villian cars

I wanted to know what they were too. I recognized the Gremlin and the Pacer (I actually liked their shapes when they were being sold but they had horrible mechanical problems). They are called the Lemons crime families.
The Pixar Wiki at Wikia has lots of info on them http://pixar.wikia.com/Lemons and all the characters from the movie http://pixar.wikia.com/Category:Cars_2_Characters

Looks like they took them from Time's list of "The 50 Worst Cars of All Time" http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1658545,00.html

The Scientist car, Professor Z, is actually a 1958 Zunndapp Janus and is the 15th worst car on the list. It had a rear facing passenger seat so that passengers could watch the people behind them flip the driver off for having a top speed of 50 mph. http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_165 7867_1657782,00.html

Grem http://pixar.wikia.com/Grem is a 1974 AMC Gremlin http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_165 8498_1657865,00.html

Acer http://pixar.wikia.com/Acer is a 1975 AMC Pacer http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_165 8533_1658042,00.html

In the scene where they chase Finn McMissile on the oil platform I see a what looks like a 1985 Yugo GV http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_165 8533_1658529,00.html but the Wiki says it's based on the Yugo GL and is called a 1983 Volgar Hugo NG-1 which is a made up model for the movie. Their leader is Victor Hugo http://pixar.wikia.com/Victor_Hugo

Vladimir Trunkov http://pixar.wikia.com/Vladimir_Trunkov is the head of the Trunkov family. They are Soviet era Zaporozhets, probably ZAZ-968s https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmotoburg.com%2Fimages %2Fzaz-968-05.jpg&f=1

They could have thrown in a '76 Chevette or '71 Pinto too. Those Pinto's blew up on rear end collisions.

Car and Driver goes through and identifies most the vehicles in the movie http://www.caranddriver.com/features/the-vehicles-of-cars-2


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