Cars 2, which opens on Friday ... also a bunch of new rides rolling onto the big screen. Some, like Grem the Gremlin and Acer the Pacer, take obvious inspiration from real cars.

The AMX concept car was based on the Javelin, but company bosses decided to use a truncated Hornet. The Gremlin had most of the body panels from the Hornet SST 2-door sedan, but changes were made ...