>>8395666Up to that point (Car Robots in 2000), all the animated shows of Transformers were part of the same continuity.
So when Car Robots came out, it was pretty much agreed it was G1 in the year 2000 and they would write around it in magazine material (which they did)
It's always been part of G1. Just the year after with Armada long with the American version of Robots in Disguise fucked everything up. Americans creators hate continuity