The members and their logo.
The Delinquent Road Hazards, also known as The Tuner Gang, are minor antagonists in the Cars franchise. They are minor antagonists of the first film, and Cars: The Video Game.
They are a group consisting of four criminals named Snot Rod, Boost, DJ, and Wingo. The Delinquent Road Hazards have caused trouble in many different installments of the Cars series, and are often portrayed as antagonists. Their logo is a typical graffiti drawing done with spray paint. They are now always being chased by Sheriff. They also often serve as Chick Hicks' minions, usually as a means to mess with Lightning.
History[]
Cars[]
In Cars, the tuners are causing havoc on the highway when they come across Mack, a tired hauler that is transporting Lightning McQueen to the Los Angeles International Speedway. DJ plays music to cause Mack to fall asleep, while Boost and Wingo push him back and forth. Meanwhile, a bobblehead falls onto the trigger that opens the trailer, causing the back door to open. Snot Rod sneezes, which scares Mack, causing McQueen to fall out of his trailer. During the credits, they are caught speeding through Radiator Springs and are impounded by Sheriff and sentenced to pull Bessie, possibly paving a new road for their actions to Mack and Lightning McQueen.
Cars: The Videogame[]
In Cars: The Videogame, they are hired by Chick Hicks to steal gear out of Lightning's trailer. To do so, DJ drives in front of Mack and plays music to put him to sleep, while Snot Rod holds a ramp behind Mack, so that Boost can jump onto the roof to open the trailer. Finally, Wingo collects five boxes of McQueen's gear, while avoiding other objects that fall out of the trailer. After McQueen hears the news, he immediately races out to the highway, and steals the gear back from them. They are then arrested by Sheriff, where they confess to being hired by Chick.
Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures[]
In Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures, the minigame Speed Trap has the four delinquents speeding along the highway, trying to escape from Sheriff (controlled by the player), who is attempting to catch them for speeding.
The World of Cars Online[]
In The World of Cars Online, the four delinquents could often be found being chased around by Sheriff while the player is exploring the open world. In addition, they also appeared in practice races as opponents.
Cars Toon[]
In "Tokyo Mater", Three Delinquents (except Snot Rod) makes another reckless driving, causing Sheriff to chase them down as well Sheriff called them as "import punks". At the end, when Mater defeated Kabuto, DJ was at Tokyo celebrating with Mater.
Cars 2: The Video Game[]
In Cars 2: The Video Game, all four appear as downloadable characters, and once downloaded, they join C.H.R.O.M.E. as spy agents.
Cars: Fast as Lightning[]
In Cars: Fast as Lightning, all four characters are playable, and participate in Mater and McQueen's racing extravaganza, and also have their own customizable tracks. Unlike their previous appearances, the four characters seem to act relatively nice to others, and often compliment them on their racing skills.
Cars: Lightning League[]
In Cars: Lightning League, DJ is the DRH to be an unlockable playable character.
Cars Land[]
Out of the cars, only DJ appears in Cars Land at Disney California Adventure, where he plays songs for the guests as part of hosting his daily dance activity, DJ's Dance n Drive. This show and DJ himself would be relocated to Disney's Hollywood Studios as additional entertainment outside Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy.
DJ also appears in Paint the Night Parade in Hong Kong Disneyland and Disney California Adventure riding on Mack's fold-deck until 2020 (before the COVID-19 pandemic) as he spinning his wild music, he was replaced by Sheriff since 2023 as arresting him.
General information[]
Physical appearances[]
Boost (purple neon/silver Nissan Silvia (S15) with a custom body kit resembling JGTC cars, voiced by Jonas Rivera), Devon "DJ" Montgomery Johnston III (blue 2004 Scion XB customized as a Japanese sound van/music van, voiced by E.J. Holowicki), Wingo (green and purple 2004 Acura RSX, voiced by Adrian Ochoa), and Snot Rod (orange 1970 Plymouth Barracuda mixed with 1970 Dodge Challenger customized as a funny car, voiced by Lou Romano).
Personalities[]
They like to intentionally cause danger on the highway, speed and do reckless driving. They also seem to like rap music as DJ played rap music while speeding along the Interstate. Also, when Snot Rod sneezes, it causes him to naturally speed up.
Profiles[]
Pixar Character Enciclopedia[]
- "The tuner gang — DJ, Boost, Snot Rod and Wingo — are four pumped-up pranksters who think they're better than any other cars on the road. Loaded down with spoilers, speakers, and customized features, they cruise the Interstate terrorizing unsuspecting vehicles."
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- In Italy, Boost and DJ are voiced respectively by F1 racers Giancarlo Fisichella and Jarno Trulli, while Wingo is dubbed by 24 Hours of Le Mans racer Emanuele Pirro.
- Snot Rod was supposed to be in the unmade Cars Toons episode Import Mater. This episode was later remade into Tokyo Mater, in which he didn't appear.
- Snot Rod is the only delinquent road hazard that doesn't appear in Tokyo Mater.
- Snot Rod is the only delinquent road hazard to appear in Cars: Mater-National Championship.
- Snot Rod appears on a calendar in Andy's room in Toy Story 3 as a normal car.
- Wingo was the only Delinquent Road Hazards member that was playable in Arcade Mode in Cars: The Video Game, despite Boost and DJ being playable in the High Speed Heist minigame.
- A repainted, non-anthropomorphic version of Boost could be seen on a poster on the wall of Andy's room in the trailer of Toy Story 3. This poster was replaced in the final movie by a picture of Finn McMissile.
- While DJ's license plate states that his hometown is Treble Town, he has come to visit Tokyo in Tokyo Mater depicts him as one of Tokyo's residents, making it unclear where DJ's true town of origin is.
- It's worth noting that Tokyo Mater is the only Mater's Tall Tales short where Mater doesn't efficiently prove his story was real, so his town of origin will likely always be Treble Town.
- If they hadn't tricked Mack into falling asleep, McQueen would have never ended up in Radiator Springs where he would be taught humility and how friendship is more important in life than racing and winning. However, McQueen would still be in his cocky, arrogant personality due to wanting to win the Piston Cup, in which he gave up on after having ended up at Radiator Springs and learning life lessons from them.
- DJ's original die-cast depicted him with blue stripes rather than green. This was corrected in 2009, but the incorrect striping returned on his 2015 re-release.
- The song DJ plays in his introduction is "Rollin' in the Rearview" by Headbone and Jabu; he later plays "Songbird" by Kenny G to put Mack to sleep.
- From around late 2009 to early 2011, a series of merchandise emerged featuring McQueen alongside the members of gang, often engaging in racing, drifting, or displaying rebellious, aggressive behavior and expressions, which is bizarre, as they are canonically in bad terms with each other. Adding to the bizarre nature of said merch is that McQueen would sometimes be depicted with a front bumper lip, which, outside of his Dragon McQueen form from Tokyo Mater, has never appeared on-screen, as well as the absence of any form of law enforcement, including Sheriff himself.
- Similarly, other merchandise from a few years later sometimes featured Snot Rod alongside McQueen and Mater, which is again incorrect.
- Despite being antagonists, DJ is considered to be friendly to the theme park guests at Cars Land.