Quote Originally Posted by Iriorne View Post
I've read a lot of rumours about the VW and Porsche licenses being difficult to obtain because, being German companies that supplied vehicles to the Nazi regime in WW2, they're quite touchy about licensed products that are associated with war. *shrug*

I suppose the Astro Magnum could be seen as 'difficult' too, since nobody seems to know who actually holds the rights to it.

Personally I'd be keen to see more Autobot cars as the recent ones have been so cleverly designed. That said, I already have the third party QuakeWave, so perhaps I'm biased in that respect.
It's not a rumour. It's a fact, albeit one dating back to the Alternator days, as far as Transformers confirmation that we are aware of.

And I doubt they'd do Jazz before 'Bee if they had access to that license, seeing as they're owned by the same company.

Although a counterpoint to that is that there's less association with Nazis to Porsches than to Beetles.

Maybe they had a regime change, and/or realised/had TakTom give assurances that characters using their cars would only be heroes, and/or not have included weapons. Or they just saw what Transformers association did for certain cars which in the TF movies, even ones which were baddies.

A less likely factor would be that the original Beetle shape was still being made at the time of the Alternators, and it's conception Pre-2003.