<P> "For the other race cars, we looked at how race cars drive . For McQueen, we looked at surfers and snowboarders and Michael Jordan, these truly great athletes and the beauty of how they move . You watch Jordan in his heyday against every other player, he's playing a different game . We wanted to have that same type of feeling, so that when they're talking about' the rookie sensation,' you're seeing that he is really gifted ." </P> <P> The end result is a character which, despite the usually - meticulous approach to "truth to material" in which each car's animation is mechanically consistent with its respective model's capabilities, can occasionally bend the rules to move more like an athlete than a motorcar . </P> <P> He is voiced by actor Owen Wilson in Cars, Cars 2, Cars 3, Mater and the Ghostlight, the Cars video game, the Cars Toon The Radiator Springs 500 1⁄2, as well as Keith Ferguson in most of the Cars Toons, Cars Mater - National Championship, and Cars Race - O-Rama . </P> <P> In the original film, McQueen is one of the three contestants in a Piston Cup tiebreaker race before an audience of "more than two hundred thousand cars" in Los Angeles, California . By the start of Cars 2, he has won four Piston Cup championships . </P>

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