In Pixar’s Cars 2, which villain secretly plans to use Allinol to discredit alternative fuel?

Sir Miles Axlerod is the Cars 2 villain who secretly plans to use Allinol to discredit alternative fuel.

Axlerod presents himself as a reformed oil baron and the organizer of the World Grand Prix. He promotes Allinol, a supposedly clean alternative fuel, and encourages competitors to use it during the international race series. His hidden plan is to make the fuel appear dangerous by remotely triggering explosive reactions in cars running on it.

The scheme is designed to protect the oil industry and damage public confidence in alternative energy. Axlerod manipulates the race and frames other characters while international spies Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell investigate the conspiracy.

Professor Zündapp is another important antagonist, but he works as Axlerod’s collaborator rather than being the mastermind. Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell are intelligence agents trying to uncover the plot. The villain’s full title is Sir Miles Axlerod, and his identity is revealed near the end of the film.