The Trunkovs are modeled after the ZAZ-968 Zaporozhets, a car model from Soviet Ukraine, which means that there was a Soviet revolution in the cars history and by extension so existed the works of Car-le Marx and Vladimir Lemon.
Anyway, were all sick at the house and were just binging kids movies. Cars 2 is so weird. I thought the first 15 minutes were going to reveal to be some in universe movie the cars were watching. Then it just kept going…
With a little tweaking they could have made it something like the movie Robots, where the megacorp that produces the repair parts that everyone needs to survive decides to stop producing them in favor of more lucrative upgrades.
Mater could have been our working class hero instead he was recruited to work as a spook for the empire.