Show Me Your Unusual Police Cars

"RaymondStantz" (RaymondStantz) 02/17/2014 at 14:44 • Filed to: Show me, police car, sunbeam lotus, talbot

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With the slew of Crown Vics, sprinklings of Impalas and Chargers, and an oncoming torrent of Tauruses... Taurii? Eh, whatever... Police cars are incredibly boring where I live. Now, not to insult the greatness of the Crown Vic, because I know hosts of you will come at me with pitchforks demanding that I recognize that it's the greatest car of all time, if only it came with a manual, or something. That was the worst run-on ever, but my point stands that Jalops love the things, even if it doesn't come with a diesel manual option. Now that it's all out of my system, show me some really cool police cars guys. Doesn't have to be from the US, doesn't have to be current, just show me what you find and add it the zee comments.

My nomination? Well, I'm sure some of you remember me touting the awesome that is the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . It's pretty rad to say the least, but would you believe that that a half dozen did police work?

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Remember the original Sunbeam Lotus? How on earth the traffic Chief Super persuaded the force to buy half a dozen of them seems inexplicable … the very mention of the word 'Lotus' on the purchase order should have been enough to send someone scurrying for the 'phone! As far as I know GMP was the only force to run these potent hot hatches in the early eighties; one officer boasted of driving from Wigan to Birch Services near Rochdale in around 15 minutes – that's a distance of 20 odd miles on a busy motorway.

So onward Jalops! Show me your awesome/rare/just plain weird police cars.

Photo credit to: Greater Manchester Police

STREPITUS > RaymondStantz 02/17/2014 at 14:48

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I saw this a few days ago.

Pulled off my potato dashcam.

505Turbeaux > RaymondStantz 02/17/2014 at 14:54

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not really unusual but I always loved the police spec wagons

SRSvictor > RaymondStantz 02/17/2014 at 14:55

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In Romania,almost all the police cars are Dacia Logans,like this one:

But there are some interesting exceptions:

I'm preety sure the Porsche is a car seized by the police,or a second hand car.

Corey CC97, MAZDA DPI IS STILL BAE JOESTACTIV JOESTACTIV JOESTACTIV JOESTACTIV VISIT FLORIDA RACING LIVES FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS > RaymondStantz 02/17/2014 at 14:55

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Amidoingitright?

Pixel > RaymondStantz 02/17/2014 at 14:56

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1962 Ferrari 250 GTE

feather-throttle-not-hair > RaymondStantz 02/17/2014 at 14:57

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I see this guy from time to time

The Seattle pd also have a crown Vic that is black and has all the standard police car markings in flat black.

911e46z06 > 505Turbeaux 02/17/2014 at 15:02

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San Diego Harbor Police rock these bad boys

Agrajag > RaymondStantz 02/17/2014 at 15:02

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The Caprice

People seem to have forgotten about these. No self respecting police department wanted a Crown Vic while these were being produced.

505Turbeaux > 911e46z06 02/17/2014 at 15:04

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yeah I have seen those, not for some time though. Cool!

Jagvar > RaymondStantz 02/17/2014 at 15:04

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Jaaaaaaag

KnowsAboutCars > RaymondStantz 02/17/2014 at 15:13

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In Finland we have this:

And before that we had this:

ihm96 > RaymondStantz 02/17/2014 at 15:13

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The obvious choices are anything in Dubais police force

Stupidru > RaymondStantz 02/17/2014 at 15:24

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 > RaymondStantz 02/17/2014 at 15:56

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Mercury Marauder.

BJustice79 > RaymondStantz 02/17/2014 at 16:38

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I fully endorse this one....(since I own a USDM 3rd gen GT Limited)

And this one is a local favorite.

ReallyColorful > RaymondStantz 02/17/2014 at 17:06

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KirkyV > Jagvar 02/17/2014 at 19:07

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Unusual? I wouldn't say so; they're actually fairly common. Incredibly cool, though? Oh yes.

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This doesn't actually have anything to do with Jags, but I recently caught sight of an undercover Skoda Octavia vRS Estate responding to something or other, with the lights going. It looked pretty much exactly like this, but with blue flashing lights behind the front grille:

Again, not all that unusual, but so cool.

Simplify, then add beer > RaymondStantz 02/17/2014 at 19:21

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Here's some Australian cop cars

Monaro:

Diesel Wrangler:

Holden V8 Ute with a Paddy Wagon conversion:

NSW Police Porsche Panamera:

Lotus Exige:

Standard Highway Patrol vehicle. Chipped & tuned V8 Commodore:

And finally, the supercharged 536hp Ford Performance Vehicle FPV GT, which was destroyed last week after some idiot put a 10% ethanol blend fuel in.

Dale Franks > RaymondStantz 02/18/2014 at 12:32

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I'm more interested in the motorcycle cop riding the VFR1200F, because that's the motorcycle I ride. I never even thought of it as a police bike.

The Biebster's got a P71 (Formerly not Justin Bieber) > RaymondStantz 02/21/2014 at 13:36

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