Talk:Cars 3/@comment-31583911-20170611161127/@comment-24865409-20170612070434

Because story pacing.

McQueen is a rookie in Cars 1, and hasn't won a Piston Cup by the end of the movie.

If Cars 3 was the second movie, then you'd go straight to McQueen being an old racer with many Piston Cups under his name.

At the very least, Cars 2 shows what McQueen was like at his prime and leaves the audience with no doubt that he is the best racer in the world (with 4 Piston Cups under his name).

Also, I view Cars 2 as an awesome movie, with great character and lore development given to characters other than McQueen, and not being confined to just a small town in the middle of nowhere (which fits the unique fact that these characters are sentient vehicles).

Also, racing with sentient cars is quite a cliche plot. Cars 2 at least had its own signature story to tell. And it shows us spy cars, military cars, police cars, and other race cars that are not just NASCAR competitors like McQueen is.

Finally, thanks to not having an expected focus on racing, Cars 2 offers the audience a more important message than sportsmanship and not being selfish. Cars 2 preaches about international co-dependence, and the importance of friendships.