50 Best Cars 2 Quotes

Lemon: Embrace your inner lemon. Let it drive you.

Finn: Mater, what would you say to setting up an informal task force on this one?
Mater: Wait. What?
Finn: You obviously have plenty of experience in the field.
Mater: Well, yeah, I live right next to one. I don't know, Finn. I ain't exactly been much help to anybody recently.
Finn: You're helping me. Please, Mater.
Mater: Well, OK. But you know I'm just a tow truck, right?
Finn: Right. And I'm just in the import-export business.

Finn: Now, that's how I like to start the day - you never feel more alive than when you're almost dead.

[Finn McMissile has just tricked the lemons into thinking they've killed him after escaping from the oil platform]
Grem: He's dead, Professor.
Professor: Wunderbar. With Finn McMissile gone, who can stop us now?
[We cut to Mater driving along Route 66 just outside Radiator Springs]
Mater: Mater, Tow Mater - that's who - is heeere to help you!

[McQueen is downcast because of his fight with his friend Mater]
Uncle: You know, back when Guido and Luigi used to work for me, they would fight over everything. They fight over what Ferrari was the best Ferrari; which one of them looked more like a Ferrari. There were even some non-Ferrari fights. So I tell them, "E va bene. It's OK to fight. Everybody fights now and then, especially best friends. But you gotta make up fast. No fight more important than friendship."

Francesco: [at the Tokyo World Grand Prix party, Francesco spots Lightning] Ah! Lightning McQueen! Bona seda!
Lightning: Uh, nice to meet you, Francesco.
Francesco: Yes, nice to meet you too. You are very good looking. Not as good as I thought, but you're good!
Mater: 'Scuse me, can I get a picture with you?
[drives next to Francesco]
Francesco: Ah, anything for McQueen's friend.
Mater: Miss Sally is gonna flip when she sees this!
[Lightning sighs]
Mater: She's Lightning McQueen's girlfriend.
Francesco: Ooh...
Mater: She's a big fan of yers.
Francesco: Hey, she has a-good taste.
Lightning: Well, Mater's prone to exaggeration; I wouldn't say she's a "big fan".
Mater: You're right. She's a HUGE fan! She goes on and on about your open wheels here.
[He taps Francesco's left front wheel]
Lightning: Well, mentioning it once doesn't qualify as going "on and on".
Francesco: Francesco is familiar with this... reaction to Francesco. Women respect a car that has a-nothing to hide.
Lightning: Yeah, uh...
[fake-laughs and shakes his frame "no" while falsely smiling]

Luigi: [at the Tokyo party, Lightning, Mater, Luigi, Guido, Sarge, and Fillmore descend a spiral ramp] Guido, look! Ferraris AND tires! Let's go!
Lightning: Oh ho ho! Look at this! Okay, now Mater, remember - best behavior.
Mater: You got it, buddy. Hey! What's that?
[drives off]
Lightning: No, Mater!
Lewis: [offscreen] Hey, McQueen! Over here!
Lightning: [Lightning joins them] Lewis!
Lewis: Hey, man.
Lightning: Jeff!
Jeff: Hey, Lightning! Can you believe this party?
Mater: [drives over to a small isolated room with glass walls on all sides, with a zen garden and zen master inside; he taps on the glass with his hook] Hey! you done good, you got all the leaves!
Jeff: Check out that tow truck!
Lewis: Man, I wonder who that guy's with.
Lightning: Uh, heh heh. Will you guys excuse me for one little second?
[heads towards Mater]

Mack: Oh, these best friend greetings, they get longer every year.

Lightning: [as a crowd gathers around the television] Oh, it's the Italian Formula car. His name is...
Sally: [trilling the R's] Francesco Bernoulli. No wonder there's a crowd.
Lightning: Wait, why do you know his name? And don't say it like that. It's three syllables, not ten!

Finn: Mater, are these cars considered lemons?
Mater: Is the Popemobile Catholic?

Lemon: Long live lemons!

Battleship: What are you doing here?
Boat: What does it look like? I'm sailing!
Battleship: Well, turn around and go back to where you came from!
Boat: Yeah? And who's gonna make me?
[the battleship reveals a missile launcher and aims it at him, he quickly turns around]
Boat: All right, all right, don't get your prop in a twist! What a jerk!
[Looks back to his stern where where Fin McMissile was sitting]
Boat: End of the line, buddy. Buddy?
[Camera cuts to show Fin McMissile secretly hooked onto the stern of the battleship as it heads to the Lemons' oil field]

Mater: I'll have some of that there pistachio ice cream.
Sushi: No, no. Wasabi.
Mater: Oh, same old, same old. What's up with you?

