In Pixar's Cars, who directed the 2006 feature film?

John Lasseter directed Pixar's Cars, released in 2006.

Lasseter was a co-founder of Pixar and had already directed Toy Story, A Bug's Life, and Toy Story 2. Cars became his fourth feature as director for the studio and combined Pixar's computer animation with the visual language of American road films and stock-car racing.

The film was co-directed by Joe Ranft, who also supplied the voice of Red and had worked as a writer and story artist at Pixar. Because Lasseter is the primary director credited for the feature, questions about who directed Cars have one standard answer, although Ranft's creative contribution was substantial.

Cars was Pixar's seventh feature film. Its setting, Radiator Springs, was developed from research trips along historic American highways, and its characters were designed as automobiles rather than human figures. Lasseter's enthusiasm for cars and road travel helped shape the movie's subject and tone.