#-the professor's full name “Zündapp”.

[microwavetoaster-selfships]

Do you think they didn't let Finn say "Professor Z" the entire movie because he's British and he'd pronounce it "Professor Zed"

[twodimentionalgenie16]

every car’s last name is their car type. professor Zündapp is a 1957 Zündapp janus.

….

…acer’s full name

is acer pacer.

[mittch22]

Cars 2 headcanon 1

Professor Zündapp had, in some ways, had an adopted daughter. More like a housemate initially, but they soon developed a deeper bond between them.

When the professor was somewhat of a young man, he was an educator of the sciences at a German university. It was here that he met a young student who showed a significant amount of promise. She was quiet, kept to herself, and unlike the other students, was amicable towards him. She never bullied him, made comments on the sly or engaged with any form of "classroom banter" directed at him. But her grades started slipping drastically, so he confronted her after a lesson to determine what was going on.

He discovered that she had recently been made homeless and had struggles within her personal life that were quite drastic. His heart hurt for her. She was trying so desperately hard, yet the world wasn't letting up its cruel assault.

The professor found an immediate form of kinship with her from the empathy for her circumstances. He had fought so hard to be where he was, and that was without the hard ship of homelessness. So he wanted to help. He offered her a room in his home and she gratefully accepted. This gave the professor time to bring her back up to speed with the subjects she was falling behind with.

Over time, they became very close, and he became more of a father to her than a professor. She graduated after two years, top of her class and he had never been more proud of anyone in his life. She landed her dream job on the other side of the country and, reluctantly, she moved away. But the both of them wrote and kept in contact as often as they possibly could.

When he became fully involved with Axelrod and the plot to destroy alternative fuel, he stopped writing, not wanting to involve her in any way. And now, he sits behind prison bars, having left behind the idea and ability to ever contact her again. He often sits pondering upon how she's doing now. He hopes she's happy.

Helping her as a student may have been the only truly good thing he's ever done in his lifetime.

(Did you know that the professors full name is Otto Wolfgang Zündapp? Just a side note, because I never knew. Otto suits him!)