Pixar animation Cars shows no sign of stalling at North American cinemas as it topped the US box office for a second weekend.
Featuring the voices of Owen Wilson and Paul Newman, the family comedy, about a hot-shot talking vehicle called Lightning McQueen that gets into scrapes, racked up takings of $31.2m (£16.9m).
Directed by John Lasseter (Toy Story franchise, Monsters Inc, A Bug's Life) Cars is the seventh Disney-Pixar film and the first collaboration since Walt Disney bought Pixar in January for $7.4bn (£4bn). It opens in the UK on July 28.
Nacho Libre, starring Jack Black (pic) as a wrestling cook, beat another motoring movie, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, to the second spot with takings of $27.5m (£14.8m). Tokyo Drift, which is the third in the critically-derided Fast and Furious series, earned $24.1m (£13m).
Meanwhile new movie The Lake House, which reunited Speed duo Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in a romantic time-travelling drama came fourth, with takings of $13.7m and Garfield: A Tail Of Two Kitties, featuring Bill Murray's voice, droppped to sixth place.
