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| “ | Pit stop. | „ |
| ~ One of Guido's only English words. |
Guido is a major character in Pixar's Cars franchise.
His is a blue forklift who serves as Luigi's assistant at the Luigi's Casa Della Tires shop in Radiator Springs. He has dreamed of giving a real race car a pit stop with his tire-changing skills. He mainly speaks in fluent Italian.
He was voiced by Pixar technical director Guido Quaroni. In the Japanese dubbed version from the movie, he was voiced by Girolamo De DeNiro.
Description
Voice
While the first film was being developed, Guido Quaroni gave the character's name as a suggestion to the director John Lasseter and was also asked to do a temporary voice for him, due to originating from Italy. Lasseter agreed to the name, and really enjoyed Quaroni's voice, that he put it into the final film. Quaroni also worked on shadings for the character.
Personality
Guido is nice and friendly, along with being helpful, like when performing pit stops for Lightning McQueen. He is also fast-talking, shown when he speaks in Italian. Although he usually speaks Italian, due to that he comes from Italy, he can speak several English words, such as "pit stop" (although he sometimes pronounces it as "peet stop"), "OK", "boss", and "modify". He can sometimes get angered at times, such as when he is teased at by the Hostile Takeover Bank team. Additionally, he is determined, as shown for that he would try to make sure he makes a good pit stop. Paparazzi can be annoying for Guido, as seen in Cars 3, when he has to get them away from Lightning.
Physical appearance
Guido is a forklift painted mainly blue, having a different shade on his fenders, and brown eyes. According to the Car Finder game, his model is an Alza Tutto Forklift. It also resembles the front of a 1959 BMW Isetta. One time in the first film, Guido wears an Italian flag afro wig and Ferrari crests on his forks. In the second film, he has a sticker of McQueen's racing number on his sides when joining Team McQueen, and during the Radiator Springs Grand Prix, he wears a red and orange afro wig, and a lightning bolt model and United States emblem on his forks.
For the annual "Stanley Days" celebration, Guido paints himself honeydew, with his fenders and roof painted dark green.
Powers and abilities
Guido has slower speed due to his small size, meaning that he is usually good at races that are suitable for other slow vehicles, like Guido Kart.
He also has good skills for performing pit stops, because of his hard practice. His skills are enough for him to make pit stops that only last a few seconds. Guido's main talent is tire changing, a skill he's been practicing his entire life, dreaming of one day becoming a pit crew members for one of the most famous cars in the world. Due to Lightning McQueen's arrival in Radiator Springs, Guido was made a member of McQueen's pit crew, blowing the minds of various different cars, including Chick Hicks' team.
History
Background
Guido was headed to the United States on a cruise ship to pursue his dream of being on a real racing crew, when he overheard Luigi talking about Ferrari to a nearby passenger. After Luigi and Guido started talking, they quickly became best friends, and enjoyed passing the time by playing games and relaxing in the sunshine. After the lengthy voyage, the pair finally arrived in New York City, where they went sightseeing and viewed the remarkable monuments such as the Statue of Luberty, Central Park, the Chrysler Building, the Stock-Car Exchange, and Timing Belt Square. After observing Guido changing a taxi's tire in 2.5 seconds, Luigi requested that Guido would come back to Carsoli with him to work at Uncle Topolino's shop, which they would soon acquire ownership of.
Cars
Guido ultimately realizes his dream when he works on Lightning McQueen's pit crew under the command of Doc Hudson. Guido deals with the derisive attitude of Chick Hicks' pit crew by single-handedly changing McQueen's tires in record time, something not even four experienced pit crewmen could do, causing their mustaches to fall off in astonishment.
At the end of the movie, Luigi and Guido are stunned to see Michael Schumacher Ferrari come into their store, having been told by McQueen that they had the best tires in the world. Luigi asked Guido to punch him, before collapsing on his side. Michael then addressed Guido in Italian, causing the latter to fall over as well.
