[Neo-Luddite]

"and someone needs to put the Crown Vic out of it's misery".

Not Nice--Chevy put Caprice out of it's misery and where did it get them in the fleet/taxi/police market? The lil' impala? Just not enough car for the money. Not enough power.


Crown Vic's go for UNDER 20K right now, new. Even if you count them as outdated tech, they are VERY reliable over time and survivable in a crash. And they outclass just about everything if you take their pricetag into account.

If you want flashy, like a new Charger, it costs. The Vic keeps me out of a #$%^&* mini-van.

[Spktyr]

Ford Australia has a *very* nice car that would be a perfect replacement for the ancient CV. It's lighter, stronger, faster and handles better. The CV is underpowered, slow, can be outrun by just about anything on the market, and unless equipped with the police handling package, handles like a pig on ice. It's also not all that safe in a crash, as many police officers can attest (and I'm not talking about the overblown-by-the-media rear-end-collision-fires). And for such a large car, it has really poor interior room. And let's not talk about the fuel economy numbers, which even my old XJ6 betters.

It's called the Ford Falcon, and we need it here *now*.