Volvo 850/S70 "Police Interceptor"

Here's a link to a model of the California version

Mike

Is it in full markings?

From what I read, the "police package" offered by volvo for a few years in the late 90's included beefed up suspension, aux. transmission cooling, a heavy duty cooling system, vinyl rear seat, wider opening rear doors, special cloth interior (up front), and push bar/light bar provisions. I wonder if the one you see is a Police package, or just a civillian one pulled from the floor?

Very interesting stuff here. Looks like they were even more feared than the early 90's Mustang V8s the CHP was using.

-Mike

I remember reading that the CHP didn't like them because the trunk was too small for all their "stuff".

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'67 122 - 1st car '70 142 - Lemon '72 145 - Gone But Not Forgotten '81 242t - Esther's Turbo (Project Car) '82 245 - POS '89 740ti - Ilsa, Daily Driver

It has a front ram, the i'm pulling your ass over lights are mounted on the dash, and in the back window like most of our Impala's, which were fitted this way, after the Crown Vickies got they top lights smashed by punks.

The sides have the requiste Halton bading on it, looks like its been beefed.

I've seen it flying down a side road once, engine was just screaming, sirens full on... that was a pretty cool sight.

Size was an issue, I had a chance to talk to one of the testing officers at a meet in Perris CA, he also mentioned the lack of room in back for transporting people. It was a while ago but I think he said there was no room for the protective "cage" between the driver and prisoners. He was impressed with the speed and handling however. Dave Shannon snipped-for-privacy@cox.net (Spring Valley CA)

1988 240 DL 19X,XXX 1984 245 DL 20X,XXX 1984 245T 19X,XXX '01 Jeep Wrangler Sahara 14K

There was at least one, and perhaps two S70AWD's under test by the CHP on Interstate 80 over the winters of 99-00 and, perhaps, 98-99 as well. My best recollection is seeing such a vehicle at times and places that made it look as though there were two being used at the same time.

I imagine that the real interest for them was AWD (lot's of snow up in the Sierra). Now that Detroit has a renewed interest in AWD (not everyone *really* wants an SUV when they are only looking for AWD), Volvo's would likely be out of the running, even if they are part of Ford's lineup.

bob noble Reno, NV, USA

After some checking with a neighbor in the MSP, I was told that they were probably returned to Volvo/Ford after an evaluation period. I think the MSP liked the cars, but it might have been a hard sell in Lansing using Volvos as MSP cruisers.