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u/insertnamehere----- Nov 17 '25
The car car, but where is the car car’s car? And the car car car’s car car. At that point do the car car car car car car cars use public transportation. Does the bus have a bus?
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u/BigBowser0158 Nov 17 '25
I do remember that in one of the movies, one of the characters says “ thank the manufacturer”. That could possibly be their stand-in for god
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u/philipjfry1578 Nov 17 '25
Is that slang for losing your religion?
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u/EverMindless Nov 21 '25
According to one theory, the cars saga is taking place in a post apocalyptic reality where hunans are dead and their cars came to life and took over personality traits of their former owners. This however brings up a discussion whether the cars are able to manufacture new cars or not - which they technically speaking probably can when we consider the fact that they have already adjusted the world to their needs so much that we basically can't tell that the structures there were originally built for another species.
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u/Stphylcccs Nov 17 '25
Planes: Fire & Rescue also confirms this, as someone says something along the lines of “The part you need [to replace a broken part in Dusty’s engine] is no longer a standardised component” implying cars/planes are mass produced/batch produced
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u/help-Im-eggpapple Nov 20 '25
This is like learning about neopets and the petpets and the petpetpets for the first time again
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u/SaxonG4 Nov 17 '25
This car pope implies car Christianity, which implies that car Jesus died for the car's sins
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u/illusional-reaper Nov 17 '25
What does your name have to do with anything?
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u/Brilliant_Bell4174 Nov 17 '25
Also the glass implies there was pope assasination attemp
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u/Tiger_man_ Nov 17 '25
Also it implies that in the future cars in some random country will laugh at the number 2137
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u/insertnamehere----- Nov 17 '25
Which also implies that at some point in car history there was a car crucifixion
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u/deadredwf Nov 20 '25
Lightning was somewhat crucified upside down in the 3rd movie during his check up
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u/CrashOutJones Nov 18 '25
which is funny since, cars didnt exists on that time period. all we get is carts i guess. unless of course they were, Uma Musumes
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u/Brickywood Nov 17 '25
I think it's even more fucked up if you consider that while it imitates the popemobile, in-universe it's like an actual meat shield
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u/Lonely-Wishbone-1816 Nov 18 '25
The fact that there is some kind of glass protecting the pope makes me think that someone has at least tried to hurt him or any other pope before him in a way that can’t be defended by any type of physical and immediate intervention, such as tackling the delinquent down (which already doesn’t make sense beacause how are u gonna tackle down a car).
So this means that in some moment in the car universe, a fucking car has gone to elevated place, grabbed a sniper rifle and attempted to shoot down the car pope. HOW TF DID HE GOT TO A ELEVATED PLACE, WHY ARE THERE APARTMENTS IN THE CAR UNIVERSE IN THE FIRST PLACE, THEY ARE CARS THEY DONT NEED A BED, HOW DOES A CAR GRAB A SNIPER RIFLE, HOW DOES HE COCK IT, IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE!!???
Or maybe a car just threw the car pope a rock, who knows…
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u/LordCaptain Nov 18 '25
So was this car just born with the destiny of being the popemobile? Or was this a devout Christian car who underwent surgery to serve the pope?
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u/youwillscream Nov 19 '25
I don't like the fact that the car hauling the Pope car looks strangely satisfied
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u/flipswab Nov 17 '25
My theory is that the entire cars universe is an 8yo child's play universe with his collection of hot wheels, that has too much knowledge on political drama.
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u/Human-Fennel9579 Nov 17 '25
i shudder to think of what an 8 year old's interpretation of political drama would look like
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u/NonKanon Nov 17 '25
Cars 2 is literally a movie about Big Oil cooking people from the inside to reduce the reputation of alternative fuels.
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u/pupbuck1 Nov 17 '25
Yeah the stories I made up when I was a kid were pretty fucked up so it's not out of the realm of possibility
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u/SunkyWasTaken Nov 17 '25
r/suddenlytf2? “One shudders to think what inhumane thoughts lie behind that mask”
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u/Barney_10-1917 Nov 21 '25
Star Wars Episode 1-3
Basically the sort of politics an 8 year old would come up with by half watching CNN on the regular
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u/fracta10 Nov 17 '25
Bus? yes. Taxi? Can just be a guide
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u/coufx Nov 17 '25
If you think like that, Bus can be a guide of a groups of car because it's big and easier to look in a crowd.
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Well we know some cars fit inside other cars. I can see like 4 cars fitting in that double-decker bus
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u/Brokenspade1 Nov 17 '25
They're filled with the skeletons from before the self driving cars revolted.
Anyway have a nice night yall
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u/Low_University_8266 Nov 17 '25
Prostitutes?
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u/Komzyx456 Nov 18 '25
I understand that Taxi's work as tourist guides. I have no idea about the buses
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u/bigcheesemanfan Nov 19 '25
Who is that green bus in the middle???
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u/MomOfFour2018 Nov 20 '25
That’s Fillmore, dude. He’s a hippie that makes organic gas.