Mater and the Ghostlight
In the short, Guido and Luigi are building a model of the Colosseum made out of tires, but faint when Mater comes out from inside the model and scares them. At Flo's V8 Cafe, Guido and the rest of the residents listen to Sheriff telling them a story about a couple who got haunted by a blue light called the ghostlight, adding that no one must make the sound of clanking metal. Immediately, everyone leaves for their homes to get some sleep. However, Guido and McQueen decide to play a trick on Mater by hanging a lamp on his tow hook to make him think he is being chased by the ghostlight. By the time Mater realizes the truth, everyone laughs at him, to which he replies sarcastically that he knew about it all along. Everyone then drives back to their homes for the night, but not before Doc warns Mater about the Screamin' Banshee.
Cars Toons
In the Mater's Tall Tales episodes, Guido only makes minor appearances, while having bigger appearances in Tales from Radiator Springs. In Rescue Squad Mater, Guido makes a pile of tires, with one balancing on top of the others. Amazed by the appearance of Nurse GTO, he unknowingly knocks the pile over. In Mater the Greater, he listens to Mater telling his story about being a daredevil, only to be saddened when the story ends with McQueen being unable to get to the other side of Carburetor Canyon. At the end of Tokyo Mater, Guido puts crates on Mater to make him look like his modifications in Tokyo. In Unidentified Flying Mater, Guido attempts to get a customer's hubcap off, only to accidentally cause it to go flying out of the store. In Heavy Metal Mater, Guido performs karaoke at Flo's V8 Cafe. In Mater Private Eye, Guido listens to Mater's story of being a detective, before Carmen arrives and asks everyone to conga. In Air Mater, Mater teaches Guido about flying, by having him drive round and round with his forks put out.
In Hiccups, Guido tries to get rid of McQueen's hiccups by teaching him to hold his breath for as long as he can. Guido eventually gets exhausted after doing it himself, but McQueen's hiccups do not stop until Sally kisses McQueen.
Guido is portrayed as the protagonist of Spinning, where he has to shake a sign so that customers can come to the store. He soon sees that he can perform tricks with the sign, which starts to attract the townsfolk and customers. On his final trick, he throws the spinning sign up into the air and catches it while balancing on a set of tires. Everyone cheers for him before they all leave, while Guido feels happy with himself. However, Luigi comes back to notice that he is not shaking the sign, having not been there to see what happened. As a response, Guido resumes shaking the sign and spins it one last time before the short ends with an iris shot.
In The Radiator Springs 500½, Guido and the rest of the residents dress up for the "Stanley Days" celebration, planning to take a leisurely tour while led by McQueen dressed up as Stanley. However, a group of Baja racers arrives to challenge McQueen to a race. Preparing for the race, Guido and Luigi get McQueen customized for off-road racing, and then follow Mater on their leisurely tour. By the time they arrive back in Radiator Springs, the racers are still absent, having taken a wrong turn at the start of the race, before eventually making it back.
Cars 2
In this film, Guido and Luigi tag along with McQueen as his pit crew. He is seen serving drinks at the Wheel Well Motel at the beginning of the film. Later in Tokyo, he doesn't believe Mater's claim that Holley Shiftwell is his girlfriend, until the end of the film where she finally says it herself in a jaw-dropping moment. Uncle Topolino reveals that Guido and Luigi used to always fight; precisely at that moment, they are seen fighting over a girl car until another girl car comes, which solves their problem. He also helps to fight the Lemons later in the film, removing all four tires of two Gremlins in an instant. He tries to take off the bomb attached to Mater, but his drill won't do it and he gets frustrated and leaves.
Mater immediately figures out who could turn the bomb off, and the others listen as he explains to the police and British Royal Family that Axlerod is responsible for trying to make the world think alternative fuel is unsafe so that they buy regular oil from the lemons' oil field. Eventually, the bomb is turned off by Axlerod, and Mater is knighted by the Queen.
