User blog comment:Lightening McQueen/Looks of stuff in the Cars world, what names are used in it and how cars are able to hold, do and use stuff/@comment-3438245-20120923175337

Oh yes, the Cars world generates a lot of questions... I would like to make a post about my analysis of the question, but I can try to answer some of your questions now.

Do cars go in buses and taxis ? Apparently no. As you point it out, they are not big enough to contain cars. All their windows are completly opaque, like those of other cars, which suggests there is no free place inside... So I really don't think cars take buses. If a cars need to be transported, they would probably rather use trucks, like Mack or Karl Haulzemoff. But then, why are there buses and taxis ??? May be just for nothing. May be they are just individuals that are... a little bigger. That's an explanation, but it's not very satisfying, isn't it ? Why do they have a "taxi" sign ? Ads on the side ? Official bios of buses and taxis say they serve of guides for other cars, but I seriously doubt London needs so many guides...

Despite the end credits of Cars 2, I don't think the name of cities and countries are really changed, because it could be insulting for some countries. After all, all the real country and real city names in both Cars and Cars 2 were propely called.

How do cars hold things ? This is one of the biggest questions of the Cars world. They use their tires as hands, but tires are extremly less flexible than hands. Pixar has struggled a lot on that. Take a look at this clip, which focuses on the challenge they faced with a simple problem. For me, Time Travel Mater stands as a major advancement on this question: for the first time, they show a way cars can manipulate small objects, with this simple device Stanley uses for his caps.

For the question of animals, I think the way to look at it is that tractors, combine harvesters, bulldozers, dump trucks, aren't actually cattles and bulls, but vehicules with an animal-like behaviour, that suggest a cow... Perhaps despite this, bulldozers and dump truck still serve their original purpose of construction vehicules...