Bumblebee won’t be the only Chevy to star in the upcoming Transformers: Age of Extinction movie. The film will also feature the award-winning 2014 Corvette Stingray along with the Chevrolet Trax and Sonic, but the Camaro will still serve as the movie’s centerpiece.
The fifth-generation Camaro first made its big screen debut as Bumblebee in the 2007 film Transformers. It was then also featured in the movie’s sequels, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Two Camaro’s will star in Age of Extinction, one a heavily modified vintage 1967 Camaro SS and the futuristic concept Camaro.
“The Transformers movies have been a great partnership for Chevrolet by allowing us to introduce our vehicles to new fans, young and old, around the world,” Tim Mahoney, chief marketing officer, Global Chevrolet, said in a statement. “Now for the fourth time, you’ll see a Camaro as a heroic Autobot, a fitting role for one of the stars of Chevrolet’s lineup.”
In addition to providing vehicles for the movie’s production, General Motors also allowed the movie’s creators to use some of its facilities for filming, including the Warren Technical Center, the Milford Proving Ground and the Lansing Grand River Assembly plant.
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I suspect the Bumble Bee hints as some of the styling bits we may see in the 6th Gen.
While it is not a direct copy of what we will see it has some things we will recognize on the coming car.
Design of the 67 SS in the movie was completely stolen from a guy who built his own project. And here I thought Michael Bay only stole ideas from his own, older, movies.
And can you name that person? Can you actually provide evidence that Michael Bay saw this person’s project? Can you provide a picture of this person’s project while proving that it was finished before Bay showed the ’67 camaro off?
Yes. Yes. And, yes.
Have you heard of Google?
http://jalopnik.com/did-transformers-4-rip-off-this-guys-design-for-the-ne-510655228
that Camaro was a knock off if the one in the movie aloha bobby and rose. I brought the car after the movie from a lot in eagle rock Ca. It also was on the cover of car craft magazine in June 82. I have pictures of me with it to prove it.
So what copying is the best form of flattery.
Besides while this one is pretty close there are many other similar ones out there. That is the one issue with the Camaro is there are often so few original ideas with many people fixing cars up.
Just look how may people made their own Bumble Bees. Even the first trashed one from the first movie.
Look at it this way I had never heard of this guys car and now I have.
I have high hopes for the 6th gen Camaro, but if this is its new face it’s going to fall flat on it. It reminds me so much of the 2004 Cavalier and that’s not a good thing.