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Re: Police and Law Enforcement Vehicles
« Reply #50 on: August 24, 2015, 04:59:53 AM »
"Revenue Collectors"
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Re: Police and Law Enforcement Vehicles
« Reply #51 on: August 24, 2015, 10:58:55 PM »
Unfortunately, turning the SA Police into a revenue raising arm is exactly what the SA government is trying to do. >:D
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Re: Police and Law Enforcement Vehicles
« Reply #52 on: August 25, 2015, 03:31:34 AM »
More from the TGPD





and back to the "aint taking no prisoners" class of police vehicles





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Re: Police and Law Enforcement Vehicles
« Reply #53 on: August 26, 2015, 10:22:33 PM »
Unfortunately, turning the SA Police into a revenue raising arm is exactly what the SA government is trying to do. >:D

There was a story the other week that SA and NT should amalgamate into one super state, my objection to this is in the NT we are progressively increasing the zones with no speed limit and have an open road limit of 130km/h elsewhere while SA has a max speed of 110km/h and they are progressively dropping many limits by 10 or 20km/h.  I fully anticipate instead of unlimited zone between Alice and tenant it will be dropped to 50km/h with a speed, whoops sorry I meant "road safety" cameras every 500m.

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Re: Police and Law Enforcement Vehicles
« Reply #54 on: August 27, 2015, 03:10:05 AM »
There was a story the other week that SA and NT should amalgamate into one super state


Back to the future:  NT was part of South Australia from 1863 to 1911:

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Re: Police and Law Enforcement Vehicles
« Reply #55 on: August 27, 2015, 09:28:48 AM »
Unfortunately, turning the SA Police into a revenue raising arm is exactly what the SA government is trying to do. >:D

There was a story the other week that SA and NT should amalgamate into one super state, my objection to this is in the NT we are progressively increasing the zones with no speed limit and have an open road limit of 130km/h elsewhere while SA has a max speed of 110km/h and they are progressively dropping many limits by 10 or 20km/h.  I fully anticipate instead of unlimited zone between Alice and tenant it will be dropped to 50km/h with a speed, whoops sorry I meant "road safety" cameras every 500m.

Yup. :icon_twisted:
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Re: Police and Law Enforcement Vehicles
« Reply #56 on: September 12, 2015, 03:34:32 AM »
New one:  NSW Police McLaren 650S:




There was also this Aston Martin Vanquish Volante:

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Re: Police and Law Enforcement Vehicles
« Reply #57 on: October 16, 2016, 01:04:47 PM »
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Re: Police and Law Enforcement Vehicles
« Reply #58 on: March 19, 2017, 04:00:23 AM »
The above car is now not happening due to the Mustang getting such a low safety rating.

That said, here are two more images of the mockup:


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Re: Police and Law Enforcement Vehicles
« Reply #59 on: March 19, 2017, 09:19:08 AM »
Ford are apparently grafting active safety systems from the Focus etc. to rectify the problem in the 2018 model Mustang due out latter this year.  Why not just go the Focus RS as a police car instead?

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Re: Police and Law Enforcement Vehicles
« Reply #60 on: March 19, 2017, 09:42:53 AM »
Ford are apparently grafting active safety systems from the Focus etc. to rectify the problem in the 2018 model Mustang due out latter this year.  Why not just go the Focus RS as a police car instead?

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Re: Police and Law Enforcement Vehicles
« Reply #61 on: March 19, 2017, 10:49:25 PM »
Sadly the Focus has more usable room in the back than the Stang (my wife wanted a Stang but we have three kids and although she may consider ditching one or more of them on occasion.....).  Besides highway patrol cars aren't about arresting and detaining people, they are about defrauding them ;)

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Re: Police and Law Enforcement Vehicles
« Reply #62 on: March 20, 2017, 12:08:15 PM »
Many years ago in Adelaide, South Australia there was a newly opened Freeway.  Driving on that freeway fairly frequently there was a large, V8 Jaguar with a turbo fitted to it's engine.  No local police car could catch it.  There were frequent grumblings from the local police that the naturally aspirated V8s from Holden were, in a word, "useless" when this thing came burbling past at 180 km/h (maximum state speed limit was 110 Km/h).

Mistibushi heard of this.  They were working on fitting a turbocharger to their Starion sports sedan.  They went to the SA Police and asked if they'd like to test the turbocharged version of their Sigma Sedan.  "Yes, please!"  Answered the Police and so plans were laid to trap the Jaguar, "in the act".  So, early one day, they set up their trap.   Along came the Jaguar, chase was given by the patrol car, a normally aspirated Holden V8. The driver gave all he could but he couldn't catch the Jaguar.  Suddenly from an on ramp came the normal, naturally coloured (all Police cars were a powder blue in those days) Sigma.   The Jaguar slowed down a little but the Sigma speeded up.  So the Jaguar sped up.  The Sigma passed the Jaguar at 190 km/h.  The fully uniformed Police officers flagged him down and pulled in front of him.  He slowed to a halt and was found to be a middle-aged Doctor who was laughing in his driver's seat.  He knew his days of speeding were over.  The Coppers all apparently had smiles on their faces as well, they knew they'd caught the bugger.

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Re: Police and Law Enforcement Vehicles
« Reply #63 on: March 20, 2017, 09:31:48 PM »
Unfortunately, the Sigma didn't make it to full operational use because it was found to be too dangerously unstable at high speed, took forever to stop & wore through tyres like a b!tc# (when tromped, it spun its wheels on every automatic gear change). :)
« Last Edit: March 23, 2017, 09:58:37 AM by Old Wombat »
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Re: Police and Law Enforcement Vehicles
« Reply #64 on: March 23, 2017, 07:05:56 AM »
The Sigma passed the Jaguar at 190 km/h. 

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