

Lightning and Fletcher are the only cars to appear in both the Xbox 360 version of Cars: The Video Game and the PC version of Cars: Mater-National Championship, but not use the same 3D model in both games.Lightning and Vince are the only cars who have a 100% confirmed horsepower.Lightning and Chick are the only Piston Cup Racers to have their numbers printed on their right taillight, while every other one either lacks it or has it on their left taillight.There also are some abilities he has normally, such as being able to picture cars he has not seen yet in his dreams and tilting. But he is shown to have had to be tutored these moves by older, wiser cars such as Doc, Fillmore, Sarge, and Mater.

Lightning is shown to have a very large number of abilities, such as Powersliding, Boosting, Jumping, and even Driving Backwards. Changes like these also happen to most other main protagonists in their respective series. Lightning was originally (and in a sense in Cars: The Video Game) depicted as a self-centered "One-Man Show", but he has later changed and has friends other than his fans and Mack. After Cars 2, he was changed to his "WorldGrandPrix" design, losing his Rust-Eze decals and having his spoiler changed, although after Cars 3, he would mostly revert back to his normal self (although he still kept his real headlights), with a somewhat altered red and yellow design. Lightning's livery has changed throughout the series, in Cars: The Video Game, he is painted red with a yellow bolt, but in the next two games, he is a more maroon color with a design similar to Philip. There also was some questioning that Sarge might have been the main character instead of him, but no light ever came of this before the project faded into obscurity.

His 3D model for the game was showcased, and he later appeared in the 25-second pre-alpha clip where he was being played as against an AI-controlled Luigi on a demo track. More about his roles can be read on the respective articles of the games, their events, and other characters.Īlthough Lightning is controlled in the first two tutorial races, he is actually then not playable again until he is unlocked as the final playable character. In all Cars: The Video Game, Cars: Mater-National Championship, and Cars: Race-O-Rama, he is the main character of the story mode.
