The Delinquent Road Hazards are the secondary antagonists of the Cars franchise.
Description[]
Boost the group leader is a Silver 1991 Mitsubishi Eclipse and is dark purple in color. Wingo is a green and purple 2K00 Nissan S15 Silvia. DJ is a blue 2K0
4 Scion xB. Snot Rod is a orange 1970 Plymouth Barracuda. The four cars are young delinquents who hang out on the roads and disturb and annoying others with their sound effects and sound music. They do not seem to be aware of the noise they cause and are not afraid of danger.
History[]
Cars[]
The Tuner Cars appear for the first time speeding past other cars on the road during the night. They meet a sleepy Mack, who is transporting Lightning McQueen to California, who failed to realize he was risking causing Mack to become asleep at a wheel. DJ, knowing that Mack is feeling exhausted, activates a soft music which puts the truck to sleep while Boost and Wingo play with Mack by passing each other. They knock Mack on a barrier on the freeway and Lightning gets out of the trailer while he too was sleeping. That's when Snot Rod sneezes as his friends speed up and Mack wakes up unaware that he left McQueen in the middle of the road.
During the end credits, the Tuner Cars storm into the town of Radiator Springs and are stopped by the Sheriff who locks them behind a gate and boots them. As punishment, they have to tow Bessie as Lightning did to fix a road and are squirted with liquid tar on their bodywork to their disgust.
Cars: The Video Game[]
In Cars: The Video Game, which takes place after the movie, the tuners refuse to let Lightning pass a certain area in Tailfin Pass. Challenging them to a three-lap race, Lightning says they'll let him pass if he wins, and to throw down one of Boost's boost tanks. They ultimately lost to Lightning, and Boost gives up one of his boost tanks, telling Lightning that it's not over between them, in which they leave. Later on, looking for an opportunity for revenge, Chick hires them to rob Lightning's gear from Mack during a drive on the Interstate. They ultimately succeeded in doing so by putting him to sleep, though Mack would notify Sheriff about the robbery after being woken up by Snot Rod's sneeze, which Lightning goes after them, driving on the wrong side of the Interstate, getting their gear back. The tuners would later be locked up in the Impound, and later confess to Sheriff & Lightning that the robbery was not their idea, it was Chick's, which Wingo describes him as "some green race car with a mustache".
Cars Toons: Tokyo Mater[]
At Flo's V8 Cafe, Sheriff pulls up when three of the Tuner Cars, Boost, DJ and Wingo drift past. As Sheriff races after them, Mater says that he used to be an import. He then tells Lightning McQueen what happened.
When Mater is celebrating after winning the race, we see DJ dancing to the music.
Cars 2: The Video Game[]
The Tuner Cars are downloadable playable characters.
Spinned[]
Ramone says to DJ to put the music when Guido stars to Spinning
Cars: Lightning League[]
In the Cars 3 mobile game DJ is the only character unlockable that appears in the game
Trivia[]
- It was thanks to their intervention during Lightning's trip to California that the runner was able to change his personality and meet new friends.
- It was speculated they were sent by Chick Hicks, the main antagonist, to beat McQueen for the Dinoco sponsorship at California. However, canonically, there is no known association between them, and the four appear to be independently causing trouble in general, rather than working for him.
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