There's also a new female character named Cruz Ramirez, a yellow coupe who is McQueen's trainer as he tries to make a comeback. Ward said Pixar wanted to capture what NASCAR race cars would look like in the future when it began designing the Jackson Storm car.
Louise Nash. Known as the “First Lady of Racing,” Louise “Barnstormer” Nash didn't have an easy start as one of the first and only females in racing—she had to steal her racing number to compete in her first race.
In “Cars 3,” Cruz Ramirez is a sports coupe who had to give up her dream of being a racer because she is female. And a 'boy's movie' is easily what Cars 3 easily could have become, especially given the male-dominated cast of the previous Cars movies and their clear ties to NASCAR racing.
Lou is a Salt Flats racer. She is a background character in the episode "Salt Fever" of Cars on the Road. She also shares the same model as Fishtail from Cars 3.
Sally Carrera (voiced by Bonnie Hunt) is Radiator Spring's town attorney and Lightning's girlfriend. She is a 2002 Porsche 996 Carrera. In 2022, Porsche made a one-off Porsche 911 as a tribute to the character, referred to as the "Sally Special".
Cruz Ramirez is the deuteragonist of Pixar's 18th full-length animated film Cars 3, and a minor character in Cars on the Road.
In Cars 3, after Lightning McQueen is forced out of the Piston Cup world following a devastating crash, he is taken to the Rust-eze Racing Center, where he is introduced to Ramirez.
Cars 2 had been far from Pixar's best movie, which meant audiences were extremely skeptical about the next installment in the trilogy. This was undoubtedly the biggest factor working against Cars 3's box office success, as the previous movie had soured many audiences on the whole concept.
Cristela Alonzo voices Cruz Ramirez. This is Alonzo's first Cars movie but her voice has been featured in The Angry Birds Movie. The yellow sports car, an optimistic friend of Lightning McQueen, gives him advice when he needs it most.
But Cars 3 really does deliver the feminist goods and it's all down to the introduction of a new lead character, Cruz Ramirez, a badass “girl” race car voiced by Cristela Alonzo. In the film, Cruz enters Lightning McQueen's life as a seemingly confident motivational trainer.
Disney and Pixar's Cars may have hit theaters in the summer of 2006, but production of the film started many years earlier, with production designer Bob Pauley first sketching the film's female protagonist, Sally Carrera, in 2002. As her surname suggests, Sally is an anthropomorphic Porsche 911 Carrera.
Anticipation for Cars 4 is high, but Disney has not addressed any details for the movie. Producers have shown openness to expanding the franchise, with potential for a new lightning McQueen narrative. Story details remain a mystery, focusing on potential Cruz Ramirez involvement and moving away from McQueen.
Reb has a pink livery with a white front bumper. He has the number 36 painted on him in the color pink with white borders on his sides and the roof and the logo of the Tank Coat on his hood, trunk and backs of his sides.
The world premiere of the film took place at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on June 18, 2011. Cars 2 was released in 4,115 theaters in the USA and Canada, setting a record-high for a G-rated film and for Pixar.
Bio. "The happiest racer on the track comes to us from one of the fanciest restrooms in all Japan. Chuki is a pretty pink little vehicle, spreading laughter and happiness throughout the races."
Generic and Hard to Follow Plot While Pixar has great simple plots that are unique in their own special way, Cars 2 has a boring and generic Spy plot that has a preachy message about being yourself. It is also confusing and boring most of the time.
Pretty much yeah. Pixar doesn't like acknowledging the majority of Cars 2 besides the World Grand Prix and I guess the dent being connected to Mater meant it was connected to the spy part of the movie (despite him getting it in Radiator Springs) and might've just took it out to ignore the film even more.
It is implied that Doc died prior to the events of Cars 2, and he appears in flashback sequences in Cars 3. Doc is voiced by Paul Newman in Cars, Cars 3 (the latter via archive audio recordings) and Cars: the Video Game, and Corey Burton in all other media.
How Old is Lightning McQueen? In the original Cars movie, McQueen is in his early-to-mid twenties, and reaches the apex of his career in his late thirties in Cars 2 , before approaching obsolescence and retirement in his early forties through Cars 3 .
Sally is mid-30's to early 40's at the youngest. Lightning is a rookie in this universe's version of NASCAR. I think the oldest NASCAR rookie this year was 26. Even in the best conditions, we are looking at a 10-15 year gap between Lightning and Sally.
Sally's tattoo pinstriping is left over from her early days. Though she's a little embarrassed by it now, it serves as a reminder of her high-speed life in California and how happy she is to be cruising in the slow lane.
Even though Chick didn't appear in Cars 2, players can download him for Cars 2: The Video Game. It was also unknown why he didn't appear in the second film, as it never revealed what really happened with him following his pyrrhic victory in the first film.
Red cries a total of four times in the Cars films: Twice in the first Cars (once when Lightning insults Radiator Springs and other time when he thought McQueen left without a farewell), once in Cars 2 (when Lightning and his team left for Tokyo), and once in Cars 3 (when Lightning, Luigi, and Guido left with Mack to ...
