Predabot

They don't usually look quite this corroded... Probably.

A Predabot is a type of Autobot beast alternate mode that probably resembles a lion.

Fiction

Transformers Comic-Magazin

The Predabots took note of a strategic briefing from Optimus Prime. Transformers in Action: "ARK, please respond...!"

2005 IDW continuity

After getting his Prowls confused during a storytelling session in Swerve's, Skids sought to clarify the matter by asking if Chromedome was talking about the Prowl at Delphi who turned into a Predabot and liked a hug. Post Hoc

Notes

• As many obscure Transformers end up returning in modern fiction, you may think James Roberts at IDW was referencing the German Comic-Magazin group but the discovery of those Predabots was only made by Anglophone fandom years later!
• Thanks to Skids's maddeningly vague turn of phrase, it's not 100% clear what a "Predabot" actually is, other than Prowl/Dent turned into one and it's likely related to the lion's head kibble on his chest.
• The Predabots in IDW continuity might be the Autobots' version of the Predacons.