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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 10:34 pm

The LA Times has published a new article discussing how Transformers: Age of Extinction will be used to be promote the Chevy Trax in China. The article includes a nice image of the Trax in both vehicle and robot mode, and gives us the characters name.........Trax! The Chevy Trax is Trax.

The "Transformers" franchise is uniquely suited to automotive product placement because many main characters are cars that change into robots. In the film, a Trax transforms into a robot of the same name. The car appears in a portion of the movie that was shot and takes place in China.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 10:38 pm

This makes the Mexico City display referring to the Chevy Trax as just "Trax" and the Sonic RS as just "Sonic" make more sense.

News Credits: 13 · by **OptimalOptimus2** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 10:41 pm

El Duque wrote: The Chevy Trax is Trax.

Plot twist!

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 10:50 pm

Pfft, talk about "uninspired". >:oP

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 10:50 pm

What's in a name? The real question is, will there be a toy?

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 10:57 pm

Mindmaster wrote:Pfft, talk about "uninspired". >:oP

Well, what'd ya expect from from human scientists? I'm still surprised that one mech they built got the name "Galvatron" of all things.

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 11:01 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:Pfft, talk about "uninspired". >:oP
Well, what'd ya expect from from human scientists? I'm still surprised that one mech they built got the name "Galvatron" of all things. ;)

I was expecting "Vehicon". >:oP

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 11:02 pm

Pffft, everyone knows red Trax is called Road Rage.

Emerje

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 11:03 pm

Mindmaster wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:Pfft, talk about "uninspired". >:oP
Well, what'd ya expect from from human scientists? I'm still surprised that one mech they built got the name "Galvatron" of all things. ;)

I was expecting "Vehicon". >:oP

Nah, humans aren't that creative.

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 11:18 pm

I'm hoping it actually turns out to be Tracks. Retrax would also be acceptable, but seems less likely by an order of magnitude.

News Credits: 4 · by **BluePhirePB** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 11:37 pm

The car being sliced in half above is a Chevrolet Malibu

News Credits: 2 · by **BERSEKAEL** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 11:38 pm

I think is just a reference name, but still, I like the idea of having more than one character for that human remote controled army.

by **spongedude93** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:57 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:Pfft, talk about "uninspired". >:oP
Well, what'd ya expect from from human scientists? I'm still surprised that one mech they built got the name "Galvatron" of all things.

That's assuming the humans name him that and that he doesn't gain sentience and name himself.

News Credits: 54 · by **Deadput** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 1:12 am

Guys it could be a Vehicon that somehow is some what different then the others.

There were some Chinese advertisements/posters that had a silhouetted Trax (before we knew they were the Vehicons) with an also silhouetted dotm Bumblebee and Sideswipe.

So until now i wondered why a single Trax was advertised with those two even if it was only in China.

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:07 am

"cars that turn into robots" see heres the problem its suppose to be the other way around

by **Shuttershock** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:06 am

Oh, Trax is it? Well, I'm sure he'll fit right into the story alongside Sonic, Camaro, Bugati and Lamborgini.

Uninspired Product Placement, transform and sell cars!

by **Fifo** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:58 am

Is it Autobot or Decepticon?

by **Peridot** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:39 am

Wasn't Skids called Trax, before they gave him a real name?

by **mblase75** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:51 am

I get that the Corvette was already taken for Crosshairs, but they could have made Trax look at least a *little* bit like his namesake.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:18 am

spongedude93 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:Pfft, talk about "uninspired". >:oP
Well, what'd ya expect from from human scientists? I'm still surprised that one mech they built got the name "Galvatron" of all things.

That's assuming the humans name him that and that he doesn't gain sentience and name himself.

Well, the info we got from CinemaCon hinted at his name being Galvatron in the fight scene with Prime before Lockdown shows up, in which scene Galvatron is being human-operated. So maybe, just maybe, he has that name given to him by the humans.

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:(before we knew they were the Vehicons)

When was it ever confirmed that they were Vehicons?

Megatron Wolf wrote:"cars that turn into robots" see heres the problem its suppose to be the other way around

Not in this case with this dude being a human-made mechanoid created to fight against the real Cybertronian Transformers. This thing is most likely not alive.

Fifo wrote:Is it Autobot or Decepticon?

Neither.

mblase75 wrote:

I get that the Corvette was already taken for Crosshairs, but they could have made Trax look at least a *little* bit like his namesake.

Not when this thing isn't a homage to G1 Tracks. This "Trax" is named for what it is: A drone created from a Chevy Trax.

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 1:40 pm

Rated X wrote: it makes the movie kind of fake.

Would't want our giant alien transforming robot movie to not be 100% realistic! That would ruin the realism of this historical documentary!

News Credits: 54 · by **Deadput** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 5:06 pm

Sabrblade wrote:This makes the Mexico City display referring to the Chevy Trax as just "Trax" and the Sonic RS as just "Sonic" make more sense.

The Sonic might be Hot Shot

by **Peridot** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:31 pm

GuyIncognito wrote:
Rated X wrote: it makes the movie kind of fake.

Would't want our giant alien transforming robot movie to not be 100% realistic! That would ruin the realism of this historical documentary!

I have it on good authority that the entire purpose of these films is to discredit Transformers sightings*.

*As perpetrated by Sector Seven.