[Shermy]

Video at the link above. Found this June 25 article too.

Arizona AG Meets With Ford Execs

[MediaMole]

So the Crown Vic is just a super-sized Pinto?

[kellynla]

There was an article in today's Left Angeles Times about the CHP using Camaros on the freeways now. Painted white with a small light bar on top and badges only on the doors. So you will have to really watch out for the Chippers..no more just looking out for the black & whites with the big light bar on top. Like they use to say on Hill Street Blues..."let's be careful out there!"

[martin_fierro]

I always thought they were pretty good-looking cars, even though they don't get very good performance reviews.

[alloysteel]

Ford Crown Victoria vehicles are just bigger Pintos, right? And "everybody knows" that Ford willfully and intentionally built the Pinto to burst into flame when the rear bumper was struck at greater than 5 mph. So what is with this, the rear bumper of a Crown Vic has to be struck at nearly 100 mph befor it can be expected to burst into a fireball? What is Ford thinking?

The corporation just has too much money, and they have to get it all sued away from themselves again.

[martin_fierro]

Heh.

[Shermy]

Sorry, bad link above. Here ya go:

Arizona AG Meets With Ford Execs

[Petronski]

I toured the St. Thomas Assembly Plant in Ontario a few weeks ago, and the engineers there spoke to this issue. These rear-end collisions occured at extraordinarily high-speeds--impacts of a kind that no fuel system can be expected to survive.

Nonetheless, I get the distinct impression from them and others in the Police Interceptor community that some kind of voluntary recall to grind down the offending studs and/or add a protective plate will be initiated by Ford, even though the problem is quite rarefied.

This is my Crown Vic, as photographed outside that plant:

[Cap'n Crunch]

I'm not impressed with the police interceptor version. Nothing to write home about. We're having problems with the frames rusting out, I understand it's a problem nationwide. We have about 15 of our cruisers down right now with bad frames.

[mn12]

Funny how the Crown Vic has been on the same platform since 1979 and there have been very few structural changes since then, yet this "problem" is a new development over 20 years later.

My 88 Thunderbird has the gas tank under the trunk. I don't like it, but I've seen cars on the same platform in the junkyard that were rear-ended really hard and weren't burnt up, so I guess Ford did their homework with that tank design.

[Grampa Dave]

Whats weird about this is the Oregon State Police just about refuse to drive anything but the Crown Vic. Many have had terrible rear end slams by drunks hitting them after they pulled another driver over. They walked away or survived terrible rear ends. Maybe Ford has changed the mounting.

Years ago our town bought a couple of the big Impalas for the cops, and no one on the force wanted to drive nor ride in them.

A lot of guys who are state parole officers and fed type cops are doing everything they can to keep their big Broncos and not trade them in for another SUV. I've had 3 people rear end my big Bronco. They were towed away, and I had a little bumper torking and had to have Midas re align my exhaust pipe.

The Sonoma Deputy sheriffs who patrol coastal highway one prefer the Bronco or the Ford Expedition. They have to have 4 wheel drive.

We were thinking about getting the Mercury Marquis, but now we will wait until this is resolved.

[jrewingjr]

Here's my favorite:

Max's Interceptor.