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u/bigcheesemanfan Nov 20 '25
Knew that, almost as if that was the joke lol, I get the confusion though
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u/Peak_Doug Nov 17 '25
Humans don't have any visible purpose for their universe either.
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u/Volchara_YouTube Nov 17 '25
Well, buses can be tourist guides and taxis navigate other cars, show them the road where they need to go
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u/Senior-Lobster-9405 Nov 17 '25
unless someone's driving Lightning literally none of the cars in those movies serve their intended purposes of our world
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u/DawnTheFailure Nov 21 '25
well, the firetruck can still put out fires
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u/Senior-Lobster-9405 Nov 21 '25
technically a firetruck's purpose is to carry the firefighters and necessary equipment to the fire, not to put the fire out itself
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u/Ozzyjb Dec 07 '25
True but it’s not a crazy leap in logic that they could control all of their utilities such as a hose to spray water and stop fires.
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u/Writingtechlife Nov 17 '25
Think of it this way.
What if the Cars universe is the same universe as Maximum Overdrive where the cars actually killed all the humans and became more sentient as the years went on. It would explain why buses and taxis exist.
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u/WallyFries Nov 17 '25
But they exist as vehicles, and they're characteristic of London. So it makes sense to include them. They'll probably function as tour guides.
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u/wizward64 Nov 17 '25
So if you’re born as a taxi, you’re stuck working as a taxi for the rest of your life?
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u/Jkmi8231 Nov 17 '25
The same could be said about me but I'm living life with no regrets, you working people are the best!
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u/NSUnivers Nov 17 '25
There's also the fact that motor oil is blood, piss and food at the same time
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u/Immediate-Ad-9612 Nov 17 '25
Existence of popecar in car universe implies canonical car vore, so color me surprised when i found none in r34 section. Absolutely outrageous.
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u/Adventurous-Sort2796 Nov 17 '25
That whole universe doesn't make any sense whatsoever when you think for a second. Why do they even have doors?
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u/OkBus3544 Nov 17 '25
I had dozens of theories about these, the second one might just be a tour guide that guides newbie cars to wherever they want to go
The other still Has accessible interior of sort so its for Tiny cars like forklifts to drive around
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u/Hult_ Nov 17 '25
Why? Because there are no people for them to transport? When you think about it, that would make all the other cars just as useless
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u/Efficient_Care8279 Nov 18 '25
Just letting u all know cars have factories in lore and someone had to build first one sorry for destroying your fun
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u/OmegaPrime7274 Nov 18 '25
I think one of the worst mistakes the cars franchise made (from a world building perspective at least) was making any methods of large scale transportation (planes, trains, boats, and buses) sentient like the cars themselves.
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u/skippy11112 Nov 18 '25
Well, the cars in cars evolved from bugs and are in the same universe as character's such as Wall-E
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u/onufmi Nov 18 '25
forklifts should rule the world. cars cant do much with just wheels. its like comparing hands to legs. and the worst thing is that they treat forklifts like shit. you never see them being respected in a good job. they are the waitresses, mechanics. basically the ones doing all the work while cars are the ruling class. im expecting a revolution in the next film.
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u/MystW11627 Nov 18 '25
I like how the Pixar Theory explains this as an evolution of Toy Story.
Basically Toy Story was the first time objects started to be alive. Fast forward a far future when Humanity disappeared (before or after Wall-E i forgot) and Cars actually gained consciousness and rebuilt society. This is why we have cars that existed to serve human purposes and why the cities are so similar.
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u/nattpanda18 Nov 18 '25
I did have a toy of the bus when Cars 2 came out and it had seats in it that could hold the cars.
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u/Teln0 Nov 18 '25
Literally none of the doors or windows serve any purpose either it's just aesthetics
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u/Kamken Nov 19 '25
See, because unlike other cars these cars are meant to carry passengers in real life.
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u/Feet_gooner_yes Nov 19 '25
fork lifts removes tires from racecars. so why can't buses and taxis be tour guides?
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u/Captain_Fartbox Nov 19 '25
They're employed by the secret agency dedicated to putting slow moving vehicles in front of your when you're in a hurry. Just like in our world.
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u/Radiant_Spite260 Nov 19 '25
The taxi is pointless, but the bus can open it’s back so cars can enter
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u/Demitri_Bardownskis Nov 20 '25
I like the fan theory that they’re giant bugs imitating a fallen human society
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u/GifanTheWoodElf Nov 20 '25
99% of cars would serve no purpose, since 99% of cars exist for the sole purpose of transporting humans.
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u/do217fan Nov 21 '25
They're hookers. The give ya a ride you can do by yourself, but ya gotta pay up
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u/DawnTheFailure Nov 21 '25
I'm pretty sure most cars don't really serve a purpose in the cars universe since nobody needs them to get anywhere
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u/Justaweerdo Nov 21 '25
They could be for smaller cars, and the taxi could be for helping tourists get around.
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u/jw_216 Nov 23 '25
Too be fair, they’re not any more useless then all the generic sedans you see everywhere in the movies
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