Red

Red is a silent fire truck who serves as Radiator Springs' local fire truck and firefighter.
==History==
===Cars===
In Cars, Red is very shy and initially did not like Lightning McQueen because of accidentally destroying his plants and the main road by dragging the Stanley statue out of it, but he eventually took a liking to him.
===Mater and the Ghostlight===
In Mater and the Ghostlight, Red is first seen with the rest of the townsfolk at Flo's V8 Café, listening to Sheriff tell his story about the Ghostlight. He later helps them prank Mater into thinking he is being chased by the Ghostlight by attaching a lamp to his tow hook.
===Cars: Mater-National Championship===
In Cars: Mater-National Championship, he makes two very quick cameos. He is seen providing the waterfall in North Willy's Butte, and roaming around the fields in the background of Tractor Tipping.
===Cars Toons===
====Rescue Squad Mater====
In Rescue Squad Mater, he appears watering his flowers when Lightning McQueen and Mater were passing him. Then that made Mater decide to make up a story about when he was a fire truck.
====Hiccups====
In Hiccups, he tries to cure McQueen's hiccups by shooting water at him.
====Bugged====
In Bugged, he plays as the protagonist for the first (and only) time, and is voiced by Jerome Ranft.
====Spinning====
In Spinning, he makes a short appearance in the crowd while watching Guido performing his spinning moves with a sign.
====The Radiator Springs 500½====
In The Radiator Springs 500½, Red appears in the crowd of cars that are celebrating Radiator Springs' origins, and honoring Stanley.
====To Protect and Serve====
Red is set to appear in To Protect and Serve, as revealed by a screenshot released by Disney. Exact details about his role are unknown.
===The World of Cars Online===
In The World of Cars Online, Red could often be found at the courthouse in Radiator Springs, next to Stanley. After a few moments there, he goes to Redhood Valley, and then returns to the courthouse.
===Cars 2===
Red reappears in Cars 2. His actor, Joe Ranft in a cruel twist of irony died in a car accident during the making of Cars in 2005. In consequence, Red does not speak in Cars 2. In the film, he appears with the other Radiator Springs residents congratulating McQueen on coming back home, as well as at the Wheel Well Motel when Francesco is insulting Mater and McQueen agrees to compete in the World Grand Prix. He only makes a small appearance at the airport, crying as he sees 'Team McQueen' taking off for Tokyo. He comes with most of the rest of the Radiator Springs residents (except Lizzie and Mack) to London after McQueen called them to try to talk to Mater, who was missing at the time. He also appears in the battle against the lemons, where he arrives just in time to blast some of the lemons away, including J. Curby Gremlin and some black Gremlins, with his fire hose and is seen briefly when Mater and the others return to their hometown, and when they are watching the Radiator Springs Grand Prix.
===Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure===
In Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure, Red makes a cameo at the end of the track in the first level of Cars in the game, as well as in the background of the ending cut-scene.
===Cars 3===
Red reappears in the third film, with no speaking roles again.
===Pixar Popcorn===
Unparalleled Parking, Red can be seen staring at them while some residents of the town play the parking game.
==General information==
===Physical description===
Red is a 1950 Torchy Truck Co. Firetruck. He is based on 1960s style fire trucks, most closely resembling a mid-1960s Pirsch pumper, but also resembles American LaFrance models. His license plate reads "002". Red is painted almost entirely red, with the exception of his doors, which have the Radiator Springs Courthouse & Fire Department logo on them. He is equipped with many firefighting tools, such as a ladder and several hoses.
===Personality and traits===
Red is one of the shyest characters in the series, and as such, rarely says any lines, mostly making simple noises as his dialog. He is very emotional, and will often get upset if something bad happens to something or someone.
===Powers and abilities===
Red is very talented at fighting fires due to his high-pressured monitor, able to launch water at high velocities and intensities, and his abilities came in handy during the final fight scene against J. Curby Gremlin, Tubbs Pacer, Victor Hugo and Vladimir Trunkov in Cars 2, where he sprays water to knock them out.
==List of appearances==
==Official profiles==
===Car Finder Game===
*Red may not be a fire truck of many words, but what he doesn't say, he shows through his generous actions. Whether its putting out a tire fire or caring for the beautiful flowers, Red is there to support and protect his beloved town. Red takes negative comments on the town very personally. So if you have something bad to say about Radiator Springs, you'd better watch out, because if there's one thing Red's not afraid of, it's his emotions.
===The Official Magazine (Swedish)===
*Rödis är en skicklig brandbekämpare. Han är tystlåten, men känd för sin generositet och sitt mod.
==Gallery==
==Names in other languages==
*Bulgarian: Ред (transcription: Red)
*Croatian: Žarko
*Czech: Ruda
*Danish: Røde
*Dutch: Rood
*Estonian:
**Prits
**Pritsuga
*Finnish: Puna
*Hungarian: Piros
*Japanese: レッド
*Korean: 레드
*Latvian:
**Guni
**Sarkanā
*Lithuanian: Redas
*Norwegian: Rødfjes
*Polish: Edek
*Portuguese: Ruivo
*Romanian: Roșu
*Russian: Шланг (transcription: Shlang)
*Spanish: Rojo
*Swedish: Rödis
*Turkish: Kırmızı
*Ukrainian: Шланг (transcription: Shlang)
==Audio Files==
===Horn===
First used	Last used	Sound Effect
Cars 	Active 	
==Trivia==
*Red is the first Cars character whose original actor died, succeeded by Fillmore, Doc Hudson, El Machismo, Lynda Weathers and Lizzie. He was also the only Cars character whose actor died before the first film came out.
*Red's name matches his color, which is why his name is "Red".
*Strangely enough, in Cars. his lips can be seen moving while talking to an interviewer when McQueen was being taken away from Radiator Springs, although no dialogue is heard, suggesting he does speak in some form off-screen except for the said scene, but it is unknown if this was intentional or not.
*A possible toy version of Red was seen in the Butterfly Room in Toy Story 3.
*A fire engine bearing a resemblance to Red is seen in The Incredibles.
*This is the final character to be voiced by Joe Ranft before his death in 2005. Jerry Recycled Batteries, on the other hand, is Ranft's last speaking role, since Red's dialogue is only restricted to sobbing.
*During recording sessions, the late Joe Ranft managed to manipulate Red's emotional sound effects in the same order as Heimlich the caterpillar from A Bug's Life. The difference between Heimlich's whimpers and Red's cries were the pitch levels of sound effects that were processed in editing after Joe Ranft's recording session. Heimlich's whimpers were high-pitched in the performance scene of A Bug's Life, whereas Red's cries were low-pitched and deeper in the sound mix before the film was made.
*Red in Cars: Mater-National Championship had two versions: in North Willys Butte he is a very basic, untextured model. But in Tractor Tipping, he is a very detailed model.
*Red's role in The World of Cars Online got severely diminished. A minigame named Red's firefighting game! was never added in the final version of the game, even though it appeared in the game's trailer. Also according to the trailer, he was planned to be a racer in Willy's Butte Rally, but he got replaced when the game officially opened.
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