Lightning McQueen, the star of the movies (you could argue that Mater was the star of Cars 2), however, is a little harder to pin down when it comes to a specific car he is based on.

An owner of the new 2024 Ford Mustang GT opted for a different kind of modification, making it look like a real-life version of Lightning McQueen from Pixar’s animated film Cars. The project ...

Apart from the inherent issues of being an anthropomorphized car in a children's movie voiced by Owen Wilson, Lightning McQueen is not based on any one production car. Following with his character ...