Cars is a movie about attention grabbing Pixar cars that smacks of a pleasant chemistry with a sweet melancholy nostalgia unleashed by the songs written by Randy Newman. The movie is full of a number of car racing scenes involving Pixar cars with thousands of fan cars swaying in the surrounding stadium. The portrayal of Pixar cars, their elaborate characterization and the enticing background scenery deserves to be appreciated and enjoyed.

The movie tends to deliver a common yet meaningful message using a variety of Pixar cars. Each Pixar car in the movie Cars is presented as having a unique character and personality type. All the Pixar cars in this movie move about and gesture in a manner that is so typical of the models of real cars they represent. Lasseter has definitely managed to successfully estimate the extent of contemporary human interest in cars and the innate tendency of the people to associate cars with definite and peculiar personality traits.

The main Pixar car in the story is Lightning McQueen # 95 which is actually the central character in the story. McQueen happens to be a LeMans racing car of the 70s. Lightning is initially represented in the story as a Pixar car that is hyper talkative and arrogant with a strong predilection towards being selfish and self centered.

However, eventually McQueen mellows down to be a mature and wise Pixar car that finally succeeds in getting over his tendency of being an egoist and a loner. The leading Pixar car’s name McQueen alludes to actor Steve McQueen, who was an avid fast car enthusiast. The main lead Pixar car that is McQueen’s number 95 is indicative of the year 1995, when the Pixar blockbuster Toy Story was released.

The main female Pixar car in this attention grabbing story is Sally Carrera. The love interest between a shocking old stock car and the immaculate Sally is one of the running themes of this story. This sleek Pixar car is 2002 Porsche 911 Carrera that has been given voice by Bonnie Hunt. Sally was included in the list of the sexiest and the most desirable cars in the world published by the famous UK car magazine Top Gear. Eventually the lead car McQueen falls in love with Sally.

Chick Hicks is the Pixar car that acts as the primary antagonist in the story. It is a generic and boxy American stock car of the 80s. Chick Hicks is an unscrupulous and malicious Pixar car that is sponsored by the Hostile Takeover Bank. Chick Hicks represents the gross commercial side of the automobile world and has its sides and hoods covered with the logos of numerous companies. Chick Hicks is presented in the movie as a maniacal Pixar car that is out there to win even at the cost of driving illegally.

Besides these three interesting characters, the story has many other Pixar car characters like Mater the tow truck, Mack the Superliner, Doc Hudson, The King a Dinco Blue veteran, the couple Flo and Ramone, Fillmore the Volkswagen and Sarge the Willys Jeep.