Cruz Ramirez

### Goals

Train Lightning McQueen to beat Jackson Storm (formerly).Defeat Jackson Storm in Florida 500 and win the race (succeeded).

### Type of Deuteragonist

No information

**Cruz Ramirez** is the deuteragonist of the 2017 Disney/Pixar's 18th full-lenght animated film *Cars 3* and a minor character in *Cars on the Road*.

She is a racing trainer, later racer, who helps Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) get his racing mojo back so he can defeat Jackson Storm (Armie Hammer). Later, she becomes a racer as she has dreamed of it, and defeats Jackson Storm herself.

She is voiced by Cristela Alonzo.

## 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.

### *Cars 3: Driven to Win*

Cruz appears as one of the game's playable characters.

### *Cars on the Road*

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.

## 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".

## External Links

* Cruz Ramirez on the Heroic Benchmark Wiki
* Cruz Ramirez on the Protagonists Wiki
* Cruz Ramirez on the Hero Wiki
* Cruz Ramirez on the Disney Wiki
* Cruz Ramirez on the Pixar Wiki
* Cruz Ramirez on the *Pixar Cars* Wiki

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