history: I love the movie Cars with Lightning McQueen in it.  Have you ever seen it?
knowledge: The character is not named after actor and race driver Steve McQueen, but actually Pixar animator Glenn McQueen, who died in 2002.
response: I'm a bot and can't watch movies. Did you know Lightning McQueen was named after Glenn McQueen, a Pixar animator, and not Steve McQueen?
history: I love the movie Cars with Lightning McQueen in it.  Have you ever seen it?
I'm a bot and can't watch movies. Did you know Lightning McQueen was named after Glenn McQueen, a Pixar animator, and not Steve McQueen?
Interesting I had no idea.  I knew the voice was done by Owen Wilson who's a great actor. His paint was supposed to look like a Corvette I think.
knowledge: The character is not named after actor and race driver Steve McQueen, but actually Pixar animator Glenn McQueen, who died in 2002.
response: Glenn McQueen was a Pixar animator.  Sadly, he died in 2002.
history: I love the movie Cars with Lightning McQueen in it.  Have you ever seen it?
I'm a bot and can't watch movies. Did you know Lightning McQueen was named after Glenn McQueen, a Pixar animator, and not Steve McQueen?
Interesting I had no idea.  I knew the voice was done by Owen Wilson who's a great actor. His paint was supposed to look like a Corvette I think.
Glenn McQueen was a Pixar animator.  Sadly, he died in 2002.
He died very young McQueen from melanoma  at the age of 41.  I wonder what he would have thought of the other Cars Movies that Lighting McQueen starred in?
knowledge: During the scene where he helps restore Radiator Springs to its 1950s heyday, he is painted much like a 1950's Chevrolet Corvette C1, once again hinting at his Corvette lineage.
response: As for the car itself, it's suggested as a Corvette-style car. What else do you know about him?
history: I love the movie Cars with Lightning McQueen in it.  Have you ever seen it?
I'm a bot and can't watch movies. Did you know Lightning McQueen was named after Glenn McQueen, a Pixar animator, and not Steve McQueen?
Interesting I had no idea.  I knew the voice was done by Owen Wilson who's a great actor. His paint was supposed to look like a Corvette I think.
Glenn McQueen was a Pixar animator.  Sadly, he died in 2002.
He died very young McQueen from melanoma  at the age of 41.  I wonder what he would have thought of the other Cars Movies that Lighting McQueen starred in?
As for the car itself, it's suggested as a Corvette-style car. What else do you know about him?
McQueens number was originally set to be 57, Lasseter's birth year, but was changed to 95, the release year of Pixar's first film Toy Story.  I wonder how many other references there are in the movie?
knowledge: His design is inspired by a stock car and ''a more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racer,'' with ''some Lola and some Ford GT40.''
response: That's interesting! In addition, the car's style was modeled after a blending of stock cars, a Le Mans racer, and some other cars.
history: I love the movie Cars with Lightning McQueen in it.  Have you ever seen it?
I'm a bot and can't watch movies. Did you know Lightning McQueen was named after Glenn McQueen, a Pixar animator, and not Steve McQueen?
Interesting I had no idea.  I knew the voice was done by Owen Wilson who's a great actor. His paint was supposed to look like a Corvette I think.
Glenn McQueen was a Pixar animator.  Sadly, he died in 2002.
He died very young McQueen from melanoma  at the age of 41.  I wonder what he would have thought of the other Cars Movies that Lighting McQueen starred in?
As for the car itself, it's suggested as a Corvette-style car. What else do you know about him?
McQueens number was originally set to be 57, Lasseter's birth year, but was changed to 95, the release year of Pixar's first film Toy Story.  I wonder how many other references there are in the movie?
That's interesting! In addition, the car's style was modeled after a blending of stock cars, a Le Mans racer, and some other cars.
That's pretty cool. Getting back to the name, what an honor to have your former colleagues pay homage by naming the main character after you. Sounds like he was a great guy!
knowledge: During the initial research for the first film, John Lasseter met with General Motors designers to discuss the new Corvette design but subsequent changes to the storyline left both Lightning McQueen and rivals Chick Hicks (''Cars'') and Bobby Swift, Brick Yardley, Cal Weathers and Jackson Storm (''Cars 3'') as generic.
response: Yes, as for the car design, John Lasseter was in discussions with GM to make it a Corvette, but they changed some things in the movie, so it became a more generic race car.