Best of Police Cars

There is various police cars such as Ferrari sports car. It remind me of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.

Good ol' 5938... this car saved my life, seriously.

This one is...somewhat less than cool.

There's a good reason most of the older girls try to get out of joint missions with the carabineiri...


Allison: But I can't be seen in that! It's not even the Abarth version!

Odon wrote:This one is...somewhat less than cool.

What you (not you Odon but nearly everyone) dont realize that a police packaged car tends to have things in it that a normal civilian car wont. Higher horse power for the same sized engine, most of the times the largest engine that can fit in that car frame tuned to the most HP possible.
Idiots in Chargers and Mustangs racing down the highway at 175mph were almost always caught by this guy.


From:
http://www.javelinamx.com/javhome/copcar/muskego/index.htm

There's also the issue of fitting the tool to the purpose... those little Carabinieri egg cars are for urban patrol duties, not trying to chase things down on the open road. Evidently they're considered practical for the purpose they're being used for.

As for the Lamborghinis, I believe Lamboghini has donated cars to Italian police forces which I guess tend to use them for PR (a major duty is apparently transporting organs for transplant). Although I understand some German police with responsibility for policing the autobahn have some pretty high performance hardware at their disposal.

Professor Voodoo wrote:There's a good reason most of the older girls try to get out of joint missions with the carabineiri...


Allison: But I can't be seen in that! It's not even the Abarth version!

Allison: This, on the other hand... I'll gladly get into.



The Ford Stealth Police Interceptor, unmarked version of the Next-Generation Police Interceptor Sedan slated to replace the Crown Victoria. With graphite 22-inch Forgiato wheels, bright red disc brake calipers, all-black exterior, smoked tail lamps, and an available 365-hp EcoBoost 3.5L twin-turbo V6 and all-wheel drive, it looks like a boy racer's wet dream... until the hidden red and blue lights come on.

As for Australia, we seem to have a set of multiple personalities when it comes to our police cars:


Highway Patrol.


Urban Pursuit.

And for the vast majority of Australia if counted by land area rather than population:


and

Professor Voodoo wrote:There's a good reason most of the older girls try to get out of joint missions with the carabineiri...


Allison: But I can't be seen in that! It's not even the Abarth version!

It helps if your handler has an in to the Minister of Defense who can drop a line to the head of the Carabinieri motor pool:

Police in the UK get a few special Vehicles as well



Lotus Evora




Jaguar XF




Range Rover



standard Vauhall Astra diesel used for most of the day to day work



and last of all a Truck for stopping ,well Trucks,they got it so they are at the same height as the other trucks cab so they can see the dodgy driving and record it

All impressive rozzer wagons with much to reccommend them in both style and performance, certainly. That said, though, there is one particular conveyance that will run screaming flayed-rubber donuts around them all...

Robert Frazer wrote:All impressive rozzer wagons with much to reccommend them in both style and performance, certainly. That said, though, there is one particular conveyance that will run screaming flayed-rubber donuts around them all...

Henrietta: It's 106 miles to Taormina. We've got a full tank of gas, a half a bag of cookies...it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it.

Long Pause.....

Rico: I can't reach the pedals.

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And in other news...Marisa gets in on all this police car business.

John: How do you intend to catch the bad guys with the car at the bottom of a pond?

Marisa: I thought we were building an artificial reef for fish.

Professor Voodoo wrote:There's a good reason most of the older girls try to get out of joint missions with the carabineiri...


Allison: But I can't be seen in that! It's not even the Abarth version!

Apparently the Carabinieri got sick of everyone else getting the fun stuff because...



Yes, the Italian Police are now driving British sports cars...

Alfisti wrote:Yes, the Italian Police are now driving British sports cars...

Kara: "Oh the shame of it!"

Allison, Laine, Jethro, Brian and Clayland:

John: I'm strangely okay with this... *salivating*

probably because this happned to their lambo

Awinnell wrote:probably because this happned to their lambo

I think that got replaced... besides, Polizia Stradale versus Carabinieri. different services.

Hmm.... I wonder how hard would it be to get a recessed lightbar onto the windshield of a supercar... having the bar on top has got to do all kinds of nasty things to the aerodynamics

Alfisti wrote: Apparently the Carabinieri got sick of everyone else getting the fun stuff because...

But does it have room for a penguin?

Photographed this one in Roanapur...I mean Pattaya yesterday. Apparently the Thai police chase speedsters in pickup trucks! The words on the windshield are HIGHWAY POLICE SPEEDER UNIT...in English. Mind you, sounded like a powerful engine under the hood, so maybe there's more here than meets the eye.

Odon wrote: Mind you, sounded like a powerful engine under the hood, so maybe there's more here than meets the eye.

Big power requires big cooling...and judging by the size of that intercooler mounted up front I'd guess you are correct.

Professor Voodoo wrote:

Alfisti wrote: Apparently the Carabinieri got sick of everyone else getting the fun stuff because...

But does it have room for a penguin?

. LoL

Professor Voodoo wrote:But does it have room for a penguin?

Only for short trips, like to the zoo.

Just in time for the Christmas holidays, the Queensland Police have rolled out their new highway patrol cars...





...built by HSV and tuned up for the force.

Perhaps not quite as impressive as the Lambos, but enough to make me think I'll be making judicious use of the cruise control on the run back to Brisbane.

Oh, and did I mention their new numberplates:



Just in case you didn't get the message the first time around. Ok, so it's sold as a politically correct reminder to not speed, drink and drive, fail to wear a seatbelt or drive tired... but that's all in very small type where you can barely read it.

Alfisti wrote:Oh, and did I mention their new numberplates:



Just in case you didn't get the message the first time around. Ok, so it's sold as a politically correct reminder to not speed, drink and drive, fail to wear a seatbelt or drive tired... but that's all in very small type where you can barely read it.

Have to say I like the M8 IT CAN W8 anti-texting while driving race queens at the V8 Supercars race.

A short but reasonably interesting review of Ford's two new police models for the US market.


Link to video.

ElfenMagix wrote:

Odon wrote:This one is...somewhat less than cool.

What you (not you Odon but nearly everyone) dont realize that a police packaged car tends to have things in it that a normal civilian car wont. Higher horse power for the same sized engine, most of the times the largest engine that can fit in that car frame tuned to the most HP possible.
Idiots in Chargers and Mustangs racing down the highway at 175mph were almost always caught by this guy.


From:
http://www.javelinamx.com/javhome/copcar/muskego/index.htm

Aw, being a fan of American Motors I was going to post a picture of an AMC Ambassador patrol car, but that cool Javelin beats my offering hands down!