Cars is a 2006 American computer-animated sports comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios
and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by John Lasseter from a screenplay
by Dan Fogelman, Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Kiel Murray, Phil Lorin, and Jorgen Klubien and a story by
Lasseter, Ranft, and Klubien, and was the final film independently produced by Pixar after its
purchase by Disney in January 2006. The film features an ensemble voice cast of Owen Wilson,
Paul Newman (in his final voice acting theatrical film role), Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy,
Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Michael Wallis, George Car lin, Paul Dooley, Jenifer Lewis, Guido
Quaroni, Michael Keaton, Katherine Helmond, John Ratzenberger and Richard Petty, while race car
drivers Dale Earnhardt Jr. (as "Junior"), Mario Andretti, Michael Schumacher and car enthusiast
Jay Leno (as "Jay Limo") voice themselves.
Set in a world populated entirely by anthropomorphic talking cars and other vehicles, it follow
s a hotshot rookie race car named Lightning McQueen (Wilson) who, on the way to the biggest race
of his life, gets stranded in Radiator Springs, a run down town, and learns a thing or two about
friendship, family, and the things in life that are truly worth waiting for.