Okay it's a Nissan Silvia and not a NASCAR stocker, but it's a real car done up like Lighting McQueen! And it drifts!

The Pixar film Cars is a story of redemption and personal growth about, well cars. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 1996 Dodge Avenger has been given new life as a homage to that CGI flick, but is there anything redeemable about its price?

Normally, I wouldn't want to bring up something of this gravity during the holidays, but I have to take a firm stand on an issue that's been bothering me for a long while. I've sat by long enough and did nothing while wrongs were committed, on greater and greater scales. But no more. Today I make my stand. Here goes:

"Cars 2" is about to hit theaters, but the folks over at NextMovie were hungry for even more anthropomorphic vehicles — here's seven famous movie cars hilariously redone as Pixar characters.

The latest racer to get his own Pixar tribute in "Cars 2": Lewis Hamilton, whose character gets a McLaren MP4-12C-like body and British Racing Green. There better be some racing against Jeff Gorvette.

Pixar's hit animated film Cars featured anthropomorphous automobiles. Our bet is Tim Burton's version would feature sharp-handled farm machines with dark, tortured anthropomorphous souls like this Russian backhoe. [Funny Or Die, EnglishRussia]

Animated or not, "Cars" was one of the best car movies made this past decade. Only oddity? The machine/flesh cars populating Pixar's world. They have engines and tires, but also tongues and eyeballs. Here's how it works. [Agent44 via FuckYeahCarburetors]

Got little car nerds and looking for ways to further indoctrinate them? Pixar's cooking up Cars 2 and here's the first image showing some inter-series racing going on in the shadow of mount Fuji. [Pixarplanet via GordonAndTheWhale]

Are cars in movies these days? Yes. Are they fun to watch? Not so much. Cars and movies are roughly the same age, but they've never really gotten along. What's wrong with this (motion) picture?

Being big fans of the first movie, we got excited when told "Larry the Cable Guy" is in voice studios today recording his part in the "Cars 2" movie for Pixar. Is that weird? [Twitter]