Which Pixar Cars film was released in 2011?

Cars 2 was the Pixar Cars film released in 2011.

The film is the second feature in the Cars franchise and follows Lightning McQueen as he enters the World Grand Prix. Mater travels with him and becomes entangled in an international spy operation involving Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell. The movie therefore shifts the series from the first film's small-town racing story toward a globe-spanning action adventure.

Cars was released in 2006, while Cars 3 followed in 2017. Those dates make the sequence easy to remember: the first and second films are separated by five years, and the third arrives six years later. Cars 2 was directed by John Lasseter and Brad Lewis. It was also the first Pixar feature released after Toy Story 3 and continued the studio's use of computer animation for vehicle characters and large racing environments.