Here are the colours used on the toy:
Orange is used on the main body of the forklift
Grey is the back of the forklift
Black is used on the wheels
Blue is used for the sides and the forklift blades.
He has a Minicon port on his underside that allows him to be mounted as a blade weapon.
TF: Fold the back of the vehicle back to form the legs. Stand. Fold the "snow plough" in two out to the sides from the middle and fold back & down so the "plough" parts are behind his hips. Fold the arms out from the sides and fold back the cover over the head.
Liftor's robot mode is decent looking - the black in the middle helps - with bending joints at knee, hip, shoulder & elbow.
Odd vehicle mode but decent add on and robot. Original review: "Liftor is a very strange elongated forklift - makes a nice hand weapon for Smokescreen - which transforms in a surprisingly bulky minion with elbows on each arm. Nice again, another fun toy. "
Smokescreen & Liftor were available in Japan as MC-04 Grap (surely a bad translation of Grapple ?) and Lift. They were also in the MS-02 giftset with the race team.
Orange becomes dark blue
Grey & Black remain the same
Blue becomes yellow.
Liftor is packed with a repainted Smokescreen with both set against Ransack - a badly repainted Hoist - and a repainted Refute. Liftor is somewhat improved by the new paint job.