Bastoli, Mike (May 12, 2011). "Disney Responds to Cars 2 Lawsuit". The Pixar Blog. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011 . Retrieved May 19, 2011. In 2009, Disney registered several domain names in relation to the title "World Grand Prix". [39] However, only the title "Cars 2" has been released. When Mater and Shiftwell are talking in the corridor, Mater's reflection is cast on the wall. However, Shiftwell's reflection isn't. Life-sized remote-controlled models of Lightning McQueen, Mater, and Finn McMissile were created for Cars 2 as part of the “Agents on a Mission” tour, presented by State Farm, to promote the film. The cars were exposed in several North American cities, including Detroit, Toronto, Phoenix, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Miami, among others.

The spy theme of Cars 2 emerged from a scene developed for Cars, which would have seen Lightning and Sally go to the drive-in movie theater, where they would have seen a spy film. Although the scene didn't make it to the final film, John Lasseter, who says to be an avid spy films fan, liked so much the idea of spy cars that he kept it in mind, and it became a main element in Cars 2.When John Lassetire (John Lasseter) is in his World Grand Prix customization, his eyes were brown. However, when he changed it after the World Grand Prix, which he was green with wooden doors, his eyes then changed to blue, which is actually Lasseter's eye color. In the short YouTube documentary A Day in the Life of John Lasseter, it is shown that during the end of production of Cars 2, Professor Z's lines in the interrogation scene with Rod "Torque" Redline were changed to remove any references to radiation ("electro-magnetic pulse" was originally "blast of radiation"). John Lasseter asked that the lines be changed out of respect for Japan, due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that happened there three months before the film's release in the United States, which it was caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. However, in the Cars 2 Junior Novelization and the Cars 2 magazine, "blast of radiation" was used, probably because they were made before they changed the line.

During the credits, Lightning McQueen and Mater are shown to be driving through various locations around the world before finally returning to Radiator Springs. A storyboarded scene which was used during the production of the movie (Finn does not appear in the final scene), In the credits, it was shown that Mater's was born in January 12, 1957, which is the same as John Lasseter's.In international versions of Cars 2, Jeff Gorvette is replaced in one scene by a different character, voiced by a regionally better known racer than Jeff Gordon: [15] The car with eyes in her headlights.At the Marché aux Pièces in Paris, one car has eyes in her headlights, which is an allusion to their standard location on anthropomorphic cars. It refer to how John Lasseter felt it was more appealing for the eyes to be on the windshield instead. This was the final Pixar film to be directed by John Lasseter before his departure from Pixar and Disney animation at the end of 2018. Cars Toons: Kabuto • Big D • Skipper Riley • Sparky • Sandy Dunes • Blue Grit • Idle Threat • Shifty Sidewinder Casting Society of America Announces Artios Awards Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. August 20, 2012. Archived from the original on June 1, 2021 . Retrieved August 24, 2023.

From early 2011 to the opening of Cars 2, Disney/Pixar massively published stills, video clips and concept art from the movie. Characters of the film were also regularly revealed, and a turntable video was provided for most of them.New Releases: Sept. 10, 2019". Media Play News. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020 . Retrieved October 25, 2021. Cars 2: Finn McMissile • Holley Shiftwell • Tony Trihull • Rod "Torque" Redline • Tomber • Miles Axlerod • Professor Zündapp • Grem • Acer • Francesco Bernoulli • Uncle Topolino • Mama Topolino • Jeff Gorvette • Lewis Hamiliton • Raoul ÇaRoule • Miguel Camino • Nigel Gearsley It took a long time for the team to decide the emotional center of the film. Notably, Doc Hudson's death was envisaged as the emotional center of the film, as he could be considered as Lightning and Mater's father, but this idea was finally abandoned, and Lightning and Mater's friendship was retained. Kabuto, Yokoza, and others at the World Grand Prix welcome partySeveral characters from Tokyo Mater, including Kabuto, appear at the World Grand Prix welcome party at the Tokyo National Art Center. When the bombs on Tony Trihull's magnet explode, the explosion was big enough to kill Finn McMissile and Professor Z. However, in the following scenes, they were still alive. Although, it is likely that the two were able to escape the detonation range before it exploded.

When McQueen says that he will still use Allinol in the final race in London, he mentions about Mater, which Mater had his eyelids pointing up. In the next shot, when Brent Mustangburger mentions to the audience what McQueen said about still using Allinol, Mater's eyelids then suddenly change their position, so it should be that it might have skipped a bit.

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Meissner, Johan (June 2011). "Jan "Flash" Nilsson gets a role in Cars 2". Flash Engineering. Archived from the original on October 7, 2011 . Retrieved June 20, 2011. TOP OPENING WEEKENDS BY MONTH". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on August 30, 2019 . Retrieved June 26, 2011. I kept looking out thinking, 'What would Mater do in this situation, you know?' I could imagine him driving around on the wrong side of the road in the UK, going around in big, giant traveling circles in Paris, on the autobahn in Germany, dealing with the motor scooters in Italy, trying to figure out road signs in Japan. [14] Child, Ben (July 22, 2011). "Pixar's John Lasseter: 'Cars 2 is a spy movie' ". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on October 29, 2021 . Retrieved April 1, 2020. Michael Caine as Finn McMissile, a British spy car who, alongside Holley, helps Mater to foil the criminals.