Cruz Ramirez

Cruz Ramirez is the deuteragonist of 's 18th full-length feature film , the third installment in the film series, and a minor character in its 2022 spin-off miniseries .
She is a racing trainer who helped her long-time idol Lightning McQueen get his racing mojo back so he can defeat Jackson Storm. Later, she becomes a racer herself as she has dreamed it since her youth, and garnered the chance to beat Jackson herself.
She is voiced by .
==Personality==
Cruz Ramirez is described as optimistic, sunny, kind and fierce. As a racing trainer, she enjoys assisting other cars in improving their racing abilities, including Lightning McQueen, whom she greatly admires. She believes ones can use anger as motivation. She also wanted to become a racer forever because of Lightning McQueen, and in the end, she got her chance. She is also very sweet.
==Biography==
===Cars 3===
Initially, she is recruited by Lightning McQueen to help him train for the upcoming Florida 500 and defeat a rookie named Jackson Storm. After a series of unsuccessful attempts to train McQueen at the Rust-eze Racing Center, the two participate in a series of events including unwittingly entering and winning in demolition derby and training at Thomasville with Doc Hudson's former mentor, Smokey. She races in the Florida 500 herself as McQueen's replacement sporting his number, which she eventually wins jointly with McQueen. After the race, she politely turns down Sterling's offer to join the race team, possibly in retaliation for underestimating her skills and joins Dinoco's racing team sporting Doc Hudson's old number (51), with McQueen serving as her crew chief.
===Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool===
In Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool, Cruz is celebrating the achievement of her Florida 500 trophy with McQueen, when they both see a commercial starring Miss Fritter. However, the loud volume causes Cruz's Crazy Eight trophy to smash, much to her shock.
===Cars on the Road===
====Gettin' Hitched====
Cruz appears in Cars on the Road episode Gettin' Hitched when Lightning McQueen and Mater went to Mato's Wedding.
Cruz Ramirez who is attending the wedding, as the groom is her cousin Mateo, and that she has been getting into various hobbies during the off season. They finally meet Mato who is kind and considerate, except towards Mater whom she picks on and entices him to challenge him to various games.
Cruz reveals that she has dabbled in family psychiatry and manages to get Mater and Mato to work out their issues with one another. The Justice leaves out of frustration and Cruz takes over to officiate the wedding. McQueen is eager to get back on a plane and fly home, but upon hearing Mater's wedding speech (which combines his B-movie president speech), McQueen realizes that the journey was exciting and agrees to return home on the road with Mater again.
==Other Appearances==
===Cars 3: Driven to Win===
Cruz appears in her Dinoco paint job, as one of the six playable characters who are available from the start. She appears in most of the cutscenes with Lightning McQueen.
In the Stig vs Lightning McQueen short, Cruz, McQueen and Mater, all in LEGO forms, travel to the Top Gear test track to race with the Stig. However, at the end of the race, a replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa collapses on top of the Stig, and Cruz and McQueen can only watch as Mater unsuccessfully tries to get him back to his original shape.
==Disney Parks==
Since 2017, Cruz appears in Cars Land at Disney California Adventure park as a "drive-around" character. She regularly stops at the Cozy Cone Motel to speak and have pictures taken with guests. She appears in her Dinoco paint job. From 2017 until it’s closure in 2018 after the opening of Toy Story Land, Cruz appeared at Disney’s Hollywood Studios outside of the exit to Toy Story Midway Mania.
===Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy===
Cruz appears in the show Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy At Disney's Hollywood Studios. In the show, Cruz acts as Lightning's crew chief for the simulator, alongside Mater. Cruz also appears in the waiting area next to DJ to pose for photos.
==Powers/Skills==
With a bodywork made of lightweight alloy, an aerodynamic Venturi channeled chassis, and a High Performance DOHC V-6 engine, Cruz can go from zero to sixty miles per hour in 3.8 seconds, and can go up to 210 miles per hour. She has a voice command assistant called Hamilton.
===Specifications===
*Vehicle type: 2017 CRS Sports Coupe
*Top Speed: 210 mph
*0-60 mph: 3.8 seconds
*Engine Type: High Performance DOHC V-6
*Chassis: Aerodynamic Venturi Channeled
*Body: Lightweight alloy
==Creation and development==
To give Cruz a positive set of expressions and movement, the character riggers used 656 controls; 360 were for Cruz's body, and 296 were used for her face.
==Physical appearance==
Cruz is painted yellow all over, with brown eyes, and contains the Rust-eze Racing Center logo just between her doors and front fenders.
According to her character pose, she is a 2017 CRS Sports Coupe. Her license plate reads "C01 06A", which is a combination of her voice actress Cristela Alonzo's initials and birthday.
==Quotes==
==Trivia== 
*It is unknown if there will be a Cars 4, as Pixar could possibly try to get a good story with Cruz as the main protagonist, like Cars 2 which was about her mentor's best friend Mater, and Lightning was the protagonist of the first and third film.
*Her face seems to look a little like Sally, but her body is shaped like a Jaguar F-Type.
*Cruz's license plate is licensed in Texas and reads "C01 06A"--which includes Cristela Alonzo's initials, "CA", and birthday, January 6.
*Cruz has 656 rigging controls, including 360 for her body and 296 for her face.
*When Cruz tells the story about how she wanted to become a racer, and how she used to watch McQueen on TV fly through the air, this references the original Cars film where McQueen avoids a huge crash caused by Chick Hicks by jumping on Claude Scruggs' tires to get through the wreck.
*She is the only female Next-Gen racer in the Piston Cup.
**Interestingly, and besides, she is also the only out of all in the Next-Gen series to be equipped with a V6 engine.
**She, Misti Motorkrass, and Louise Nash are the only known female racers in the Piston Cup.
*Cruz has 656 rigging controls, including 360 for her body and 296 for her face.
*Although the engine displacement is currently unknown, it may be 3.5 liters, a very popular displacement for a V6 engine.
*According to the Cars 3 credits, Mack is her hauler. But in 2019, Mattel released a playset featuring "Cruz Ramirez's Hauler".
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