As seen on Police Interceptors tonight - If Only every force had one or two of these

cant see many police forces buying that!!!

is that the one they confiscated an used as a chase car?

The Met have one - I believe it was £140k. No idea if it's the one that was confiscated - further investigation required I think.

well the met would they are the biggest police force! cant see them using it to chase criminals though!

That's what I thought, but they do have another one. I've also found some other seriously sweet Police cars!!

Im sure there was a Police Lotus Elise at some point...

Anyway, I'd still prefer the Impreza Police Cruiser..

I think the first Impreza unit used by the police was based on Merseyside and North Wales...to catch the Bikers on the Welsh Roads. Only cars that could keep up with them on the tight and twisty roads

Is this the one you mean Craig??

Its funny until you are the tax payer footing the bill for this gross mismanagement of funds!

Ahhhhhhhhhh I was waiting for someone to say that The Lambo was actually donated by Lamborghini free of charge. That was my first thought, so I did some digging

can i have a free lambo?!

No, but you can have a free lamb with extra go-faster legs

it is free!

watch police interceptors ep1 and ep2 here

http://demand.five.tv/Series.aspx?seriesBaseName=PoliceInterceptors

East Sussex Police have an elise



The italian police Lambo is used to transport organs to hospitals and is not a pursuit vehicle.

Itd make sense for them to buy hot hatches such as ST's and VXR's or even Vectra VXR's. I know in some areas they use 5 series beemers and X type jags and cars along those lines. So instead of dropping up to £30,000 or more in a slow ass 520 drop £20,000 into an ST or VXR Astra.

You know it makes sense.

Number of doors mate, thats the problem

You can get a 4 door ST and a 4 door GTi and many other hot cars come as 4 doors. Low end Evo's and Scoobies come into the £20,000 mark too.

hate to tell you boys..we pay ALOT less than that for the cars..
We pay bt 12k for a vxr and about 14k for a volvo T5..and about 14k for a Bmw 535d..
Its all the extra kit and electronics/battenburg.lights/vascar/anpr/calibration that turn them into 80k monsters....
we were offered scoobys a while ago on a super cheap 3 yr lease scheme..where we could run them for 3 yrs..and sell them after with bout 100k on the clock..and made a profit. Our bosses said no..they were too "aggressive".
so dont tell me we misuse public funds....

and its not just about number of doors...the boot has got to be big enough to carry around all the kit..so astras golfs etc arent any use....

Fair enough. How about Mondeos with the 2.5 in estate form Still far more usefull then any 5 series.

Any chance of getting a VXR on the cheap then eh.

Upton had an unmarked scooby for a bit and an ST Mondeo estate too. I reckon Scobby estates are perfect bobby cars.

we never had an unmarked scooby..and i worked at upton for 3 yrs!
we did have a st200 marked mondeo and it was a shed...
Our force have no consistency when it comes to buying cars...we go with whatevers cheapest seemingly.
We get cars on test all the time..we try them..and evaluate them afterwards...but fleet management just seem to ignore our requests and go with whatevers cheap.
They wont go to an entire fleets of Vauxhalls or BMWs as they are paranoid incase the company goes bankrupt and they cant get parts for it...
The mondeo 2.5 just isnt quick enough....
We have been told we are going to get 335d and 535d estates because BMW are paying for our mechanics to get get trained up..and offering us the cars very cheap aswell as the spare parts and diagnostic machines cheap too.

and as for a vxr..The cheapest I can get you a brand new manual hatchback one for £22,248...OTR...plus my commision!

With the flashing lights too!!!???

lol..the flashing lights are extra....