‘Cars’ animated movie gets inspiration from the real Motor City
Inspiration for the new Pixar animated flick “Cars” flowed from the ruins of a
Packard plant on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit and from the Detroit
Institute of Arts, with its car-factory murals by Diego Rivera — and
from what’s left of the legendary Route 66, an artery through the heart
of the American Dream.
According to the story:
Inspiration for the new Pixar animated flick flowed from the ruins of a Packard plant on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit and from the Detroit Institute of Arts, with its car-factory murals by Diego Rivera — and from what’s left of the legendary Route 66, an artery through the heart of the American Dream.
Director John Lasseter and his group visited design studios for the Big Three automakers in Detroit but particularly hit it off with J Mays, the Ford Motor Co.’s group vice president for design. “We are on the same wavelength,” Mays said.
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