Lightning McQueen
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Color | Red | ||||||
Occupation | Piston Cup Race Car / World Grand Prix Race Car | ||||||
Main portrayer(s) | - Owen Wilson - (films, Mater and the Ghostlight, Cars: The Video Game, Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure, and Cars Land) - Keith Ferguson - (video games, Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales, and Mad TV)
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Lightning McQueen is built for speed and has just two things on his mind: winning, and the perks that come with it. In his fast-paced life he has little time for anything or anyone, but who needs friends when you have a stadium full of fans?
Bio
Lightning is a red racecar sponsored by Rust-eze Medicated Bumper Ointment ("With Just a Little Rust-eze, you can look like Lightning McQueen!"). He is #95 in the movie, and at the beginning of the movie, he is racing his first Piston Cup race in Nashville, Tennessee, and is winning.
At the end of the film, he lost the race out of good intentions, and got a new paint job, but still sponsored by Rust-eze, although at the beginning of the film, he wanted a Dinoco sponsorship.
In the sequel, Lightning returns, but as a deuteragonist.
This time around, Lightning is racing in the first ever World Grand Prix to determine who's the world's fastest car. But the road to the championship is filled with plenty of potholes, detours, and hilarious surprises.
Number 95 Lightning McQueen is still a hotshot racecar, but his rookie days are past him. Now a permanent resident of Radiator Springs, Lightning has become a bona fide worldwide celebrity as winner of four Piston Cups.
After his latest win, Lightning returns home to enjoy life in the slow lane for a while with sweetheart Sally, best friend Mater and the rest of his Radiator Springs family. His off-season is unexpectedly cut short when Mater inadvertently prompts Lightning to enter the World Grand Prix, a high profile, three-part exhibition race that will take him around the globe.
With a fresh custom paint job and real, working headlights, Lightning sets off to Japan, Italy and England with Mater in tow for the adventure of a lifetime. But competing against the fastest cars in the world tests more than his racing skills when Lightning realizes his wide-eyed best friend may not be the pit chief nor ambassador he needs to navigate the unfamiliar international terrain.
Personality
Originally cocky and self-centered, Lightning's personality was changed into a caring and nice person with lots of friends - to which he is very loyal and kind.
Livery
His model was originally painted red, with green Smell Swell stickers. Later, his doors were re-painted with yellow and orange lightning bolt decals. He had the number 95 painted in red, orange and yellow on his roof and doors, as well as the Rust-eze logo on his hood and spoiler. After being accepted into the World Grand Prix, Lightning minorly changed his paint job - he now has the Hudson Hornet Piston Cup logo on his hood, and a raised red spoiler. He continues to wear this, as seen in Time Travel Mater.
Model
Lightning's model is a hand-built racing car, built for racing purposes specifically. He has modifications like a red spoiler, and for a short time did not have headlights, only stickers.
He is a mix of a stock car and a more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racer.
Occupation
Lightning is a Piston Cup champion race car known all over the world for his quick and skillful style of racing. He has won four Piston Cups over the years, and is currently working on his fifth. After his fourth win, he was accepted into the World Grand Prix, a championship involving 11 racers, each from a different part of the world. After he finished, he presumably went back to the Piston Cup.
