Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes

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When on Earth, a Transformer typically finds a wide variety of human vehicles matching their general body plan and size available to adopt as a disguise mode. Although there are many thousands of options available, certain specific models of vehicle, however, are very popular disguises, seeing repeated use across multiple individuals and continuities.

TFWiki.net: The Transformers Wiki has certain requirements for a vehicle model to be listed here. There must be at least three unique toy molds (or in-fiction appearances, in the case of non-toy bodies/characters) that share the model. There must also be at least one unique character per mold. Certain models are "lumped" together, such as the case for the Mazda RX car series, which includes the RX-7 and RX-8 types. This also, of course, takes into account the various fudging of the designs that are done in order to get a robot mode out of the toy, as well as avoid having to pay a licensing fee to the actual manufacturers (in most instances).

Each mold is listed on its own line, with all different-character decoes/retools on the same line. The list is organized in chronological order of toy release.

This policy is in place mainly due to the rampant use of redecoes as new characters, and is a little out of line with the phenomenon being explored... after all, isn't it kinda weird that out of all the myriad types of fighter jet there are in the world, that the Dassault Rafale in particular seems to pop up so often across soooooo many jet-form toy-characters?

See also: Popular beast alternate modes, Non-vehicle non-beast alternate modes, General Motors

Cars and trucks

Chevy Camaro

  • Movie Bumblebee / Movie Cliffjumper - 2009 (fifth generation)


Chevy Corvette


Corvette Indy


Desert racing buggy

"Desert racing buggy" is an admittedly vague grouping, as vehicles of this stripe are made by a variety of manufacturers and further modified by their owners in various idiosyncratic ways, but these examples all follow a relatively uniform shape.


Dodge Viper (Chrysler)

  • Hot Rod (IDW comic -Ations series, non-toy appearance)


Ford Mustang

  • Trip-Up - First Generation (1960s hot rod)


Lamborghini Countach


Lamborghini Diablo


Mazda RX


Pontiac Firebird Trans Am


Porsche 928S


Porsche 959


Porsche 962


Volkswagen Beetle


Military vehicles

M1 Abrams


A-10 Thunderbolt II

In the Devil's Due G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers comic series, Skywarp, Thundercracker, and an unidentifed "conehead" transform into Cobra Rattlers, which are heavily-modified versions of the A-10.


AH-64 Apache copter


B-1B Lancer


Dassault Rafale


F-4 Phantom


F-14 Tomcat

Generation 1 Jetfire transformed into the VF-1S Super Valkyrie from Macross. Although the Macross anime series is not in the Transformers continuity, the series's VF-1 Valkyries -- also known as Veritech Fighters in the American Robotech series -- were designed to resemble heavily modified F-14 Tomcats. Without the connection, many early Transformers fans and collectors spot the F-14 resemblence before they learned of Macross or Robotech.



F-15 Eagle


F-16 Fighting Falcon


F-22 Raptor


F-117A Nighthawk


V-22 Osprey


Miscellaneous

Concorde


Space Shuttle Orbiter

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