Convinced that Lightning is no longer capable of winning, Sterling is ready to take him off the racing circuit and use him for product endorsements. Lightning offers a deal instead: if he wins the first race of the new upcoming season in Florida, he can keep racing at his discretion; otherwise, he will retire immediately. Sterling accepts the deal and sends Cruz to work with him one-on-one at a nearby beach. Bob Peterson also voices Dr. Damage, a white and orange modified ambulance who partakes in the Crazy 8 demolition derby. Video Games: Cars: The Video Game • Cars 2: The Video Game • Cars: Mater-National Championship • Cars: Race-O-Rama • The World of Cars Online • Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures • Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure • Disney Infinity • Cars: Fast as Lightning • Cars: Lightning League • Cars 3: Driven to Win • Disney Emoji Blitz • LEGO The Incredibles • Disney Wonderful Worlds Four months later, Lightning, who has since recovered from his crash, decides that he will continue racing and calls his sponsors, Rusty and Dusty Rust-eze, who reveal they have sold Rust-eze to a businesscar named Sterling. Sterling assigns Lightning to train under Cruz Ramirez, where he struggles to adapt to modern training methods. After Lightning accidentally damages a simulator, Sterling tries to force him to retire. Adamant that he can still race, Lightning instead offers that if he wins the upcoming Florida 500, he can decide if he wants to keep racing; otherwise, he will retire immediately. Sterling reluctantly accepts the deal. To wait so long for Cars 3 and then to see the character we've grown to love accept that he's not good enough to race against this next gen of racers and eventually take his place in a mentor role was not what we waited 11 years for.

Cheech Marin as Ramone, a 1959 Chevrolet Impala coupé Lowrider that owns the "Ramone's House of Body Art" store. The Brave Little Toaster (1987) • Valiant (2005) • The Wild (2006) • A Christmas Carol (2009) • Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) • Mars Needs Moms (2011) • Strange Magic (2015) • The Lion King (2019) A full trailer was released on April 26, [17] [18] and a one-minute sneak peek was revealed at the Radio Disney Music Awards. [19] Tong, Brian (April 26, 2017). "Behind the tech that built Pixar's 'Cars 3' ". CNET. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021 . Retrieved November 8, 2021. Chris Cooper as Smokey, [9] Doc Hudson's former mechanic and crew chief who helps out Lightning and Cruz.

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Graser, Marc (March 18, 2014). "Disney Plans Third 'Cars,' 'The Incredibles 2' ". Variety. Archived from the original on July 28, 2018 . Retrieved November 19, 2016. Cars 3 literally had lighting once again be a side character in his own movie passing down the "mantle" (way too common in movies these days) even passing down ​the iconic #95. This is the second time that Chris Cooper does a role for a Disney film, after playing Tex Richman in The Muppets.

Development on Cars 3 began in late 2011 after the release of Cars 2, [15] and by March 2014, pre-production on the film was underway. [16] In October 2014, Pixar's former chief creative officer John Lasseter revealed at the Tokyo International Film Festival that the film would feature a tribute to Hayao Miyazaki's film The Castle of Cagliostro, in a form of an old Citroën 2CV. [17] According to director Brian Fee, the production team did a lot of research, and, while they "looked at athletes in other sports", the team mainly focused on NASCAR racers. Fee said that they "even talked to a sports psychoanalyst who explained that many of these drivers can't imagine themselves doing anything else", an idea that resonated with the team. Mike Rich said that rookies taking over the sport is a "kind of endless story in sports" and compared McQueen to Wayne Gretzky and Misty May-Treanor as well as many others. Fee said that "being a parent became [his] main resource to find and understand the emotion" in the film's storyline. Scott Morse, the film's story supervisor, said that he wanted to highlight the film's emotional core and the character's relationships, wanting the film to feel like a sports film while also focusing on McQueen realizing "what their relationship meant to Doc". [1]This is the first Pixar film to receive a simple "Fresh" approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, instead of a "Certified Fresh" unlike all previous Pixar films had, the only exception being Cars 2 which got a "Rotten" rating. Conversely, Jerome Ranft is not directly credited as Red, instead only being credited as an additional voice, despite Red having an audible cry in the film, Ranft having been credited as him in Tales of Radiator Springs, and his late brother Joe Ranft having been credited as Red in the first Cars film. Cars 3' Premiere: See the Stars and Their Kids on the Red Carpet". Wonderwall.com. June 11, 2017. Archived from the original on March 7, 2023 . Retrieved March 7, 2023.

Disney Announces Release Dates for 'Incredibles 2,' 'Cars 3' ". Variety. October 8, 2015. Archived from the original on January 24, 2018 . Retrieved March 20, 2016.

Later, in Radiator Springs, Lightning and Cruz put on an exhibition race for their friends. They have adopted Doc's old racing colors and number, respectively, to honor his memory. Dinoco has bought Rust-eze from Sterling, and Lightning decides to continue racing and train Cruz as well. On June 8, 2016, Lasseter revealed that the film will include a different tone as well as a tribute to the first film's deuteragonist Doc Hudson. [9] Interview: "Cars 3" Producer Kevin Reher". Laughing Place. October 27, 2017. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018 . Retrieved October 29, 2017. Cars 3 was released in theaters on June 16, 2017 in the United States in 3D, and in selected IMAX 3D theaters and was accompanied by the Pixar short film Lou.