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Cars 2 goes international – Click above for high-res image gallery

Grem from Cars 2 – Click above for high-res image gallery

Meet the cast of Pixar's CARS 2 introducing new characters such as Acer, Grem, Nigel Gearsley and many more.

Cars 2: World Grand Prix Trailer – Click above to watch video after the jump

Mater and Lightning McQueen ride again – Click above to watch video after the jump

The movie Cars 2 is slated for release in Summer 2011, and that means that Hollywood CGI types are busy sketching, rendering and compositing. Production artwork (seen above) found in Disney's annual report, has Lightning McQueen running in Japan ahead of what we'd imagine is a Formula 1 car. The plot has McQueen dashing around the world with Mater to win the Race of Champions. Mater gets confused

Click above for high-res gallery of reader-submitted Cars photoshops

We're shooting from the hip this week for Podcast #71. Rather than prepare, we're going with gut reactions. Starting it off, we mull over the loss of the USGP from Indianapolis, and postulate on where else F1 may pop up in the US. An F1 race on the Vegas strip would be the bomb. Staying with motorsports, we marvel at how Team SARD Dan Roth

Our sister site Cinematical reports that a sequel to Disney/Pixar's Cars is apparently in the works, and could arrive as early as Summer 2009. If that's the case, we should expect to see a trailer for Cars 2 attached to next summer's Pixar entry, Wall-E. The rumor really built up steam when Paul Newman mad