British Police Love The Chevy Volt, Name It Top Crime Fighter

[Rich Parsons]

From:

http://www.greencarreports.com/news...love-the-chevy-volt-name-it-top-crime-fighter

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In a recent Intelligent Transport Systems competition run by the Association of Chief Police Officers -- the U.K. equivalent of superintendents -- a 2012 Vauxhall Ampera (Chevrolet Volt) won top place for its crime-fighting potential.

Just like the NYPD Volts however, the British police-issue Ampera isn’t stock.

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[Xue Sheng]

It's quiet...too quiet.... and great for sneaking up on criminals

 

[Jenna]

The design language used on the front ends of these latest Vauxhall (as they are known here in UK) conjures in my mind the stage makeup of the band KISS. Anyway I like stealth design

 

[ballen0351]

No Thanks Ill take one of these:

 

[Rich Parsons]

No Thanks Ill take one of these:

Nothing replaces displacement. I know electric is fast. I know turbo and super charging adds power, but if you do that to a larger engine you get similar jumps in peformance.

 

[Gemini]

It's quiet...too quiet.... and great for sneaking up on criminals

except for the lights and sirens. :uhyeah:

still looks like a state of the art turd. Gimme the old interceptor. :headbangin:

 

[Xue Sheng]

Or just use what the Swiss use

 

[Big Don]

It's quiet...too quiet.... and great for sneaking up on criminals

 

[Xue Sheng]

Told Ya

 

[Tez3]

It's a shame then that no British force actually has any yet, they could go into service in 2015 though.
http://cars.uk.msn.com/news/vauxhall-ampera-police-car-wins-prize

You'll be hard put to separate the traffic lot from their Scoobies though, driving them is why they do the job lol!

 

[SuperFLY]

makes a change from the 1.6 astra diesels they're usually lumped with

 

[Jenna]

makes a change from the 1.6 astra diesels they're usually lumped with

Ah now do not deride the humble diesel Astra I have done one to 190bhp and it still did close to 49mpg on the RR

 

[Tez3]

makes a change from the 1.6 astra diesels they're usually lumped with

Oop north we have four wheel drives, traffic get Audis, BMW's

 

[Xue Sheng]

In Italy the police get a Ferrari

 

[SuperFLY]

In Italy the police get a Ferrari

funny looking ferrari

 

[Jenna]

funny looking ferrari

Ferrari, Lamborghini, when you have the financial assets that Xue Sheng has, they are all just cars