2009 Chicago Auto Show – General Motors Transforms

General Motors blows into the Windy City and transforms McCormick place

Everybody joins the party

For the many car buffs out there that had their suspicions, as we did here at LotPro.com, that the 2007 movie Transformers was a thinly disguised two and a half hour commercial for General Motors, you have been vindicated.

Today’s Chicago Auto Show unveiling at the GM exhibit affixed a 17-foot-tall, 13-foot-wide exclamation point to the General’s involvement in the Transformers franchise.

The stars all wear bowties

And while the life-sized (if you can call it that) robot Bumblebee was the largest quasi-vehicle to grace the exhibit; it was by no means the star or the focal point. That, my friends, belonged to “Sideswipe”, perhaps the most stunning Corvette concept since the ’59 Stingray Racer.

Officially know as the Corvette Vision Concept, the latest Stingray concept has design elements from a number of classic Corvettes – ranging from the SS models of the fifties to the ’63 split window coupe. Soon to be a star on the big screen in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Sideswipe is far from the only Chevy to grace the celluloid stage as he (it?) will be joined by “Skids” and “Mudflap”, a pair of Chevy Beats, as well as “Jolt” – an Autobot based on the upcoming Chevy Volt extended-range electric vehicle.

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