No, the real Camaro won’t transform itself into a robotic creature, but it’s quite cool nonetheless, and it offers fans a special model that combines the essence of the Transformers character with the qualities of the revived iconic General Motors muscle car.
It’s marked with the “Autobot” shield on the front fenders, the wheel covers and the interior center console; the Transformers logo appears on the door sill plates and in the black rally stripes on the hood.
All of the Transformers detailing can be added for $995 to either the Rally Yellow colored LT V-6 or the SS V-8 model of the Camaro.
“When the first Transformers movie was setting box office records, we had countless customers asking to purchase the ‘Bumblebee’ Camaro,” said Karen Rafferty, Chevrolet’s marketing director.
But that was two years before the Camaro came to market, so those would-be consumers couldn’t buy one of the new vehicles in any form.
When I tested a yellow Camaro RS with the black hood stripes a few months ago, small children (boys, actually) swarmed around it when I took it to shopping center parking lots, saying something to the effect of, “Hey, there’s Bumblebee.”
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