The Chevrolet Caprice is really the Australian Holden Statesman/Caprice luxury range.

http://www.holden.com.au/vehicles/Statesman

The base model of the car is the Holden Commodore.

Commodore SS - Commodore Range - Vehicles - Holden. Go better.

Holden is a wholly owned subsdiary of GM.

There has been a lot of media in Australia about this car.

the problem with the Holden, is its over 100k for the car pre-built.

We chose not to use that for LVMPD because of the cost. And when there is a repair, we cant afford to have the downtime on the car while its being repaired - as opposed to me being able to go to the car, fix a light and send it out again. and of course, i'd have no job, hehe. The shifter is in the middle, thats a HUGE NO NO for a police car. HUGE!
-edit- refering to the pre-built holdens (lights, siren, strobes, console, all come with the car).

we are currently waiting for ford to send us their new RWD Taurus. set-up as a police package (similar to police interceptor). if all goes well, thats our new car, as the crown vic line is coming to an end soon.

Care to explain?

I once read or saw a picture on why the police use crown vics, the column shifter was a reason for more room and something else I believe.

the biggest thing is room. Where are we going to put our consoles? I have an ongoing order with D&R to build 1,000 consoles for our cars. the feet brackets can be changed from car to car, but the console must sit between the seats (where the shifter is).

When you have the shifter where its at in the holden, the officer must look down to the right to look at the radio. The officers eyes are no longer able to see if a car brakes. When the officer wants to press the buttons on the radio, how are they going to do it? the right arm can not bend correctly to easily press buttons. try it right now - try to touch right past your armrest on your chair with your right hand, notice how awkward and hard it is. (remember there's a shotgun rack right between the seats, behind the driver, so your elbow cant lay straight) Yes its easier with the left hand - but then your moving your whole body sideways. thats a no-no while driving.

third, our consoles are in front of the cop to the right. the cop can slightly look down and still use the peripheral vision to notice if a car brakes in front of them. Putting the computer on the dash is a nice idea, but its too far from reality because of contracts with companies. We have a laptop system that we use (tough books). Where are the cops gonna mount the laptop if the shifter is right there? and yes it must be mounted, not laying free.

theres a couple more but that should give an idea.

We have a few of those stealth dodges here, I find myself slowing down for all the dodge "look-alikes" with tinted windows now :shakes head:

These were missing :tup:

http://www.autoweek.nl/images/480/c/...018584305c.jpg

http://static.autoblog.nl/images/wp2...20Politie3.jpg

What's the first one? Spyker?

Nice! M3

Yes, made in Holland as well....

Yep. In spite of the fact that they are hot cars, I still have a problem with an exotic that costs that much money and has a 4 inch slit of a window inside of the fixed side windows................ for that price, I want a fully functioning side window :p

Picky Picky Picky

LOL, oh come on, you know you'd want a window that went up and down as well......... not that little slit thingy :roflpuke2:

Updated the original post with a new one. Reminds me of kitt