Originally Posted by BigMouthBillyBass
Another thing that gets me, why do police always seem to have 5 series tourers and range rover vogues? Surely there's plenty of fast cars they can have that are much cheaper? Or again is that down resale as they tend to hold their value better than saw a Mondeo ST220 estate/V6 vectra or similar?
As above the main reason is resale.
The other is reliability! As said previously these cars live on the roads. The days of undercover cars being Rover 800s are thankfully long gone.