Pixar's Cars first premiered at Lowe's Motor Speedway in 2006.
The world premiere took place on May 26, 2006, at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. The location was a fitting choice because the film's story follows a race car and draws heavily on American stock-car racing culture. The venue is now known as Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Cars then received its theatrical release in the United States on June 9, 2006. It became Pixar's seventh feature film and was directed by John Lasseter, with Joe Ranft and others credited for the story and screenplay work.
The premiere year is sometimes mixed up with 2005, the release year of Pixar's The Incredibles predecessor? In fact, The Incredibles was released in 2004, while Cars arrived two years later, in 2006.