Forbes Article About GM's Role in the Transformers Movie

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Over the past few months there have been a lot of articles about the Transformers Movie, with more sure to follow. The latest article about the movie has been posted by Forbes.com. The article talks about how GM's role in the Transformers Movie. Read the article by clicking here.

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Re: Forbes Article About GM's Role in the Transformers Movie (169365)
Posted by Decepticon Spike on June 17th, 2007 @ 8:01pm CDT

Interesting.

Re: Forbes Article About GM's Role in the Transformers Movie (169387)
Posted by i_amtrunks on June 17th, 2007 @ 8:11pm CDT

Did Gm score a massive deal here or what? I always presumed that they paid Paramount some money (in addition to lending them the cars and technicians etc) so Paramount would feature their cars.
Now I have found out they did not actually pay Paramount any money... wow, a 2 hour advertisement across thousands of cinema's worldwide for nothing (technically nothing, they only lent them about $1 million worth of stuff).

Re: Forbes Article About GM's Role in the Transformers Movie (169484)
Posted by XEN0 on June 17th, 2007 @ 9:37pm CDT

i don't like gm cars i wish there had been more diversity in the autobot alternate forms.

Re: Forbes Article About GM's Role in the Transformers Movie (169546)
Posted by Chaos_Unleashed on June 17th, 2007 @ 10:27pm CDT

dang, they got an awesome deal for this movie.

this might in fact jump start the american car market again. mehbeh?

Re: Forbes Article About GM's Role in the Transformers Movie (170035)
Posted by Black Bumblebee on June 18th, 2007 @ 8:42am CDT

That would be a good thing, in my opinion. Support American goods!

(sorry folks in other countries... gotta support the home economy...)

Re: Forbes Article About GM's Role in the Transformers Movie (170071)
Posted by KSC on June 18th, 2007 @ 9:17am CDT

I just hope a Bot throws a Chevy Cobalt at something...I have my reasons!

Re: Forbes Article About GM's Role in the Transformers Movie (170112)
Posted by Hanch Prime on June 18th, 2007 @ 10:21am CDT

thats why there is a mustang too. its not an exclusive deal. I love my country, but every GM car I have ever owned was a piece of crap.My first car was a Barretta (sp?) the gas pedal used to stick and the interior fell apart completely. I had a '97 Z28 that pretty much the electronics stoped working a year after I bought it. had an S10 that tried to kill me on several ocations by just turning off for no reason! on the Highway no less. The dealership couldn't figure it out. Must a been a decepticon. Anyways got a Ford Mustang GT I still have it, all I have done to it so far is change the oil, sparkplugs, and tires never had any problems. VWs have been great cars for me too, I guess GM Cars just hate me

Re: Forbes Article About GM's Role in the Transformers Movie (170116)
Posted by Anonymous on June 18th, 2007 @ 10:28am CDT

I just wish they wouldn't label the film a "two-hour long advertisement."

Re: Forbes Article About GM's Role in the Transformers Movie (170119)
Posted by skywarp-2 on June 18th, 2007 @ 10:30am CDT

Well its not really for free, considering the cost of the cars used for the movies, the advertisement alone is a huge bill, I'd assume if they paid paramount that the advertising is something that would fall back on paramount vs the car company itself, so It was a sweet deal but in my point of View GM got half off..