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2012 Ford Police Interceptor: The Crown Vic’s Robocop Replacement
Posted by in Uncategorized on March 15, 2010
Ford’s Crown Victoria-based police interceptor will finally end production late next year. This is its replacement — the 2012 Ford Police Interceptor. Other than the movie Robocop, it’s the first time Ford’s Taurus has served as a purpose-built patrol car.
Ford first introduced its police package in 1950 and today the Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor is the industry leader. The automaker’s dominated the streets to the point that over the last five years, Ford’s controlled more than 70% of the patrol cars sold. Obviously police fleets are an important segment. Unfortunately, the Crown Vic’s Panther-platform’s getting a little long in the tooth — it hasn’t seen a redesign in over 15 years. The replacement? An all-new Police Interceptor built off the Ford Taurus platform that will be produced at Ford’s Chicago, Ill. assembly plant.
The new Police Interceptor sedan will obviously offer two powertrain options in order to be competitive with the upcoming Chevy Caprice PPV. The first’ll be a standard engine with a 3.5-liter V6 Duratec engine producing more than the Crown Vic’s current anemic V8 and more than the standard Taurus V6 — over 263 HP. But it’s the second powertrain that police officers’ll be pining for — a twin turbo Ecoboost 3.5-liter V6 delivering 365 HP and 350 lb-ft of torque. That’s the same engine found in the new 2010 Ford Taurus SHO and it gives Ford a performance boost over the new GM patrol car — the Chevy Caprice PPV — that’ll be hitting the streets at about the same time as the new Police Interceptor.
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Porsche 911 tries to escape the police
Posted by in Uncategorized on March 7, 2010
Subtitles added to the video! They’re not perfect but should be sufficient for the story. Background info: A 42-year old man from Purmerend, the Netherlands is caught after a bizarre chase. The man driving a Porsche 911 GT3 drove at speeds exceeding 200 km/h (125 mph) on the A7. The police gave him the stop sign from an undercover surveillance car. The Porsche, ignoring this, took a last second exit and went off. While entering the high way again, the driver lost control in the corner of the entranceway hitting the safety rails, losing several parts from his car, nonetheless he tried to escape again. While being chased he took the road verge desperate to escape. Entering a parking space next to the highway and steps over to a Volkswagen Golf, driven by his 33-year old girlfriend. A 29-year old man which was the passenger at the Porsche took over the wheel from the Porsche and tries to get away. As seen in the video, while this was happening the police is taking a safe distance, observing until backup has arrived. The Golf drives away like nothing happened but the police knew he was in that car. They create a road block to hold up the traffic so they can arrest the former Porsche driver, the passenger now driving the Porsche also gets arrested. In the Golf happens to be a baby and in the baby-seat they discovered a firearm. In the clothing of the baby hard drugs were found. Both man are still in custody. 13 feb 2007 SBS6 Wegmisbruikers
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Police Chase | Porsche 911 GT3 vs. Volvo V70 R | Holland
Posted by in Uncategorized on February 16, 2010
Police Chase Porsche 911/996 GT3 (360HP) vs. Volvo V70 R (300HP) vs. Volkswagen Golf GTI (250HP)… Police try to stop a porsche for speeding. When they try to stop him he leaves the motorway and while turning on the motorway he crashed. After the crash the pursuit continues. When he drives into a parking he change cars whit a VW Golf R32. The driver of the VW (The wife of the porsche driver) takes off in the Porsche. The police stays on a safe distance and follow the VW (Which now is driven by the Porsche driver). The police make a roadblock on the highway and arrest the man. Also his wife in the Porsche get caught. In the Porsche hard-drugs are found and a weapon under the seat where his 2yo child was sitting. His peanalty is unknown. From Dutch TV: Wegmisbruikers!
