Mike1

Shrewsbury police have an unmarked black Skoda Octavia Vrs (VX54 AOC or BX54 AOC ) ...it is standard engine wise

ESCYSCOTT

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Northumbria Police had an Escort Cossie in the nineties aswell as a few saffs, they had two escos's apparently as one got lifted from the compound when some tea leaf scailed the fence and done off with it, was never found again IIRC

Fudgey

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round swindon they got a few unmarked lexus' all v8 i think.
and a couple of octavia RS' and did use accord type r'sa few years ago i did manage to get away from an accord, werent a type r tho and fully marked.

oh the joy

joel_winders

my uncle had one of them about 6 years ago, he got it from the auctions and when it was under uv lights you could see "police" plastered all over it

S1 JOHN

my mate has a 4x4 saph cossie ex cop car no sunroof and you can see where all the stripes were down the side still

i also got dragged along to look at a car for my mate it was a subaru (spit spit)it looked pretty clean had done a million miles on a w reg had a engine rebuild when i looked at the log book one previous owner no other than cumbria constabulary but for a uk spec subaru it wasnt shy !! it wasnt a wrx or sti either

AndyRST

The 850 T5's that Kent police used about 4-5 years ago were all chipped. I used to service the photocopier in the Volvo specialist vechicle garage for Kent police The exhuast's were heat wrapped and when i asked a mechanic why he reply because the cars are chipped and run more boost than std and this makes more heat and they had a problem with melting bits under the bonnet when in pursuit of joyriders

sufsRS

im sure ive seen a pic of a copper with an rs200 along time ago, a couple of years ago their used to be a white es cos patrolling the m62 around huddersfield but now all i see are bimmer diesels

M7 COS

I saw an unmarked Police car last week and that was BMW 5 Series as well, and not a new one either. It was silver and on the A130 in Essex

Mike Rainbird

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Along with the Lotus pic, the RS200 one is just a publicity photo and were never used as police cars...

rsrob

about 4 yrs ago my mate got chased by a police bike after doing about 100mph down a dual carrage way in his 4x4 saph, the copper who pulled him said "you can ethier have a ban or let me have a go and ill let you off ?"

so into the passenger seat he got and the copper nailed it about for about 15 mins with a big smile on his face all the way

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This would have been one of them:



And......my, my, hav'nt Nokia mobiles come a long way

M7 COS

Quality!

M7 COS

My mate's in the TT owners club and they've got a connection on their site with some top driving copper who's now retired. He sells lessons in driving £800 a go or something for four hours, but during that four hours you can drive as fast as you like as he pre-warns the police and they ignore the vehicle that he's in.

I don't know how true that is, just what I heard when I went to one of there meets. Sounds a bit dubious to me.

Mr Brannen

The Police Escorts looked fookin Lush by the way for anyone who hasnt seen one

benporter

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jasonrs2k

A mate of mine works for a company called V***ons they are in charge of the entire Metropolitan police force fleet and deal with Nottingham's fleet over night when the office is closed up there, from what my mate say's the cars just have better pads and nothing else and the biggest problem they have with the cars are the police putting in the wrong fuel.

One other thing he said that was interesting is that they get points on there police driving licence for screwing up

cossiegreg1

thanks for all the replys folks ,it seems iv stired somethimg up,and im lovin all these stories.Any more?
I wish i did say il race you and if i win (which i will, lol)i get off.To that copper now

jonesymk2

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i read in a mag quite a few years ago 1 police force up north sumwhere had an escort cossie but it had a rally spec engine and running gear in it,ive seen an evo cop car a couple of times near stevenage,we used 2 hav a sapphire cossie cop car in luton now the main cars weve got r diseasel astras

andy_st200

probably get caned for this but he's probably right.. big speeds on a modern engine over a long distance is gonna be a lot healthier on the engine than on an older car IMO

theirs no repleacement for cubic capacity and those bm engines are bullet proof

oh and essex police use my motor , well they use em around lakeside

Mike Rainbird

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This was the Escort that had RAISED suspension, stronger wheels and rally sump guards, to enable it to chase TWOC'ers on equal footing (driving over curbs etc). However, it had standard engine.

jonesymk2

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oh right fair enough probably was that then,mind u it was in maxpower probably about 9 years ago now i think maybe longer

Oranoco

Herts Police have at least three Octavia RS's and a couple of 328 BMW's one of which was written off not so long ago.

The ST Mondeo's were standard bar the addition of a syncro on reverse gear so it can be engaged while still moving forward. This was done as the thieving oiks would stop and reverse into the police car, setting the air bag off and ending the persuit.

James

Yeah, i've read that about police cars, Fast Ford about six years ago iirc!

Although, hasn't the ST's MTX75 gearbox got a syncro on reverse anyway? - It deffo isn't straight cut gears thats for sure.

Also, when the police tune these cars//t5's as mentioned above do they still leave these bits on when it's sold on?

AndyRST

That would only deploy the air bag if the police car was traveling over 13mph

Oranoco

If they ram you and bust the rad and what have you the persuit is still not going to last long.

Big G

I still remember in Oldham the old D reg capri's flying about

D751/2/4 KVM

Neil S

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I thought MT75 and MTX75 had synchro on ALL gears?

Neil.