The worst thing that could ever happen to a supercar is to have a reckless owner crash into smithereens because he thought that he could fly with it. Believe us, you have no idea how often this happens and those six-figure cars end up being reduced to twisted heaps of metal.
But even if you don’t end up sending your car on the fast track to the junk shops, there are still situations that you’d want to avoid, lest you become the subject of jokes and even end up on car sites like ours. One of those things is having your precious supercar clamped down by local authorities.
Needless to say, the embarrassment is magnified when that happens so we implore you that even if you’re richer than a lot of us, it still doesn’t excuse you from thinking that you’re above the law.
Check out the gallery of supercars that have been clamped because they’re owners thought that just because they have one of the bad boys, it allows them to become exceptions to the rule.
Over on the other side of the pond, the UK is getting set to unveil their all-new bad guy-chasing police cruiser, but unlike the new 2011 Chevrolet Caprice, which will be used in the US, the chaps from the UK have decided to crack down on their own criminals with the new Mitsubishi all-electric i-MiEV.
It seems odd to us that the UK police’s vehicle-of-choice in apprehending the baddies is an electric car is neither fast nor intimidating. But as it turns out, the compact electric car was displayed in full police regalia at the National Police Show last month. Since then, the i-MiEV, which runs on an electric motor and has a top speed of 130 km/h, has become somewhat of a hot item among police units in the country, a lot of them even resorting to asking Mitsubishi for some trial cars.
From our end, we have no idea how the i-MiEV can hold its own in against, say, a runaway Aston Martin, but then again, the UK Police Force must have something up their sleeves as far as tinkering with the i-MiEV is concerned.
We just can’t picture the electric car to exude the kind of menacing badass-ness police cruisers are known to have.
After rampant speculation that the Pontiac G8 would rise from the dead to become a police patrol vehicle, General Motors has decided to keep the dead brand, well, dead.
In turn - and after a 13-year absence - the newest North American police cruiser turned out to be the Chevrolet Caprice, which, if you’re from the Land Down Under, you might recognize as a Zeta-platform Holden Caprice, except for the fact that the wheel is on the other side of the car.
To keep up with the unlawful hoodlums prowling the streets, the Caprice Cop Special was given a 6.0-liter V8 engine, capable of churning out 355 horsepower and 385 lb/ft of torque. In addition to that, the car comes with all the unique trinkets police officers need to keep our streets safe. The car’s interior has been given the complete cop treatment, including a front-seat computer, an assortment of gun holsters, and all the electronic radar you can get your hands on.
The new face of law enforcement has arrived. And for all of us, it’s a face that we don’t to see on our rear view mirrors.
If you live somewhere around Zavala County, Texas, we advise you to be on your best behavior should you happen upon a black 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS. Chances are, that car is one mean unmarked police cruiser.
The car was modified by Southwest Public Safety and they have a video to show just how they were able to do it. In the vid, you’ll be able to see the boys from SPS install police strobes behind the Camaro’s front grille, inside the rear window, and in the rear bumper just outside the car’s license plate. In addition to that, the car was also outfitted with a radar detector into its A-pillar, plus a speed monitor placed just above the car’s rear view mirror.
It’s a cool video to watch to see how you turn an already fierce Camaro into an even more intimidating police vehicle.
For the longest time, the Ford Crown Victoria has been a criminal’s worst nightmare, not because the car has some sort of crime repellent, but because it is, by far, the most used police cruiser in North America.
But now, word has it that Ford is ready to retire the Crown Victoria in favor of a newer – albeit less intimidating – line of cruisers: the new Taurus.
It has to be mentioned that the Crown Victoria has been synonymous with police cars as much as hamburger and fries. But the model has been used for well over 30 years now so it seems that the model is fit and ready for the retirement home.
With the new Taurus, police officers will be getting behind the wheel of a car that isn’t as powerful as the Crown Victoria. But it’s not a pushover either. The car comes with a set of V6 powertrains, and combined with the Taurus’ reputation for being toughness and efficiency, makes it a formidable adversary for law breaking citizens across North America.
Leaving behind a legacy that saw it being used by over 85 percent of the 75,000 police cruisers being every year, the Crown Victoria rides off into the sunset to leave the criminal-chasing duties to the new Ford Taurus.
