>>10837891You’re just missing context, everything about Car Robots was done deliberately to fit it into the timeline, it’s just Americans who went “durrr just like G1 Optimus!’
He’s a convoy like Big and Lio, modeled after G1 convoy but not the original Optimus. God Magnus was also meant to be a homage to god bomber. Choosing the contemporary 2000 setting for the series and making them time travelers like the original concept implies they came from the same time as the prior convoys.