what type of car is lightning mcqueen

Lightning McQueen is a fictional anthropomorphic stock car, and the protagonist of the animated Pixar franchise Cars. In the movies, he is depicted as a red race car with yellow lightning bolts on the sides, NASCAR-style wheels, a rear spoiler, and the number 95 painted in orange on his body. While McQueen is partly inspired by the C6.R Corvette, his bodywork is an original design inspired by many different race cars. Lightning McQueens design is loosely inspired by NASCAR Generation 4 cars, but he has a curvaceous body like that of the Plymouth Superbird and Dodge Charger Daytona. His exhaust pipes come from the 1970s Dodge Charger, but with four (two on each side) instead of two on one side or one on both sides. His body draws cues from the design of the Ford GT40, Chevrolet Corvette, and Dodge Viper along with cab elements from a 1990s Porsche 911. According to John Lasseter, the director of the first two films, McQueen was designed with a mix between a stock car and a more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racer in mind, "with some Lola and some [Ford] GT40". However, officially, he is a 2006 custom-built Piston Cup racing stock car Chevrolet.