Cars was Pixar's seventh feature film. Which Pixar film was released immediately before it?

The Incredibles was the Pixar feature film released immediately before Cars.

The Incredibles premiered in 2004, and Cars followed in 2006. That makes Cars Pixar's seventh feature film, after Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles.

The sequence is sometimes confused because Pixar released multiple successful films during the same period, and Finding Nemo was especially prominent. However, the studio's feature-film order places The Incredibles directly before Cars. Brad Bird directed The Incredibles, while John Lasseter directed Cars, giving the two neighboring releases different creative leads and very different fictional worlds.