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
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
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.
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....
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.