Arriving back in Radiator Springs, Guido and the rest of the townsfolk listen to Mater telling the tourists about his spy story, before Finn and Holley soon come for a visit. As Holley mentions to be Mater's girlfriend, Guido now believes Mater, having his jaw drop. Additionally, the townsfolk decide to host an unofficial race involving McQueen and the World Grand Prix racers. During the race, Guido and the others cheer on for McQueen from Willy's Butte, then notice Mater taking part in the race with his rockets.
Cars 3
Guido first appears at the beginning of the film watching Lightning McQueen's races until, during his last race, he and the other citizens of Radiator Springs witness him during a crash during a race against Jackson Storm. Later, he and the other citizens talk to Rust-eze and Dust-eze in Florida after McQueen watches a tragic video of Doc Hudson's last race before his death. He and Luigi later accompany McQueen during his training with Cruz Ramirez to help beat Jackson Storm upon arriving in Rust-eze Racing Center, Fireball Beach, Thunder Hollow Speedway, and Thomasville Speedway. Later during the Florida International Speedway, he appears attempting to put tires on McQueen but asks him to put tires on Cruz Ramirez to help win against Jackson Storm before McQueen.
Video games
Cars: The Video Game
Guido is one of the characters in the game who is not playable. In the story mode, Guido helps to perform pit stops for McQueen throughout each Piston Cup race. In Radiator Springs, McQueen informs him and Luigi that a bunch of tires has been scattered around the town. Guido continues working at the store while Luigi searches around for the tires. Later, Luigi is arguing with Guido for knocking down piles of tires, when McQueen asks them for tires that are perfect for his match against Count Spatula and his pals. Upon seeing the three monster trucks, Guido and Luigi give McQueen a set of monster truck tires.
Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures
Guido appears in the Luigi's Fantastico Fun! activity, where he and Luigi have to get the tires stacked in time for the customers to arrive. In the activity, the player controls Guido with the computer mouse, and has to catch the tires that Luigi throws from up above by holding the mouse button to turn from side to side, but avoid anything that is not a tire.
Cars: Mater-National Championship
In the second video game, Guido helps to construct McQueen's racing headquarters while Mater hosts the Mater-National Championship for racers around the world. During the championship, Guido and Luigi paint themselves with colors representing Italy, and join Italian racer Giovanni for a team relay, although Guido does not actually take part in any race in the game. Sometime later, McQueen comes to ask for his monster truck tires. However, Guido informs him and Luigi that they have been scattered around in the desert. McQueen manages to find them, and while Luigi works on him, Guido attempts to put a set of tires into a pile, only to notice a vibration moving them about. McQueen soon comes out in his monster truck form, knocking over the tires as he comes out of the store, before apologizing to Guido about using a scary voice to match his look. Later, Guido and Luigi work on Mater to make him a monster truck, only they are now starting to regret it when he smashes through the store's wall and causes a rampage around his yard.
After McQueen wins the first race at the new stadium since its opening, Guido and Luigi ask him to race again, and they all agree that they do another team relay. Afterward, everyone gets together for a photo outside McQueen's headquarters.
Cars: Race-O-Rama
In the third video game, Guido works with the rest of the townsfolk to help McQueen to win the Race-O-Rama series and prevent Chick from taking over Radiator Springs. This is also his first playable appearance, where the player can play as him in the Guido Kart races, which are where smaller vehicles take part in races that are on shorter track layouts, last five laps, and include power-ups.
Guido can also be played as in the minigame Luigi's Tire Find, where the player has to find all of the tires scattered around the town, similar to the Luigi to the Rescue minigame from the first Cars game.
The World of Cars Online
Before the online game was closed down in 2012, Guido made an appearance at Luigi's Casa Della Tires, where the player could buy tires for their character.
