Max appears in every game, and on all the box art in the games where drivers aren't present (such as Carmageddon: TDR 2000) The Red Eagle is in place. Like Twisted Metal's Sweet Tooth, Max Damage and The Red Eagle are considered the 'mascots' for the Carmageddon series.Max gets extra colours in Carmageddon II as well. The Eagle and the Hawk are the only cars to get colour variants, in Carmageddon and the Splat Pack.In the cutscenes of the original game, a person wearing a red racing suit (with the Stainless logo visible) and a full-face helmet is portrayed driving the Red Eagle.However, the red on the box and loading screen appeared to be created by the lighting, which is made clearer in Reincarnation images. In the original game, Max is portrayed on the in-game ' Prat cam' by a man (Tony) wearing a red crash helmet, despite appearing in his regular 'burnt red' form on the box.
This explains the multiple FRANK references in the code and filenames.
Drives the Eagle, a car designed for rammin’ and slammin’" " Mad maximum impact fruitcake with a hydraulic neck and no crumple zones in his brain.