cool new characters

• Mudflap and Skids, respectively a red Chevrolet Trax and green Chevrolet Beat.^[61] Mudflap is very hyperactive, while Skids believes himself to be the smarter of the two and tries to come across as mature, but nevertheless appears unable to keep quiet.^[65]Bay chose the Beat and Trax for the Autobot twins because he thought those two small cars looked good together.^[66] Ed Welburn added when they had designed the cars before Bay selected them, the "character" they wanted to bring to the concepts was a sense that small cars could be as cool as large ones.^[62] According to leaked daily call sheets that Bay claimed he faked,^[67] they begin the film by combining into an ice cream van.^[68] Skids was mentioned by the other Autobots in the Transformers: The Reign of Starscream movie sequel comics.