Australian Built Police Cruisers 4 THE US! HERE ARE THE PICS.

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11-19-2009, 06:23 AM
jabalukar

Australian Built Police Cruisers 4 THE US! HERE ARE THE PICS.

This may sound strange...but i have heard that GM Australia(OWNED BY USA GM AND ENGINES/PARTS SUPPLIED BY AND MADE IN THE US( which is here, in my hometown of Melbourne), may be commissioned to build the Long wheel base flagship GM Commodore, more namely the "Caprice" to be the next Cop Car for allof the US!! thats approx 75 thousand cars....They'll be a rear wheel drive. Gen 4, all alloy 350 chev, 6 speed auto, Extra heavy duty Trans axle. 17inchsteel wheels....I'll shoot the mag pic of it tomorrow...but it looks super dooper nice...all decked out in the standard black and white color scheme. Wellhere are the pics and I digressed a little as well(with some other Aussie cars) <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6222.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6222.jpg" border="0"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6224.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6224.jpg" border="0"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6225.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6225.jpg" border="0"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6226.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6226.jpg" border="0"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6218.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6218.jpg" border="0"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6217.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6217.jpg" border="0"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6219.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6219.jpg" border="0"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6220.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6220.jpg" border="0"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6228.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6228.jpg" border="0"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6229.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6229.jpg" border="0"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6230.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6230.jpg" border="0"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6231.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6231.jpg" border="0"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6232.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6232.jpg" border="0"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6233.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6233.jpg" border="0"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6234.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6234.jpg" border="0"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/?action=view&current=DSCN6235.jpg"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x200/rrumblers/DSCN6235.jpg" border="0"></a>
11-19-2009, 08:35 AM
Phildirt

I read something a few months ago about an upstart company building nothing but municipal vehicles, but this makes much better sense. The little GM midsizecars now used always seemed inadequate to me, so this is good news. Bring on the pictures!
11-19-2009, 02:08 PM
CHEVY57

That would be cool, as it is the Crown Vics are only made for fleet & can't be bought by regular Joe. If this works out then maybe they'll beavailable for the regular consumer. I hate FWD and AWD makes little sense to anyone not on the snowbelt.........
11-19-2009, 02:12 PM
CHEVY57

<a target="_blank" href="http://jalopnik.com/5361574/gm-still-to-re+bac-%60holden-commodore-as-us-cop-car">http://jalopnik.com/5361574/gm-still-to-re+bac-`holden-commodore-as-us-cop-car</a> Yea boy bring back the RWD!! I hate FWD & AWD makes little sense if you don't live on the snowbelt!
11-19-2009, 03:57 PM
1Perry

Nothing personal as I expect an Aussie would be excited about this (understandably so). If the local police were looking to buy a car I would chip in my twocents and state that it should be a U.S. built car as it is our tax money being used. The last Caprice was an excellent car that GM screwed up royally with to build more trucks.
11-19-2009, 04:08 PM
groggerbug

I just hate that... GM's attempts at rebadging Holdens or Opels just doesn't work. The Commodore is a halfway decent car in its own right (it wasalready here as the Pontiac G8 btw....) but it is very clearly, philosphically, NOT a Caprice! I offer GM's latest failure with the rebadged Holden theycalled the "Pontiac GTO" as a prime example of how it doesn't work. And I don't think the Constabularies will like them very much either, asthey generally prefer full-size cars.
11-19-2009, 06:13 PM
MINGOTOY

That Holden didn't work because they tried to pass it off as a modern version of the GTO. Perhaps, if they sold it as Holden Chevyor Holden Pontiac, or just plain Holden, it would've sold better. Nothing about that car reminded me of any past GTO. It was also way overpriced at morethan 35,000.oo +. I don't know much about front wheel drive vs. rear wheel drive but what is so bad about the current Impala or the new Ford Taurus? Wouldn't makingthem with bigger engines give the police enough power to catch up to the suspects in a pursuit? WHy can't those be suitable police cars? Is it thatthese 2 cars are NOT wide enough to accomodate all the stuff now put inside police cars? Is that there is no room for the equipment and perhaps to "big" officers? maribell
11-19-2009, 07:15 PM
CHEVY57

Police prefer bigger & faster cars and RWD is the way to go
11-19-2009, 07:46 PM
1Perry

