I just don’t want to see more of these fuckers on the streets here.  I saw enough of them in sandworld.  I’m home and I want to see cops appearing like cops and not a fucking military unit.

And they are manufactured like a Dodge/Chrysler:

Whenever anyone talks about cutting military budget, conservatives lose their shit and call you unamerican.

These have worse depreciation than Mercedes.

The Humvees weren’t street-legal at first, but after they realized there was a demand they started issuing the proper paperwork; I’d hoon the shit out of that Growler.

I’ll take a Growler that hasn’t been dropped out of a plane, please.

That is the US military for you, spending cash on shit they don’t need in order to justify getting more cash to spend on shit they don’t need in the future. We really need an overhaul of military spending, time to put the military-industrial complex on a Kosher diet.

The U.S. government is currently overstocked with Internally Transportable Light Strike Vehicle (ITV) “Growler” off-road vehicles and Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement 7 Ton (MTVR) cargo trucks and is about to pass the savings on to yoooooooooou!

The Growler sounds awesome, but much like the HMMVs, I am going to guess that these are virtually unregisterable. I can just imagine the face on an insurance agent when “what kind of car is it” is answered with “an American Growler Company Growler”

An article on Military.com reported that the vehicles were coming from the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, which apparently no longer need the things.

In other words, a bunch of police departments with extra asset forfeiture money are about to get new toys to play army with.

Reminds me of the scene in Gone in 60 Seconds when the guy brings in the Cadillac that had the keys left in it. “Did you ever consider why a car in that neighborhood would have its keys left in it? Maybe because no one else would be stupid enough to try and rip this car off.” There is a big overlap on the venn diagram…

Ferrari F40 dinged by a Toyota Yaris. Pretty much the Alpha and Omega of the automotive world. 

I guess that’s just it though, it’s a luxury trademark.  It’s like if Coach started making athletic wear or something.  It just feels a bit wrong.

While I’m always at least mildly interested in any new supercar on the block, I feel like they’re really missing the mark here.  Hispano-Suiza was a luxury car company that made stuff that held up to Rolls Royce standards.  Why in the world are they looking at the supercar market?  They should be going after Bentley…

Leno rolled up to the Emmys one year in a Hispano-Suiza.  Debatable whether that qualifies as relevant tho

That would be a basking shark, and it is very not extinct. 

Wow.

Elvis is legendary now, too (“Death, The Ultimate Career Move!”) but equally unlikely to arise and put on a great performance.  There is always drama these days when he appears.