New purpose built police car

Wow, that would actually make it a little bit nicer place to live, too. Imagine how much road noise it would cut down on.

mad_machine wrote: I am all for safety for our men in blue. I hope it makes them less edgy at a routine traffic stop. I do really like how good the miliage is on them. I can only guess what a crown vic goes through on it's normal patrol duty. Between driving in stop and go traffic, to idling for hours at a time.. it must drink fuel like an alcoholic

I don't know what mileage is like on the P71, however I can tell you mileage for a heavy duty Town Car. Limosuine company I used to work for in Detroit our Town Cars got typically between 18 and 22 mpg. Our cars weren't that much different than the Crown Vic, all the extra coolers just not the wiring for the police equipment. I'm not sure which weighs more the P71 with all the equipment or the air-ride and leather in the Town Car, but I would expect milage to be in the same ballpark. The full strech limos got around 12mpg.

Repost Sorry, just had to do it.

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Wowak wrote:

aussiesmg wrote: but that issue is not going to be changed by a car, it is a matter for correct training to address.

I respectfully disagree. Police should not be paramilitary.

It doesn't matter if you disagree, the fact is Police ARE a Paramilitary Unit, it is not an option, it is like saying a dollar bill is not money. I think you are failing to understand the meaning of the word Paramilitary, versus Military