General Motors

General Motors is an automobile company from the Generation 1, Movie, and real world continuity families.

General Motors Company, also known as GM, is the largest auto company headquartered in the United States of America. Founded in 1908 in Flint, Michigan, the company is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan at present and presumably in the near future. The company's U.S. brands have included Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Hummer, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Geo, Saturn, Buick and more. Currently GM's U.S. brands are down to Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, and Buick

On July 1, 2009, General Motors filed for US government-assisted bankruptcy protection with plans to emerge as a smaller, less debt-riddled company.

Fiction

Transformers (2007)

Transformers: Rise of the Chevy Autobots

A small army of mass-produced Autobots are on Earth disguised as Chevy brand vehicles, under the command of Bumblebee. They must stop the Decepticon Mainframe, who eventually ended up on Earth after being exiled for a failed attempt to overthrow Megatron on Cybertron.

A General Motors scientist, Dina Morgan, made contact with the Autobots Flash and Ridge, and learnt about energon. She said in a report that energon could be the fuel of the 21st Century, but that got her targeted by Mainframe. She was used as bait to lure Bumblebee into a trap.Transformers: Rise of the Chevy Autobots

Autobot types

"I'm not Dropkick, I swear."

• Avalanche
• Aveo
• Cobalt
• Equinox
• HHR
• Impala
• Silverado

Transformers (2007) film

Jazz is very impressed by the Pontiac Solstice on a turntable in a GM dealer's showroom. So he transforms into one! Transformers (2007)

Toys

Generation 1 & 2 (unlicensed)

Chevrolet

Wings, missile launchers, and robot mode not standard.

• Big Daddy - Bel Air hot rod
• Windbreaker - Camaro Z28
• Bluestreak - Fourth Generation Camaro
• Road Rage - Corvette C3
• Tracks - Corvette C3
• Skram - Corvette C3 hot rod
• Freeway - Corvette C4
• Motorhead - Corvette C4
• Detour - Corvette Indy
• Drench - Corvette Indy

Pontiac

• Punch/Counterpunch - Fiero

Firebird Trans Am, Third Generation

• Camaro (!)
• Gunrunner
• Roadhandler
• Rook
• Runamuck
• Tailgate
• Windcharger

Robots in Disguise (unlicensed)

• Side Swipe - Fourth Generation Camaro

Alternators/Binaltech

The 2004 Corvette C5 Z06 was licensed.

• Autobot Tracks
• Battle Ravage
• Swerve

Universe (2003)

• Swerve, the only case of a new-mold Transformer produced as an exclusive. (T250 Chevrolet Aveo)

Transformers (2007)

Triggerhappy robot not an option.

Film

• Autobot Jazz (2007 Pontiac Solstice)
• Bumblebee (1976 & 2006 Chevrolet Camaro Concept)
• Ironhide (2007 GMC Topkick)
• Ratchet (2007 Hummer H2)

Battle for the Allspark/Transformers The Game

• Dropkick (Based upon 2007Chevrolet Silverado)
• Swindle (Based upon 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt)
• Stockade (Based upon 2007 Cadillac Escalade)

Revenge of the Fallen

• Sideswipe (2009 Corvette Stingray Concept)
• Jolt (2010 Chevrolet Volt)
• Skids (Chevrolet Beat Concept)
• Mudflap (Chevrolet Trax Concept)

Dark of the Moon

• Topspin, Leadfoot, Roadbuster (Heavily modified Chevrolet Impala NASCAR stock car)
• Crankcase (Modified GMT900 Chevrolet Suburban)
• Skids, Mudflap (Chevrolet Spark)
• Sideswipe (Corvette Stingray Concept)

Bigger Toys

Transformers (2007)

• Jazz (2007 Pontiac Solstice)

In association with Hasbro, DreamWorks, and GM (whew), Maxim magazine held a "Win Jazz" contest where one lucky reader would win a silver 2007 Pontiac Solstice equipped with the options used for Jazz in Transformers, including the custom hardtop and spoiler otherwise never available on the 2007 model.

What do you mean there are no cannons?

• GMC Topkick 4500 Ironhide Edition (model year 2008)

This was a production line variant of the GMC Topkick C4500 crew cab medium-duty truck in black with the modifications Dreamworks made for the character Ironhide, though it retains the stock large side-view mirrors and orange lights. The modifications were done by Monroe Truck Equipment.

Production on the GMC Topkick truck ceased when General Motors exited the medium-duty truck market in 2009.

Revenge of the Fallen

• Chevrolet Camaro Transformers Special Edition (2009)

Starting June 1, 2009, Chevrolet began taking orders for the Bumblebee Edition package for the 2009/2010 Chevy Camaro. The package consists of Rally Yellow exterior color with black "Bumblebee" stripes and "Transformers" badging on the wheel center caps, sill plates and embroidered console lid. The package was available for Camaro LT and SS models.

Production of the Transformers Special Edition ceased on January 12, 2010, and with an estimated 1,500 Camaro to have been produced straight from order workbenches. Though production for this full package (with an order of a new Camaro) has ceased, the individual parts that made up the package can still be purchased through authorised GM accessory dealers. However, inspection of the the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) would reveal if the Camaro was a true Transformers Special Edition or an after-market clone.

Notes

• Generation 1 Megatron would have been a licensed Cadillac XLR in the Alternators line had sales justified more toys for 2007.

External links

• General Motors corporate website