The new GTO was a great car. It just wasn't a GTO. In the same way, only a Caprice can be a Caprice. Call the Holden car a GM Holden Interceptor or something.
11-19-2009, 10:15 PM
CUSHE63

I heard it will be based on the "old" Pontiac G8..... Steve
11-20-2009, 12:29 AM
jet threat kevin.joesdiecastshack

Holden makes some pretty good cars- and their utes are cool. Too bad we can't buy holdens over in the U.S.
11-21-2009, 01:27 PM
aranjaloca1

Cops and their cars I keep my wary eyes open for (welcome to L.A.), but that Holden wagon is AWESOME. Likely the best way to scare yourself and four of yourclose friends... As I've occasionally heard during my waltzes down under, crikey!
11-21-2009, 03:02 PM
McGoose

I saw the Maloo on Top Gear. Awesome ute!
11-25-2009, 08:41 PM
LAWDOG

Tuna boats!!!
11-25-2009, 08:59 PM
rdln66

On a tangent discussion,my brother in-law works for the Ford plant here in SW Ontario,where they currently build the Crown Vic/Grand Maruis/Lincoln (towncar?). The plant is on the block to be shut down in Sept 2011. They make a great car there,with exceptional quality and workmanship,and the police forces,taxis,Airport limo type services around North America are screamingbloody murder as they still want these cars rather than the smaller Chargers,or Impalas or now the new Taurus Interceptor..but apparently FMC is sticking totheir guns with the planned shut down. As Pete says, Individuals can not order the Fords or Merc from a dealer..not sure on the Lincoln. Frank
11-28-2009, 11:47 AM
MINGOTOY

Some of those Crown Victoria police cars have caught fire when rear ended and many police unions now will NOT allow their department toorder these Crown Victorias. There are been a number of deaths . I know that modifications have been made to the car. Perhaps, it's an issue with notenough gas mileage and/or too much polution and Ford has to stop making them because it costs too much to modify them. Or maybe they just don't sellenough of them to make a good profit. maribell
11-28-2009, 02:27 PM
LAWDOG

<blockquote> MINGOTOY wrote: <hr>Some of those Crown Victoria police cars have caught fire when rear ended and many police unions now will NOT allow their department to order these Crown Victorias. There are been a number of deaths . I know that modifications have been made to the car. Perhaps, it's an issue with not enough gas mileage and/or too much polution and Ford has to stop making them because it costs too much to modify them. Or maybe they just don't sell enough of them to make a good profit. maribell</blockquote>They actually then get retrofitted with the shield, the crown vics were work horses, I liked them the best the caprice classics were quick but youcouldnt stop them and they couldnt corner, most of the time you ate a lot of curb,,
11-28-2009, 08:23 PM
Redline Whiteline

hows this for a cop car, right from my home county Forsyth <a title="http://media.photobucket.com/video/challenger/SlowSS_2006/5-5-2009039.flv?o=2" target="_blank" href="http://media.photobucket.com/video/challenger/SlowSS_2006/5-5-2009039.flv?o=2">http://media.photobucket.com/video/challenger/SlowSS_2006/5-5-2009039.flv?o=2</a>
11-28-2009, 09:21 PM
CHEVY57

Mark, Those are strictly highway cars. We don't have any challengers that I know of yet but we do have some Mustangs & Chargers etc. over here. What they are looking for are cruisers, cars that can handle themselves & and still hold a prisoner in the back............
11-28-2009, 10:26 PM
MINGOTOY

NYC has about 50 Hybrid Altimas. Some will be used as undercover cars. maribell
11-28-2009, 10:41 PM
rdln66

Some of those Crown Victoria police cars have caught fire when rear ended and many police unions now will NOT allow their department to order theseCrown Victorias. There are been a number of deaths . I know that modifications have been made to the car. Perhaps, it's an issue with not enough gasmileage and/or too much polution and Ford has to stop making them because it costs too much to modify them. Or maybe they just don't sell enough of them tomake a good profit. That problem was fixed,and a is now a non issue. They are a full frame,full size car,so yeah..mileage will be no where near a Hybrid Altama. But the cops want a big strong car that is going to take alicking,and come out ticking.. Ford was still making a very healthy profit on that car,but there are other powers are at work here. .