Miles Axlerod

'Sir Miles Axlerod' is the main antagonist of Cars 2''.

Bio
Sir Miles Axlerod is a former oil baron who has sold off his fortune, converted himself into an electric vehicle and has devoted his life into finding the renewable, clean-burning energy source of the future ultimately discovering what he believes is the fuel everyone should be using. Axlerod is also the car behind the World Grand Prix, a three-country race that competes the world's top athletes but it's really an excuse to show-off his new wonder-fuel, Allinol.

Role in Cars 2
Though at first, Professor Z. appears to be the main antagonist, with Sir Axlerod as an inventor of Allinol and a creator of the World Grand Prix (WGP for short). However, it is revealed near the end of the film by Mater that Sir Axlerod is actually the antagonist behind it. His "alternative fuel", called Allinol, was actually gasoline engineered to expand if hit with an electro-magnetic pulse and was part of a plot to turn the world against alternative energy and have them rely on gasoline instead, bringing profits to the lemons and himself due to the fact that they owned the largest oil rigs in the world. At a party promoting the WGP, he leaked his oil on the floor, proving he wasn't electric; he blamed it on Mater.

Eventually, he arranges for the Professor and the other lemons to plant a bomb on Mater's air filter as a backup plan to kill Lightning McQueen. Mater later discovers the story about the conspiracy after helping Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell arrest Professor Z. and the other lemons, and confronts Sir Axlerod for it, and his suspicions are confirmed when he forces Sir Axlerod into deactivating the bomb with a voice command in order to keep the bomb from killing himself since he would have been caught in the blast. To proceed farther, Mater opens Sir Axlerod's hood, revealing the same engine (a Range Rover L322) as the unseen mastermind depicted in the photo, which Finn and Holley obtained from their American counterpart earlier, proving to be a perfect match. He got arrested on the charges of conspiracy to commit crime, murder, and embezzlement, since he was taken away by two police cars, with the Queen's soldiers towing him out of Buckingham Palace.

Trivia

 * Sir Miles Axlerod is constantly thought to be the secondary antagonist of the sequel.
 * Sir Miles Axlerod's performance model is a Range Rover L322.
 * His lisence plate is ALT NRG, which stands for "alternative energy".
 * He was the car who leaked oil on the floor and blamed it on Mater, proving he wasn't electric.
 * His main goal was to make people buy gasoline instead of Allinol so he can make loads of money.
 * His last name is often misspelled "Axelrod".
 * He, Grem and Acer, Professor Z., and Victor Hugo are all playable in Cars 2: The Video Game, even though they are antagonists.
 * The one with the worst engine ever made was not Professor Z.'s henchman, but the lemons' leader, and he is Sir Miles Axlerod.
 * His full name is Miles Axlerod.
 * According to the DVD commentary, the climactic confrontation between Mater and Sir Miles Axlerod was thought up early in production, so the filmmakers had to work backwards to make the audiences believe somebody else was behind the plot to sabotage the WGP.
 * The words REGEN R8, meaning "regenerate", are on his front wheels.
 * His tires' texture repeats a leaf-shaped motif.
 * He was knighted by the Queen as Sir Miles Axlerod.