Miles Axlerod

Sir Miles Axlerod is the main antagonist of Pixar’s 12th full-length animated feature film Cars 2 and a cameo character in its 2017 sequel, Cars 3.
He was a rich oil baron before his arrest in London for destroying the climax of the organized by oneself World Grand Prix, his scam of an event, including him converting himself into a solar-powered electric car.
==Creation and development==
Early concepts of Cars 2 had considered a Russian car or 1967 Ford Corsair as the main villain instead of Miles. His last name, "Axlerod", apparently originated from an old joke his voice actor Eddie Izzard once told concerning the invention of the wheel and axle.
The DVD commentary for Cars 2 states that the climax where Mater confronts Axlerod at Buckingham Palace over the plot to sabotage the World Grand Prix came rather early in production, so the Pixar team worked backward from there to make Axlerod the ultimate bad guy and someone else the good guy so that when it got up to the climax, everyone could see how brilliant Mater was in figuring out the whole thing.
==History==
===Background===
Not much is known about Sir Miles Axlerod's past, he was a car and the CEO of Axlerod Industries, later some cars mocked his model and later he wanted to take revenge against the carkind. But according to Mel Dorado, he has been known by the world for trying to travel around without using a GPS, but in doing so, is thought to be dead when he runs out of fuel and comes into a rainforest. He eventually emerges more than a month later, using a fuel that is said to be made out of the natural elements. He is then reported to have sold his oil company, switched to an electric car, and invented a clean-burning fuel named Allinol. To try and get the world to use alternative energy, he created an international racing competition called the World Grand Prix, inviting race cars from around the world to determine who is the world's fastest car.
===Cars 2===
Though at first Professor Zündapp appears to be the main villain of Cars 2 for driving the plot, it is revealed near the end of the film by Mater that Axlerod was behind everything. His supposed "alternative fuel" Allinol, was gasoline engineered to expand and eventually explode if hit with an electromagnetic pulse and was part of a plot to turn the world against alternative energy and have them rely on gasoline, bringing profits to the lemons and himself because they own the largest untapped oil reserves in the world. At a party promoting the World Grand Prix, he leaks oil, though he denies it and pins it on the gasoline-powered Mater.
Eventually, Axlerod arranges for Zündapp and the lemon cars to plant a bomb on Mater's air filter as a backup plan to kill Lightning McQueen. Mater later discovers the story about the conspiracy after helping Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell arrest Zündapp and the lemon cars and confronts Axlerod for it. His suspicions are confirmed when Axlerod disables the bomb to save himself. To proceed further, Mater opens Axlerod's hood, revealing the same engine (a Rover V8) as the unseen mastermind depicted in the photo, which Finn and Holley obtained from their American counterpart earlier, proving to be a perfect match.
Whatever happened to Axlerod after his arrest by British authorities is left ambiguous. It is most likely that he was charged with murder, conspiracy, and fraud, and sentenced to an unknown amount of prison time.
===Cars 2: The Video Game===
In Cars 2: The Video Game, Miles is an unlockable playable character, available once access to Clearance Level 5 is granted. He is a heavy-weight character that utilizes power more than speed.
===Cars 3===
Miles Axlerod does not make a physical appearance in Cars 3, implying that he is still in prison. A photo of him appears on Sterling's shelves, which possibly signifies that Sterling (who otherwise never appeared) knew him before his arrest.
==General information==
===Physical description===
thumb|left|220px|Turntable video of Miles.
Miles is a 1978 Branford Axlerod, a fictional car from a fictional company. Miles' design resembles a Land Rover Defender 90. His license plate reads "ALT NRG", an abbreviation of "alternative energy". However, before his "electric conversion" (ultimately a lie), he does not appear to have a license plate at all. His hood says his surname, "Axlerod", on it. He is painted dark green, with a grey and black roof.
===Personality and traits ===
Charming as he seems, Miles is a villain. He is evil, greedy, deceptive, manipulative, and also extremely intelligent as he had thought the entire plan to get rid of Allinol through, as he set everything up to make him look like an innocent car.
==Official profiles and statistics ==
===Cars 2===
*Bios
** "Axlerod is a former oil baron who has sold off his fortune, converted himself into an electric vehicle, and has devoted his life to finding the renewable, clean-burning energy source of the future — ultimately discovering what he believes is the fuel everyone should be using. Axlerod is also the host of the World Grand Prix, a three-country race he created that attracts the world's top athletes to promote his new clean-burning fuel, Allinol."'Cars 2' Meet Miles Axlerod and Nigel Gearsley (Archived)
===Cars 2: The Video Game===
*Bios
**"After selling off his fortune and converting himself to an electric vehicle, Miles Axlerod can't help but draw attention. Now he's created the World Grand Prix, a three-country race to highlight ALLINOL, his fantastic renewable wonder-fuel."
