• Woman buys police car used to advertise Need For Speed for her school run
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[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;47166539]There's a balance that needs to be struck with engine performance. As a police car, it's expected to be turned on, turned off, driven, stopped, idle, and speeding. It's hell on the engine, so they need one that can perform well enough under all conditions.[/QUOTE] This is true. Police vehicles go through hell in their time of service. In the variety of climates here in the US each municipality essentially has to outfit their fleets to counter problems they might face.
[QUOTE=Rapscallion92;47164198]Pretty sure we use diesels here in the UK and they perform fine.[/QUOTE] Like I said, it's an entirely different world over here. Our police cars will need to be able to go from 100 degrees to 0 at over 100mph sometimes. Our cars in general are way faster, our distances longer, and our traffic lighter, and the suspect's cars larger. You really want to take a Vauxhal Astra diesel up against a 600 horsepower Monte Carlo on the open highway? These kinds of situations do happen and they demand a car that can tackle a 6,000 lb SUV at speeds nobody could reach in the UK because they'd hit traffic or a curvy road. State and federal police cars will have to cross hundreds of miles flat out in order to keep up with suspects on the run over open country. A 3.5l turbodiesel that has a torque curve that looks like Mount Everest will not suffice for these conditions. You need a broad torque curve, a bulletproof engine, and a heavy duty transmission to survive police work, and you need to do it for up to 200,000 miles minimum. [editline]18th February 2015[/editline] And it needs to be affordable to buy and maintain. The US police force is unfathomably massive, and it takes a lot of money to maintain hundreds of thousands of cars. That's why it's best for them to be as simple as possible and need as little maintenance as possible.
my city does not have very menacing police cars [img]https://lintvwpri.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/providence-police-cruiser-public-safety-complex.jpg?w=640[/img] but a wealthy town near Providence that only ever deals with drunk teenagers for crime has these [img]http://www.eastbayri.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/barrington-police-cruiser.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=spiritlol;47154244] Finally, here's Baltimore's city police car. It used to be a typical white and blue car, but last year they changed it to this design. [img_thumb]http://www.trbimg.com/img-5466c697/turbine/bal-bs-bs-md-ci-police-cars-p-20141113/500/500x281[/img_thumb] I don't think I've ever seen a split black and white police car in person in the states. Even the FBI are white with a blue & black stripe, and DC has white with an American flag decal.[/QUOTE] Aw man I liked the old b-more patrol car way more. [t]https://images54.fotki.com/v627/photos/4/49373/290665/rnpca0078-vi.jpg[/t] I dunno why but I love Crown Victoria's for some reason.
this what my shieriff drives [IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Sb1O_pU4FX4/U1Bsft_EtRI/AAAAAAAAG2E/BMAWYbLqtyk/s1600/DSCN0944.JPG[/IMG]
i misread "blasting away at drugs" as "blazing away on drugs" at first and was confused.
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