Hotshot is the fastest of all the Autobots and also has the attitude to back it up. Fast and hot headed can be his un-doing from time to time because while Hotshot tries to keep to his duties he finds that his heart is always in the race and that he only ever really feel's alive when racing and always that he's out to prove he is the fastest Transformer around.

Robot mode for the figure is great because firstly this figure is meant as kind of a tribute to Generation One character -Hot Rod - so the first thing that you do notice about robot and vehicle mode is that in a strange way it does look like the original G1 character everyone knows.

The figure is very accurate from how he looks in the cartoon and all his knee and elbow sections bend which give him loads more play value. The arms can move at the shoulders and the legs can move around the waist area as well. The neck area can also rotate from left to right but sadly he cannot look up or down but then again only a small number of Transformers have that feature anyway.

Hotshot comes with his gun that was also shown in the cartoon show and his Force Chip can be placed into the back area of the vehicle mode while in robot mode to slide out the wings. The wings being out for robot mode make Hotshot look even more like the Generation One character Hot Rod. There is also a big Autobot symbol on the left shoulder area for Hotshot and a small Autobot Symbol on the front of the vehicle mode.

Vehicle mode is very stylish and slick and looks perfectly designed for racing as a sports car. The arms fold in close together while the legs attach to each other and slide upwards inside the thigh area and then the top section rotates 180 and all attaches together to make the vehicle mode of Hotshot.

The wheels are standard plastic but again its very very rare now if a Transformer ever has rubber tires these days. The wind-shield is transparent yellow and lets you look inside to see the dash board and steering wheel and seats. The gun for Hotshot can also attach to the top-back area of vehicle mode as shown in the cartoon show when he and Over-ride teamed up against the Decepticons.

Vehicle mode itself is nice and solid and all holds together perfectly well. The design is very well created and looks perfectly like how it does in the show and transforms from both modes without any odd bits or pieces just revealing themselves or making the figure look poorly created such as Undermine as an example.

The paint work for the character is good but in some places it feels like the figure is unfinished. An example of this is in the arms because in the show Hotshot has the car door area on his arms. The car door area also shows several grey blasters (Think G1 Hot Rod and you will understand what i mean with the exhaust blasters) which while in the show are clearly shown as grey yet for some reason the toy just has clear transparent yellow? it feels almost as if this was un-noticed while on the design/production line because really this is the only huge flaw with the character that could so obviously have been corrected.

Hotshot comes presented Mint-on-sealed-card like pretty much all of the Deluxe characters do for the Cybertron line. He comes shown in vehicle mode placed beind a clear plastic window with an image on the front of him in robot mode. An odd note about this is that in America the image on the front is a cartoon image of Hotshot yet while in most parts of Europe the image shown is a toy image of Hotshot in robot mode. This seems to be the case for most of the Cybertron line actually which seems rather odd because why go threw the effort of changing the image on the front of the box from a cartoon image to a picture of the toy character when you can see the toy by simply looking at the plastic transparent window?

The back of the box shows images of Hotshot in both vehicle mode and robot mode with his stats and character details on the back. However these details don't actually say that much when you compare them to the Galaxy Force version of the toy. Just seems a little like Hasbro didn't make as much effort as Takara when it came to the packaging of the Cybertron/Galaxy Force toys in general.

A great figure to own with hardly any down-sides or flaws and going for a decent price you can't really argue with the fact that Cybertron Hotshot is an amazing toy to own. If your a fan of Galaxy Force or Cybertron (which ever you collect) then you simply can not let Hotshot pass you by, a definite must own character from the line.