US Police Interceptor poll. (56k users beware!)

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Which Police Interceptor is your choice as the coolest?

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There is a line between "Pursuit only" cars and "Useless" cars. An F355 would be great for staying with the suspect, but what then? PIT them? You'd have an easier time using a helicopter to PIT someone than an F355. That can stay with a suspect, and also use things like nght vision.
 
Toronado
There is a line between "Pursuit only" cars and "Useless" cars. An F355 would be great for staying with the suspect, but what then? PIT them? You'd have an easier time using a helicopter to PIT someone than an F355. That can stay with a suspect, and also use things like nght vision.
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Which is the reason why the AMC Javelin interceptor failed. Some police oficers had to resort to putting the more fiesty suspects in the trunk!
 
Yea if they PIT using the 355 that's about $10k in bodywork and paint. :lol:
 
High-Test
Which is the reason why the AMC Javelin interceptor failed. Some police oficers had to resort to putting the more fiesty suspects in the trunk!
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I've seen AMC Gremlin interceptors from our town's history records (hell, for a few years some of the cops used Cutlass Cialas's), so maybe that isn't so far fetched of a proposition.
 
JCE3000GT
Oh and I didn't chose the Lumina, or Taurus, or Cavalier, or any other of the smaller saloons/sedans because they are not as widely used and frankly are a joke.
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[sarcasm]Of course the Taurus was a good cop car! You saw Robocop, right? That Taurus kicked ass all over Detroit![/sarcasm]

The Lumina wassen't too bad of a cop car now. It was usually used in smaller cities that couldn't afford a full fleet of police crusiers and didn't require full protection from high-speed chases. Most of the old Lumina cop cars were used in New York City, but most of the ones I have found for sale are comming from Florida and California. It used the same 3800 series II as most of the other W-Body cars, but had a touch more power given it's police packaging. Heavy duty everything came standard, along with Recaro race seats, etc.

...The best part about the cars is that they got between 20-25 MPG in the city, and nearly 30 MPG on the highway.
 
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What a cool police car...
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Local city of Allen has/had Luminas...ugly cars. And even uglier as cop cars. My Focus is probably faster than these tin cans.
 
Actually, you would be surprised how quick they are. They may be down on a few BHP compared to the current W-Bodied Impalas, but given their lighter weight, performance should be nearly identical.
 
...Don't forget about the Crown Vic Cop Car with the jet engines that can drive upside down in the Lincoln Tunnel!!!
 
I was always happy with the launch in my cab from a stoplight.

I didn't make tons of power or torque, but it made it's torque low, which is fun.

Also fun getting it on wet smooth pavement and spinning it around.


As for Intripeds, am I the only one who didn't miss the reports of police officers getting into high speed pursuits in them and then having the back end either float in a slight turn, have it experience sudden and shocking oversteer under heavy braking, or the brakes just sucking hard?

Methinks SCC got a ringer for their test, the Charger is a good cop car, no, a great one, that pointed nosed crap was worse than the Impala.
 
I do agree that the Intrepid is the worst Interceptor I've seen since the Diplomat. Oddly enough was also a Dodge. :sly:
 
Mopar hasn't built a great cop car since the old Plymouth Plymouth Satellites of the 1960s, especially ones equipped with the heavy-duty 383ci V8. My Dad's first car was a Satellite Cop Car, but it had the 318, not the 383.
 
I voted for the P71, although for me the P71 and the old 9C-1 are about tied. I like the way the Crown Vic looks over the Impala, although you could make an extra-cool Impala SS out of one.
I think if the right cop car came along, I'd consider buying it. Then go speed down the highway flashing my high beams, and watch people move out of the way!
 
Slicks
I voted for the P71, although for me the P71 and the old 9C-1 are about tied. I like the way the Crown Vic looks over the Impala, although you could make an extra-cool Impala SS out of one.
I think if the right cop car came along, I'd consider buying it. Then go speed down the highway flashing my high beams, and watch people move out of the way!
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Actually it's funny, you won't even NEED to do that. When I had my P71 people automatically got out of my way. And going on one lane roads and randomly tapping your brakes as a car passes by will almost always show them braking assuming you're radaring them. Oh and let's not forget my favorite "pacing" them. I've actually had this one guy HIT A CURB because I was behind him pacing him. I have to say it was quite a bit of fun screwing with people in that car. :sly: 👍

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Getting a rhino push bumper and getting a P71 with the door strobe light in it will easily pass for being an unmarked police unit. Mine had (illegally actually) the darkest tint possible. You couldn't see inside the car if you put your face on the outside of the glass.
 
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...the Crown Vic. It's the only Body on frame car that's on the US market. It's big, archaic, seats a family comfortably, and isn't a slowpoke either.
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Are you saying it has a separate chassis??? No way! The Jag Mk1 (a favourite of police forces over here back in the day) was a monocoque way back in the fifties... :lol:

Our cops had Jag Mk1s and 2s, then Rover V8s through the 70s and 80s, then all sorts of stuff: Volvo T5s were a favourite, Merc E classes, Vauxhall Omegas, mostly Estates (Station Wagons), with uprated suspension. They always used to have manuals, but I believe they now have autos. The Motorway cops used to like Range Rovers, too, because they could pull any wreckage off the road in no time, though nowadays they have too many forms to fill out to actually move wreckage...
 
Are you saying it has a separate chassis??? No way! The Jag Mk1 (a favourite of police forces over here back in the day) was a monocoque way back in the fifties...
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What's wrong with Body on Frame? Isn't a Body on frame car easier to fix?
 
JCE3000GT
Actually it's funny, you won't even NEED to do that. When I had my P71 people automatically got out of my way. And going on one lane roads and randomly tapping your brakes as a car passes by will almost always show them braking assuming you're radaring them. Oh and let's not forget my favorite "pacing" them. I've actually had this one guy HIT A CURB because I was behind him pacing him. I have to say it was quite a bit of fun screwing with people in that car. :sly: 👍

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Getting a rhino push bumper and getting a P71 with the door strobe light in it will easily pass for being an unmarked police unit. Mine had (illegally actually) the darkest tint possible. You couldn't see inside the car if you put your face on the outside of the glass.
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Ha ha thats badass man. I'd love to do that if I get one. I've seen pics from inside P71's from a crown vic forum where everyone on the highway was behind the car going exactly 60mph. I should try and find that pic, quite hilarious.
 
The one from Blues Brothers...

Elwood
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?
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Jim Prower
None of em. I'll go for a '68 Belvedere. with the 440.
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*cough* Ahem:

JCE3000GT
Talk about the Police cruisers in the other thread has made me think of this poll. The rules are the same as the other VS threads, ONLY these choices allowed since these are the most widely used Interceptors in the USA.
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JCE3000GT
*cough* Ahem:
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And, at one time, the Belvederes were. the Impala (EDIT: Meaning the Caprice) 9C1s are pretty much gone from frontline duty, replaced by the Ford Interceptors and wallowing in "Official car" and fleet service.

ah, well, if you don't wanna hear it, i'll just leafe you to your chevys and fords, and sucky FWD mopars.
 
Either of the rear-drivers. Then Modify them to V8 Supercars Australia spec.

EDIT: Nice one, Onikaze! I'd take that one over any of 'em.
 

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