VIN
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| Occupation | Robotic Stock Cars / Chick Hicks' Racers | ||||
| Main portrayer(s) | S. Scott Bullock
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- "Now we will see what this world has to offer."
- —VIN, Cars: Race-O-Rama
The VINs are robotic stock cars.
History
The VINs are actually the unnamed Chick Hicks Racing Academy students. After being beaten by Lightning McQueen in Santa Carburera, the students decided to turn themselves into super techno-equipped cars, ready to race against McQueen in Autovia and Motoropolis. "VIN" is an abbreviation of Vehicle Identification Number. They speak primarily in robotic phrases like "The numbers compute."
In Cars: Race-O-Rama, they first appear in the cut-scene for Off Road Race 2, which depicts some of Chick's students driving into the MotorCo. building in Autovia and coming out the other side as VINs. From that point onwards, they appear in various race throughout the remainder of the story, eventually culminating in Sprint 2 having all the opponents be VINs. Unlike Candice, El Machismo, and Stinger, they don't appear in the ending cutscene, and thus don't apologize to Lightning McQueen for how they behaved. Probably because they are Robots.
Livery
Each is painted white, with a barcode on their sides. They have white rims and a black grille.
Gallery
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A VIN racing in Motoropolis City
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Concept Art with number 128.
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Trivia
- VIN stands for vehicle identification number.
- VINs resemble Mac iCar, The difference is that there are no sponsors and the 84 number is replaced by bar codes.
- VIN's number is the serial number of the Cars DVD (786936271898.)
- Judging from in-game concept art, VINs were instead going to appear with the same shape as Chick Hicks. They were still painted completely white and sported bar codes, but they also were going to have numbers on either side of their bodies, just as a normal stock car would.