The Rust-eze logo is absent at the back of his sides, and he has the "Hudson Hornet Piston Cup" logo beside his front fenders. In his first appearance in Cars 2, Lightning regains his original red shade, his bolt stickers, and the original Rust-eze appearance of his racing number, and has a dark red bolt that is the same size as his original bolt shape, along with a thin yellow bolt across. He uses this when he is not racing, as he has his original paint job in Cars: The Video Game. He also regains his spoiler and has less Piston Cup decals, which are all located on the bottom of his sides. Additionally, his bolt stickers are again absent. Lightning in his Radiator Springs paint job.Īfter finishing the Piston Cup season, he gets another repaint, which regains the oval shape and thin bolt, but slightly shorter, with his racing number in black inside a white circle that has black borders. However, when he gets taken to the Los Angeles International Speedway by Mack and the press, he gets his Rust-eze customization and racing tires back. His racing number, name inscription, bolt stickers, and sponsor are absent along with his spoiler, and he gets his racing tires replaced with whitewalls. While he helps out the residents of Radiator Springs, he gets a new paint job, which is a darker red, with a half of a long oval shape painted in wheat and with a thin bolt shape inside. His back bumper is painted yellow, which references the yellow back bumpers of NASCAR rookies' cars. He even has black tires which have on them the Lightyear brand, that is a reference to Goodyear and Buzz Lightyear, and red rims. His racing number is also displayed on one of them. Additionally, he has several decals of the Piston Cup teams over and under the end of the bolt shape, as well as stickers that look like headlights, which he does not actually have, and are the reason why he is usually called "Stickers" by Sally. His racing number is painted yellow, orange, and red, and is located on his roof and sides. He has a large lightning bolt shape on his sides that is yellow at the front, and orange at the back, and has individual black and white lines. His own name is seen on each side of his roof, and he has chrome bolt stickers on his front fenders. When Lightning gets sponsored by Rust-eze, he has the team's logo on his hood and the back of his sides, along with the name put on his spoiler, which is still a ducktail. Lightning in his original Rust-eze paint job. When he is originally sponsored by Smell Swell in the World of Cars book, he has a red ducktail spoiler, the Smell Swell logo on his hood, and his racing number, 95, painted green on his sides, along with a thin, yellow lightning bolt. His car model is said to be a stock car and more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racer mixed together, while the Cars Blu-ray Car Finder game states it to be a 2006 handmade one of a kind car. Lightning has blue eyes and primary has warm colors in his paint jobs.
He has since learned to enjoy making friends and treat others with respect. During the final race, his new personality made him change his ways when he decided to accept defeat by forfeiting the Piston Cup so he can help Strip Weathers finish his last race, realizing that helping others is more important than winning even if it allowed Chick Hicks to win. However, he transforms into a more sympathetic, understanding, and selfless character during his time in Radiator Springs on Route 66. His sponsors are Rust-eze, a small company selling soothing ointment for rusty old cars, which Lightning hates. After a few grudging performances in his attempts to fix the road, he finally manages to do so. However, he is also something of a perfectionist and will not cease to get something done right, even if it was not in his best interest to indulge in it in the first place as seen when he was tasked by the townsfolk to fix the road that he himself destroyed when he first arrived at their place. Because of his attitude towards people, he turned out to be rather friendless and became lonely, which is shown when his agent Harv gave him a few tickets to give his ‘friends’, unaware that Lightning had no friends.
#Paint the town red game title full#
He is so full of himself to the point where he claims he does not need any friends and cannot even get anyone's names right.