Cruz Ramirez (voiced by Cristela Alonzo) is Lightning's trainer and technician at the Rust-eze Racing Center. She resembles a Jaguar F-Type and Chevrolet Corvette (C7). Cruz is known for training some of the best rookie race cars through her unconventional training methods.
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.
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.
He's a little rusty, but it's clear he's modeled after both the 1951 International Harvester tow truck and the 1951 Chevrolet boom truck (which is the same car). That truck was and is still used as a towing vehicle since it first came out.
Jeff Gorvette, according to Meet the Cars, is a 2009 Chevrolet Corvette C6. R, a grand touring racer commonly seen at endurance events in Europe and America. He competes in the GTS2 (GT2) class along with Miguel Camino.
The only car model that Pixar has named as an inspiration for Finn is the 1958 Peerless GT, a British sports car, which was the only British sports car they found that featured tailfins.
Tim Treadless is a Next-Gen race car that competes in the Piston Cup Racing Series with the number 28 for the Nitroade racing team. He joined in 2016, replacing Phil Tankson.
Ryan Shields is the race car for the View Zeen team. He is a Crown Celesta that is painted turquoise, with a slightly lighter shade of blue on his doors. He has the number 39 painted in orange on his doors and roof, and the View Zeen logo on his hood and fenders.
Patty is a demolition derby car who competes at the Thunder Hollow Speedway. Her number is 74, and the words "Rust in Peace" are written on her bumper.
Following her signing with Dinoco, Cruz has the Dinoco logo on her doors and hood, as well as the number 51, the same number as the Fabulous Hudson Hornet, Ruby "Easy" Oaks, and Aikens. While racing at Thomasville and Thunder Hollow, Cruz has the number 20 painted on her doors.
Doc died prior to the events of Cars 2 (his voice actor, Paul Newman, died in 2008), although he continued to be remembered and referenced by Lightning, Mater, and the other cars.
In addition, Lightning McQueen's racing number was originally going to be 57 (a reference to 1957, Lasseter's birth year), but was changed to 95 (a reference to 1995, the year Pixar's first feature film Toy Story was released).
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."
Rip is a 2005 Formula 6000 Racer which is a fictional model. He is powered by a 3.5-liter DOHC V-8 with 650 horsepower, making this a typical Indycar engine.
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.
Chick is a 1979 Shyster Cremlin, a fictional car based on and designed after a 1986 Buick Regal in NASCAR form. Chick is painted green, with the number 86 painted on his doors, and has yellow rims. He also has a grille, which serves as a mustache.
It borderline flopped at the box office and made less money world wide, after earning back its budget, than all other Pixar films except The Good Dinosaur. The main reviews simply praise it for not being Cars 2 and not much else. Granted, some like it but many others, like me, don't like this film.
It is unknown why Holley did not appear in Cars 3, but it is possible that the nature of her work meant that she was busy with her job around the time of the third film.
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.
