How much times have canonically pass between the last cars film and it third one for Lighting to actually be considered "old"? Cause you wouldn't think that much times in the film universe for everyone to calling Lightning "old".
>>150223441both cars and athletes get old quick
>>150223441the same as real life? og Cars was pretty contemporary so it kinda fits. They call him old because he just can keep up with newer models, that are not just "younger" but also have actual better and improved high speed tech inside them
>>150223470This. The Bugatti Veyron used to be the fastest road car in the world twenty years ago and even that got pushed to the wayside within a few years. McQueen's just a V8 stock car from like 2006, he was never going to last.
>>150223515Which makes me wonder at just how much of a monster King was. Dude was manufactured in, what, the 70s, and he was still top-three competitive into the 2000s.
How tight do you think Cruz is? Her handling I mean, yeah.
>>150223441"Old" in the sports world is not the same "old" as in real life. In some sports if you're 35 you're considered too fucking ancient to be an effective player.
>>150223441The movies are set in the years they released.McQueen was in his late 20s in the first film.
>>150223441please learn English
>>150223546Only one way to find out...
>>150224665Please learn context clues.
>>150223542It actually reflected the landscape of NASCAR pretty accurately. The King was based off the 1970 Plymouth Superbird, a counterpart to the Dodge Charger Daytona. These were purpose built race cars designed to dominate at the superspeedway ovals of Daytona and Talladega and they did. These cars were capable of doing 200mph+ in 1970, which is way beyond what the other stock cars could do, hell it was beyond most classes of race cars at the time. So naturally when Chrysler and Ford started producing these purpose built monsters NASCAR changed the rules to ban them. After that it would take about 15 years for NASCAR to get back to a place anywhere close to the Superbird in terms of speed, however after a wreck at Talladega in 1987 (where a car almost crashed into the spectators), NASCAR laid the law down again and put an end to this resurgence of speed. From then on all NASCAR cars had these things called 'restrictor plates' that heavily limited the power of the cars. in 1987 cars were able to go 200, in 1988 this dropped to 190. And this pretty much stayed the top speed of NASCAR through the 90s and into the 2000s.So yeah in the setting of the first film an unrestricted Plymouth Superbird would probably be faster than the rest of the NASCAR field. And ironically this is also why Mcqueen would instead be outclassed in the then modern 2017 NASCAR field. As car development improved massively to the point that modern NASCARs are capable of doing 200 now while still being incredibly safe. So you'd have all these cars capable of 200+ and then you'd have Mcqueen who'd be stuck at 190-195.
>>150223441Cars autism incomingI think the montage part at the beginning of 3 is meant to imply he had a fairly long career for his peer group. If you remember there's that scene where one of the last guys he used to race with decides he's retiring and then McQueen is basically the only one from his generation left that is still racing. He's not elderly but he's clearly not fast enough to be competing at the top anymore. Doc from the first film had a similar situation and he lived long after his racing career ended so it isn't like Lightning is going to die soon or something, he just can't keep up anymore.Irl, most drivers are lucky if they even make it to 20 years total in a racing career though some make it to 25 or even 30. Lighting probably had a career around the 20+ year mark depending on when he actually began racing at all, most drivers start professionally racing during their late teens to early 20s, then work their way up into different series over time. Apparently, McQueen was racing in the main Piston Cup series for like 13 years (2005-2017) not including the many various lower racing series he would have had to work his way up through before that, which could have taken several years. So assuming he is in his late 20s by the time the first film started he probably had a good amount of career years already behind him. I suppose they could have had another film before making one that basically retired the main character of the trilogy. But I prefer it this way as opposed to a franchise like Toy Story where they kept making films. Toy Story 4 was completely unnecessary and 5 will also be just as bad.
>>150223485Pixar has always been at the forefront of contemporary storytelling in animation, Cars being no exception https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbAcQPvtgf0&t=13s
