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Lightning McQueen: I create feelings in others that they themselves don't understand.

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In the tractor tipping scene, Mater demonstrates to McQueen how to do it using two tractors before Mcqueen's first try. And then when McQueen accelerates to make the noise and we have a wide open shot of the field, we can see that all the tractors in the field are still turning. Missing are the two already done by Mater. See more...

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During the "Life is a Highway" song, when Mac drives McQueen, there's a quick shot of birds on a telephone wire. They are the birds from the short film "For the Birds" that can be seen at the beginning of Monsters, Inc.. See more...

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After going through all the changes in Radiator Springs (new tires, paint job, etc) the back end of Lightning McQueen's car changes shape. [That's not a mistake. As you noted, he had a lot of changes made.]
Edit Corrected by MovieFan612
The character Lightning McQueen is a reference to Glenn McQueen, a Pixar animator who died in 2002. [So says Wikipedia, but there is no citation for it. The obvious parallels to Steve McQueen should not be overlooked simply because someone somewhere on the internet noticed a guy with the last name McQueen used to work for Pixar. Without citing a valid source, this isn't valid trivia.]
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Lightning Mcqueen is trying to become the first rookie in Piston Cup history to win the Piston Cup, yet Doc Hudson won the Piston Cup in 1951 the first year that Hudson Hornets were produced. Wouldn't that have made him a rookie? [Lightning McQueen was a rookie to racing in general (The Piston Cup being the only race he'd so far taken part in), the Hudson Hornets had been in other races other than the Piston Cup.]
Edit Corrected by GalahadFairlight
When Lightening McQueen is chasing after Mack after being dumped out, he leaves the Interstate, hits some dirt and corrects the slide to get back on the road. According to his multiple attempts on the track at Willy's Butte, Lightening doesn't know how to do this, and it becomes the basis of him learning a "new" way to drive from Doc, and it even helps him in the final race. [His corrective actions after becoming lost were a "happy accident" and not an intentional manoeuvre - as you point out, he has such trouble with it while racing Doc. If he had intentionally made that manoeuvre early in the film, he wouldn't have had such trouble with Doc, especially because he is so prideful.]
Edit Corrected by MovieFan612 Time
When McQueen stops before the finish line, the King is seen in the right corner of the scene, but Chick does not appear on the racetrack. Inmediately afterwards, Chick passes by the finish line. [Because McQueen and the King are STOPPED/stopping and Hicks is traveling at full racing speed. He would appear "immediately" in that circumstance.]
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When McQueen leaves Radiator Springs, he still has his new hot rod paint job from Ramone. When he exits the trailer at the track in California, he is suddenly back to his racing paint job. [It did not occur "suddenly". He got repainted somewhere in between his leaving Radiator Springs and arriving at the race. No mistake.]
Edit Corrected by JC Fernandez
When Lightning is talking to Sally after helping the town, you can see that the sky is still moderately light, and the sun is setting. Then Red activates the town's neon signs, and it gets completely dark instantly. [You've obviously never witnessed a desert sunset. Once the sun drops behind the buttes/horizon, darkness descends very quickly, seemingly instantaneously. When Mater turns on the neon lights, it makes the sky in the background appear even darker, instantly.]
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When Lightning McQueen is in the Radiator Springs court and hitting on Sally, he blinds her with his lights. Problem is he has no lights, as stated earlier in the film, "He has stickers". [He blinds her with his lightning bolt, not his faux headlights. He reflects the light coming in from the window behind the judge. It's his schtick, as also established earlier in the film.]
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When Lightning is getting offered to be the new face of Dinoco, the head of Dinoco says "Hey Light, how about coming over here and talking to me for a minute." After he says that Lightning comes over and he's about 2 feet away from the head. But for the rest of the conversation, McQueen's much closer to him. [The second shots are from a much closer perspective and a slightly different angle. It's impossible to say whether the characters are actually closer together or just appear to be because of the changed perspective.]
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In the last race scene at the end of the movie, the announcer excitedly mentions Lightning McQueen wearing new white-wall tires when he is in fact wearing his original black-walled tires. [No he doesn't. What he says is that they found him in a little town called Radiator Springs and the other announcer (Darryl Cartrip) says, "Wearing white wall tires of all things!" They were commenting on how odd it was that he WAS wearing them, not that he is actually wearing them at the moment.]
Edit Corrected by Shannon Jackson
When Mack is driving past the truck stop, you can see a truck with the "I" logo from The Incredibles. There is also a truck with "Monsters Inc." on the side of it, using the logo from the movie. [There is no truck with the logo from The Incredibles and other truck with "Monsters Inc." on the side. There only one truck with the word "Inc" and the letter "i" just look like the logo from The Incredibles.]