Sally: [Sees Fransisco on television] He's so good looking, what, with those big, open wheels...
Lightning: Wait, what do you got against fenders?
Sally: Nothing! Nothing.
Lightning: What's wrong with my fenders?

Lightning: [driving on train tracks into a tunnel] Mater?
Mater: Relax. These tracks ain't been used in years.
[train horn sounds]

[McQueen is showing Mater his latest Piston Cup, which has been renamed in honor of Doc Hudson, who is implied to have passed away]
Mater: Wow. I can't believe they renamed the Piston Cup after our very own Doc Hudson.
Lightning: I know Doc said these things were just old cups, but to have someone else win it just didn't feel right, you know?
[McQueen looks sadly at the newspaper article depicting Doc winning his third Piston Cup]
Mater: Well, Doc would've been real proud of you. That's for sure.
[McQueen gives Mater a smile of thanks]

Mater: [after being served a whole plate of wasabi] Now that's a scoop of ice cream.
Sushi: [in Japanese] My condolences.

Grem: What are you laughing at?
Rod: Well, I was wearing a disguise. You're stuck like that.

[Mater has been outfitted for his undercover mission]
Holley: So Mater, it's voice-activated. But, you know, everything's voice-activated these days.
Mater: What? I thought you was supposed to be making me a dee-sguise.
Mater's: Voice recognized. Disguise program initiated.
[the computer uses a hologram to make Mater look like Ivan, another tow truck]
Mater: Haha. Cool! Hey, computer, make me a German truck!
Mater's: Request acknowledged.
[Mater wears a funny German costume with a green hat]
Mater: Check it out! I'm wearing Materhosen! Make me a monster truck!
Mater's: Request acknowledged.
[Mater wears a vampire costume]
Mater: What the? Hahahaha.
Mater: [Transylvanian accent] I vant to siphon your gas! Haha! Now make me a taco truck!
Mater's: Request acknowledged.
[Mater becomes a white taco truck, and his horn plays "La Cucaracha"]
Mater: A funny car!
Mater's: Request acknowleged.
[He becomes painted yellow with red flames, hot rod exhaust pipes, a hot rod engine, and a spoiler. Mater revs his engine a few times, enjoying the disguise]
Finn: [turns off the hologram] The idea is to keep a low profile, Mater.

Finn: Calculate the fastest way to...
Holley: [wings are suddenly appearing out of her] Done!
Finn: Oh, Miss Shiftwell...
Holley: They're standard issue now.
Finn: You kids get all the good hardware.

[McMissile is fighting Zundapp, who's using one of his ships to dispose of McMissile's weapons]
Professor: Give it up, McMissile!
[McMissile uses his bombs on the ship's magnet and the ship blows up]

Uncle: A wise car hears one word and understands two...

Finn: Siddeley? Paris, tout de suite.
Mater: Yeah, two of dem sweets for me too, Sid.

Mater: Excuse me, ma'am.
[expels exhaust]
Mater: Dadgum pistachio ice cream.
Holley: This cannot be him.
Finn: Is he American?
Mater: [swinging his tow cable] Look out, ladies. Mater's fittin' to get funky!
Holley: Extremely.

[Mater has exposed the head of the lemon gang and saved the day]
Lightning: It's official. You're coming to all my races from now on.
Mater: Now you're talkin'.
[the two friends give each other a "high-wheel"]

Finn: I never properly introduced myself: Finn McMissile, British Intelligence.
Mater: Tow Mater, average intelligence.

Mack: Those two are perfect for each other.

Finn: [Captured with Holley in the Big Bentley clock] What are you doing?
Holley: Trying to turn back time. If I can just reverse the polarity...
Finn: Good job! Quick thinking, Holley!

Mater: [in London] What's everyone on the wrong side of the road for?

[In Porto Corsa, Professor Z has just been given orders about what to do with McQueen, who's decided to use Allinol in the final race]
Professor: Allinol must be finished for good. McQueen can NOT win the last race. Lightning McQueen must be KILLED.

Holley: Oh no.

Mater: You know, I always wanted to be a spy.

Mater: McQueen, they're gonna kill you!

Finn: Being killed by a clock. Gives a whole new meaning to "Your time has come".

Sarge: [tasting gas in Italy] How do they do it? These are the same ingredients as back home, but it tastes so good.
Fillmore: It's organic, man!
Sarge: Treehugger.

