Miles Axlerod

*"They laughed at us, but now it's our turn to laugh back. Embrace your inner Lemon. Let it drive you. This was meant to be alternate fuel's greatest moment. After today, everyone will race back to gasoline and we, the owners of the largest untapped oil reserve, will become the most powerful cars in the world! They'll come to us and they'll have no choice, because they will need us. And, they will finally respect us! So, hold your hoods high! After today, you will never again be ashamed of who you are! Long live Lemons!"*
―Miles Axlerod[src]
Sir **Miles Axlerod** is a former oil baron, inventor of Allinol, brainchild of the World Grand Prix and secretly the leader of the Lemons criminal group.

Axlerod is a filthy rich oil tycoon. However, he appears to have decided to use his powers (and trunkful of money) to make the world a better place. An environmental campaigner, Miles has converted to electricity and is promoting Allinol, a cheap and safe eco-friendly fuel.

Miles Axlerod used to be a gas guzzler, but now he is customized to within an inch of his life to be environmentally friendly. The wire coils in his wheels are connected to an electric battery, and he even has a solar panel on his roof.

Miles created the World Grand Prix to demonstrate the power of Allinol. All the race cars, including Lightning McQueen, are using it.

He is more evil than eco-friendly and is behind an elaborate plot to destroy race cars and discredit Allinol forever, so he can get rich from oil again.

## *Cars 2*

Axlerod's supposed "alternative fuel" was actually gasoline engineered to explode when 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 due to the fact that they own the largest untapped oil reserves in the Pacific Ocean. At a party promoting the World Grand Prix, he accidentally leaked oil on the floor, proving that he was not an electric car; however, he blamed it on Mater.

Eventually, Axlerod arranges for Zündapp and the lemon cars to plant a bomb on Mater as a backup plan to kill Lightning McQueen. Later, Mater discovers the story about the conspiracy after helping Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell arrest Zündapp, the lemon cars. By confronting Sir Axlerod for it, his suspicions are confirmed when Axlerod deactivates the bomb with a voice command in order to keep the bomb from killing 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. It is not told what happened to Axlerod after having his plot exposed, but it can be implied that in the end of the movie, he is arrested on the charges of conspiracy to commit crime, murder and embezzlement, since he is last seen being surrounded by several police cars.

## *Cars 3*

Miles Axlerod never appears in a physical appearance for *Cars 3*, noting that he is still in prison. However, he does appears in a cameo appearance for photo of him appears on Sterling's shelves, which possibly signifies that Sterling (who otherwise never appeared) knew him before his arrest.

## Trivia

* His license plate is 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.
* 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 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 V-8 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 states truthfully that B.L. made parts that will not fit on other cars because of them not using standardized bolts.
* Mater states that Miles' engine is "an old aluminum V8 with a Lucius electrical system and Whitworth bolts".
* The jungle Miles gets lost in before he converts to an electric vehicle is the jungle from the 2009 film, *Up*.
	+ Michael Giacchino, who composed *Cars 2,* also composed *Up*.
* 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 went backwards from there to make Axlerod the ultimate good guy and someone else the bad guy, so that when it got up to the climax, everyone could see how brilliant Mater was in figuring out the whole thing.
* Before coming up with Axlerod, Pixar had considered Zil, a Russian super car as the main villain.
* Axlerod's name apparently originated from an old joke his voice actor Eddie Izzard actually once told concerning the invention of the wheel and axle.
	+ Axlerod's voice actor also played Nigel the koala from *The Wild*.
* Along with Grem, Acer, Otto Zündapp and Victor Hugo, Axlerod is playable in *Cars 2: The Video Game*, even though they are villains. However, it could be that the tracks are actually part of the simulation, so it is possible that they are part of it as well.
* Axlerod's personality is very similar to that of Mr. Waternoose (one of the villains of *Monsters, Inc.*, which was released ten years before): both are portrayed as evil businessmen who are originally introduced as being friendly, both rely on deception as part of their motivations and both are ultimately defeated by being exposed by the heroes as villains and being subsequently arrested.