Found this on Edmunds, it's a little inside look at the Saleen S281 that is featured as a villain in the movie Transformers. I thought it was pretty interesting, especially if you were a Transformers fan as a kid.

Barricade — the Evil Saleen S281
For Ford there would be little upside to seeing its Mustang take on the role of "Barricade," the berserk cop car Decepticon that is Bumblebee's archrival. Or for that matter, having a generation of kids grow up pretending to do vile, nasty things with Barricade toys that look just like the company's pony car. So in Transformers, Barricade isn't a Mustang at all. Instead it's a trio of Saleen S281s.

Of course, the Saleen S281 is based on the Mustang. But Saleen is officially recognized as a small manufacturer by the United States government and the S281 is a product of Saleen, not Ford. There's plenty of upside for tiny Saleen in getting its limited-production products up on the big screen, and it was fine with licensing the car to Hasbro for the villainous side of its toy line.

At Saleen's facility in Michigan, while the company's Show Car Body Shop was furiously refitting two Pontiac GTOs with fiberglass replicas of the Camaro Concept's body to portray Bumblebee, the three S281s that would star as Barricade were making their way down the regular production line. Like every S281, they were fitted with all the external body parts, suspension pieces, 20-inch wheels and tires, and interior trim items that make them distinct from a Mustang. However, unlike regular S281s, these were painted black and white, and instead of the 335-horsepower 4.6-liter SOHC 24-valve V8 "Z Motor" other S281s get, they have the Mustang GT's 300-hp version of the same engine under their hoods.

It's no surprise that the Barricade we were able to pilot for a few minutes around the Transformers set drove exactly how we expected it would: like a new S281 but with slightly less power. The standard shifter is aboard to control the production five-speed automatic transmission and the car seems to react instantly on its oversize P275/35ZR20 Pirelli P Zero tires. In short, it's a very nice car.

The fun came in turning on the light bar and chasing down the Camaros. With the lights going and the Must...er, S281's engine roaring, we may have looked like bad guys. But we felt like heroes. Sort of. After all, no villain thinks he's the villain, does he?

wow thats cool and i wish i could get it is that the only ones of that model?