If you’ve got children of a certain age, you’ll know how fond they are of the plastic ride-on electric cars you can buy at any toy store in the U.S. You’ll also know that as they grow, children ...

Cars, the animated Pixar movie that cast Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, and Larry the Cable Guy as anthropomorphic automobiles, screeched into theaters in 2006 wooing kids, parents, and critics alike. The ...

The product is controlled through a companion iOS / Android app over Bluetooth. Kids can play a mobile game that has them help in a virtual pitstop to outfit cars. Lightning McQueen, the actual toy, ...

I might be the only person at Gizmodo that likes Sphero’s new Cars toy. My co-workers hate the way the robot announces it’s going to sleep, and the long animated process it takes to wake up. They’re ...

Pixar’s original Cars movie worked because you believed cars had feelings. Anthropomorphized vehicles talking, fighting, falling in love. It all clicked because of Pixar’s animation prowess and the ...

Lightning McQueen is alive, and in my living room: It's not the first Lightning McQueen toy spawned from the $US1 billion Pixar film franchise, but it is the first ...