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| Snot Rod | |
| Character Information | |
| Playable? |
Yes |
| Gender |
Male |
| Make Model |
1970 Plymouth Barracuda |
| Alignment |
Bad later Neutral |
| Body Color |
Orange, black |
| Eye Color |
Green |
| Occupation |
Criminal |
| Performer |
Lou Romano |
Snot Rod is one of the DRH. He has appeared in all Cars games except Cars: Race-O-Rama and Cars 3: Driven to Win. He rarely talks, but instead sneezes, and releases flames. He is very unpredictable.
Cars: The Video Game
Story Mode
Snot Rod is part of the Tuner Gang that is blocking Lightning from entering some of the roads in Tailfin Pass. He is later hired by Chick Hicks to rob Mack and steal Lightning's racing gear, and his role is to hold the ramp so Boost can jump on top of the trailer. After Wingo escaped with Lightning's gear, Snot Rod sneezed and woke Mack up, only to notice the gear was gone. Once Lightning hears of this, he steals his gear back and has them put in the impound, where they admit to working for Chick.
Arcade Mode
Snot Rod will occasionally appear as an AI opponent in the Tailfin Pass races and Radiator Springs GP in arcade mode, but is not a playable character. The only time he was playable was in the PSP version of the game.
Snot Rod as he appears in the game.
Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures
Snot Rod appears in level 1 of "Speed Trap" where Sheriff must arrest him.
Cars: Mater-National Championship
Snot Rod is the only one of the DRH to appear in this game. He competes in North Willy's Butte, Rustbucket Grand Prix, The Upper Mine, Stadium Race 3, and Team Relay 4, he usually is the slowest car, except in North Willy's Butte, where he is often faster than Otto. He is once again not playable. However, he can be seen being played as in the game's intro, which possibly confirms that he was meant to be playable at some point, but was ultimately made an npc like in the first game.
ENGINPWR
Even though Snot Rod is not playable, a major rumor sparked that he was playable. In the game's intro, there is a shot where Snot Rod is viewed in the player's perspective, performing the jump on Wheel Well Circuit. This led people to believe that somehow, he was playable in the real game, and there must have been a secret way to unlock him, much like Waluigi in Super Mario 64 DS. The most common theory to unlock him was that you have to enter "ENGINPWR" into the Cheat Codes. This theory especially picked up after real screenshots of him being played as were posted and claimed the rumor was true. However, it later turned out that he had actually modded the game and made Snot Rod playable. Nowadays, although this rumor is long proven false, anyone can now mod their game to play as Snot Rod.
The Intro shot that sparked the rumor
Cars 2: The Video Game
Snot Rod is now officially playable without need of mods, but only as a DLC character in the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game in a $3 pack with him, Boost, Wingo, and DJ.
Cars: Fast as Lightning
Snot Rod is unlocked as a playable character after you complete Sheriff's track, instead of being called Snot Rod, he is called "SnotRod" in 1 word. Beating his track unlocks Wingo.
Cars:IGNITE Remake
Before the project shut down, it was very likely that Snot Rod would have been a playable character.
Livery
Snot Rod is orange with a black stripe with "Snot Rod" written in it. He also has an "S/R" logo printed on his grille and trunk. His front and rear wheels are differently sized like most hot rods, and has the familiar engine blower on his hood.
Personality
Snot Rod is usually silent, and usually can be spineless, he tends to have a rather goofy persona when he does end up speaking.
Abilities
Snot Rod's main ability is his allergies that make him sneeze often and shoot flames, doing this will allow him to easily gain speed and alert anyone nearby, even if they are asleep.
Gallery
Trivia
- Snot Rod's name is a portmanteau between "Snot", a slimy substance released through sneezing, and "Hot Rod", a custom car built for high speeds.
- Even though Snot Rod has no dialogue in main series games, he is capable of speaking English as seen in the movie, Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures, and the cutscenes in Cars: Fast as Lightning.
- Even though Snot Rod has a role in High Speed Heist, the game does not have the player control him.
- According to this, he has a trailer hitch, while normal Hot Rods should not.
- Even though he does not, he could easily do Wingo's role without the need of him having to catch up to Mack, as he could just take the gear right after Boost opened the trailer.
- Although the DRH is mainly of Japanese imports, Snot Rod is an American Muscle Car. Therefore, referring to Snot Rod as a "Tuner" is a false statement.
- In the PSP version of Cars: The Video Game, Snot Rod is oddly treated the same way DJ is (being the third slowest DRH).
- According to notes found in the files of the second game, Snot Rod was supposed to appear as the opponent in Race 'N' Chase 6, but due to his overpowered acceleration, he was replaced by Luigi.
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