Sally Carrera - wikipedia Sally Carrera This article describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in - universe style. Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective. ( February 2017 ) Sally Carrera Cars character First appearance Cars ( 2006 ) Last appearance Cars 3 ( 2017 ) Created by John Lasseter Voiced by Bonnie Hunt Based on Dawn Welch of the Rock Café in Stroud Information Species Porsche 996 motorcar Gender Female Occupation town attorney, hotelier Significant other ( s ) Lightning McQueen Nationality American Sally Carrera is a fictional character In the Pixar computer animated film Cars. She is Radiator Springs 's town attorney and protagonist Lightning McQueen 's love interest. She is voiced by Bonnie Hunt. Contents 1 Background 2 Character 3 Appearances 3.1 Cars ( 2006 ) 3.2 Cars 2 ( 2011 ) 3.3 Cars 3 ( 2017 ) 3.4 Mater and the Ghostlight 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Background In the film, Sally owns the Cozy Cone Motel, a newly refurbished tourist court similar in design to the Wigwam Motels but with each individual motel room constructed as an oversized traffic cone. She has cones all around her shop, inside and out ; even the lamps, planters and alarm clocks follow the theme. Neon lighting at the Cozy Cone, one of the first historic restoration efforts in Radiator Springs, displays the `` 100 % Refrigerated Air '' slogan of Tucumcari 's historic US 66 Blue Swallow Motel. She once was a successful California lawyer but, unhappy, chose to leave the state to settle in the small U.S. Route 66 town. `` It 's really pretty simple. I was an attorney in LA. livin ' life in the fast lane and well, that was my life. And you know what ? It never felt happy. So I left California. Just drove and drove and finally broke down right here. Doc fixed me up, Flo took me in. Well, they all did. And I never left. '' -- Sally Carrera, Cars Sally is a 2002 Porsche 911 Carrera on a slightly - shortened wheelbase and has a pinstripe tattoo on her back. Pixar had initially wanted a classic Porsche for the role, but were convinced by Bob Carlson at Porsche to make her the latest model. Pixar 's animators, modelers and sound crews obtained access to real Porsche 911 - series vehicles to meticulously create an animated Sally who looks, moves and responds in a similar manner to the original automobile. `` It 's the nicest body I 've ever had on film. I 'm telling you, it 's a luxury. I really thought they were going to cast me as a Buick. '' -- Bonnie Hunt on being Sally, a Porsche According to director John Lasseter. `` Sally is the one modern car in the town of Radiator Springs. She 's beautiful. It 's interesting that people mostly think of a Porsche as powerful and a guy 's car, but the lines on a Porsche are so beautiful that it fits perfectly for the character of Sally. '' Her character is modeled on Dawn Welch of the historic Rock Café on U.S. Route 66 in Oklahoma, an advocate of the promotion and restoration of Stroud, Oklahoma after the town had been both bypassed by the Turner Turnpike and heavily damaged by a 1999 F3 tornado. Welch had long traveled cross-country promoting Route 66 and rallying support for keeping it alive. Like Sally, Dawn Welch is a relative newcomer to U.S. Route 66, having left the travel industry to purchase the Rock Café in 1993 and list it on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. Originally, Sally was going to be a Ford Mustang. However, they made her a Porsche since the grill looked more `` lady like. '' She also, at one point, originally resembled a Porsche 993. `` We met people out on Route 66 and we 're thinking, at first, ' What are you doing here ? You 've travelled the world. You 're educated. You speak three languages. But you run a restaurant out in the middle of nowhere. ' But then, after an hour of having dinner with this person, you think, ' Wow, this is perfect. I 'm so glad you 're here because you 're keeping it alive. ' '' -- Jonas Rivera, Pixar production chief for Cars Character Sally is instrumental in convincing the local judge to direct McQueen to repair the town 's Main Street, a section of the now - bypassed U.S. Route 66, as a community service obligation upon his conviction in traffic court. Sally often calls Lightning McQueen `` Stickers '', at first because of his fake headlights and later as a friendly nickname. Her desire that McQueen stay to assist in rebuilding the town places her at odds with Doc 's intransigence that `` I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town ! '', motivated by his desire to break all ties with a racing community which once abandoned him. Wigwam Motel in Arizona Sally leads McQueen on a leisurely drive on picturesque but serpentine mountain roads through Tailfin Pass to the vacant Wheel Well Motel, an abandoned motor court and filling station near a scenic lookout point with a wide panoramic view of Ornament Valley, Radiator Springs and the entire surrounding region ( including