Re: Report: Ponch Approved? California chooses Ford Explorer Police Interceptor as next patrol car

On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:16:55 -0700, Ashton Crusher wrote Re Re: Report: Ponch Approved? California chooses Ford Explorer Police Interceptor as next patrol car:

For >the past couple decades the whole "police car" requirements thing has >been nothing more than a way to justify spending a lot more money on >big fast gas guzzling cars for fat officers then on any real need for >the kind of performance that was specified. Now that you can't get a >stripped down luxury car as a police car they are changing their >requirements so they can get luxury SUVs. It's all a game where they >waste your tax dollars specifiying things they don't need and that no >private company would pay for if they were funding the fleet.

Well put.

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Caesar Romano
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If they gave each patrolman a bus, they could list them all as green jobs.

Just wait. Eventually, there will be an exposé about rollovers and high fuel costs; and the politicians and public employee unions will line up to denounce . . . Ford.

Reply to
Neill Massello

I think that applied to SUV's that were based on truck chassis and had a high center of gravity. The Explorer sits on a Ford Taurus platform.

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Derek Gee

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