To drive it, we recruited Greg Haas, who is not a cop. Carolina Motorsports Park is a 2. Instead, we decided to get the obvious ones, fast and slow, out of the way first. It has horsepower. Even the burgundy hue of its paint seems calculated to temper our expectations. The blue and red lights go on behind me and, for the first time in my life, I do something other than pull to the shoulder.
It feels so unnatural to open the throttle instead of hitting the brakes. The act of fleeing, of indulging the taboo, unleashes a torrent of adrenaline that has me thinking, for a moment, that maybe I can whip this horse hard enough to make my escape. With my nervous system short-circuited by dreams of freedom, I drive way too deep into the first corner, skid off, and plow into the overrun area in a geyser of sand.
From the moment the lights went on to the moment I went off: 10 seconds. You can be as cool as you like, but a lit-up Charger in your rearview mirror would turn Norm MacDonald into Bobcat Goldthwait. We finish the lap and I discover that the little Yaris is actually hilarious on the track, given to huge lift-throttle drifts.
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Patrol Cars Videos. All rights reserved. Make Police1 your homepage Open the tools menu in your browser. So this one will track you down on the highway and pull you over. Carchaser says this police GT-R tops out at mph. You have the right to remain silent. At least here in America. Who knows what rights you'd have in Japan after clocking mph? Lamborghini donated a total of four Gallardos to police in Italy, the first in They were turned over to specially trained officers for patrolling and for tasks that required speed, like delivering organs to their recipients.
Remarkably, only one was crashed, when an inattentive Seat Ibiza driver pulled out of a gas station without looking. Others put in as much as 93, miles of service before being retired. We should all do so well. Huracans came more recently into the fleet, also aimed at medical transport. Spyker the brand has been around for more than a century, starting out making carriages, then cars, then airplanes, and then cars again. It was revived in long story. All the world's weird and wonderful cop cars, from Teslas to Caparos.
The story goes that back in the Sixties Italian crims were pretty handy. Policeman Armando Spatafora was asked by the top brass what he needed to keep pace. And a Ferrari he got. Finished in black with a hard-wearing tan leatherette interior, chassis was in active service from to late Spatafora was one of only four officers allowed to drive it, having travelled to Maranello for high-speed training.
Read the full story. The Suzuki Jimny police car is working already. So say Aussie police about the implentation of a trial Model X. Those fleeing utes surely stand no chance. BMW's M2 police car might be little more than a marketing stunt, but we don't care.
How to make a Lexus LC look even more like it's escaped from the world of manga? Stick a black and white uniform and a load or red lights on it. It's not just for show, either - this V8 super-coupe is going to be chasing down wrong-doers as a traffic enforcement car.
Be warned, speeders of Japan. When was the last time you saw one of these? If you live in Abu Dhabi, it may be the last time you fell foul of the law. W Motors reckons on mph in 2. If it wasn't merely a publicity tool for the force. Welcome to a BMW i8 dressed up as a German police car. Cool, no? If a little impractical. Make your escape when it's only just been plugged in, for maxiumum head start. Surprise: it's not a V8, but an actual hybrid.
Read the full story here This Jeep is only slightly less glamorous. Rolls displayed the car at an open day held by its local police station in Chichester, not far from its Goodwood HQ. Behold, the first non-Australian car to police Queensland streets. The Australian car industry has dwindled in recent years, and its two big home-grown saloons — the Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore — are no longer produced.
The Queensland Police Service has initially bought 50, but up to could be put into service. Lamborghini has donated a second Huracan to the country's Highway Patrol. Like the first, it will be used for "normal police operations", as well as the urgent transport of blood and organs. Naturally, it isn't entirely standard. Lights, sirens, radios, a video camera and gun rack - it's all there. The tyres even have special blue sidewalls to match the 'Police Medium Blue' bodywork.
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