lightning's paint job, adding Francesco and removing Doc from the game. Before the update, Doc raced in [[Carburetor County Speedway]] and [[Willy's Butte Rally]], but after the update he was replaced by [[Sally Carrera|Sally]] and [[Sarge]], respectively.

*Red could be seen driving from Radiator Springs to Redhood Valley, and Doc could be seen driving from Radiator Springs to Willy's Butte and Redhood Valley. In Doc's case, this happened until he was removed from the game.

*Redhood Valley didn't exist when the game opened, there was just rocks blocking the entrance. When Sally got trapped (and rescued after that), the place was opened to the public.

*Number 69 was not allowed, as the 60's stop at 68. This was considered by many as a very strict parental control.