I’m starting to get bored with the camaro already. I see it everywhere, its common now. It could use a little face lift to freshen it up.

Which is kinda sad because its not even in production yet.

Well good for them. That camaro looks very beautiful in that color. Still looks modern to me.

This doesnt sound like some type of a marketing scheme does it? they have sales down the tubes and there best shot of selling cars is to make them look cool in a movie, not put some ideas into thought and improve their overall quality….

funny how all this stuff comes back around –cartoonwise– eh?

I still love the look of the new Camaro. And the look of the Solstice, shown here with a hardtop, and some side-body louvers, looks very British—which I like.

What’ll happen is that kids that see this movie will see GM in a positive light and then buy them when they are old enough. GM is planting a seed.

That is if GM is still around when they are old enough to buy cars.

i want that exact solstice……….very sweet indeed.

Which begs the question, who’ll be the Decepticons?
Could Megatron be a Toyota Prius, who is subversively using the ecological movement to advance his evil plans?

I CANT WAIT 4 THIS MOVIE 2 COME OUT O0O0OOOOOO I LL BE THE FIRST IN LINE 2 GIT MY TICKETS LOL YUP YUP I LOVE THE NEW CAMARO…….

I’m definitely one of those people who are eagerly awaiting this film, as I love movies (and 80s cartoons) even more than I love cars.

I like how Michael Bay and Co. are being so faithful to the original concept of the cartoon. In the 80s the cartoon’s main purpose was to sell toys. Now the movie’s main purpose can be to sell cars.

If anybody’s interested to know, Michael Bay (who is directing Transformers) seems to have been in league with GM for a while. He directed the GM advertisement that featured the debut of the C6 Corvette (it was the ad where the SSR drove backwards onto the transport truck). And his next major film after said commercial, The Island, featured the Cadillac Cien concept and the Chevrolet SSR as “Hero Cars.” To speculate on global_lightning’s question, the villains in The Island mostly drove (slightly modified) Dodge Magnums. There was also a Chrysler Crossfire at one point, but I can’t remember in what context exactly.

Well whoever is evil lets hope they make it a toyota, cause toyotas suck ass. This is cool product placement for GM though… much better than the placement in the Matrix Reloaded (if you didnt notice EVERY single car in the movie is GM, even oldsmobiles)

This movie looks like it’s gonna blow. They totally f’d up all the Transformers. They look really lame now, IMO anyway.

most of us grew up playing with transformers, so i will definately watch this, mabe i will go dig out the atari 2600 afterwards.

good one global lightning. Too funny for words. I think it will be a fun movie, but the advertisements have got to stop!

I wouldn’t say he’s THAT faithful to the cartoons since Bumblebee was a VW Beetle. So if the name is the same, is a new muscle car Camaro (which I think looks very nice) named BUMBLEBEE going to look good??? It’s just a question for those die-hard muscle car GM fans. This is going to be an “American” movie…I doubt Optimus Prime will be a Hyundai (yes, I know he’s a semi, it’s a joke)

Personally, I could care less. I’m just interested in the movie and was a huge Transformers fan as a kid.

Yeah I think thats pretty lame that bumble bee isnt gonna be a bug. I had the actual toy when I was little. I dont see bumble bee as a camaro. And Jazz is supposed to be a porsche.

The movie will still be entertaining tho. Like X-men with cars.

Where o where art though news of ye rolling autos?

Chauncy, a lot of people care about Transformers, that is why LLN posted this.

Did anyone else notice in that shot of the camaro…it has no brake calipers!

94Mark8 good catch didnt even notice, i wonder if shockwave will be an mp3 player instead of a walkman.

Oh yeah, Transformers… The go go go movie of 2007…

But seriously the news has been slow lately… I feel like an addict without my crack.

Yeah 94Mark8, that is weird.

it doesn’t need brakes…. its just that good.
when you get to where GM is now, you have the technology to make cars run flawlessly on hopes and dreams.

Wow. This is automotive-earth-shattering news!

I’m with Chauncy. I remember the glory days of LLN, when I could expect a new story to appear at the top of their homepage every fifteen minutes (give or take). I remember hitting the refresh button on my browser with intense anticipation, because I understood the probability of finding a new car related article when the page loaded was high. Sure, some of the articles were just about what tuners were doing to high performance sports cars, and certainly a few were about Paris Hilton and her SLR. But at least I knew that no matter how bored I was at any given moment, LLN was there to keep me busy reading something, anything even vaguely car related. But now, where are the Top Gear videos? Why haven’t any more Enzos been spectacularly totaled? I don’t know. So LLN, I beg of you, please fill the void I feel inside my soul where your seemingly endless supply of car “news” used to be.

Wow, that Solstice GXP is HOT! Ditch the stupid wing and I’ll take it!