Cars 2: The Video Game
Guido is one of the playable characters in the game, training for C.H.R.O.M.E. with all of his friends. He is unlocked when the player collects the "Frequent Flyer" crest, which is where they have to spend twenty minutes in the air. Guido is light in the weight class, which he has a huge amount of speed, but does not have much power. He also has a Team Lightning Guido customization, where he wears his Italian flag wig and holds crests with pictures of a lightning bolt and McQueen's racing number. It is unlocked by collecting the "Bulldozer in a China Shop" crest, which the player has to break 500 objects.
Disney Infinity
Guido appears as a non-playable character in the Cars Play Set for Disney Infinity. Throughout the playset, Guido and the townsfolk are preparing for a racing competition held in Radiator Springs. He is not seen as much as the other characters, but one mission focuses on him, where he scatters off, and the player has to take him back to Luigi's store. Later, he leaves behind a trail of balloons for the player to collect and follow to the racing hub. He then joins Luigi when he plans to invite the World Grand Prix racers over to race.
Guido is unlocked for use in the Toy Box when the player opens a random character chest or the avatar vault. In 2.0 and 3.0, he is unlocked either by using blue sparks in the Toy Store or by putting Mater on the Disney Infinity base.
Cars: Fast as Lightning
Guido is one of the playable characters in the mobile game Cars: Fast as Lightning. He is unlocked when the player beats him while playing as Luigi in the tournament races. Upon being unlocked, his race track and Italian Ice Shop are unlocked as well. Occasionally, he sleeps in his ice shop while the player is visiting the town, although, in the first updates of the game, he used to sleep in Rusty Bumper.
He also has three paint jobs: Lightning Fan, Lightning Pit Car, and Hockey Fan. They are unlocked by either purchasing them with gems or win practice races on Guido's race track.
Disney Emoji Blitz
While Guido is not a playable emoji in the game, Guido can be seen in Lightning McQueen's power-up, where the player must have Guido perform his pit stop for Lightning as fast as possible. If the player is successful, Lightning McQueen will rush across the screen, clearing emojis.
Cars 3: Driven to Win
Guido is one of the six playable characters, the other five being Lightning McQueen, Cruz Ramirez, Mater, Sally, and Ramone, who are available from the start in Cars 3: Driven to Win. However, despite him being in the game - he doesn't speak.
Trivia
- His name is based on the Italian phrase "Io Guido", meaning "I drive".
- The fact his voice actor shares the same name is simply a coincidence.
- He speaks mostly Italian in the movie and very little English.
- His pit stop speed is undoubtedly inspired by F1 pit stops, which are typically sub-2 second stops. This is made more evident with he and Luigi being Ferrari fans.
- Ironically, his pit stop speed can be easily beaten by a real life F1 team (though F1 only has one lug nut)
- Pixar supervising technical director Guido Quaroni, who is a native of Monza, Italy, suggested this name to John Lasseter, and was then asked to provide the temporary voice. Lasseter liked his voice so much it made it into the finished film. Guido even got a chance to work on the character he named and voices: in Cars, Guido Quaroni performed shading work on Guido the car.
- In the English version of Cars, Guido speaks Italian. But in the Italian version, he speaks Emilian dialect.
- Guido is named for the Italian verb “guidare” which means “to drive.”
- In the Cars Toons episode Tokyo Mater, Guido says "modify" in English, which is one of the rare times he says an English word, and the only one in a Cars Toons episode.
- Guido also says OK in Cars. In Cars: The Video Game, Guido says boss in English.
- He also says "pit stop" in English, but pronounces it as "peet stop".
- In the Italian version of the first film, he is voiced by Alex Zanardi.
- His paintbrush is seen in WALL•E when WALL•E builds an EVE sculpture, in which he used the paintbrush as the left arm.
- Guido is also the host of his own racing series, Guido Karts.
External Links
- Guido on the Disney Wiki
- Guido on the Pixar Wiki
- Guido on the World of Cars Wiki
- Guido on the Heroic Benchmark Wiki
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