Chick Hicks

Chick is a 1979 Shyster Cremlin, a fictional car based on and designed after a 1981 Buick Regal in NASCAR form. Chick is painted green, with the number 86 painted on his doors, and has yellow rims. He also has a grille, which serves as a mustache. According to the 2009 Cars Die-Cast Collectors Guide, Chick has a total of over 334 stickers. On his hood, sides, rear and right headlight, he has a logo of his sponsor HtB.

Even to his own minions, Chick is extremely rude, arrogant, and self-centered, and loves winning like Lightning McQueen was at the start of the film; however, these traits are more exaggerated in Chick and often make him more ridiculous or obnoxious. Chick always brags about winning, and he's also sarcastic and intimidating. Having lived all his career in the shadow of The King has made him bitter and devoid of any sense of fair-play which makes him resort to cheating his way into winning by knocking other racers out of the race. He even intentionally bumped into and caused the King to crash, despite the fact that he was going to retire anyway.

Chick largely serves as a parallel to McQueen. They are both racers who dream of getting at Dinoco, which represents the peak of success (the former also wanting to be the first rookie to win the Piston Cup). McQueen, however, learned to accept that helping others is more important than fame and fortune after choosing to give up the Piston Cup so he can help the King finish his last race. Chick, on the other hand (despite having won his first Piston Cup by cheating), never learns the lesson that there is more to racing than just winning and let his selfishness, arrogance and anger be his downfall. Chick serves as an example of what McQueen would have become if the latter had gotten too caught up in his selfishness and arrogance.

During the events of the third film, despite being a reporter, Chick Hicks still remains an unpleasant, greedy, and selfish rude bully. He mocks McQueen for being no match to Jackson Storm and once again shows that he lets his anger and arrogance control his actions. He even brags to the audience about the Piston Cup he won and presents his trophy next to him, which also shows that he is still rude, even proclaiming himself as a Piston Cup winner and "Champion for the Ages". This helps cement Chick Hicks as a truly irredeemable character who only cares about himself, especially the trophy he won and

also show that he learned nothing from his mistakes from the first film. This means he doesn't care if he cheated to get the cup and doesn't care if cars got injured along the way as he purposefully injured cars to do so, even forgetting that the angry fans booed him when bringing up his Piston Cup victory.