Vette To Star In New Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Came across this for TFR, thought some might enjoy it - especially if you have kids ... right???

It's only for the kids, after all.

Comments

[Spartan112]

Wow that is one hideous car. And people wonder why American car makers are struggling...it's because they make crap cars. Is there one new American car that makes you go "Wow, I want one of those!"?

[seekeronos]

"--- Is there one new American car that makes you go "Wow, I want one of those!"? ---"

Here are a few vehicles I could fancy:

http://www.teslamotors.com/

http://www.aptera.com/

http://www.fiskerautomotive.com/

http://www.flytheroad.com/

[Totally Heterosexual Conservative]

I don't know. It's not a horrible car, but yeah ... meh. Somehow, however, I doubt that the Transformers pictures would pack the same punch with hybrid robots. Although, the jokes do kind of write themselves.

[SacTownMan]

The Seeker list includes the Tesla which is one powerful ride. Those other cars look extremely gay though.

I have mentioned before that I really like the 2008 Challenger SRT:

http://www.dodge.com/en/2008/challenger/gallery/

The upcoming 2010 Camaro that was featured in the first Transformers movie is a great looking American car:

http://www.chevrolet.com/camaro/

The Cadillac Escalade is the preferred ride for the Bling, Bling crowd out there

http://www.cadillac.com/cadillacjsp/model/gallery.jsp?model=escalade

Of course you could be like our troll friends out there and buy a BMW or some other foreign made POS and help another American to become unemployed.

Something like this famous import:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1658533_1658529,00.html

[seekeronos]

My picks were based on cars built around the PHEV model (battery/electric) which I think will help these smaller corporations to either revitalize the Big Three or supplant them altogether, AND reduce our dependency on the gasoline supply chain (there is plenty of oil, but very limited domestic extraction and even less of a likelihood for an expansion of our refinement capability)... and for the green crowds, reduce CO2 emissions.

That, and the infrastructure is already in place (plug it in to your external house AC to recharge) as opposed to having to stand up hundreds of thousands of LP gas, NG, or hydrogen pumps... as well as reverting our farmlands back to producing grains for food and feed for storage and for export instead of a woefully underpowered, deficient replacement for gasoline.

The drawbacks - including the very sexy Tesla - is that these vehicles are at best designed for a maximum of two persons; they are commuter/short distance personal transports.

That said, there will still be a market for trucks, cargo haulage, and multi-passenger vehicles whose economy of scale demands the power that currently only gas, diesel, or NG can reliably provide.

[Spartan112]

Well I was mainly referring to the Big 3, of which the cars you mentioned (the Escalade, Challenger, etc) are mainly over puffed crap. That Tesla looks very cool though heavily influenced by euro design (Lotus/Ferrari). The Aplera looks like Wall-E dropped a duece.

And no, I'm not a BMW guy, but regardless of what I may or may not drive I am hardly taking away jobs from the american worker by driving a foreign car since most of them are built here now (even the BMW). Bot my Subaru and my Toyota are built in the US and look better than any major US makers car and are more reliable.