Talk:Cruz Ramirez/@comment-26017576-20170223204119/@comment-24846719-20170520024131

The director, Brian Fees, said Cars 3 went by real time meaning that eleven years has past since the first movie. He also said Lightning is forty in Cars 3 (whether he meant that literally or metaphorically I'm not sure) meaning Lightning was 28 or 29 in Cars 1. Also just a side note, I always thought Sally was a few years older than Lightning and so yeah, I feel good. Usually it's the man that's the older one in relationships so it's kind of nice.

Cruz has to be in her twenties since it's said that she's close to Jackson Storm's age and both are is younger than Lightning while also clearly being adults. When Lightning started racing eleven years prior to Cars 3 that mean Cruz was either a tween or teenager when she "used to watch [his] races on tv".

In other words, she can't be a reincarnated Doc if she was born before Doc died and both being able to coexist in the same time before Doc's death.