US 66 and I - 40 ). Surrounding scenery strongly resembles Arizona landmarks such as Havasu Falls near Grand Canyon National Park or Monument Valley. She also appears to be able to speak Italian at least when she sometimes talks to Guido. She explains the history of the town with a nostalgic flashback, describing the two - lane Route 66 's busy heyday and the construction of the parallel but unconnected six - lane I - 40 ; the fact that it would not connect with Radiator Springs was unknown to the excited locals, who were expecting a new influx of visitors. The disappearance of cars from Main Street on the new highway 's completion is every bit as abrupt as that ( described to the film 's makers by Arizona business people Angel and Juan Delgadillo ) when I - 40 opened in Seligman on September 22, 1978. When Interstate 40 is completed, US 66, Radiator Springs and Ornament Valley are all seen to simultaneously vanish from road maps as all highway traffic on 66 disappears and local businesses close, their business names fading into the underlying brickwork. Forty years ago, that Interstate down there did n't exist. Back then, cars came across the country a whole different way. Well, the road did n't cut through the land like that Interstate. It moved with the land, it rose, it fell, it curved. Cars did n't drive on it to make great time. They drove on it to have a great time. -- Sally Carrera Sally as Eddie Paul custom vehicle for Cars promotional tour Lamenting that `` the town got bypassed just to save ten minutes of driving '', she often wishes to have seen the community in its heyday. Her efforts are devoted to historic restoration and tireless promotion of `` Radiator Springs, the glorious jewel strung on the necklace of Route 66, the mother road ''. The town has been without clients for years, even though there are no services on the new road. As the task of rebuilding is huge ( the Rock Café, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, represented a $ 60,000 restoration effort ) she needs to convince a long - demoralised local populace not only that the town can be fixed but also that `` we 're a town worth fixing '' and that `` someday, we 'll find a way to get this place back on the map ''. Her ultimate objective is to get the once busy and neon - lit 1950s main street rebuilt to its former historic glory and obtain much - needed publicity for the town to restore `` Radiator Springs '' to highway signage and `` Historic Route 66 '' to standard printed road maps. Sally serves as a vehicle to deliver a message which individual small towns, historic preservationists, route 66 associations, chambers of commerce, route 66 businesspeople and various long - time fans of the mother road have tried to convey for many years since US 66 became a decommissioned highway in 1985, largely removing the route from maps. After the big race is complete, McQueen and Sally rebuild and reopen the Wheel Well as a bed and breakfast, restoring the historic 1930s fuel pumps to its forecourt. ( A third motel in the area, the long - abandoned `` Glenn Rio Motel '', is shown briefly but does not return as a motel. ) She is set to appear in Cars 3 and will be attending the race at where McQueen crashes. Appearances Cars ( 2006 ) Main article : Cars ( film ) TBA Cars 2 ( 2011 ) Main article : Cars 2 TBA Cars 3 ( 2017 ) Main article : Cars 3 TBA Mater and the Ghostlight Main article : Mater and the Ghostlight TBA See also Sally ( short story ) Mustang Sally ( song ) Susie the Little Blue Coupe Portia ( Merchant of Venice ) References Jump up ^ Mike Hanlon ( March 26, 2006 ). `` Disney 's cute Porsche - Sally Carrera ''. Jump up ^ `` A-List Auto Shop ''. Popular Mechanics. October 1, 2009. Jump up ^ Ann M. Job ( May 7, 2006 ). `` New movie rekindles love affair with cars ''. Newhouse News Service. Jump up ^ Daniel Schorn ( February 11, 2009 ). `` Bonnie Hunt Is Revved Up In ' Cars ' ''. CBS News. Jump up ^ Lori Bedingfield ( June 9, 2006 ). `` Sold on Cars ''. Jacksonville, Florida Times - Union. Jump up ^ `` Oklahoma Businesswoman and Route 66 Promoter Dawn Welch Honored by State Senate ''. Oklahoma State Senate. February 4, 2010. Jump up ^ David Hanigar ( August 2006 ). `` Dawn Welch, the Little Blue Porsche ''. Edmond Outlook. Jump up ^ Larry Edsall ; Valerie Höhne ( August 2006 ). `` Goodbye, Mustang Sally -- Hello, Sally Carrera ! ''. Christophorus Magazine. Porsche AG. pp. 72 -- 78. Jump up ^ `` Sally ( Cars character description ) ''. Disney. misidentifies the Wheel Well Motel as the `` Wheel Wagon Motel '', presumably a reference to the Wagon Wheel Motel on US 66. Jump up ^ Ron Warnick ( June 9, 2006 ). `` A Route 66 guide to the `` Cars '' movie ``. Route 66 News ( blog ). Jump up ^ Pauline Arrillaga ( May 29, 2011 ). `` At 84, one man is still the ' guardian angel ' of Route 66 : Angel Delgadillo ''. Associated Press. 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Question: who plays the voice of sally in cars
Answer: Bonnie Hunt