Have you ever seen the Cars movies? Lightning McQueen was my favorite car / character in the films.
NO,I AM NOT INTEREST THE CAR MOVIES
Sorry to hear that. Many people think Lightning McQueen  was named after race driver Steve McQueen, but actually he was named after a Pixar animator Glenn McQueen.
ITS OKAY.DID YOU MEAN RACER McQUEEN.
No I meant Lightning McQueen, from the Cars movies series. People think he was named after Racer McQueen but that's not the case.
YES,I LIKE A MOVIE
GT40." During the scene where he helps restore Radiator Springs to its 1950s heyday, he is painted much like a 1950s Chevrolet Corvette C1, once again hinting at his Corvette lineage. His number was originally set to be 57, Lasseter's birth year, but was changed to 95, the release year of Pixar's first film "Toy Story".
Characterization.
During the initial research for the first film, John Lasseter met with General Motors designers to discuss the new Corvette design but subsequent changes to the
Lightning McQueen
Lightning McQueen is an anthropomorphic stock car in the animated Pixar film "Cars" (2006), its sequels "Cars 2" (2011), "Cars 3" (2017), and TV shorts known as "Cars Toons". The character is not named after actor and race driver Steve McQueen, but after Pixar animator Glenn McQueen who died in 2002. His design is inspired by a stock car and "a more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racer," with "some Lola and some Ford