If you’ve got children of a certain age, you’ll know how fond they are of the plastic ride-on electric cars you can buy at any toy store in the U.S. You’ll also know that as they grow, children ...

Cars, the animated Pixar movie that cast Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, and Larry the Cable Guy as anthropomorphic automobiles, screeched into theaters in 2006 wooing kids, parents, and critics alike. The ...

Which Lightning McQueen toy is best? “Cars” is a series of movies that have inspired and entertained children for the last two decades, and the way Lightning McQueen’s character grows and becomes less ...

Sphero made plenty of headlines a few years ago when it released the BB-8 robot, a tiny replica of the droid featured in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Fast forward two years, and the company ...

Disney Pixar has released numerous anthropomorphic films, including “Monsters Inc.,” “Finding Nemo,” “Ratatouille” and “Wall-E.” “Cars,” released in 2006, was a unique take on typically inanimate ...

I might be the only person at Gizmodo that likes Sphero’s new Cars toy. My co-workers hate the way the robot announces it’s going to sleep, and the long animated process it takes to wake up. They’re ...

With any Disney movie comes an onslaught of merchandise to go along with the release, and the upcoming Cars 2 film is no exception. Of course, the main character, Lightning McQueen, voiced by Owen ...

NASCAR engineer Seth Dillard uses real-world aerodynamics software to prove Lightning McQueen's smile is actually a drag.