In the rear of the car is a 5mm peg hole which can be used to mount the post for his vehicle mode cannon, moulded in the blue plastic which as we'll see is also used on the robot mode. For further comments on the Stunticon vehicle weapons design see my review of Dragstrip which can be found here.
Transform: Identical to Stunticon Dead End. Remove the vehicle mode weapon. Pull the rear of the car back. Fold each half of the car out to the side and back to form the lower legs. Push them back towards the rest of the car. Fold the bonnet back onto the windscreen. Stand on the rear of the car with the underside facing you. Raise the arms and place his concussion rifle in his hand.
Breakdown is another tall thin robot, with his wheels pressed together between his legs. His leg fronts, inner arms, chest centre and head are all dark blue plastic while the surround for the chest is metal, or at least is on earlier versions of the toy. Articulation is limited to the arms which turn.
Breakdown can form a limb for Menasor or any of the other Special Team/Scramble City style combiners:
Arm Mode: Take the car mode, fold the head down under the car and plug into a shoulder socket. Insert a fist into the 5mm peg hole at the rear.
Leg Mode: Take the car mode and fold the bonnet back. Clip the head into the bottom of a Leader's leg. Peg a foot into the 5mm peg hole.
The instructions show Breakdown serving as Menasor's left arm.
Again, Perfectly competent in all three modes.
Breakdown was released in the US & UK in 1986 as Stunticon S2 and was also available in the Menasor giftset. In Japan he was numbered D-51 and also sold in the D-55 Menasor giftset. He was re-released in Europe in 1990 as a gold carded European Classics toy. In the mid nineties a supply of the Chinese Menasor giftsets entered the UK and were available in toyshops over here.
Breakdown's name was reused on a Cybertron toy while there's a Revenge of the Fallen version that resembles the original in both modes.
Since it's the only existing repaint of Breakdown there's a good chance that when a reissue of the Stunticons eventually comes along E-Hobby will provide us with this as an exclusive repaint.
G2 Breakdown returned as a Botcon 2010 exclusive,a remould of Universe Sideswipe.
Given that Breakdown is a Lamborghini, and we already have used a red car in our Autobot repaints (see Dead End's review) I suppose that Sunstreaker would be a good choice as a repaint.