- The UK version features Top Gear (1978) host Jeremy Clarkson as the voice of Harv instead of Jeremy Piven. This version is also available worldwide as an audio track on Disney+.
- The international versions have some English text replaced by text in the local language. For the DVD it becomes the language that you choose upon inserting the disc. The replaced text includes for instance Doc's newspaper clippings, the "Closed" signs in Los Angeles and the "Lead lap" text during the last race.
- In the French-language version, the joke about "Mater, like Ta-Mater without the 'Ta'" did not translate, so Mater was renamed Martin, and the joke became "Like Aston Martin without the 'Aston'."
- Since the movie has lines in Italian, the Italian release (where foreign movies are mostly dubbed) was handled with a twist. Luigi was dubbed with a slight Modena accent (the home town of Ferrari) and Guido was dubbed with a thick Modenese dialect. The Ferrari in the end of the movie has been dubbed by Michael Schumacher as in the original version (but of course in Italian, with some German accent). Giancarlo Fisichella makes a cameo. A nice coincidence: Marco Della Noce, who dubs Luigi, is an Italian comedian whose trademark act (several years before the release of Cars (2006)) was playing of the head mechanic of Ferrari, and includes some of the lines from this routine in the dubbing.
- Fernando Alonso has a cameo in the Spanish version.
- In the Danish version "The King" is renamed "Tom Kilerem" and is voiced by 7-time Le Mans champion Tom Kristensen.
- In the German-language version of the film, Mario Andretti is dubbed (and his character name is changed to) 2-time Formula One World Drivers Champion Mika Häkkinen. The character "The King" is spoken by 3-time Formula One World Drivers Champion Niki Lauda.
- The 3D version, as well as the 2013 Blu-ray, 2019 UHD and Disney+ releases, replaced the Disney logo and its music cue with the more elaborate current logo. Additional credits for the 3D conversion were also added after the post-credits scene.
- "Cars" was released theatrically in the widescreen aspect ratio of 2.39:1. The full-screen version was digitally re-rendered shot by shot, moving characters and objects closer together where necessary, to reframe and fit them into the 1.33:1 TV screen. Other CGI films also rendered in both 2.39:1 and 1.33:1 included The Lego Movie (2014), The Incredibles (2004) and A Bug's Life (1998).
- All non-English PAL DVD releases and the Singapore VCD release has the film preserved in its original NTSC pitch despite being sped up from 23.76fps to 25fps to match the PAL frame rate.
- On the European Spanish version of the film, the song "Find Yourself" was given a Spanish cover, renaming it to "Reencontrar" and was sung by pop-rock band El Sueño de Morfeo.
- A 16:9 matted version exists and it can only be seen on various HD television channels. This version can also be found as clips on a Disney Blu-ray promo, the teaser trailer to Inside Out (2015) and featurettes for the third film.
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