Lightning: [on the starting line of the Tokyo race] Speed. I am speed.
Francesco: Ha ha ha! Really? You are speed? Then Francesco is TRIPLE speed! "Francesco... he's triple speed!" Ho oh! Francesco likes this McQueen! He's a really getting him into the zone!
Lightning: [to himself] He is sooo getting beat today...

Rod: Okay, McMissile. I'm here. It's time for the drop-off.

Mater: What's a rendezvous?
Luigi: It's like a date.
Mater: A date?
Lightning: Mater, what's going on?
Mater: Well, what's going on is I've got me a date tomorrow.
Luigi: [Guido speaks Italian] Guido don't believe you.
Mater: Well, believe it. My new girlfriend just said so. Hey, there she is. Hey! Hey lady! See ya tomorrow!
Luigi: [Guido speaks Italian] Guido still don't believe you.

Mater: Oh, for a second there I thought you was trying to fix my dents.
Holley: Yes, I was.
Mater: Well then, no thank you. I don't get them dents buffed, pulled, filled or painted by nobody. They way too valuble.
Holley: Your dents are valuble? Really?
Mater: I come by each one of 'em with my best friend Lightning McQueen. I don't fix these. I wanna remember these dents forever.

Acer: Finn McMissile? But you're dead!
Finn: Then this shouldn't hurt at all!
[Finn McMissile sprays the fire extinguisher at Acer]

Uncle: Chi trova un amico, trova un tesoro.
Lightning: What does that mean?
Mama: "Whoever finds a friend, finds a treasure."

Mater: [Approaches Guido, who is tending the bar] Hey, Guido, what's McQueen's usual?
Guido: Come faccio a saperlo?
[How should I know?]
Mater: Perfect! I'll take two!

Mater: [as he and Lightning McQueen are surrounded by The Lemons] Listen fellas... I know what you're goin' through. Many have been laughin' and makin' fun of my my whole life. But becoming rich and powerful beyond your wildest dreams ain't gonna make ya feel better.
Lemon: Yeah, but it's worth a shot!
[raises a machine gun at them when he's suddenly sprayed away by the firetruck and the rest of the Radiator Springs gang attacks the others as well]

Mater: Do not try the free pistachio ice cream! It done turn!

[first lines]
Leland: [speaking into a video recorder] This is agent Leeland Turbo. I have a flash transmission for agent Finn McMissile. Finn, my cover's been compromised. Everything's gone pear-shaped. You won't believe what I've found out here. This is bigger than anything we've ever seen. And no one even knows it exists. Finn, I need backup. But don't call the cavalry, it could blow the operation. And be careful! It's not safe out here!
[sees something offscreen, gets alarmed]
Leland: Transmitting my coords now. Good luck!
[leaves]

Mater: [voice-over reading his letter] "By the time you read this, I'll be safely on an airplane flying home. I'm so sorry for what I did..."
Lightning: [reading Mater's letter in the hotel lobby] "... I don't want to be the cause of you losing any more races. I want you to go prove to the world what I already know: that you are the greatest race car in the whole wide world. Your best friend, Mater."
Lightning: [looks up] I didn't really want him to leave.
Luigi: Wait, there's more here...
Luigi: [moves to next page] "P.S. Please tell the hotel I didn't mean to order that movie. I thought it was just a preview and I didn't realize I was paying for it."
[shifts the page]
Luigi: "P.P.S. That's funny right there."
[Shifts the pages around]
Luigi: "P.P..." There's a few more pages of P.S.'s here.
Lightning: Well, at least I know if he's at home, he'll be safe.

Lightning: The bad guys hit me with the beam from the camera, so, why didn't I... you know.
Mater: Explode in a fiery inferno?
Lightning: Yeah.
Finn: We couldn't figure that one out, either.
Holley: Our investigation proved that Allinol was actually gasoline, and Axelrod engineered it so that when it got hit by the beam, it would explode.
Lightning: Wait a second, Fillmore. You said my fuel was safe.
Fillmore: If you're implying that I switched out that rot-gut excuse for alternative fuel with my all natural sustainable organic bio-fuel, just because I never trusted Axelrod, you're dead wrong man...
[points to Sarge]
Fillmore: It was him.
Sarge: Once big oil, always big oil... man.

Mater: McQueen, let go!
Lightning: Never!

Lightning: Look, Mater, we're not in Radiator Springs.
Mater: You're just noticing that? Boy, that jet lag really done a number on you.

Mater: I call this move "what I accidentally did to my friend Luigi".