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Disney and Pixar won a legal case on November, 30, 2010, brought by stock car driver Mark Brill, who alleged that the design of Lightning McQueen misappropriated his own car.

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Though it was rumored that he was named after Steve McQueen, he was actually named after Glenn McQueen, a supervising animator at Pixar Studios. He passed away 4 years prior to the release of Cars.

While in town, McQueen inadvertently damages the main road in Radiator Springs and as his community service, the race car is assigned to pull “Bessie,” a vintage asphalt paving machine, to help repave the road. Once complete, the beautiful new asphalt road literally brings the town back to life.

While McQueen is not modeled directly after a specific make and model, the artists mixed and matched elements of the Chevrolet Corvette C6 and Corvette C1.

Sadly, McQueen's acting career was cut short by an unexpected pleural mesothelioma diagnosis. It is believed that McQueen was exposed to asbestos while serving in the United States Marine Corps in the late 1940s. In 1980, McQueen died of mesothelioma at the age of 50.

McQueen continued to be criticised for misogyny in some of his later shows for designs that some considered degrading to women.

In Cars 3, Sally continues to be the love-interest of Lightning McQueen, and attends his races to show support. She is present when Lightning crashes while trying to keep up with the nextgens, and gives Lightning the inspiration to continue racing after he is rebuilt.

Sally Carrera (or simply known as "Sally", now known as Sally McQueen) is the tritagonist in Cars and a supporting character in Cars 2 and a main character in Carasodes. Her boyfriend or her husband is Lightning McQueen, whom she calls "stickers" (due to the fact that he has stickers looking like headlights).

Why Is Lightning McQueen #95? The racecar's number was originally going to be 57, in reference to the birth year of John Lasseter, who directed the first two Cars films. In the end the number became 95, which alludes to the year Toy Story debuted.

Firstly the piston cup is based off of NASCAR so he would most likely be based off of a stock car being raced at the time the movie was made (1998-2006) with the Monte Carlo falling under this category.

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Lightning McQueen, the main character in the Cars franchise, is initially portrayed as arrogant and self-centered in the first film. However, over the course of the series, his personality undergoes significant development. He becomes more humble, caring, and learns the value of teamwork and friendship.

Wallis recalled the moment that inspired Mater's design: "There was an old wrecker in an empty lot by Route 66 in Galena, Kan., ... Joe Ranft, the studio's head of story and a key member of the Pixar team, stopped and noticed it, and Mater was born." The inspiration for the character was a 1951 International Harvester ...

Dinoco is based on the NASCAR, IndyCar, and airplane fuel corporation called "Sun-Oco", although Sun-Oco sponsors all NASCAR teams and drivers as primary fuel, not just one driver.

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He temporarily took a break from racing and he trained Cruz Ramirez for sometime. After Cruz became good at racing, McQueen continued, but it is unknown when McQueen continued racing. He still races on the Piston Cup circuits today and is winning most of his races.

The Courthouse & Fire Department is the town's most significant building, the first to be designed and constructed in Radiator Springs. In Cars, here McQueen was accused in that building for vandalism, breaking up the road. As punishment, he was ordered by Doc Hudson to pave the road with Bessie.

In Cars 3, Sally continues to be the love-interest of Lightning McQueen, and attends his races to show support. She is present when Lightning crashes while trying to keep up with the nextgens, and gives Lightning the inspiration to continue racing after he is rebuilt.

While McQueen is certainly partly inspired by the C6. R Corvette, his bodywork is an original design inspired by many different race cars, but mainly based on the Generation 4 NASCARs that made up the top level Stock Car field when the movie was released in 2006.