- Darrell Cartrip: "There's smoke on the casino bridge!"
David Hobbscap: "Oh, no!"
Brent Mustangburger: "It's Carla Veloso, the Brazilian race car!" - —The announcers after Carla Veloso's engine gets blown up.
Carla Veloso is a supporting character in Cars 2.
Cars 2[]
Carla hails from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where she’s been known to dance the night away at the famous ‘CAR-nival’ but nothing makes her happier than being on the racetrack. Carla was drafted into the 24-hour endurance racing team in Europe after setting a new track record on her local circuit. Now, in the World Grand Prix, this proud Brazilian Le Motor Prototype racer wears the #8.
She is seen in all three races and also in the one at Radiator Springs. In the Tokyo race, she finishes in 3rd place. In the Italy race, she is the first car hit by the lemons' radiation beam. She gets fixed though and gets back up to race. In London, her pit was next to Jeff Gorvette's pit on the left.
Cars 2: The Video Game[]
Carla is playable in Cars 2: The Video Game, where she is trained in spy missions by Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell at C.H.R.O.M.E., along with doing races with her friends. In "Lightning the Mood" before the first race in Radiator Springs, Mater welcomes Carla, Jeff and your player (Lightning McQueen if you're playing as Mater, Jeff or her), telling them that they should have the right speed to outrun Frank. Wondering who Frank is, Carla notes him to sound "strong and handsome", to which Mater admits that she "got the strong part right". Finally, everyone completes all the simulations, although Francesco is not able to master all the missions.
Unlike in the movie, she has a big speaking role.
In order to play as Carla, the player has to unlock her by leveling up to Clearance Level 2. She is one of the medium class racers, having more speed than power.
Disney Infinity[]
Carla is a non-playable character in the Cars Play Set for the first Disney Infinity game. In the storyline, Luigi invites her to a race consisting of Radiator Springs' townsfolk, Francesco, Todoroki, Chick Hicks and The King. Occasionally, she is one of the opponents in the regular and battle races that the player takes part in.
While she is in the play set itself, she is not available in the Toy Box, as she is not in the category of cast member toys. This also marks her only appearance in the Disney Infinity series, apart from a picture seen in Ramone's House of Body Art.
Cars: Fast as Lightning[]
Carla is one of the playable characters in the mobile game Cars: Fast as Lightning. In the game, she builds her own race track as part of McQueen's extravaganza. Carla is unlocked when the player beats her while playing as Miguel Camino in his tournament races. Unlocking Carla also unlocks her race track and pit, the latter placed as a building in Radiator Springs. Occasionally, she sleeps in her pit, usually when the player is not around. She also has four paint jobs that the player can use: Carnaval, Quente, ICE, and Neon Carla. These are unlocked by using gems, or earning stickers in practice races on her track.
Creation and development[]
According to concept art, deleted race scenes, and an early poster for Cars 2, Carla was first designed as a German LMP racecar called Marlena Wolfsburg. In an early concept design of the World Grand Prix Racers by the film's character art director Jay Shuster, she featured a silver and red paint job reminiscent of the 2009 Audi R15 TDI, despite her being a closed-top Le Mans Prototype. Her design was later changed to a purple paint job, as evident from a deleted race scene in Germany, before she ended up as a Brazilian character with a green and blue color scheme. There was also a point in development where she was called Sonia Santana before she was renamed Carla Veloso.
In a Q&A with Jay Shuster, he explained that while Carla's design drew inspiration from various LMP race cars, the Audi LMPs (particularly the R10 TDI and the R15 TDI) served as initial inspirations for her design.[1][2] He added that during consecutive art reviews, the co-director advocated for Carla to have softer and rounder shapes, primarily because she was a female character and needed a more feminine appearance. As a result, her design evolved into a more voluptuous and curvaceous form, causing many familiar elements inspired by the Audis and other LMPs to become less recognizable in her final design.
Specifications[]
Retrieved from Stitch Kingdom via the Web Archive.[3]
- Hometown: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Top Speed: 206 mph
- Zero – 60 mph: 2.8 seconds
- Engine Type: 5.5-liter twin turbo diesel V-12
- Horsepower: 725
Trivia[]
- Carla's pit crew chief is Cruz Besouro.
- In the Brazilian version of Cars 2, Carla replaces Jeff Gorvette and becomes the car Lightning McQueen meets along with Lewis Hamilton at the World Grand Prix opening party. Her performer is the singer (and later, The Voice Brasil judge) Claudia Leitte.
- Carla speaks in Cars 2: The Video Game by the actress named Jossara Jinaro, and the audio was used again for Cars: Fast as Lightning.
- In Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure, the player as a car is the same model as Carla Veloso if the player is a female.
- Carla's engine, as shown in her specifications, was used by the Audi R10 TDi and Peugeot 908 HDI FAP.
- She is the only female racer in the World Grand Prix.
- As a die-cast, she is very rare as a single but is available in a variety of box sets.
- According to her official bio from the Meet the Cars book, she has a consistent series of podium finishes from participating in 24-hour endurance races held in Europe. Because of this, her racing league appears to be an allusion to the European Le Mans Series, originally known as the Le Mans Series (LMS).
- According to the Meet the Cars book, Carla is a 2009 Le Motor Prototype B12 Racer, an original Pixar design which was confirmed in a Q&A with Jay Shuster to be based on various LMP cars, with him recalling the Audi LMPs (R10 TDI and R15 TDI specifically) being her initial references.
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