Pixar Franchise to Debut 'Cars on the Road' on Disney+ Sept. 8

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It was way back in 2006 (16 years ago!) that Pixar premiered the first Cars movie, a critically and popularly acclaimed animated feature the down-home wisdom of which soon made it a movie classic. Since then, there have been two sequels named, creatively, Cars 2 and Cars 3, plus a number of animated shorts that take place in the Cars universe and feature the same cast of colorful characters. Not to mention billions of dollars in merchandise.

Come Sept. 8, look for a new chapter in the Cars world when Cars on the Road debuts on the streaming channel Disney+. In the new series, McQueen and Mater embark on a cross-country road trip, ostensibly to attend the wedding of Mater’s sister (“Wait a minute, you have a sister?” McQueen asks). But as anybody who has ever taken a road trip knows, it’s not the destination, it’s the journey.

The intrepid pair encounter, in no particular order: monster trucks, big rigs, a Joie Chitwood-style stunt car circus, and a Mad Max gathering of post-apocalyptic battle cars (what?). And it looks from the trailer like there is a jet-powered land speed attempt by Mater at Bonneville and an appearance by that giant car-chomping dinosaur thing that was auctioned at Barrett-Jackson a few years ago. Oh, and a car theme park with a haunted mansion (garage?) just like the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.