Ahhh... it's got that new movie smell.

Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters.
In Cars, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “car metropolis”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, identity, obsolescence, community, competition.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)E8/E9/E10 · community, identity
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)E8/E9/E10 · community, identity
Charlotte's Web (1973)E8/E9/E10 · community, identity
We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020)E8/E9/E10 · community, identity
Pixie Hollow Games (2011)E8/E9/E10 · competition, identity
The Angry Birds Movie (2016)E8/E9 · community, identityThe same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)consciousness in machines · sentient car racing
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)consciousness in machines · arcade‑verse
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)consciousness in machines · cyberpunk scrapyard
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)consciousness in machines · android longing
Astro Boy (2009)consciousness in machines · robotic metropolis
Christine (1983)consciousness in machines · possessed carThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Turbo (2013)consciousness in animals · competition, identity
Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)consciousness in monsters · community, identity
Tinker Bell (2008)consciousness in monsters · community, identity
Racing Stripes (2005)consciousness in animals · competition, identity
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 (2022)consciousness in aliens · competition, identity
Captain Marvel (2019)consciousness in aliens · identity, prejudice