Cars 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Cars 2 or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Cars 2

[melinda]

Porto Corsa is a fictional composite of Nice, France, Portofino, Italy, and the Monaco Grand Prix race track.

[morris]

Pixar's third movie not to have any humans, after A Bug's Life (1998), and Cars (2006).

[nina]

The first Pixar movie not to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Film since the award was created in 2001.

[kenzi]

Rod "Torque" Redline, the American spy, who is supposed to meet Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell, is never addressed by name. Neither are Grem (the orange Gremlin) and Acer (the green Pacer), the two main lemons under the employment of Professor Z.

[ava]

The only Cars film that does not feature Chick Hicks.

[melinda]

The song "You Might Think" in an early montage scene is performed here by Weezer, but was originally a hit by The Cars.

[dustin]

In the credits, Tow Mater's passport shows that he was born on January 12, 1957, in Radiator Springs. The date is John Lasseter's birth date.

[chad]

The Luxo, Jr. lamp appears in the credits.

[tammy]

Professor Z is a Zündapp Janus, a German microcar made by the Zündapp motorcycle company from 1957-1958. The name "Janus" came from the Roman god, based on the unusual design of having the doors at the front and rear, passengers in the rear faced backwards. It had a 250cc engine, with an optimistic top speed of around fifty miles (eighty kilometers) per hour. It handled very badly due to its unusual weight configuration.

[gerald]

In England, the cars pass under the Admiralty Arch. The Latin motto on the real arch reads: ANNO DECIMO EDWARDI SEPTIMI REGIS VICTORIÆ REGINÆ CIVES GRATISSIMI MDCCCCX which translates as "In the tenth year of King Edward VII, to Queen Victoria, from most grateful citizens, 1910." The same arch in the movie replaces REGINÆ with CORONÆ and CIVES with a word that is obscured by a flag but "AUTO" followed by either "E" or "C", other letters, then "TA" is most likely AUTOCESTA. So, the motto re-translated is now "In the tenth year of King Edward VII, to Crown Victoria, from most grateful highways, 1910." Crown Victoria being a Ford model car.

[jessica]

The race car "Francesco Bernoulli" is based on a modern Formula 1 Grand Prix car. It's named after the Bernoulli principle, which explains the functioning of the aerodynamic wings found on Formula 1 cars. It also explains how automobile carburetors mix air and gasoline. Newer cars use fuel injection instead of carburetors.

[gabriel]

When Mater enters the toilet in Japan, all the cubicles are locked, and when Rod "Torque" Redline enters, they are all unlocked.

[norma]

This movie was going to be directed by Bradford Lewis, but due to problems during production, John Lasseter was brought in to direct, while Lewis was made the co-Director.

[terry]

In the beginning, when Finn is spying on the new weapon, if you squint your eyes, you will see it says the camera lens is zoomed in eighty-six times. This refers to the year Pixar was founded, 1986, and, you can possibly say that it is also a reference to Chick Hicks' number in the first movie.

[lonnie]

Finn McMissile was originally conceived for an unused scene in Cars (2006), where Lightning McQueen and Sally were seeing a spy movie, featuring McMissile, while on a date.

[phyllis]

The third Pixar movie to feature Jeff Garlin after WALL-E (2008) and Toy Story 3 (2010).

[jessica]

This is the first Pixar movie to use the credit of Datasat Digital Sound logo.

[ava]

The last Pixar movie to feature the 2006-2014 Walt Disney Pictures logo.

[jamie]

John Lasseter conceived the story for this movie while he was in Europe promoting Cars (2006).