Red Cars is an artist's book realized by Canadian film director David Cronenberg with the collaboration of Volumina. The project is an interpretation, in the form of an artbook, of the screenplay Red Cars that he planned on turning into a film. The resulting book, "largely missed by critics," was published in 2005.

The plot is about the 1961 Formula One Championship rivalry between Ferrari drivers Phil Hill and Wolfgang Von Trips. It includes a script for the yet-to-be-made movie. The book is hand-bound with an aluminum cover. It was published as a coffee-table book and limited to 1000 copies, as a "self-conscious object d’art." Cronenberg describes it as a "way for me to create my film without actors and film crew this book linked to a website and to an exhibition."

An avid race fan, Cronenberg has said that the planned big budget film about auto racing stalled due to the demands of Formula One head, Bernie Ecclestone. In 1986, Cronenberg was asked by then Paramount Pictures executive, Ned Tanen, to develop a Formula One movie. Paramount sent Cronenberg to Australia and Mexico to do reconnaissance of Grand Prix races. Cronenberg explained: "I had meetings with Bernie to talk to him about how we might structure a Formula One movie that was modern at the time and could we, for example, invent a team and have a pit for our team." While Ecclestone was at first receptive to the proposals, according to Cronenberg, his requirements would have been expensive: "ultimately it would have come down to money."

This is a list of characters from the Pixar franchise Cars consisting of the 2006 film Cars and the 2011 film Cars 2.

Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson in the main films, and Keith Ferguson on other occasions) typically referred to by his surname McQueen, and occasionally called "Stickers" by Sally, is a rookie racecar. He is named after Glenn McQueen, a Pixar Animator who died of melanoma in October 2002, although the car shares certain traits with actor and race car driver Steve McQueen. His overall profile was inspired by stock cars and a "more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racer", e.g., Lola and Ford GT40. His number, 95, is a reference to the year Pixar released its first feature-length movie, Toy Story. His catch-phrase is "ka-chow".

In the beginning of the first film, Lightning McQueen is a talented yet overconfident, self-centered rookie race car, especially towards his pit crew. He hopes to be the first rookie to win the Piston Cup race and gain a lucrative endorsement deal from Dinoco Oil in the final race of the season. He had full potential to achieve this but he finishes in a three-way tie with perennial runner-up Chick Hicks and veteran Strip "The King" Weathers after losing his huge lead on the final lap because of two blown rear tires. McQueen also wanted the Dinoco deal because of his dislike of his somewhat awkward Rust-Eze sponsorship and the rusty cars within it.