If you have to wonder whether a car is a traffic cop or not, your country is doing policing wrong.
Cop cars should look like this.
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This is a good way to mess with motorist, I like it as a cyclist 😎
I used to hit the TX state police auctions pretty often. I really liked the 9C1 Caprice basically the car the 1994-1996 Impala was based on. A little bit Cadillac, a little bit Camaro. Iron block and heads version of the LT1 improved reliability/durability. Could take speed bumps at 70 mph without flinching and was a phenomenal highway car especially for TX. Highway Patrol (DPS) cars are issued to specific troopers and not whored out to the whole department on a 24 hour rotation, so they are generally much better looked after.
Anyway I happened to hit one auction that was unique. Before, they put a really crappy paint job on to cover up the black and white paint scheme. After, they cheaped out and just spray painted white squigglies all over the car. I picked up a nice 1995 still black and white 9C1 for $2600.
Rocketing between Houston and Austin at over 100 mph, cars would move over to let me pass. Cops on the other side heading the other way would wave instead of pulling me over. On the rare occasion I did get pulled over, the registration showed previous owner as DPS since I bought directly from them myself. So I always got off with a warning.
Man I miss that car. They quit making them so they could make more SUVs..
Also the DPS Mustangs were stick shift so of course I grabbed one of those too!
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?
Fix the cigarette lighter
People who buy these and don't do anything to make them look less like a cop car are the worst kind of people.
But I understand it. You want something cheap, reliable, and powerful. A retired cop car neatly checks all those boxes. But please, don't be like my brother and figure out how to reconnect the lights and sirens. Remove the bumper and spotlight, then take the thousands you saved and get some rims and a paint job.
Rare to see a vic out in the wild used by the police anymore. Ya'll driving white explorers though....
I see what I think is a crown Vic driving around sometimes, being driven by a constable! I have absolutely no idea what a constable does and how that position still exists
Alternatively I see people driving white explorers with crash bars and every time I think they're police. I'm trying to get to Taco Bell in 30 seconds flat guys, stop pretending to be cops!
Not so much anymore. The SUV craze affected cop cars too.
Ford stopped making the crown Vic, but I don't know why they went to SUVs.
Look up the CAFE act, that explains it.
TL;DR they created a loophole in emissions standards for "work trucks" that these giant SUVs and pickups fall into.
But I thought the CAFE act was introduced in the 70s (and in addition to the chicken tax) resulting in the "light truck" market taking over north america. I don't know why police switched from the crown Vic in the late 2000s to SUVs rather than another sedan
They added some stuff to it in the 90s from what I understand
get a Marauder instead, they look better and the Mercury logo is easy enough to identify so folks can breathe a sigh of relief
Debadged mercury marauder with utility lights. Prowling the early aughts like a panda dressed as a grizzly.
Nah the wheel covers give it away. Undercovers usually have those, police auction ones do not
Are you a cop though - you have to tell ~~us~~ them if you are a cop you know!?!?!? :-P
Just something I picked up at the mount pleasant city police auction - they were practically giving them away
Mount Prospect*
Oh shit you’re right 🫨
If your police are still using these cars, they are severely under budget being that they are usually over budget and have tanks basically.
Supposedly in Australia they use VWs. With the amount of VWs on the roads they must be paranoid all the time.
VW Passats are general purpose, highway patrol in my state use BMWs and Chryslers
yank tank pork tanks
Rollin in that Crown Vic.
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