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Red (or Big Red)
Model	Custom 1960's Fire Engine
Gender	Male
Color	Red
Voice Actor	Joe Ranft

Red (sometimes called Big Red) is a fictional character (an anthropomorphic fire engine) in Pixar's animated feature film Cars. He is a silent fire truck who waters his flowers many times a day. For some reason he doesn't speak so is only heard when he is crying and shocked that Lightning McQueen (the movie's central character) accidentally killed his flowers, and when sounding his airhorn to stop a stampede of tractors. He is also seen crying after Lightning McQueen botches his community service sentence (pulling Bessie the Asphalt Paver and resurface the damaged main road), and later, when Lightning apparently leaves town after finishing the road work. During both crying episodes, Red speeds away from the other characters, invariably knocking over the same stack of tires when rounding a corner. Red is voiced by Joe Ranft, who also voiced a Peterbilt whom Lightning encountered en route to Radiator Springs after mistaking him for Mack.

Red is absent in the video game, presumably because of his obscurity in the movie (some speculate that his absence is out of respect for Ranft, who died before the film was released, but Ranft was still alive at the time that the game was finished). His name could be a reference to the Pixar short film Red's Dream.

2006 Disney-Pixar film Cars
Main Characters	Lightning McQueen | Mater | Sally | Doc Hudson The King | Chick Hicks | Ramone | Flo | Luigi | Guido | Mack | Red Sheriff | Fillmore | Sarge | The Delinquent Road Hazards
Production Studio	Disney | Pixar
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