Law enforcement has, indeed, reached new extremes. Ours is a world in which the police re-commission military armoured personnel carriers for their own means, badging them up as “Special Weapons and Tactics Team” vehicles, without much consternation from the law-abiding public.

Swerve is something of a rarity. Not so much the fact that it’s nigh-impossible to track down, but the fact that it has such an everyday alternate mode. Most Autobots (those that have car modes) seem to go for sleek, expensive sporty numbers that are well out of an average car enthusiast’s price range.