Cars corrections

Cars (2006) - 15 corrections

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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.]

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.]

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.]

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.] 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.]

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.] Corrected by Phixius

In the final race, Chick purposely grinds against Lightning which in turn causes a blow out. In NASCAR you can't deliberately hit someone to get a higher position. [This isn't NASCAR.] Corrected by Phixius

In the scene where Doc Hudson is trying to give Lightning advice on turning on dirt he says "I'll make it simple, if you turn hard enough left, you'll find yourself going right" and his tires turn accordingly. For the rest of the scene, Lightning uses the reverse, saying "turn right to go left", including into the next scene where he is back pullie Bessie. For the most part there are no right turns in oval track racing. [No, there are generally no right turns in racing, but what doc is talking about is countersteering. Motorcycle and bicycle riders countersteer intuitively, but in a car, it is a learned action. With auto racing, countersteering sets up the car into an oversteer condition, pushing the tail out, and the driver must turn into the skid to allow the car to corner faster than not using oversteer. Thus the phrase "turn right to go left" makes sense. The tail is out after initially turning left, and in order not to spin, the car has to steer to the right, into the skid, to keep a controlled line through the course.]

Towards the end of the second race, the line up on the track is King (43), Lightning (95), and then Chick (86). In the following shot, it shows the "score board" with the numbers in the following order: 43, 86, 95. [The score board is manually updated, and may not be current until the person running the board has updated it.]

In the scene where Luigi discusses with Lightning what type of racing car Lightning is and gets upset that Lightning races in the Piston Cup and not Formula One he says "Luigi, follow me to the garage." when speaking to Guido. [Wrong. He says "Luigi follows only the Ferrari" as he is refering in third-person that he only likes that type of car, further explaining that he follows only Formula One racing. The Italian accent muffles it slightly, but try the "subtitle" option for clarification.] Corrected by Jazetopher

After Lightning is sentenced to fix the road by Doc Hudson, Mater takes a look at the road and is surprised by its condition. However, Mater's home is at the end of the road, and had to tow Lightning back and forth earlier. Surely he would've noticed the condition of the road before that. [Mater's character is displayed "on-screen" as being a little slow and not very observant. Another example of this would be when he spends 30 seconds telling Lightning McQueen how upset they are that he left to go to his big race, and then takes an additional 15 seconds of silence to realize that Lightning is right there in front of him. He simply wasn't paying attention until Doc mentioned it to him.] Corrected by Jazetopher

Following the film's logic in accents given to certain character's voices (i.e. Italian accents for Guido the Fiat and Luigi the forklift), Sally the Porsche should have a German accent. [Logic does not constitute a mistake. Only proof and evidence do. Whats to say that they MUST have accents corresponding to where they were likely made?] Corrected by Lummie

At the very end of the last race, we see Lightning stop about 4 feet from the finish line when he realizes that The King has crashed. However, there is a long shot of McQueen at the finish line just after Flo says, "What's he waiting for, Doc?" and you can see that McQueen's bumper is just touching the finish line. However, when he decides to see if The King is OK, his bumper is 4 feet from the finish line again. [During the long shot, the perspective has changed, making the bumper look closer than it is.]

When Hook is taking Lightning McQueen out of "jail", he picks him up from the rear. McQueen should be unable to roll like this because his left front wheel is fixed with a claw. That should make it impossible for him to drive or at least destroy his fender. [These cars are very anthropomorphic, meaning they have a lot of characteristics and movements that are human-like. Lightning could lift his wheels at will, making it possible for him to lift the wheel with the claw/boot on it, and roll on the other front wheel. Since the entire premise of the movie is that people don't exist, only machines, a lot of suspension of disbelief is required.]

When Lightning Mcqueen's body is redone in Radiator Springs, the change does stay when he is in the Piston Cup. However, after the Piston Cup, back in Radiator Springs, his body is the re-do, just with the Lightyear wheels instead of his redone ones. [How is this a mistake? Perhaps, he wanted to keep that racing edge and kept the Lightyear tires on.]