Lost

Lost is the second deleted scene in Cars.

Plot

Lightning catches up with Mack, but then he finds out that it wasn't Mack. It was a truck that reads "Jerry's Junk" on his trailer. The truck drives away, leaving Lightning at the crossing. Lightning doesn't know what to do. Then, on his left, he sees the Interstate with a bunch of moving cars, and rushes towards it. Next, it gets dark, and then a thud happens. Lightning finds himself going off the road. Then he falls down a hill, and crashes into a bunch of branches. He bumps into a car behind him. He turns to it, and the car was a dead car, freaking Lightning out. He looks around, and more dead cars were everywhere. One was even hanging on a tree. Several of them have branches growing through them. Lightning then imagines that some of those dead cars are about to grab him with tree branches. He runs into a fence. The fence gets tangled on him. On the other side of the fence was the grille of another dead car. Lightning gets back on the road and tries to run away from the dead car's grille. Lightning eventually gets untangled and run away. The dead car's grille seems to have exploded.

Trivia

• It's unknown why the scene was cut, but the possible reason why this scene was removed was because some of the parts seen in this scene create anxiety for children. For example, the dead cars.
• According to the title card, this scene was made in June 2002.
• The graveyard scene was parodied and reused with some modifications in the The Radiator Springs 500½.
• When Lightning McQueen watches the truck drives away, a shot that looked like the final film appeared when Trev Diesel was about to come by in just a several seconds.
• Jerry's Junk is very similar to Jerry Recycled Batteries.
• Jerry's Junk resembles a 1950s themed chassis cab.
• The same line by Jerry Recycled Batteries "Turn on your lights, you moron!" was reused in the final film.