Jetta Transformer Ripping up Beijing


The Chinese fascination, perhaps better called an obsession, with all things Transformers has not yet reached its peak. The release of the second Transformers movie in China has only served to make the Transformers stronger than before in the PRC, which has resulted in various Autobots doing lucrative product sponsorship on various products from male skin care products to kids cereal. Some companies have run with the Transformers success to push their own business, Citroen for example used a dancing robot to push its new Citroen C4, and then there’s the Beijing mall that used their own home made VW Jetta bot to garner publicity for their own recently opened movie theatre:

ash 010 web avatar Jetta Transformer Ripping up Beijing

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Ash came to China at 18 on a whim and never left. Some 10 years later he collected a degree and a family along the way and now focuses his time on watching the Chinese car industry develop. He has witnessed the market change from being minor backyard market in to the world's biggest and most important market for all car manufacturers. You can contact or connect with him via Linkedin by clicking the 'Website' link.

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9 Comments so far, please add your thoughts!

  1. avatar Thomas Gilling says:

    I think that the Volkswagen Jetta is not the ideal car to turn into a Transformer. I would have gone with a least a Buick Excelle or a MG3 SW!

  2. avatar CCT says:

    Buick Excelle? Buick Excelle?

    MADNESS!

    The Excelle is for families, and middle aged men. The Jetta is a cheap, overbuilt, tough car. Its the ultimate autobot! It could take on Devastator all by itself!

  3. avatar tomson says:

    China is still backward with backward mindset, that doesn’t have any kind of style.

    Almost every big cities in China look like Christmas at night with all the neon light. Don’t believe just go to Chongqing and some part of shanghai.

  4. avatar Head Honcho says:

    What does it matter what it is? Buicks are crap. I can’t believe people buy them here. If you want an ugly under powered car get a buick.

  5. avatar MichaelW says:

    That’s funny. I remember that C4 ad from a couple of years ago when they brought out the new C4. Maybe the could do a rerun for the C-Quatre sedan.

  6. avatar Steve says:

    Notice the ‘hardware error’ on the Mcdonalds screen behind!

  7. avatar Ed says:

    @tomson
    Shut your crap, it’s just the same with the U.S., there’s no need to put down China just because it’s got neon lights in the cities. It’s got way more culture than the States.

  8. avatar skeletor6662001 says:

    where is it’s head?

  9. avatar CCT says:

    Skeletor… Perhaps the bonnet is its face?

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