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cool police cars
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It's not like we don't have fast cars or people who drive fast.
Despite what the overlay says the top one
They are general purpose vehicles and are most often used for patrol motorways.
I know that they wouldn't use those on the highway. Horrible mpg and obviously not very fast. The police dept must go through a lot of oil and coolant though (referring to british car leaks)
My town is really getting into Ford Explorers cause we get a good amount of snow here in the winter. We have basically no crime here but for some reason my town spends loads of money on the police dept. They have like 3 cops (11,000 people in my town) on duty at a time yet they have like 10 police cars and a massive station. Thankfully parts of the building such as one of the conference rooms is sometimes used for meetings so the town can take advantage of the unnecessary space they have.
(referring to british car leaks)My town is really getting into Ford Explorers cause we get a good amount of snow here in the winter. We have basically no crime here but for some reason my town spends loads of money on the police dept. They have like 3 cops (11,000 people in my town) on duty at a time yet they have like 10 police cars and a massive station. Thankfully parts of the building such as one of the conference rooms is sometimes used for meetings so the town can take advantage of the unnecessary space they have.
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A small town near me recently bought several of the Dodge police cars shown at the bottom of your first post.
i saw one of these in Niagra Falls the other day. it wasnt a cop, but it was still quite the site to see. talk about mini car...
It's not always about how fast the car can go, it's mostly about the person sat behind the steering wheel. We have some of the best trained police drivers in the world.
They are the main stay of British police on Motorways, those and Volvo T5's
As for not very fast, the new Ranger Rovers will do 0-60 in less than 10 seconds (Diesel 8.6 petrol 7.1) and the diesel tops out at 124MPH and the petrol tops out at 130MPH so yup, pretty quick. Oh and the diesel can get 31MPG while the petrol can do 23 MPG.
Oh and to finish off, My local Motorway police and notice the cars they have.
The Mass State Police is now intergrating Dodge Charger's into the fleet:
Pretty awesome.
Still, most of our fleet is Crown Vics, marked and unmarked, and then the upper brass get unmarked Taurus' or Chargers. That's not to mention the handful of unmarked, "stealth" black Mustang GTs (blacked out windows, dark non-state official plates) used for patrol, or the gas thirsty Explorers/Expeditions.
Pretty awesome.
Still, most of our fleet is Crown Vics, marked and unmarked, and then the upper brass get unmarked Taurus' or Chargers. That's not to mention the handful of unmarked, "stealth" black Mustang GTs (blacked out windows, dark non-state official plates) used for patrol, or the gas thirsty Explorers/Expeditions.
Immediately thought of Gumball Rally (the original couple who did the Police Car BMW - before imitators got in on the scene).
Some UK classics (Missing out a large chunk of Ford Police Car history).
I quite like the pimped out blacked out 4x4s they have doing undercover surveillance down in the South West Devon/Cornwall region. Makes a change to the Volvos on the motorway....
Edit: Can't belive anyone hasn't got a shot of the Highway Agency "Traffic Wombles" yet!
I'm up to my limit on this post for pictures. Could anyone oblige?
Some UK classics (Missing out a large chunk of Ford Police Car history).
I quite like the pimped out blacked out 4x4s they have doing undercover surveillance down in the South West Devon/Cornwall region. Makes a change to the Volvos on the motorway....
Edit: Can't belive anyone hasn't got a shot of the Highway Agency "Traffic Wombles" yet!
I'm up to my limit on this post for pictures. Could anyone oblige?
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Caprice == NOT cool
STi is t3h f4st4r!
Spyker?
Ugh, FAIL/
Solstice hatch?
Sweet.
I've been thinking about something like this for a while. I'm surprised it took so long to happen.
"To apex in corners" heh.
[size=-1]Too bad it's a Prelude[/size]
8.6 or 7.1 do not mean "pretty quick". Quick enough perhaps, but not "pretty quick".
The RI staties have an unmarked blacked-out Charger, it looks pretty mean when you come around a corner and see it running radar.
There was a subaru impreza police car in colchester but i havent seen it in a while kinda looked like this one
http://www.subaruwrx.com/Images/wrxcop01.jpg
http://www.subaruwrx.com/Images/wrxcop01.jpg
rover sd1 area car
I remember my dad taking me and my brother out for a drive in one when we were kids..one of the reasons i joined the job