We never got the red DC15 here - we got the yellow one though - we had the Yellow one as base model, the white one was the allergy model and the purple one the animal variant.
They will be famous in the future as the first of the long line of Ball cleaners, and they actually were not bad cleaners with a metal soleplate - which was unusual for Dysons of that time.
I've never been that taken by the handheld cleaners though. Way too expensive for what they are. I'll stick to my Black and Decker Dustbusters for small jobs.