The Next-Generation Racers (shortened to Next-Gens or Next-Gen Racers) are major characters of Pixar's 18th full-length animated feature film Cars 3. They come from Next-Gen, a vehicle manufacturer that mainly focuses on making high-tech race cars and also makes semi-trucks and forklifts.
Personalities[]
Like the veteran racers, the Next-Gens are cold, charismatic, nice, neutral, serious, jerks, prankers, optimists and pessimists.
Biography[]
Past[]
Ray Reverham was tasked by Axle P. Biggs with finding promising race cars to be trained at the The Biggs Industries Racing Complex. 8 racers were recruited, including Tim Treadless. Later, after hearing about a popular racing simulation game, Super Corsa 3, he bought the company that developed it and organized the biggest online video game tournament to recruit the winner as final, 9th trainee to the team. The car that won was Jackson Storm.
In a special racing center with the other next-generation racers, Storm's attitude was a huge problem. He would often bully other members of the training center and steal their allotted time on the racing simulators. He would frequently challenge the other racers on the simulators, and upon losing to one racer in particular, Storm raged, damaging equipment and setting off the fire alarm. Due to repeated bad behavior, Mr. Biggs decided to fire Jackson. Ray saw some kind of potential in Jackson, however, and decided to leave the training center with him.
Cars 3[]
When Jackson Storm is the front-runner in the next-generation racers, who have capabilities the veteran racers lack, most notably higher speed, giving veterans a hard time trying to keep up. Following Jackson's win at Copper Canyon Speedway, six veteran racers are fired by their sponsors with next-gens replacing them. More and more next-gens would begin appearing throughout the season while veterans either get fired or make their own decision to retire to clear the way. By the Los Angeles 500, the next-gens have replaced all but eleven of the veterans, though they, excluding Lightning McQueen, would have the same fate as the other veterans afterwards being the last stock car to be replaced during the Florida 500 in 2017. After winning the Florida 500, trainer Cruz Ramirez joined the next-gens as Dinoco's replacement racer for Cal Weathers, who had retired some time ago.
Trivia[]
- In Cars 3, there appear to be 6 unspecified models of Next-Generation race cars. You cannot determine if they belonged to the Next-Gen trademark.
- The models of Cam Spinner, H.J. Hollis, Steve LaPage, J.D. McPillar, Ed Truncan, Eric Braker, Jim Reverick, Conrad Camber and Noah Gocek are unknown.
- The models bear resemblances to a Chevrolet Corvette C7, a 5th generation Dodge Viper, a 2nd generation Ford GT, a late 5th to early 6th generation Chevrolet Camaro, a 6th generation Ford Mustang GT, an Aston Martin Vulcan and the Mercedes-Benz Vision Grand Turismo.
- The Next-Gens in the Cars universe are these models:
- Next-Gen 2017 Race Car SA-2
- Next-Gen 2017 Race Car SA-3
- Next-Gen 2017 Race Car SA-5
- Next-Gen 2017 Race Car SB-4
- Next-Gen 2017 Race Car SB-9
- Some Next-Gens had their numbers changed due to the NASCAR crossover.
- Chase's number is now 9 due to Byrev taking the number 24.
- Ryan's number is now 12.
- Danny Swervez's number is now 99.
- Bubba's number is now 23.
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