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Lightning McQueen unveils his new "Radiator Springs" look, with white wall tires and a retro paint design. But a few minutes later he's reverted to his old look. He keeps the old look for the entire tie-breaker race, and then the "Radiator Springs" look comes back, and stays for the rest of the movie. [A few minutes later? Hardly - McQueen's has time to travel to California, got set up for the race and so forth. Plenty of time has passed. He would have to revert to his original look for the race - he has contractual obligations to his sponsors, their logos will have to be visible, as will his racing number, he'll have to use race-specification tyres rather than the showy whitewalls and so forth. Once he returns to Radiator Springs after the race, again, some time will have passed, probably several days given the likely media frenzy over how the race finished. He's simply been to see Ramone to get resprayed back to his retro look before finding Sally.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker Time
During the flashback sequence of the interstate opening, we can see that Guido was already in Radiator Springs back then, which was some time in 1950's or 1960's. How come after living at least forty years in the United States, among cars speaking English, he hasn't learned the language besides "pit stop" and few other words? It can't count as the character's mistake since, no matter who you are, after years of living in society speaking different language it's natural to you to understand at least basic sentences. [No, actually it isn't quite as natural as you might think. Coming from NYC, I know/knew people who are/were (some have passed away) immigrants from many places, including Italy (Sicily as two would put it) and Greece, who have been living in the States for 40-50 (or more) years, but who still cannot put a coherent English sentence together. They speak their native languages to children, grandchildren, etc. Amusing how one woman had a fit when she learned of a grandchild goofing off in school, and then yelled in her native language for the student to take learning in America more seriously...]
Edit Corrected by lmao
Lightening McQueen is portrayed as the first rookie to possibly win the Piston Cup. When he discovers the Piston Cup trophies in Doc Hudson's garage, we see that Doc won the Piston Cup in 1951, 1952 and 1953. Doc Hudson is a 1951 Hudson Hornet, as confirmed by his license plate is 51HHMD. By winning the Piston Cup in 1951 the year he was made, Doc Hudson is actually the first rookie to win the Piston Cup. ["Rookie" would mean someone who's never raced before. McQueen's first races were in the Piston Cup Series. Doc Hudson must have raced prior to racing in the Piston Cup Series; meaning he won the Cup his first year racing, but had racing experience prior to competing for it.]
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When you see the tyres (on and off the cars) at the racetracks in the movie, they're slick. In Radiator Springs however, Lightning's wearing treaded tires, even though he went from the track to the trailer and from the trailer to Springs without a tire swap. [McQueen changes from slick tires to treaded tires right after the race during the interview when occurs the other mistake about the rear tires.]
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When Lightning McQueen is in Radiator Springs and he's trying to fix the road with Bessie the first time, a little bit of asphalt spurts on him and drops on his famous lightning bolt sticker. The size and position of the patch of asphalt changes throughout the movie until it gets washed off. [The spot of asphalt never change position, it always stays in the lucky sticker. What happens is that the bubble that drops gets more thin because the sun is hot and the heat makes the substance get a bit soft becoming liquid and that thick bubble spread to a larger area getting more thinner.]
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When Lightning is talking to Mater, he says "I am a very famous race car" then Luigi turns up. When Luigi is talking to Lightning (seen from the back) you can see through Luigi's side windows. Two shots after this one, his side windows are filled with a white background. [It is a reflection of the building on the opposite side of the road and not a see through.]
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when lightning McQueen finds DOC's 3 piston cups they all have the years on them, but at the end of the movie when CHICK wins there is no year engraved on the cup. [This information is not trivia.]
Edit Corrected by Lummie
Several times during both NASCAR races, you can see a rather large amount of asphalt pieces loose on the race track. It is very unlikely that the race would be started without removing these pieces, as they can cause severe damage to the cars. As both races are finals in the world cup, in a community based entirely on cars, the rules would most likely be very strict concerning the race tracks. [That actually happens on real world race tracks, except that the debris is pieces of both asphalt and worn tires. The track has to be swept clean of large amounts of this stuff after a race.]
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In the final race, Lightning gets hit by Chick and almost loses it in the grass, but he is able to regain his composure and get in front of the King and Chick. He passes them on the grass and that is illegal in NASCAR. If a car passes another by passing the interior line to get around them, that driver is automatically to the back of the pack. [This isn't NASCAR.]
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