Axelerator

The Axelerators are an Autobot subgroup whose members' engines become their gun in robot mode. They are the counterparts to the Decepticon subgroup the Skyscorchers.

They're really heroic.

Members include:

• Rapido the charismatic platoon leader
• Skram the carefree thrill-seeker
• Turbofire the backup
• Windbreaker the scout

Toys

Generation 1 & 2

Rapido

• Axelerators (1993/1994)
  • Rapido
  • Skram
  • Turbofire
  • Windbreaker

The Axelerators were initially released in the European market in 1993, during the "transitional" time when the Transformers toys took on the new Generation 2 sigils, but the packaging lacked the "Generation 2" line-name. They were slightly recolored for American release the same year, with the transparent pink plastic of their windows and lightpipes being replaced with a smokey grey plastic that was much harder to see through. They were released again in the UK in 1994 in Generation 2 packaging, but the toys were identical to the original European-market release.

Notes

• The name "Axelerators" originates with the European 1993 release of the figures. When they were released as part of the Generation 2 line in the US, the assortment was simply identified as "Car" (they're sometimes referred to as the "Small Autobot Cars" to distinguish them from the larger Autobot "Cars" Sideswipe, Jazz, and Inferno), but their European-market Generation 2 re-release retained the name "Axelerators".
• Though the Axelerators were never released in Japan, each did gain a Japanese name via a BotCon Japan 1997 exclusive poster, which featured bios for all of the new Generation 2 characters released in the U.S. who weren't part of the Japanese line: the Axelerators, the Skyscorchers, Rotor Force, four of the Go-Bots, and the Color Changers.

Foreign names

• English: Small Autobot Cars (America)
• Japanese: Axelerator (アクセラレーター Akuserarētā)
• Italian: Colorflash