- Hello, I'm Jay Ward from Pixar Animation Studios.
I'm the Creative Director for the Cars franchise,
and today I'm gonna share with you my top ten favorite
moments from all three Disney Pixar's Cars films.
All right, let's get rolling.
(tires squealing)
- Yes!
- So one of my favorite moments from the first Cars film
is when Lightning McQueen and Mater go tractor tipping.
Now this is when Mater takes Lightning to a field
to tip over some tractors.
(metal clanging)
(Lightning and Mater laughing)
And they get caught by Frank the Combine.
(Frank mooing)
- [Mater] That's Frank.
- Why I love this moment is that you get to see Mater
being goofy and fun and you get to see Lightning McQueen
out of his element for the first time.
When they get chased by Frank,
you also get to see how Mater kinda glides over the bumps
with his soggy suspension,
and McQueen's bouncing up and down as they run away.
It's also one of the first scenes that we finished
for the movie Cars.
Another one of my favorite moments from Cars
is called "The Drive with Sally."
(Lightning's motor revving)
- Whoa!
Yeah!
- This is when Sally gets Lightning McQueen to just go out
on the road with her and enjoy the drive.
(majestic orchestral music)
I love this scene so much not only for the soundtrack,
the beautiful music playing,
but also you get to see the cars just being themselves
and having a good time and driving.
And you get to see McQueen and Sally's relationship
for the first time as they kinda get to know each other
a little bit better.
- Hey, is it getting dark out?
- Another one of my favorite moments is when the neon lights
come back on in Radiator Springs after a long time.
You get to see all the town folk come out
and really enjoy their moment at night
under the beautiful neon lights of all the businesses.
And for the first time in a long time everybody
in Radiator Springs has pride in their town.
I also love it because you get to see the neon lights
reflecting off the paint jobs of all the cars.
Just a neat scene to watch.
One of my favorite moments at the end of Cars
is when Doc Hudson comes to the Piston Cup Race,
the final race of the season,
to help be a crew chief and a mentor to Lightning McQueen.
- I don't think I'm--
- [Doc Hudson On Radio] I didn't come all this way
to see you quit.
- [Lightning] Doc? (crowd cheering)
- We see the fabulous Hudson Hornet
in his original Number 51 racing paint job
where he is kind of returning back to the world
he left behind, and at the same time he's rooting on McQueen
and giving him the advice he needs
to fulfill his destiny as a racer.
It's really cool, because all the Piston Cup fans
also get to see a legend coming back to the track.
One of my favorite moments from the beginning
of Disney Pixar's Cars 2 is when we see Finn McMissile
on the oil rig escaping from the bad guys.
- [Announcer On Radio] Hands on deck.
All hands on deck.
- What I love about this moment is you get to see
many of the gadgets that Finn has,
from his grappling hook to his scuba gear,
and just the way he fights off the bad guys
in this dynamic spy-like fashion
before he jumps off the rig and escapes.
In Cars 2 I love the moment when Finn McMissile meets Mater
for the first time at Tokyo Airport.
- Finn McMissile, British Intelligence.
- Tow Mater, average intelligence.
- Mater is there trying to act like a cool guy and a spy
and acting silly, at the same time Finn realizes
they're being chased and they have to go into action mode
very quickly.
- [Finn] Don't worry, I've taken care of that.
Hang on!
- What's fun is when you watch the scene
you'll notice that because we're in Tokyo,
you see a lot of Japanese vehicles on the runway
and inside the airport that you wouldn't normally
see anywhere else.
We wanted to make sure to put those details in the movie.
A very funny moment in Disney Pixar's Cars 2
is when Mater is trying on his digital disguises.
- [Computer] Disguise program initiated.
- (laughs) Cool!
- So Holly Shiftwell has set Mater up with a high-tech
digital device where Mater just has to say the words
and he can look like different vehicles.
So Mater starts goofing around and he says
- Make me a monster truck!
- [Computer] Request acknowledged.
- What the? (laughs)
I vant to siphon your gas.
- But Finn and Holly just aren't sure why Mater's
not taking his job very seriously,
but Mater is Mater so he's just having fun.
- [Man Off Screen] Lightning, ya ready?
- Oh yeah, Lightning's ready.
- I love the opening scene in Cars 3 when we start off
at a Piston Cup race, only now McQueen is in his prime,
he's a multi-Piston Cup champ, he's on top of the world,
and he is in his element racing against the other cars
on the track.
We purposely set this film up to feel a little bit
like the first Cars at the beginning,
so that you could call back to where McQueen came from,
but now see he's a multi-Piston Cup winner.
We did this so that when Storm appears
it really knocks McQueen
out of his known-world, his known-element
for the first time, and Storm's coming.
- [Lightning] Who is that?
- That's um Jackson Storm.
- Yeah, he's one of the rookies.
- Huh.
- Another great moment in Cars 3 is when Lightning McQueen
and Cruz come to Thomasville for the first time.
This is the home track of the fabulous Hudson Hornet
who they call "Hud," and they meet Smokey.
(gravel scattering)
- Startin' to think I might never meet you.
- We also meet the legends, the cars that ran with Hud
back in the day when he was an early racer getting his start
long before Radiator Springs.
Towards the end of Cars 3 we see the "Midnight Run"
when Lightning McQueen, Cruz, Smokey, and the legends
all go out under the cover of darkness to try to help
McQueen get his mojo back after a long time.
The cars are running only under moonlight, no headlights,
and they have to go through the woods and really try to race
as fast as they can and yet help McQueen feel like
he's got confidence again so he can go back
to the Piston Cup world.
Well, thanks for takin' a cruise with me down memory lane.
See ya later.
(upbeat music)