Posted on 02/16/2015 12:02:53 PM PST by EveningStar
That icon of police transportation, a vehicle so sturdy and beloved and ubiquitous that it became virtual wallpaper on TV cop shows and local streets – the Ford Crown Victoria – is dead.
The upshot is this: For many police agencies, it’s time to buy a new car.
Ford stopped making the Crown Vic four years ago, saying sales to the public had fallen to the point that the car is no longer viable, even if demand from police agencies remained strong. Fuel efficiency (or in the Crown Vic’s case, inefficiency) played a role.
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One police department had front wheel drive Ford Tauruses, which had engine mount problems.
I think it was the Javelin.
God's own car. It says in the Bible that God drove Adam and Eve out of Eden in a Fury.
Yeah that is right, the Javelin.
Phoenix PD used AMC Matadors for a time in the early ‘70s
Also, weren’t Jesus and all the disciples in one ACCORD ??
Those fat bellied sheriffs in in the south had better get on a diet.
Adam12?
Lots of Tahoe cop cars out there now.
Here in Upstate NY lots of cop cars are SUV’s.
>>I remember when all the cop cars were the Plymouth Fury. Egads I must be onld.
As I read the story, I had the exact same thought! Fury, Impala, LTD—with one or two bubblegum machines on the roof.
It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?
Laugh, but I saw one in a town near me (California, of course). A little hard to command respect.
>>No the only ones driving them are 75+ years old.
Around here, the Crown Vics are repurposed as ghetto hoopdies, sometimes with impressive results.
The Dodge version........ The Blues Brothers - the bluesmobile: http://youtu.be/yil9wlfa0yo
It reached the point where nobody BUT police departments bought the Crown Vic. So whenever you saw one parked somewhere you could be 100% certain it was on plainclothes duty.
IIRC, the good sheriff of Montague County, TX drove a brown Pontiac LeMans. Sometimes without a roof or windshield.
Back in the 60s a small town in South Alabama had VW Bugs as cop cars.
Volkswagen even did an add about them.
1974 Dodge Monaco: It’s got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it’s got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas.
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