Mater and the Ghostlight (2006)

Mater, the rusty but trusty tow truck from Cars, spends a day in Radiator Springs playing scary pranks on his fellow townsfolk. That night at Flo's V8 Café, the Sheriff tells the story of the legend of the Ghostlight, and as everyone races home Mater is left alone primed for a good old-fashioned scare.

In Mater and the Ghostlight, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “anthropomorphic car town”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing fear, imagination, prank, community, technology.