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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:06 pm

Director Michael Bay recently dropped by his own Shoot for the Edit forums and chimed in on a discussion about the possible identity of the silver Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG. Some fans have speculated this may be Soundwave's earth mode based on clues from the game trailers and comics. This is what he had to say:

Originally Posted by michaelbay
Mercedes would never let us make their car into a bad Decepticon. Car company's really frown on that - I can't say what the game company and comics do that's their own thing. They don't have the same constraints movies do. It's Carly's car.

As you can see Bay indicates the Mercedes isn't a Transformer at all, but just a regular car driven by Carly. Shoot for the Edit site admin nelson then had this to say on the matter:

Originally Posted by nelson
That's what I've been saying since day one.

Truth from the source of misinformation campaign? Discuss here!

News Credits: 1 · by **Blackstreak** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:19 pm

Willing to bet they will make a transformer toy out of it though. They did that to several human vehicles in the first movie...and probably the second movie too.

by **Rated X** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:18 am

So Carly is a rich stuck up college girl that mommy and daddy spoil rotten ???

News Credits: 1 · by **Sodan-1** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:24 am

El Duque wrote:
Originally Posted by michaelbay
Mercedes would never let us make their car into a bad Decepticon..... It's Carly's car.

In an American movie about alien robots who transform into all-sorts of vehicles it seems quite pointless to have such a flash German sports car take on essentially a background role. Maybe it'll start out lifeless and then become an Autobot or some kind of good Decepticon.

News Credits: 10 · by **Trikeboy** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:11 am

Sodan-1 wrote:
El Duque wrote:
Originally Posted by michaelbay
Mercedes would never let us make their car into a bad Decepticon..... It's Carly's car.

In an American movie about alien robots who transform into all-sorts of vehicles it seems quite pointless to have such a flash German sports car take on essentially a background role. Maybe it'll start out lifeless and then become an Autobot or some kind of good Decepticon.

Just because it is Carly's car doesn't mean it isn't a Cybertronian. Legally, Bumblebee is Sam's car. I too noticed the bad Decepticon part. Could we possibly be getting a Movieverse Drift? Even if it is toyline only that would be cool.