With the demise of the Holden or Ford V8s the NSW police had to chose an imported car so now the fleet will slowly be replaced with BMWs and Chryslers, nothing like as powerful as the old Holdens
Yes, the unmarked cars are what could be considered ‘sneaky’, However, when you see the way some idiotic ‘drivers’ misbehave on the roads ‘plain’ cars can be considered necessary.
Now they really are ‘sneaky’! To get around in the nearest big town to this rural village they use scooters! Not easy to spot and they can go from one location to the next in minutes, without even being seen!
Whilst I applaud Lotus for providing a car FOC, why bother lending it to Devon and Cornwall Police? The roads aren’t wide enough generally. IIRC, there’s only a few miles of dual-carriageway A roads and the bottom bit of the M5 that are useable.
Quite agree, they could have loaned it to me. I could have driven at very high speed on the local motorway without any fear of ever being caught by the usual patrol cars!
A few years ago I had a Vauxhall Carlton. The Police had a version of it, the Lotus Carlton. That could do 180 MPH and one officer actually got reprimanded for doing that speed on the M6 I think was.
Especially around the end of August / beginning of September when there are enormous combine harvesters here, there and everywhere! Meet one of those and it’s ‘curtains’ unless you give way.
They cannot go anywhere out of the way due to their enormous size, here they fill the width of lanes completely!
