HYPEWHIP on Instagram: "ngl bumblebee got the tuffest voice In the original 1980s animated canon, Bumblebee transforms into a yellow Volkswagen Beetle. However, in Michael Bay’s live-action films, Bumblebee’s on-Earth vehicle mode is based on a Chevrolet Camaro (initially a battered 1977 Camaro that later scans into a 2006 Camaro concept). So strictly speaking, the car form you see in the blockbuster Transformers movies is a Camaro, not a Beetle. That change was partly because Bay felt a Beetle