All I remember is that it aired sometime in the mid 80’s and there were two cars that were red and blue. I think they could talk and they fought crime or something. I remember liking the show as a kid, but I can’t remember much about it. Come to think of it, I don’t even know if it was called Pole Position. Sorry for the lack of info. Anyone else remember this show?
Yep. I vaguely remember the show. I know there was a cartoon called Pole Position on Saturday mornings. I think you’re right on the 2 talking cars…if I remember right, their names were Wheels and Brody…for some reason that rings a bell. I’m pretty sure they were accompanied by a couple humans, but thats where my memory fails me too.
I guess I thought Speed Buggy was the better show featuring an anthropomorphic car.
It was based on an Atari video game of the same name.
Are you sure?? I thought the Pole Position video game was just same lame Indy car race around the same track over and over. The cartoon had regular looking cars that talked. Is there more than one game by the same name or what?
Series overview from The Pole Position Animated Series Web Site:
Aside from sharing the name and the idea of Indy racers, there was no connection to the game. 
And to nitpick, the game was written by Namco (the Pac-Man folks). Atari simply acquired the North America distribution rights.
Ahh, I remember that series…
“Hydrofoil mode Roadie!”
And of course, the boy’s car is blue and the girl’s car is pink. Oh how cynical I’ve become in my old age.
I remember that show. Wasn’t there some kind of grey cat-thing they had as a pet? It wasn’t an actual cat, more half-cat half-monkey.
IIRC, Pole Position was part of an ‘arcade’ block that also included Pac-Man and Frogger.
Or maybe it was just part of the trend.
What about…Turbo Teen? 
Meandering minds will also recall that the arcade non-classic
“Q-Bert” also had a brief run as a Saturday morning cartoon.
Q-Bert wasn’t a bad game. The real question is how in God’s name did Kangeroo get its own Saturday morning cartoon? Kangreoo…the slow, slow paced Donkey Kong rip off with its shitty sense of collision detection and horrid jumping interaction.
There was no agenda; Wheels (the girl’s car) was red, not pink.
That was a genetically engineered lifeform named Kuma, IIRC.
Pac had his own show, but Frogger, Q*Bert, Donkey Kong and the rest had their own block produced by Ruby-Spears called Saturday Supercade. The Pole Position cars were part of this block.
*Pole Positi-on! Sit back and watch them go!
Ay-oh, ay-oh, ay-oh, ay-oh, ayohhhh!*
Ah, good times. I think these Atari cartoons were on during about the same era as that Rubix Cube cartoon.
Pac-Man was the best one, and it taught children everywhere to pop a big pill for quick but temporary energy!
I still use a line from that cartoon:
“You’re almost half as smart as people say you think you are!”
Aww crap :smack:. Thanks for the correction Koffing. It must be my superhuman powers of cynacism acting up again…