The New Ford Police Interceptor Car Is an Intimidating Animal

:Oh. One of the detachment C/O's here says he wishes the CVPI was still out there. He is always sending someone to Ford for another warranty repair or recall on the Taurus - sorry - Interceptor - as Ford would prefer we call them...
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Hopefully you fare better, but according to the latest Consumer Report, the ecoboost is WELL below average on the reliability scale. Just like 75% of all the other Fords they rate. God I've got to sell my shares...
 
In my city they use more civilian undercover cars & a chopper.
The Vic was the longest running Cop Car,But can the Taurus age well & be as consistent as the Vic. :)
 
Animal ???? I don't see anywhere, those Taurus Police version are here in P.R. and many officers say that they preffer the Crwonvictoria for the interior space and other things that the crap of taurus don't have even they are restoring old P71's to put it in service, in my opinion Ford fail, now what was the P71 king of the roads, now is terrain for Chargers and Caprices which is the ones that are rulling the roads and streets here. :censor::mad::mad2::shake:
 
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Wow, the CVPI was gret but it is a dinosaur. When the 4.6 came out to replace the Windsor everybody said the new motor would never hold up to cop car duty. So much for that.

I have a Lincoln MKS which is nearly a twin to the Ford version in space and performance. Lots of space, incredible and accessible performance. Will it run past 100k? Who knows, but most police departments replace them by then anyhow, o they won't care.

Bring back the 4 barrel carb... Fuel injection is too complicated... It will never work right!
 
Front drive police cars have sucked in the past going on the officers I've talked to. If you watched the video there was a lot of plow front the front tires were as the rear drives would have just spun in position...Ford could have kept building the Panthers and went solely to police and emergency use...GM kinda did that back when they killed all the rear drives on the Buicks in 85. They still built the full size Electra Wagon until 91, but the sedans were gone...
 
All the cop cars now look like they belong in robocop.

Taurus intimidating haha......the guy with a gun and a badge is the intimidating part.
 
Never!

I was excited when they introduced the latest Taurus. I went to a dealer, and sat in one. I knew immediately I would never want or own one, because the center console was right against my right leg. It felt extremely cramped. I couldn't believe they would make a car like that.

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Since the mid 80s pittsburgh has had : first gen fwd delta 88s, 2nd gen fwd bonnevilles, 92ish or so tauruses, luminas, impala, malibus and now the new Taurus..... the reason being is the city is tight and the women officers suck at driving...true story: they had a cvpi on loan to test out and a woman commander wrapped it because she couldnt drive so they had to buy it. The other commanders were mad so now all the commanders still have either a CVPI or a SUV (exploder or tahoe)
 
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Tell me about it our department was on a going green kick and we have two Altima hybrids 2010 I believe and the weather stripping is ripped from the drivers side from duty belts and big asses! Not to mention the cage taking up a fair share of room. But I'm 5'8" and have no problems :). They also suck in the snow way too low and drags on everything!
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Man ? how did your dept pull that one off ? In Washington Metro Area [ DC MD VA ] unless it is GM FORD or CRYCO its not for Bid :alone:
 
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