*Stats
** Weight class: Heavy
**Speed: 20
**Power: 80
==Gallery==
==Names in other languages==
*Bulgarian: Майлс Енервалс (transcription: Maĭls Enervals)
*Croatian: Majls Kuplungas
*Estonian: Mihkel Telghoob
*Greek: Μάιλς Βιοκαύσιμος (transcription: Máils Viokáfsimos)
*Hungarian: Benzington Miles
*Icelandic: Einar Öxull
*Lithuanian: Mailsas Lenkia
*Norwegian: Nils Akseltrykk
*Polish: Baron Smardz-Rychły
*Portuguese (Brazilian): Miles Eixodarroda
*Portuguese (European): Miles Axlerod
*Russian: Сэр Майлз Карданвал (transcription: Ser Maylz Kardanval)
*Swedish: Max Axeltryck
*Ukrainian: Майлз Баксельрод (transcription: Mayls Bakselrod)
==Trivia==
* Miles' tires' texture repeats a leaf-shaped motif.
*If one looks closely at his front wheels, they can see the words 'REGEN R8' meaning 'Regenerate'.
*Miles' hood emblem is written his surname "Axlerod", as it resembles the Land Rover Defender's hood emblem commonly written as "Land Rover" or "Defender". This explains that Miles Axlerod is a Land Rover Defender (which can end up as lemons).
*Miles uses a lot of parts made by "British Wheeland" to keep himself going. "British Wheeland" is a parody of British Leyland, which produced both the Range Rover and the notoriously unstable V8 engine that powered them. Even the logo was a parody of British Leyland's, using a big bold printed W instead of the big bold. printed L. Mater appears to recognize this fact, as he claimed that B.L. made parts that will not fit on other cars because of them not using standardized bolts.
*The jungle Miles gets lost in before he converts to an electric vehicle is reused from Up.
*When Miles Axlerod drives, the horizontal lines across his wheels do not spin with the tires.
*Several easy-to-miss signs foreshadow Axlerod's true nature and evil plot:
**During his interview on the Mel Dorado TV show, Axlerod eagerly says that oil costs a big fortune, hinting at his greed and saying how alternative energy is the way for the future and no one would have to use gasoline by the end of World Grand Prix, which mirrors what he says about everyone racing back to gasoline during the Lemons' meeting.
**While speaking to Mater at the party in Japan, Axlerod's eyes widen at the sound of oil leaking when he quickly says that Mater had leaked oil. This implied that Axlerod realized he had leaked oil and blamed it on Mater, to hide the fact he's not truly an electric car. 
***This comes back to light when Mater realizes that Axlerod has leaked oil while realizing that Axlerod is the Lemons' mysterious mastermind.
**Axlerod’s silhouette can be seen among the 7 models that used the engine.
**During the Lemons' meeting, Axlerod's rearview mirrors can be seen and his dark green paint job is lightly visible underneath pale green padding.
*** After a major crash during the second race, Axlerod rushes to speak to the press; hinting that Axlerod had to quickly change into his public persona so he can discredit the usage of Allinol in the next race.
**Before he discredits the use of Allinol, Axlerod says he cannot risk the lives of the racecars without sounding completely concerned. This foreshadows Axlerod does not truly care about what happens to the racecars if they use his fuel and is even willing to murder Lightning McQueen when he decides to use Allinol just to prove the safety of alternative fuel. It also foreshadows that Axlerod does not truly care about the lives of anyone, but his own as he was forced to deactivate his bomb just to save himself.
** When speaking to McQueen before the race in London, he tells him he has hopes of winning and expectations of him proving that Allinol is safe. This implies that Axlerod wants McQueen to participate in the race just so he can be killed and prevent him from backing out to find Mater whom Axlerod's minions had managed to capture.
**When Mater and McQueen arrive at Buckingham Palace before Axlerod is exposed, Axlerod looks shocked to see McQueen and Mater as the latter informs Queen Elizabeth and Scotland Yard he knows who is sabotaging the World Grand Prix. Axlerod had planned to kill both Mater and McQueen for interfering with his plans and looked shocked to see them still alive when they arrived at Buckingham Palace.
*In the Oil Rig scene, on the bottom left, there are the letters MA, implying that the Oil Rig belongs to Axlerod.
*For some reason, in the world map used in the Bonus Features option of Cars 2's Blu-Ray version menu, Miles is the location index of Moscow, despite the fact he's British as opposed to Russian.https://youtu.be/WZcCpo2DR_8?si=1pszbJelqzPAO-eT&t=100
==Quotes==
*"Ah! He's a little excited, isn't he?" - Cars 2
* "Anyone got a towel?" - Cars 2
*"I'm sorry to interrupt." - Cars 2
*"I just wanted to come down here and personally thank you. Because after Italy, I was finished, and then you gave me one last shot." - Cars 2
* "I probably shouldn't be saying this at all, but... I hope you win today. You show the world that they've been wrong about Allinol." - Cars 2
* "You're insane, you are! Deactivate!!" - Cars 2
* "How did the tow truck figure it out?" - Cars 2
*"I'm excited to be a part of this competition!" - Cars 2: The Video Game
*"This is THE way to go!" - Cars 2: The Video Game
*"Ha-hah! I can see why cars enjoy this!" - Cars 2: The Video Game
*"I wonder what this is doing to my tires." - Cars 2: The Video Game
*"I can see why the racers love this!" - Cars 2: The Video Game
*''Ha-hah! this competition is just what I needed!" - Cars 2: The Video Game
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