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Sir Miles Axlerod is one of the characters of Cars 2. He is an oil baron, inventor of Allinol, brainchild of the World Grand Prix and secretly the leader of the Lemons criminal group.

Axlerod is a filthy rich oil tycoon. However, he appears to have decided to use his powers (and trunkful of money) to make the world a better place. An environmental campaigner, Miles has converted to electricity and is promoting Allinol, a cheap and safe eco-friendly fuel.

Miles Axlerod used to be a gas guzzler, but now, he is customized to within an inch of his life to be environmentally friendly. The wire coils in his wheels are connected to an electric battery, and he even has a solar panel on his roof.

Miles created the World Grand Prix to demonstrate the power of Allinol. All the race cars, including Lightning McQueen, are using it.

He is more evil than eco-friendly and is behind an elaborate plot to destroy race cars and discredit Allinol forever, so he can get rich from oil again.

Cars 2[]

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"Axlerod is a former oil baron who has sold off his fortune, converted himself into an electric vehicle and has devoted his life to finding the renewable, clean-burning energy source of the future—ultimately discovering what he believes is the fuel everyone should be using. Axlerod is also the car behind the World Grand Prix, a three-country race he created that attracts the world’s top athletes—but it's really an excuse to show off his new wonder-fuel, Allinol."[1]

Though at first Professor Zündapp appears to be the main villain and the leader of the lemon cars, it is revealed near the end of the film by Mater that Axlerod is actually the mastermind of the entire plot. His supposed "alternative fuel" was actually gasoline engineered to explode when hit with an electromagnetic pulse and was part of a plot to turn the world against alternative energy and have them rely on gasoline, bringing profits to the lemons and himself due to the fact that they own the largest untapped oil reserves in the world. At a party promoting the World Grand Prix, he accidentally leaked oil on the floor, proving that he was not an electric car; however, he blamed it on Mater.

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Eventually, Axlerod arranges for Zündapp and the lemon cars to plant a bomb on Mater as a backup plan to kill Lightning McQueen. Later, Mater discovers the story about the conspiracy after helping Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell arrest Zündapp, the lemon cars. By confronting Sir Axlerod for it, his suspicions are confirmed when Axlerod deactivates the bomb with a voice command in order to keep the bomb from killing himself. To proceed further, Mater opens Axlerod's hood, revealing the same engine (a Rover V8) as the unseen mastermind depicted in the photo, which Finn and Holley obtained from their American counterpart earlier, proving to be a perfect match. It is not told what happened to Axlerod after having his plot exposed, but it can be implied that in the end of the movie, he is arrested on the charges of conspiracy to commit crime, murder and embezzlement, since he is last seen being surrounded by several police cars.

Cars 3[]

Miles Axlerod never appears in a physical appearance for Cars 3, noting that he is still in prison. However, he does appear in a cameo appearance for a photo of him appears on Sterling's shelves, which possibly signifies that Sterling (who otherwise never appeared) knew him before his arrest.

Personality[]

Charming as he seems, Miles Axlerod is a villain. He is ruthless, greedy, deceptive and very manipulative. Miles is also clearly a smart thinker, as he had thought the entire plan to get rid of Allinol through, as he set everything up to make him look like an innocent car. At the end, he was proven to be the villain.

Trivia[]

  • His design resembles a Land Rover Discovery Series I.
  • His license plate is ALT NRG, an abbreviation of "alternative energy." However, before his "electric conversion" (ultimately a lie), he does not appear to have a license plate at all.
  • Miles' tires' texture repeats a leaf-shaped motif.
  • If one looks closely at his front wheels, they can see the words "REGEN R8," meaning "Regenerate."
  • Miles uses a lot of parts made by "British Wheeland" to keep himself going. "British Wheeland" is a parody of British Leyland, which produced both the Range Rover and the notoriously unstable V-8 engine that powered them. Even the logo was a parody of British Leyland's, using a big bold printed W instead of the big bold
    Where have I seen that before?

    Miles Axlerod emerges from the jungle from Up.

    printed L. Mater states truthfully that B.L. made parts that will not fit on other cars because of them not using standardized bolts.
  • Mater states that Miles' engine is "an old aluminum V8 with a Lucius electrical system and Whitworth bolts".
  • The jungle Miles gets lost in before he converts to an electric vehicle is the jungle from the film, Up.
  • The DVD commentary for Cars 2 states that the climax where Mater confronts Axlerod at Buckingham Palace over the plot to sabotage the World Grand Prix came rather early in production, so the Pixar team went backwards from there to make Axlerod the ultimate good guy and someone else the bad guy, so that when it got up to the climax, everyone could see how brilliant Mater was in figuring out the whole thing.
  • Before coming up with Axlerod, Pixar had considered a Russian super car as the main villain.
  • Axlerod's name apparently originated from an old joke his voice actor Eddie Izzard actually once told concerning the invention of the wheel and axle.[citation needed]
    • Axlerod's voice actor also played Nigel the koala from The Wild.
  • Along with Grem, Acer, Professor Z and Victor Hugo, Axlerod is playable in Cars 2: The Video Game, even though they are villains. However, it could be that the tracks are actually part of the simulation, so it is possible that they are part of it as well.
  • Axlerod's personality is very similar to that of Mr. Waternoose (one of the villains of Monsters, Inc., which was released ten years before): both are portrayed as evil businessmen who are originally introduced as being friendly, both rely on deception as part of their motivations, and both are ultimately defeated by being exposed by the heroes as villains and being subsequently arrested. The difference between the two is that Waternoose was forced into villainy because of the energy crisis in Monstropolis, but Axlerod willingly carried out his villainy, motivated by his greed and desire to be wealthier.

Quotes[]

Miles Axlerod: "Ah! He's a little excited, isn't he?"
Lightning McQueen: "Mater!"
Mater: "But wait, I... Oh, shoot!"
Lightning McQueen: "Mater!"
Miles Axlerod: "Has anyone got a towel?"
Lightning McQueen: "Mater, you have to get a hold of yourself! You're making a scene!"
Mater: "But I never leak oil. Never."
Lightning McQueen: "Go take care of yourself right now!"
—When he was leaking oil and blamed Mater for it.
Lightning McQueen: "Sir Axlerod."
Miles Axlerod: "I'm sorry to interrupt."
Lightning McQueen: "No, no. It - it's all right."
Miles Axlerod: "I just wanted to come down here, and to personally thank you. Because after Italy, I was finished, and then you gave me one last shot."
Lightning McQueen: "Listen, I..."
Miles Axlerod: "I probably shouldn't be saying this at all, but I hope you win today. You show the world that they've been wrong about allinol."
Sally Carrera: "Mater would want you to race."
Lightning McQueen: "All right. For Mater."
—Miles "thanks" Lightning for deciding to use Allinol for the race in London.
  • "Deactivate!!"
  • "How did the tow truck figure it out?" (Axlerod's last words before his arrest)

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