My list of self-rejected additions to this thread:

And yes, the Tesla is a good car - but though no one knows the actual cost for manufacture, it looks like buyers are getting a car for well below cost. Nice for them, but sucks for people buying cheap cars that now cost a little more so that some rich hipster can drive around in a Tesla.

Apart from the Feds, each state has additional incentives (http://www.teslamotors.com/incentives/US/…, for example). But that's not where the money is. In order to even sell a car in California, a certain number of the cars you sell there need to be zero emissions. This is a little complicated, because no one can…

If PT Barnum… ooops. I meant Elon Musk…. can get enough people to buy it without all the subsidies, then good for him :)

If only to help stop governments from giving away tax payer dollars/credits and get away from the idea a bunch of morons in government have any idea what they are doing.

Phenomenal cars, but unless you are 5'8" or less (and under 150 lbs) they are a VERY tight squeeze. Still, worth it if you can get the chance to drive one.

How about pictures of cool people with cool cars? JF Musial (/Drive) teaching a bunch of NYU Film students how to camera mount a 2001 M Coupe.

Car shows may not count, but what if the photo has a big dog and a little car in it?

This is a litmus test. If you react strongly to this story you need to be on Gizmondo, not Jalopnik.

There are very few areas in which guys actually give a damn what other people think. I have no idea why this is one of them, and it shouldn't be. I'm with you - I hope the bald fat guys buy them by the bucket load.

Regardless.

I agree that creeping escalation is more readily accepted than a perceived jump in escalation. The step to Bearcats would be shorter and elicit less commentary. But the point still stands - the escalation is not necessary. Nor do I think I'm exploiting people's fear, in fact I am doing much less than the police…

This one (It isn't here yet, but on the way):

I don't think that 'nobody seems to care about other SWAT vehicles' - unless you are referring to the fact that the majority of people don't seem to care about anything (no argument from me on that score). But then we tend to forget that actual participation even in our war for independence from Great Britain was…

So does the Abrams. So does basic bulletproofing. How many police were shot in the back of their tac van while driving to a scene? After arriving at a scene? What is the problem you are trying to solve?

Perhaps I have simply missed all the news stories about US police forces being decimated by IED's, rocket propelled grenades and crew-served heavy machine guns. If these are problems in Salinas and elsewhere, then an Abrams may not be a bad choice. If these are NOT problems, then an MRAP is simply overkill at any…

For those saying "What a deal" - you all know we have a lot of these:

I object to the phrase 'onerous terms'. They weren't. In fact the terms were quite generous. If you are solely referring to the convertibility section of the agreement, that wasn't 'onerous' either, simply a matter of trade. The fact that Britain's balance of payments and debt services were extraordinary were not the…

'The British government's hand was forced…' and 'Whether the US acted intentionally to maintain the UK in it's severely weakened state….' - what a bizarre view of history, not to say somewhat insulting to the thousands of dead americans who gave their lives for western civilization (including England). Still, be as…