Throttlebot


 * The Throttlebots are an Autobot subgroup.

The Throttlebots are a team of five Autobots, who share a common transformation scheme.

The Throttlebots are...


 * Chase — eager and superficially friendly; red Ferrari Testarossa
 * Freeway — thin-skinned comedian; blue Chevrolet Corvette C4
 * Rollbar — hard-driving and macho tracker; green Jeep CJ-7
 * Searchlight — quiet and reclusive scout; white Ford RS200
 * Wide Load — vain and narcissistic; orange mining dump truck

The Cure!
The Throttlebots were among the numerous Autobot guerrilla units on Cybertron, and they led a successful campaign of fuel raids against the ruling Decepticons. However, thanks to a Decepticon Titanium-class Destruction Drone, the Throttlebots were eventually captured and brought to the offices of the Chief Decepticon Fuel Auditor Ratbat. An outbreak of Scraplets had begun on Earth and unwilling to waste Decepticon troops, Ratbat had ordered them captured so they could go and destroy all of the infected instead—or he would destroy the planet itself to prevent the spread of the deadly disease.

Given new Earth-style vehicle forms and canisters of corrosive acid, the Throttlebots arrived on Earth and soon found Bumblebee in the death throes of a Scraplets infection. They attempted to destroy him, but during the skirmish, Goldbug's human friend Charlie Fong discovered a cure for Scraplets, the "rare chemical" water. G.B. Blackrock provided two tanker trucks full of water at the crater; but the water treatment proved ineffective when the Scraplets merged themselves into a giant monster. It did, however, allow them to heal all the affected Transformers, who disabled the creature with their weapons. The acid was then used to destroy all the remaining Scraplets.

Other

 * Bumblebee has never been a Throttlebot on the MUX, but as a special covert ops team, they report to him.
 * Evil Goldbug is not a Throttlebot.

Foreign names

 * Japanese: Throttlebot (スロットルボット Surottorubotto)
 * English: The Stallion Forces (Omni Productions dub)
 * Italian: Racerbot
 * Russian: Drosselbot (Дроссельбот Drosselʹbot)