Yeah fair point. I always think of Hybrids as electric vehicles, maybe I should start comparing engines to sexual preferences so I remember. Fuel engines = heterosexual Hybrids = bisexual Electric = homosexual
The Tesla model S is probably the best looking sedan of this century, in my opinion, although the Alfa 159 exists and I'd take that over it any day.
I think the Tesla Model S is a beautiful car, yet everytime I see one I think "my god, it's so big". It is beautiful but does not hide its proportions. Not sure if that's a good thing, but I still like it. For me it feels like the "original design" was upscaled with 20% when they started production And I agree on the 159. Damn, that is one sexy looking car. I'd love one in Rosso Competizione and the 3.2 Busso V6! @HadACoolName: I agree on the Falcon!
The only sedan to honorably wear a lightbar in the past 10 years is the crown vic. Some of those Holden watchamacallits make pretty cool police cars, but they aren't really cut out for police work imo.
I'll take that instead thanks. Yes, they do the job just fine provided the officer isnt the size of a small car himself. Also faster than a vic, better handling too. Plus proving damn reliable. Dont think the vic is much bigger than the ford falcon HACN posted.
I actually like the prius. (No, I'd never buy one... I dislike hybrids.) The regular prius looks pretty ok to me, and I like the look of the prius c, but not the bigger long one though. It's a Toyota, and it's made and engineered well and not lazily. But most of all, the prius has such a cozy and friendly atmosphere to it. Does anyone else agree to that, or is something wrong with me?
Yeah America really should be using the Commodore not the Caprice. The Caprice is made to be a luxury sedan not a cop car. LAPD looks good on Commodores. Also I think the Ford Falcon & Holden Commodore honorably wear their lightbars.
If it's the blue , i vote for Falcon . But for the car , I have no idea because they're both great cars .
Anything smaller than a vic doesn't really work out well for American police. For some reason they require a lot more shit inside their cars than a lot of other countries. On the outside the vic may not be much bigger than the falcon, but it definitely has quite a bit more interior space. The trend with new cars seems to be to make them bloated on the outside and cramped on the inside. That's one of the biggest complaints over here about all of the police cars on the market right now; not enough interior space. I've said this before, but the Crown vic wasn't built to be a racecar. They're damn nimble for how big they are, I can pretty much guarantee that all of the europeans on this forum that like to hate on it would be surprised if they actually drove one, but they aren't too fast if you're comparing them to all other new cars on the market. The life of police cars varies greatly from country to country, and they've all developed cars that fit their needs best, so whatever. Gotta say I dig the mitsubishi though.
In the UK, we have the Mitsubishi Evo's, Subaru Impeza's, volvo V70's, Many BMW's, some fords, some landrovers, some Vauxhall/opels (vectra and astra), some jaguars, some skoda octavia's. So a bit of everything really, a lot of really nice cars in there. Im sure the majority of them do a decent job.
Talking about Priuses, I was going home a couple of hours ago. Suddenly I had a Prius 2 inches off my ass. I suddenly needed to use the windshield washers...a lot He/she then overtook and kept driving like a fool.
Oh you see there I have a different reaction. Want to tailgate me while I'm minding my own business? Catch up then. You want me to floor it in a car I know extremely well on a road I know extremely well.... Goodbye whoever was right on my arse 2 seconds ago.
Australian sedans are very spacious, the rear seats always have shitloads of leg room, there is too much headroom, plenty of room in the cabin to do whatever, the boots are positively massive (You can fit 2-3 golf club bags in the Commodores boot & its the smaller boot of the two). I reckon the Falcon should be used in North America, it'd dominate.
I don't get why you need more space as each car can fit only 3 people in the rear and 2 in the front. For example a Crown Victoria does that just fine, but so does a Vectra. Besides I'm not sure what a police person would really need to carry in a car other than themselves and passengers. People really over exaggerate the size difference too, a Crown Victoria is around 1610mm wide on the wheel base where as an Vetra is about 1536mm, that's only 74mm difference (not quite 3 inches). That is really meaningless to overall interior space, an extra thick door panel would through that off. The Crown Victoria also has a bit of an advantage due to the lack of a transmission tunnel and centre console allowing the seats to extend much closer to the centre of the car, so ilar to a bech seat. Not to mention a Vectra is not the largest car I could have chosen, but more the most common and fitting. As you would expect length wise a Vectra is shorter, but still with the wheel base of the Vectra being 2700mm and the FCV being 2913mm its quite subtle and only 213mm or 8 odd inches difference for the whole cabin. Basically the main reason a FCV is so roomy is because of the large seats that are in place due to the lack of a centre console that makes it feel much bigger than it really is. Obviously I'm only counting cabin sizes so the FCV will have a considerably longer overall length due to its engine config and exterior body length.
Police cars tend to have quite a bit of dashboard mounted electronic equipment. There is also probably quite a bit of other stuff that they may need to keep around like pen and paper as well as medical equipment and traffic cones and so on and so forth. But many countries seem to be able to do the job with hatchbacks. Motorcycle based police seem to cope anyway as far as equipment is concerned. I think the whole pit maneuver thing probably has something to do with it, a heavy car is going to help with that since i wouldn't like to attempt a pit maneuver in a Hyundai i10. Also with the crown vic being an old model of car the door panels will be thinner giving more space inside since modern cars tend to put more space between the outside and inside of the car to help with crash protection more space means they can increase the length of time the collision takes and therefore reduce the forces encountered.