You can view it here.

A really cool song is part of the soundtrack, too.

Pixar’s “Cars” opens wide in theaters on June 9.

UPDATE: I’ve added a couple screen shots so you could see this amazing world Pixar has created. The first is a shot of the Cozy Cone Motel, which is a mix of the Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari, N.M., the Wigwam Motel in Holbrook, Ariz., and possibly Roy’s in Amboy, Calif.. The second screen shot is a look at the fictional Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. Mother Road aficionados will recognize several landmarks from the town, including the “Here It Is!” billboard from the Jackrabbit Trading Post, the U-Drop Inn in Shamrock, Texas; a radiator-cap mountain that resembles Tucumcari Mountain, and others.

UPDATE2: A few days ago, Upcoming Pixar found a French trailer for “Cars.”

Several towns along Route 66 have restrictive zoning codes against neon signs — rules that seem nonconducive to the Mother Road experience.

One of the reasons some municipalities restrict the use of neon signs is traffic safety. Apparently there is concern that the vivid light of neon lighting will distract motorists and cause accidents.

I found a letter to the editor by John McGough to a newspaper in Chambersburg, Pa., that rebuts that reasoning quite nicely.

Examples like the Las Vegas Strip and Route 66 show that businesses have been promoting themselves through signs for decades. There hasn’t been any connection between roadside business signs and traffic safety issues.

People are exposed to downtown lights at Christmas, the fountain in the summer, painted gas pumps to promote the Lincoln Highway, etc. If electronic signs are a distraction, then surely all these are distractions as well.

Operating a vehicle in a safe manner will always be the responsibility of the operator. Taking your eyes off the road, eating in the car, using cell phones and smoking are all challenges to vehicle safety.

Regulating message signs is a poor attempt to fix a problem that doesn’t really exist.

USAToday.com helps crank up the hype for Pixar Animation Studios‘ upcoming Route 66 movie, “Cars.”

First is an interview with “Cars” writer and director John Lasseter, the first since the Disney/Pixar merger last month.

Tuesday, Cars will preview at ShoWest, the yearly Las Vegas convention of theater owners, who are starved for an injection of Pixar fuel to jump-start box-office receipts after last year’s attendance decline.

The Capra-esque automotive fantasy about a hot-rod racer who learns how to pull over and smell the exhaust fumes feeds into the filmmaker’s interest in NASCAR and appreciation for older models. The son of a parts manager at a Chevy dealership nearly swoons when he mentions his “pride and joy” — a 1952 Jaguar XK120. “Gorgeous, gorgeous,” he says, while caressing his toy version.

The yarn also dips into the history of how the interstate highway system snuffed out small towns that once boomed with tourists who got their kicks on Route 66.

But, like all Pixar movies, Cars carries plenty of personal baggage, too. “John’s DNA is in every scene,” producer Darla K. Anderson says.

The main source of inspiration was a cross-country road trip he and wife Nancy took with their brood in 2000. He had been working 10 years straight with barely a break when she warned him, ” ‘You’d better be careful because one day you will wake up, and all your boys will be going off to college, and you will have missed it.’ I heard her loud and clear,” he says.

When he got home, he knew what the story of Cars would be: “A character who relearns that the journey in life is its own reward.”

USAToday.com also interviewed Paul Newman, one of the voices for Pixar’s upcoming Route 66 movie, “Cars.”

… Newman, who saw a screening of Cars last week, gives it a thumbs up. “Well, I’m delighted. It’s quite an extraordinary film from the standpoint of character and fun of story.”

“Cars” will open wide in theater June 9.