Cops Shop For New Cars After Ford Stops Making Crown Victoria

The Cap Times ^ | Thursday, January 14, 2010 | STEVEN ELBOW

[stevie_d_64]

...too late...

You owe me a large orange juice...

[billorites]

"Most police professionals agree the 1994-96 Chevy Caprices were the best police package vehicles ever made"

And most high school kids consider the Caprice one of the best 'make out" vehicles ever made too.

Seriously, if I was a cop I'd feel safest in something that could take a punch like a Volvo.

[OBXWanderer]

There’s a lot of officers just itching to get behind the wheel of those Chargers, especially the hemis,” he says. “Our officers can’t wait to break the laws the peons can’t.”

North Carolina troopers come by my place all the time doing a hundred miles an hour in those fancy new Chargers.....headed to the state maintenance facility a few miles to the east.....to get GAS...before they run out..

[stevie_d_64]

The turbo they put on them would cost as much as the base unit...

And when one passes you up it’ll probably souond like a mouse with a bad case of gas...

psssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss........

[bagadonutz]

Cop cars to be built in Indiana in an old Ford Visteon plant (Carbon Motors):

[Tribune7]

Exactly! Ford should just bring back the Falcon!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Back in the late 60s, Chrysler sold a Newport sedan with the 440 cu. in. V-8 as a police edition. They would haul !

[Vigilantcitizen]

Most police professionals agree the 1994-96 Chevy Caprices were the best police package vehicles ever made to date. I own a 1995 and it is absolutely bullet proof and gets almost 25 mpg on the highway.

I had a 95 with the police package. Awesome. Goes fast and can handle it.

[Malsua]

Carbon Motor's Judge Dredd vehicle:

[bushpilot1]

[dog breath]

They will have to of course offer a cool civilian version of any called the, “Interceptor”, when they finally wheel it out.

[1rudeboy]

You guys are all amateurs:

[Neidermeyer]

Is the Charger V-8 a Hemi?
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YES , The FHP has them ,, and they get the SRT 6.1l models , I drive a P-71 CRown Vic and am looking forward to buying a Charger at auction in 3 or 4 years.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Florida Highway Patrol has a ton of Chargers on the road. Still a lot of Crown Vics also. They at one time were using confiscated hot rod Camaros and Mustangs. They were/are badass!

[Rebelbase]

[digger48]

http://www.kokomotribune.com/local/local_story_360215941.html

Repair bills adding up to fix damaged squad cars

Mechanics at the city garage have had their hands full repairing several Kokomo police squad cars wrecked mostly during a hectic past three months of police work.

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It was the third of four recently purchased Dodge Chargers to end up in the shop.

The cost of the recent repairs range from more than $9,000 for one vehicle with a smashed front end to a minor buff job that didn’t cost the city a cent, according to Randy Morris, city director of operations.

Three of the 10 vehicles damaged were brand new Charger squad cars, delivered in October.

[ricks_place]

[niteowl77]

There are a lot of older LEO's out here who swear by their pre-'72 Mopars, but time tends to give a rosy tint toa lot of things. I can recall that a sheriff's department from my youth had some hot - by the standards of the time - Plymouth Fury interceptors that seemed to be bulletproof (mechanically). The advent of the Caprices and Crown Vics coincided with the point in time when they ended up going to the bland "regulation" paint and stopped chasing people like bats out of hell the length of the county. Whether there was a causal relationship there, I can't say.

(Although I'd like to.)

Mr. niteowl77

[saganite]

Kind of looks like a mouse! A microsoft mouse.

[Scutter]

Is that the last of the V8 interceptors? :)