As soon as Ferrari unveiled the 458 Italia, people began to tweak the images, coming up with different colored versions and even a spyder variant. What if the new mid engine super car, the prancing horse could replace the raging bull as the Italian police force’s vehicle of choice, which is currently a 2009 Gallardo LP560-4 Polizia. The only thing we would suggest is turning the stop light around so you can read it in the rear view mirror, not that it would matter too much, the Ferrari 458 Polizia would come up on you so fast, the last thing you will be looking at are a series LEDs at the top of the windshield. Running would futile, because there is no escape from a car that can do 202 MPH?
The next time you decide to drive around Wake County, N.C., we must warn you that if you get caught by the cops, chances are that you’ll have a tough time outrunning them.
The police department of Wake County has a new - and sneaky - speed limit enforcer – an unmarked black Chevrolet Corvette Z06, which by the mere mention of the name should serve as a warning to those who decide to push their vehicles past the speed limit: it’s no fun being chased by a Corvette Z06. The PD’s new police interceptor was recently seized in a drug bust and being the vigilant purveyor’s of the law that they are, the police decided to turn the Corvette Z06 into its very own chase car.
According to Gary Buchanan, a Raleigh resident who owns a 2007 Corvette, he told The News & Observer that he recently saw Wake County officers last week cruising in the unmarked Z06 on I-40 in Cary. "It had blue lights in the back and blue lights in the front," he said. "It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. Something like that is so extreme. I mean, if my wife was out driving and this thing came up behind her and the light’s started going off, man, she’d be scared to death."
We don’t know about you, but it might be some time before we dare to drive on the M1 or any other of the U.K.’s high speed thoroughfares. That is because we have just caught wind of the English bobby’s recent addition to their motor pool. Up until now the British traffic squad was using Subarus to chase down the bad guys, that was o.k. because after a few miles with the turbo spooled up would mean that the flat four engine’s top mount intercooler would be suffering from tremendous amounts of heat soak, lose power, and away you go.
However that won’t be the case anymore. Taking a page out of the American Law Enforcement handbook, the Humberside Police Force have decided to trade up for a couple of eight cylinder powered four door vehicles, but these aren’t just any V8s. They have decided to replace those worn out patrol cars with the most powerful Lexus on the market at the moment, the 415 HP IS-F. Aside from the already steep cost of ownership, the police squad also added almost £30,000 worth of additional on-board computers and communications equipment.
The Lexus IS-F has a performance minded modern day 5.0 Liter V8 engine capable of propelling the factory tuned IS from 0 to 60 MPH in only 4.8 seconds and reach an electronically limited top speed of 168 MPH.
Nobody ever said you had to be a genius to be a police officer. But then again, being stupid isn’t part of the job description either.
That’s the prevailing thought on British police officers these days. The bad thing is, it’s not as if they’re being asked to solve global warming or world hunger, but rather, just put the right type of fuel in their patrol cars.
In the past three years, British police officers have confused the type of fuel they put in their cars a total of 4,709 times. If basic mathematics isn’t a problem for you, you’d know that that’s about four patrol cars per day.
The problem with putting the wrong fuel type not only means that the fuel – already expensive, in its own right – has to be drained. In addition to that, the unfortunate engines that have been filled with the wrong fuel are subjected to repairs, further increasing the bills that, incidentally, tax payers have to pay.
If you’re a British taxpayer, that’s not a very comforting fact to face. You pay taxes just so these people have the money to fix their idiocy. While you’re at it, why not just send these cops to school!
Watch out British bad guys, because the fuzz is after you, in style. Jaguar has just released their first ever, police spec XF. With an average fuel economy of 42 MPG, this diesel powered Jaguar XF is the perfect vehicle for outlasting criminals in a high speed pursuit. The 3.0 Liter turbo diesel V6 makes around 270 HP and is enough to launch the police cruiser from 0 to 60 MPH in just 5.9 seconds. The police spec XF was chosen due to the vehicle’s very high level of performance and handling, as well as safety and comfort. Geoff Cousins, UK Managing Director for Jaguar Cars, said that “Police forces are looking for vehicles that represent value for money, have good environmental credentials and deliver the power and performance required of a pursuit vehicle.”
Although it’s not quite a pursuit Lamborghini Gallardo, this Jaguar XF is enough to make me think twice about speeding through the U.K.
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