Where was Cars filmed?

2006 American animated film

Nothing was filmed for Cars (2006): it is animated. Wikidata records no filming location for it and this atlas does not invent one. The real places its setting was modelled on are listed below, under their own heading and never counted as filming locations.

Part of the Cars film series

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Drawn from these real places

Nothing was filmed at these and the story does not happen in them. They are the real places this film’s setting was modelled on, named in its Japanese Wikipedia article. That is the weakest claim this atlas makes about a place, so it is listed apart from everything above and never counted as a filming location.

Places whose own article says it was shot there

1 place whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.

• Quay County United States

  “Tucumcari was the filming location for the western series Rawhide, and it was one of the major inspirations for the fictional town of Radiator Springs in the film Cars, and many of its events today are either Route 66 oriented or inspired by its earlier days as a Wild west railroad town.” Wikipedia

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