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VIDEO: Tokyo Mater - Pixar's Cars stars head to Japan for some drifting fury

Disney's Pixar are currently working on Cars 2, set to debut in the summer of 2011, but to hold us over until then, they have created a series of animated shorts called "Mater's Tall Tales" that air on the Toon Disney network. Each video features the lovable tow truck Mater, voiced by Larry the Cable Guy, recalling amazing stories from his past - his time on a rescue squad, when he was a famous daredevil, and his stint as a matador in Spain. The latest tall tale is a hysterical parody of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, in which Mater ... Read more →

Cars 2 coming a year early in summer 2011 Chris Shunk

The Disney/Pixar movie Cars didn't have the box office appeal of movies like Wall·e and Toy Story, but on toy store shelves, the autos-only flick was a grand slam. Merchandising and the ...

Pixar confirms Cars 2 for 2012 John Neff

Click above for high-res gallery of reader-submitted Cars photoshops The animators at Pixar have set their schedules through 2012, and while the slate includes new films like Up and Newt, it's also ...

Kachow! Lightning McQueen 13th in first race, just ahead of Mach 5 Justin Gardiner

Lightning McQueen came home 13th in his first race in the Japanese Super GT-300 Championship, one place ahead of new rival, Speed Racer Mach Go Go Go. The rookie, who looks suspiciously like last ...

Autoblog Podcast #71 Dan Roth

We're shooting from the hip this week for Podcast #71. Rather than prepare, we're going with gut reactions. Starting it off, we mull over the loss of the USGP from Indianapolis, and postulate on where ...

Rumormill: Disney/Pixar planning second lap for Cars 2 years ago on Autoblog

Our sister site Cinematical reports that a sequel to Disney/Pixar's Cars is apparently in the works, and could arrive as early as Summer 2009. If that's the case, we should expect to see a trailer for Cars 2 attached to next summer's Pixar entry, Wall-E. The rumor really built up steam when Paul ...

Autoblog's CARS Photochop gallery is complete 2 years ago on Autoblog

click on image above to view the high-resolution gallery with 61 pics What started off as a suggestion turned into something much bigger when we politely prodded our readers to submit their own Pixar creations to us using the CARS Photochop guide we posted on January 2nd. In less than 10 days we've ...

HOW TO: Photoshop your car into Lightning McQueen 2 years ago on Autoblog

click on image above for gallery of high-res images Every car has a personality, and most of us take that next step and christen our cars with names like Roger, the Powder Blue Thunder Wagon, the Scalded Chicken, and the Jetta Knight (all names of past cars I've owned). After watching Pixar's ...

Pixar's "Cars": Ahhh, that new DVD smell 3 years ago on Autoblog

Sure, "Bullitt" had a few nice cars in it. So did "Gone in 60 Seconds". But in Pixar's, "Cars", nothing but sweet, sweet animated automobilia. November 7 is the day you can park a copy right in the middle of all your other DVD tributes to transportation. Unless they're alphabetized, of course. Then ...

RR of the Day: What's up, Doc? 3 years ago on Autoblog

Though I and my generation weren't raised during Hudson's heyday, we can thank Pixar and Disney for picking up and dusting off the automaker's most famous model – the Hornet. The Hudson Hornet is experiencing a revival right now thanks to the animated film CARS that featured a Hornet named ...

Opels brought to life by Pixar 3 years ago on Autoblog

Think you've seen a lot of tie-ins involving Disney/Pixar's Cars this summer? Well, here's one more, in which the stars of the Opel lineup get a Pixar-style rfacelift. Click here and you'll be brought to an Opel/Cars minisite that shows the characters from Pixar's latest tour de force interacting ...

First review of CARS says film has a flat 3 years ago on Autoblog

We here at Autoblog have been unabashedly eager to see the upcoming animated feature from Pixar Studios called CARS in which hot rod racer Lightning McQueen rolls into a sleepy hollow and make friends with the colorful characters of Carburetor County. So it is with much chagrin that we report to ...

CARS inches ever closer to the silver screen! 3 years ago on Autoblog

Automobiles, racing and Pixar -- what's not to love? We're totally geeked about CARS, the upcoming movie release that will be brought to us courtesy of Disney and Pixar next Friday. We've got a smorgasbord of media coverage laid out below all nice and convenient-like, so surf to your little ...

Kelley Blue Book values CARS star at $1.5 million 3 years ago on Autoblog

In a bit of creative (if liberally stretched) cross-brand marketing, Kelley Blue Book, the folks responsible for helping consumers evaluate the value of all things four-wheeled, have teamed up with Walt Disney and Pixar to offer assessments of how much the animated stars in CARS are worth. The ...

Ford and AutoWeek drive "Cars" in Detroit to fight diabetes 3 years ago on Autoblog

Ford Motor Company and news source AutoWeek are sponsoring an advanced screening of the upcoming Disney and Pixar movie, Cars. The charity event, which will be held in Detroit, Michigan on June 4, will consist of two private viewings before the movie's public release on June 9. Tickets are $150 ...

CARS premiering at Lowe's Motor Speedway on May 26th 3 years ago on Autoblog

The public won’t be privy to Pixar’s next masterpiece until June 9th, but celebrities and lucky members of the press will be able to see the film at its world premiere, which will be held at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte, NC. We’ve followed the progress of CARS over the ...

Detroit's involvement in CARS 3 years ago on Autoblog

As anyone who reads Autoblog is aware by now, we’re pretty jazzed about Pixar’s upcoming June 9th release of CARS, which is shaping up to be a celebration of the auto on celluloid. A pair of recent Detroit News articles reveals just how large a part the domestic duo of Ford and GM has ...

CARS character comes alive 3 years ago on Autoblog

The upcoming animated feature CARS by Pixar Animations Studio impresses us more and more by the minute. When the studio approached Porsche back in 2002 to obtain the rights to use a 911 in its next film, Porsche agreed and quickly got swept up in the fun. The company wanted to build full scale ...

Getting excited for Pixar's 'Cars' 3 years ago on Autoblog

About the only company in the world having a better decade than Toyota is Pixar, the computer animation studio responsible for Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bug’s Life, Monster’s Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Steve Jobs’ side project was recently bought by Disney and the ...






Autoblog Podcast #151: With Car and Driver's Eddie Alterman

Eddie Alterman wades in with Sam, Chris, Dan, and Jonny to talk about SEMA and other recent events.

 
 

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