Bobby Bolivia

Bobby Bolivia is a human in the Movie continuity family.

Like the country, but without the runs.

Robert "Bobby" Bolivia owns and operates Bolivia's Finest Quality Used Cars and Petting Zoo. A car salesman of the tackily dressed, Hawaiian-shirts-'n'-sporty-hat-preferring, always smiling, overly friendly, back-slapping, smooth-talking, horsehockey-spewing variety, he claims that a driver doesn't choose the car, it's the car that chooses its driver.

Though sometimes a car picks a driver with a cheapass father. There are also times where a car picks a driver and takes rejection very poorly.

His favorite cars are the kinds that come from Alabama. He's also not afraid to sell cars that mysteriously appear on his lot, despite not possessing the proper legal paperwork and records of the vehicle being sold.

Bobby's mammy lives in sight of his car dealership, and apparently he has wronged her in some way. Their relationship is summarized by her flipping him off and him wishing he had a rock to "bust her head with".

Let me tell you somethin', son: A driver don't pick the car, nuh-uh...the car picks the driver. It's a mystical bond between man and machine.{{#if:|{{{quote2}}}}}{{#if:Bobby Bolivia to Sam WitwickyTransformers|Bobby Bolivia to Sam Witwicky{{#if:Transformers|, Transformers|}}|}}

Fiction

Transformers (2007)

Actor: Bernie Mac (English), Chafurin (Japanese dub voice)

You're like family at Bobby B's... but we've seen how Bobby and family act towards each other... hm.

When Sam's father promises to buy him his first car, he takes him to Bobby Bolivia (much to Sam's chagrin). After telling his mechanic Manny to remove the heat-stroke-afflicted clown from the sidewalk because he's scarin' "white folk", Bobby feeds the father/son pair his "mystical bond" line and takes them on a tour of the lot.

Bobby agrees to sell Sam a mysterious "custom faded paint" Camaro he's never seen on his lot before for $4000, a thousand less than his made-up-on-the-spot asking price... but only after the windows of every other car on the lot are mysteriously shattered by a high-pitched noise. Transformers

Transformers: The Movie Storybook

"I do feel like we're family. After all, Buster has a shirt just like that!"

Bobby wears pink. He still hugs customers. His mother's never going to be a grandmammy, is she? Transformers: The Movie Storybook

Games

Transformers The Game (console)

Voice actor: ???

After Bumblebee beats the Decepticons to Bolivia's car lot, Sam and his father arrive to buy a new car. Bobby tries to sell them an old blue beater, but the tires mysteriously pop and deflate. Sam chooses the alien robot in disguise, and Dad begins negotiations.

Later, while leading Sector Seven from the Autobots, Jazz destroys the fuel pumps at Bobby Bolivia's car lot, causing an explosion which obliterates most of the lot. Here's hoping Bobby wasn't in there at the time. Transformers The Game

Bobby is never actually seen in the game, only heard.

Notes

Semi-classic haircut.

• According to an article on Edmunds.com, all three 1976 Camaros used in the film were purchased for under $6000 individually, with one of them costing even less than $2000. That one didn't run.

• In the IDW Publishing's comics adaptation of the movie, Bobby is 'fro-tastic tall guy who bears no resemblance to Bernie Mac. This was due to the fact IDW was not (and still is not) allowed to use the likeness of several actors playing the secondary characters.

• Buying your first car at Bobby's car lot makes you family. He insists on being called "Uncle Bobby B". Considering the way his family treats one another, this is scary.

• "Bobby Bolivia" is certainly a reference to Wilem Defoe's character in David Lynche's film "Wild At Heart", Bobby Peru.