I sure hope you will not ever hold a position in public service in my community with your reasoning.What's the point in longevity, when tax payers are footing the bill?!
Crown Victoria named 'best cop car of all time'
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Lol, don't worry, there's already enough in public service with that reasoning.
I'm just pointing out the obvious.
I never saw any police in NH have issues with Crown Vic’s nor even current RWD Chargers . They install winter wheels…
I remember seeing one (somewhat) local where there was an officer standing next to a Crown Vic. I asked how old it was. He said that they're going to hold onto it as long as they can since they're more or less irreplaceable, although I suppose there are used ones.
I do remember a Mobil 1 commercial where someone was buying up used police Crown Vics and turning them into taxis. The claim was that he trusted them if they were using Mobil 1. However, some of our local taxi rules had age limits for taxis. San Francisco had a requirement that they can't be more than 9 model years old and then they have to be retired from that service. The Crown Vic used to be the main taxi in San Francisco but they slowly went away in favor of Priuses and Escape Hybrids. They got rid of that requirement (with a requirement for inspections every six months), but I haven't seen a Crown Vic taxi there since I suppose they don't want to bring in used vehicles. I have seen Crown Vics used in smaller communities where they might not have extensive taxi fleets.
I do remember a Mobil 1 commercial where someone was buying up used police Crown Vics and turning them into taxis. The claim was that he trusted them if they were using Mobil 1. However, some of our local taxi rules had age limits for taxis. San Francisco had a requirement that they can't be more than 9 model years old and then they have to be retired from that service. The Crown Vic used to be the main taxi in San Francisco but they slowly went away in favor of Priuses and Escape Hybrids. They got rid of that requirement (with a requirement for inspections every six months), but I haven't seen a Crown Vic taxi there since I suppose they don't want to bring in used vehicles. I have seen Crown Vics used in smaller communities where they might not have extensive taxi fleets.
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I've seen many CVPIs as taxis with excess of 1million miles on them
Crown Vics were great for the times, but IMO overrated today. I like them, but they weren't anything all that special in my experience. Once GM abandoned the BOF category, Ford had the market to itself for the most part. The Caprice was great for its time too, especially the LT1s. They were much lamented when they went out of production.
Doesn't sound obvious to me.
From those in the know it seems all preferred the CV over all others afterwards and having driven one I agree in the handling and ease of repair/reliability
I still say that until you have the CHP car below come up behind you then you don't know what is intimidating with it's 440-4V. I have had that privilege.
I still say that until you have the CHP car below come up behind you then you don't know what is intimidating with it's 440-4V. I have had that privilege.
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Texas DPS Interceptors also had the 440 Magnums …
Sorry to hear that.
Great topic. Sorry, thread drift; early 90s, I was THIS close to owning a freshly retired Virginia State Police Mustang. It was worn, but a peach; 5.0, stripped by todays standards; trunk slammer (sedan), manual trans etc…. I was just a few $k short, but at that time; $3k might as well been $33k… sigh
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It was my favorite, hands down.
The Blues Brothers would disagree. 1974 Dodge Monaco.It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas.
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And excursion.
Yes
The panthers are starting to get expensive with nice examples fading away. I'm seeing junk ones locally go for 3k. But even then they're worth it compared to the junk around it at the buy here pay here.
I regret not buying an excursion in 2011 for only 5500 that was near pristine with the 7.3 and 91k miles. Still kicking myself over it, that truck's easily 3x more now.
