I enjoyed the movie Cars. I am not a car expert nor am I into autoporn, so anything that can be about cars and still be interesting is, in my mind at least, pretty impressive. Hence my great respect for Top Gear. But for something to actually get me excited about car racing--at least the kind where you drive in an oval shape for a prolonged period of time--that's even more impressive. So the fact that Cars' opening sequence was intriguing says a lot for Pixar magic. They can put life into lifeless things and put my interest into things that I could normally give a shit about.

So I enjoyed it. But I apparently wasn't the only one to consider what a world populated by anthropomorphized cars would mean--sort of like Playskool's Maximum Overdrive. We envisioned a world where the cars were running on a biofuel made of nothing but ground-up people.

Jake Parker at Agent 44 has wondered about Carworld as well. So much that he created a model of Lightning McQueen that shows his "major internal structures." There's a fragment over there--you'll need to go to his blog to check out the full deal. It is extraordinarily weird to see a giant brain in the back seat area of a car. It reminds me of a friend of mine in high school who took the back seat out of his car so he could install bigass speakers back there. So it's like my friend from high school turning out to be the Ultra-Humanite.

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