--- description: To celebrate the first day of principal photography of the project unofficially known as Transformers 4 (or, The Transformers Movie That Doesn't Have Shia LaBeouf),... title: Sneak Peek: The New Autobots of ‘Transformers 4’ image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta84ec95379758e42/698a8ecbcabb1db3e2e59ccb/corvette-stingray-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) # Sneak Peek: The New Autobots of 'Transformers 4' by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) May 29, 2013 10:34 PM CUT  COOPER - 1—Photo credit: Andrew Cooper© 2013 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) May 29, 2013 10:34 PM CUT To celebrate the first day of principal photography of the project unofficially known as _Transformers 4_ (or, _The_ _Transformers Movie That Doesn’t Have Shia LaBeouf_), [director Michael Bay released these photos on his website](http://michaelbay.com/ "undefined"). He writes: --- > “” --- **The first ‘Bot is the “completely upgraded, custom-built Optimus Prime”:**  Andrew Cooper© 2013 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reser **The second is a “1,200-horsepower Bugatti Grand Sport Vitesse” — valued, he helpfully notes, at more than $2.4 million:**  Andrew Cooper© 2013 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. **Rounding out this trio of cars — er, robo-vehicles, is a “a special race-inspired C7 Corvette Stingray”:**  Andrew Cooper© 2013 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. _Transformers_ fans — we know you’re out there — what do you think of these “re-envisioned” Autobots? Bold new direction? Or were you hoping for something more radical? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7118764/sneak-peek-the-new-autobots-of-transformers-4/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7118764/sneak-peek-the-new-autobots-of-transformers-4/"},"headline":"Sneak Peek: The New Autobots of 'Transformers 4'","datePublished":"2013-05-29T22:34:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-25T05:05:20.105Z","description":"To celebrate the first day of principal photography of the project unofficially known as Transformers 4 (or, The Transformers Movie That Doesn't Have Shia LaBeouf),...","url":"https://time.com/archive/7118764/sneak-peek-the-new-autobots-of-transformers-4/","keywords":["Transformers"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta84ec95379758e42/698a8ecbcabb1db3e2e59ccb/corvette-stingray-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta84ec95379758e42/698a8ecbcabb1db3e2e59ccb/corvette-stingray-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Corvette Stingray 1","caption":"","creditText":"COOPER - 1—Photo credit: Andrew Cooper© 2013 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/7118764/sneak-peek-the-new-autobots-of-transformers-4/","name":"Sneak Peek: The New Autobots of 'Transformers 4'"}}]}] ```