What is the name of the fictional California town in Pixar’s Cars?

Radiator Springs is the fictional California town in Pixar’s Cars.

Lightning McQueen reaches Radiator Springs after accidentally damaging the town’s road and being ordered to repair it. The experience changes his priorities: instead of focusing only on winning the Piston Cup, he begins to value community, friendship, and history.

The town is presented as a former Route 66 stop that declined after Interstate 40 diverted traffic away. Its locations include Flo’s V8 Café, the Cozy Cone Motel, Ramone’s House of Body Art, and the Wheel Well Motel. The setting draws on real Route 66 towns and roadside architecture across the American Southwest.

Radiator Springs is fictional, but the film’s visual research was grounded in real places. The Cars Land area at Disney California Adventure later recreated many of the town’s landmarks as an attraction setting.