More Than Meets the Eye: Chinese Enthusiasts Transform a Citroen


Crafty Chinese Transformer fans have constructed what must be the ultimate, eh, tribute car.

Using the famous robots as their inspiration and a Citroen C2 as their parts bin; these Autobot lovers built the bot in life size scale, which figures to be over 14 feet tall and weighing 1,320 pounds. This footage from YouTube shows a bit of the behemoth coming together, though the gentlemen in the video struggling to assemble the scaffolding don’t inspire tons of confidence as to the Transformer’s build quality.

+YouTube: Real Transformer Made in China (via Autoblog)

Comments

Francois

This is specific to Citroen : they first made an ad with the C4 transforming (1st for the UK, then France -and rest of Europe too ?-), and at the last Paris Mondial Show there was a 'live' DS-transformer.

GM just stole the idea and made a film of it :p

Francois

huh sorry... first phrase = This MUST BE specific to Citroen models

I don't know at all if the chinese guys are working for the brand

Jonathan Fung [Gotakon]

They're probably more used to bamboo scaffolding...but LOL at that scene.

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