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*Warning for slight gore, injury and car angst*
Grem and Acer (c) Disney-Pixar

Not faring well in the pub brawl, a very dented-up Grem and Acer are trying to figure out how they'll limp their way home, since Acer is missing a wheel and Grem's shocks are destroyed.

Grem has suffered a badly caved-in door, which is not unlike the injury he inflicted on Rod Redline, and his roof rack now looks a little like his mentor Professor Zundapp's. Half his grille has been shattered, exposing his air intake (?) behind it. He has a real danger of losing that eye if he doesn't seek medical attention, which neither car is likely to receive if they go on the run.

Despite the way this looks, Grem isn't angry at Acer, they're just arguing as usual. This may have been drawn with considerable sympathy for them but the intention was not to make villains look heroic. Grem and Acer did some awful stuff in the movie and showed no remorse, but when they were surrounded in the bar and about to be beaten, they exchanged this pitiful look that suggested they'd been bullied and beaten many times before.

*Update* 4-21-12: So now there's a "Crash Damage Grem" Quick Changers diecast, complete with caved-in doors and the saddest, most pitiful little expression ever. Mattel depicted the crushed-in doors far better than I did, with the hockey-stick stripes actually bent inward.

Description
*Warning for slight gore, injury and car angst*
Grem and Acer (c) Disney-Pixar

Not faring well in the pub brawl, a very dented-up Grem and Acer are trying to figure out how they'll limp their way home, since Acer is missing a wheel and Grem's shocks are destroyed.

Grem has suffered a badly caved-in door, which is not unlike the injury he inflicted on Rod Redline, and his roof rack now looks a little like his mentor Professor Zundapp's. Half his grille has been shattered, exposing his air intake (?) behind it. He has a real danger of losing that eye if he doesn't seek medical attention, which neither car is likely to receive if they go on the run.

Despite the way this looks, Grem isn't angry at Acer, they're just arguing as usual. This may have been drawn with considerable sympathy for them but the intention was not to make villains look heroic. Grem and Acer did some awful stuff in the movie and showed no remorse, but when they were surrounded in the bar and about to be beaten, they exchanged this pitiful look that suggested they'd been bullied and beaten many times before.

*Update* 4-21-12: So now there's a "Crash Damage Grem" Quick Changers diecast, complete with caved-in doors and the saddest, most pitiful little expression ever. Mattel depicted the crushed-in doors far better than I did, with the hockey-stick stripes actually bent inward.