He has always been a Pontiac Solstice..The vehicle you see has always been his alt mode and is the new Sosltice...This is not a new form...These are not the droids your looking for... As far as the differences he looks exactly the same to me except for the quality of the render.
I always knew he was the Pontiac Solstice. But the Solstice in the movie is with the top and the back fin of the car. This NEW Jazz apparently transforms from the convertible (I'm guessing that's what it is) without the top and back fin.
More than that- look at how the "wings" of the helmet join at the base as well as the wings themselves. They too have changed.
His face is exactly the same, double check. And this is the first good close-up I've seen of his battle mode. There may be small differences here and there, kind of like if you compare the picture of optimus Prime in Entertainment Weekly and the previous renders, there are differences in details but not overall design, this is just probably the "final" version.
Battle Mode NOCV's pictures There's just something that bothers me, because this new, more bad@$$ Jazz looks to transform from that different Pontiac
Hence why I'm beginning to think because he is getting so much awesome advertising, his new version of the Pontiac hopefully will have something to do with the movie itself in the plot
OH GOD NO!!! I mean that whatever happens, he gets reformatted into this new badass form that has appeared XD Oh and here's some more stuff to show that these are two different forms of Jazz Notice the "back fin" of the hardtop movie Pontiac on Jazz's upperback Now look at the "back fin" of the Maxim Jazz... Oh wait IT'S NOT THERE Obviously the Jazz with the back fin on his back WILL be in the movie. But what of the Jazz we see in Maxim?
Hmmm... Here's a thought. MAYBE the second Jazz figure ISN'T a G1-esque repaint. Maybe it'll be more like the difference between the 2 Bumblebee figures...
It seems obvious that we have atleast 3 differant stages of designs in these renders as brothersamuel40 pointed in the crest comparison. There are atleast 2 didferant battle modes depicted and since the the older renders seem to be the lighter shaded models. The Solstice add looks to be the final approved movie design the other renders look like the renders from the toy convention. 1. I kinda hope they leave the visor down 2. the new design is friggin awesome I like the new horns too 3. I hope that if the visor is up that the new design is just as bad ass in non battle mode.