Specifications
- Hometown: Radiator Springs, Carburetor County
- Top Speed: 200 mph
- Zero – 60 mph: 3.2 seconds
- Engine Type: V-8
- Horsepower: 750
Car-Finder Screenshots
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Tar Splattered
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Dinoco
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Radiator Springs
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Mud Covered
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Leaf Covered
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Lightning Storm
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Tires
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Tumbleweed
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Cactus Prickle Covered
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Finish Line
Appearances
Feature Films
Short Films
- Mater and the Ghostlight
- Rescue Squad Mater
- Mater the Greater
- El Materdor
- Tokyo Mater
- Unidentified Flying Mater
- Heavy Metal Mater
- Monster Truck Mater
- Moon Mater
- Mater Private Eye
- Air Mater
- Time Travel Mater
- Hiccups
- Spinning
Video Games
- Cars: The Video Game
- Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures
- Cars: Mater-National Championship
- Cars: Race-O-Rama
- Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales: The Video Game
- Cars 2: The Video Game
Advertisements
- Hertz
- Opel Promotion
- State Farm
- Energizer
- AT&T Broadband Promotion
- Mom on a Mission
- Obey Traffic Signals
- Answer Seguros
Merchandising
- Cars Diecast Line (regular, Radiator Springs, Dirt Track, Cruisin', Dinoco, Cactus, Bug Mouth, Bling Bling, Tongue, Chase with Bumper Stickers, Spin Out, Tar, Impound, Tumbleweed, Cone, Wet)
- Cars 2 Diecast Line (with Racing Wheels, with Party Wheels, with Travel Wheels, Hudson Hornet Piston Cup, Ka-Ciao)
- Cars Toons Diecast Line (Burnt, Soaked, Daredevil, Dragon, Dragon with Oil Stains, Dragon with Metallic Finish, Heavy Metal, Frightening McMean, Autonaut, Burnt Autonaut, Hawk)
- Micro Drifters (regular, WGP, Bling Bling, Gold)
- Action Agents
- MEGA BLOKS (regular, Dinoco, Radiator Springs)
- LEGO (regular, Radiator Springs, Cars 2)
- LEGO Duplo
- Disney Store Diecast Line (regular, Dinoco, Epilogue, Radiator Springs, Pinstripe)
- Shake 'N' Go (regular, Dinoco, Radiator Springs, Tongue, Bling Bling)
- Tomica (regular, Dinoco, Radiator Springs, Tongue, Dirt Track, Cars 2)
- Geotrax (regular, Dinoco, Radiator Springs, Cars 2)
- Wood
- AppMates
- Stunt Cars
- Rip Stick Racers
Trivia
- His racing number, "95" is a reference to the year 1995, when Pixar's first feature-length film, Toy Story was released. Originally, his number was going to be 57, which is the year John Lasseter was born.
- Lightning's last name "McQueen" is a reference to Glenn McQueen, a supervising animator at Pixar who passed away in 2002.
- In the first official teaser trailer of Cars 2, for unknown reasons, Lightning McQueen has on his Rust-eze customization, which never appeared in the sequel. It may be because the new paint job wasn't finalized at the time of the release of the teaser trailer.
- Lightning, along with other countless versions of him, have been released in the Cars, Cars Toons, and Cars 2 Diecast Lines.
- In Toy Story 3, in the Caterpillar Room at Sunnyside Daycare, you can see one of the kids with a white T-shirt with red sleeves and has in the middle of the shirt the 95 racing number with the lightning bolt of Lightning McQueen. A toy similar to Lightning can also be seen.
- Lightning's back bumper is yellow. This follows NASCAR's tradition of putting yellow rookie stripes on rookie drivers' cars.
- Lightning's design was inspired by stock cars, and a more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racers (Ford GT40).
- After Lightning's redesign in Cars 2, he has working headlights instead of stickers.
- In Tokyo, an advertisement for a vacuum cleaner named "Lightning McClean" is seen.
- His Spanish name is Rayo McQueen. In Spanish, "rayo" means "beam" or "ray."
- His French name is Flash McQueen. The French word "flash" means "flash."
- In Polish, he is called Zygzak McQueen. (z-ih-g-z-ah-k) The word "zygzak" means "zigzag" in Polish.
- His Danish name is Lynet McQueen. The Danish word "lynet" means "lightning".
- His Dutch name is Bliksem McQueen. The Dutch word "bliksem" means "lightning".
- His Italian name is Saetta McQueen. The Italian word "saetta" means "flash of lightning".
- His Swedish name is Blixten McQueen. The Swedish word "Blixten" means "the flash".
Gallery
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Diecast
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Cars 2 diecast
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Micro Drifters
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Action Agents
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MEGA BLOKS
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LEGO
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LEGO Duplo
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Shake 'n' Go
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Tomica
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Geotrax
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Wood
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AppMates
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Stunt Cars
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Rip Stick Racers
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Racecar Lightning McQueen returns to Radiator Springs
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McQueen racing in Tokyo, Japan for the WGP (World Grand Prix)
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New paint job on hood of Lightning McQueen