Michael Bay, the director, confirmed the news, while announcing that the GT R will play the Samurai-wielding Autobot Drift. "The samurai returns thanks to @MercedesAMG GT R. Looking good, Drift.

I think the conversation went something like this: "Hey, you know what would be cool? If we took a Nissan GT-R and made it look like the evil cop car from Transformers." "Yeah! Let's do that!" And so ...