And honestly, I think the Camaro should represent Hot Rod. Bumblebee? WTF?

Chauncy just in case you didnt realize I was being sarcastic about the Transformer movie.

I was especially surprised not to find anything posted today regarding the new Honda F1 car.

I that’s automotive news that regular media are picking up.

brcart3r… its always a GM conspiracy with you drones. i’ll bet you were indoctrinated by michael moore’s roger & me

The Camaro in this doesn’t look to have brake calipers because the film makers decided to create a mock-up Camaro (based on a GTO underbody I believe) for the movie. The “wheels” you see are actually wheel covers, or hubcaps.

GM conspiracy..? I dont think I have any bias towards the company. It was a smart decision for GM to get their name in the movie for sales and recognition, but i’m sure they had to pay a hefty fee for it. But Michael Bay always looks for product placements in his movies, and this is’nt the first time he went with GM to star in his films. GM cars were all over the place in The Island, especially the Caddy, with few exceptions to the Chrysler cop cars. Its all part of business, and with this movie, it’s a win win with GM and Michael Bay. When the series 24 got huge in the 2nd season, Ford got an Explorer to make an appearence in most of the episodes for maybe 2 seasons. Its the same deal.

I’m just praying this movie doesn’t blow because I ended up with a movie poster signed by the whole cast through a charity auction I attended. It’s be unfortunate if it was so bad I was ashamed to have it in my house, cause I loved Transformers growing up. My question is, when is GM going to ween us off this inefficient gasoline and move us over to Energon Cubes
also to brcart3r: Yeah in season 2 of 24, Ford paid for the first two hour premier to run without commercials, in exchange for their vehicles (even the Thunderbird) to appear heavily in the show. I’m not a fan of blatant product placement, but in this case they have to drive some sort of car, so if it gets rid of commercials sure, might as well all be one manufacturer.

GM doesn’t own Peterbilt do they? Because Optimus is a Peterbilt in the film.

I would also imagine that there will be more than four autobots in the film. And seeing as they’ve tried to establish realism by using existing brands, I don’t think they’ll just make up cars for the rest of them.

energon cubes….lmao, forgot about those.

brcart3r,

I think it might be revenge to a degree. Most if not all of the Autobots will be played by GMs while I know at least one Decepticon will be played by a FORD. FORD used to cut some deals were their cars and trucks could NOT be used as Villain cars, so GMs got shafted every time, corvettes being crashed crushed and blown to bits. Chevy trucks braking down or crashing during a chase while the FORDs got away without a scratch.

The movie’s a bit of an advert for GM, but then it’s just back drop for the Robots in disguise.

That said, when the devil IS the Camaro going to ship anyway?

With that kind of vehicle line up this movie is going to suck ass.

The disc brakes on that Camaro would probably work better if they had calipers.

My only grip is that Bumblebee is NOT a VW beetle. It would have fit better I think. Cliffjumper should be the Camaro. Jazz was a Lancia Stratos … I’d have made him a Porsche or a Vette. But the other choices seem to be more or less on the money.

seriously MC the movie will suck because of the cars that are in it? ok, iguess i have heard every strange comment possible on the internet.

Excellent. This movie will be awesome!

Decepticons: Stealth Bomber, F22 Raptor, Saleen Ford Mustang (Mustang vs Camaro ah yeah) Scorpion (eye roll), MH-53 Pave Low (military chopper), M1 Abrams, CD Player, Buffalo H-Mine protected protected vehicle.

At least the showdowns between the 74/09 Camaro and the Saleen will be interesting.

Oh, and Blakkar, Wheeljack was a Lancia Stratos, Jazz was a Porsche.

Enough of the damn Camaro already! It is fast becoming old news, and by the time it hits the streets it will be a “yesterday’s news”.

Detroit STILL needs to learn to get cars from concept to production faster and learn to “STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT!!!!”

The movie’s car choices are all wrong. It would be real better by being faithful to the original designs. I must say GM must have paid a lot of money to the movie’s producers to accept mostly GM vehicles.

Carnut4ever… Do you really think putting cars in a movie is “alot of money” when your talking about a multinational firm like GM? When you think of large sums of money… consider the losses GM has taken, comparing it to individual wealth is pretty pointless if your trying to draw some kind of spending picture

hprelud5r,

Sorry about that.

I LOVE THE NEW CAMARO AND…………………………………………..THE SATURN CAR LOOKS LIKE A MARS ROVER LOL HA HA HE HE

When I was 8 or 9 years old watching the Transformer cartoon,the car that Bumblebee was a VW Beetle and Jazz was a Porsche 911.Things change just like the X-men movies with all the stars wearing leather clad suits than the one in the comic book.The latest Camaro looks o.k.