In Pixar's Cars, what is the name of the town on historic Route 66?

In Pixar's Cars, the town on historic Route 66 is Radiator Springs.

Lightning McQueen reaches Radiator Springs after accidentally damaging the town's road and being ordered to repair it. The community becomes the central setting of the story, where he meets Mater, Sally, Doc Hudson, and other residents.

Radiator Springs is fictional, but its design reflects real Route 66 communities and landmarks. The film presents the town as a place bypassed by a newer interstate highway, a change that reduced traffic and harmed many roadside businesses along historic routes.

The name is sometimes mixed up with the road's real locations. Radiator Springs is not an actual Arizona town; it is Pixar's imagined community, assembled from observations of Route 66 landscapes and architecture.