I think that it’s likely that a bear did the damage shown here. It could have been dogs (or coyotes); probably not just one dog or coyote but several, but a bear seems much more likely. I did know an Airedale one time that was such an inveterate cat killer that he tore and dug through the center of a king-sized mattress and box springs to get at a cat, so I think it’s just possible that a canine of some sort could have done this.

Cats don’t generally go in for this kind of thing. They will break into poultry coops sometimes, and sometimes man-eating lions and leopards tear through hut walls to get at people, but as a rule this kind of damage would not be something a cat would do. A big cat would be more likely to settle down beside the car and wait in ambush for the cat to venture out from under the hood, and then grab it.

This sounds like a bear smelled something that the owner of the vehicle ran over and was trying to get at the leftovers in the wheel well.

“If an acorn falls in the woods, the deer will hear it, the eagle will see it, but the bear will smell it”
Unknown Native American