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Swerve (1986)
In the Mexican Transformers line produced by IGA, Swerve was released as a straight redeco of Gears, sold on Swerve cards. He was cast in metallic-maroon with white robot parts, which is pretty close to the Hasbro/Takara Swerve colors. Unlike most of the second-series IGA Mini Vehicles, he does not appear to have been sold in a second color scheme (at least, that we know of so far).
IGA appears to have done this old-mold-new-colors move with the other third-year retools (Hubcap, Outback, Pipes, and Tailgate), though so far Tailgate and Swerve are the only ones that have been confirmed with carded samples.
IGA Transformers also eventually made their way to a variety of European markets, slightly decreasing their rarity.
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