Police/Emergency


Essen 2009: AC Schnitzer gives BMW 123d the police package treatment [w/VIDEO]

High performance vehicles like Porsche 911s being used for pursuit duty on Germany's autobahn is nothing new. As such, in order order to grab the attention of Essen Motor Show attendees, the Tune It Safe! program's annual police-liveried show car needs to go a step further. Past efforts have included rides such as a police-liveried Brabus Rocket and a TechArt-prepared Porsche 911. This year, AC Schnitzer got the call and it has unwrapped (or perhaps wrapped is the better term, given the side graphics) a police car concept based on the BMW ... Read more →

VIDEO: Formula for Safety? Abu Dhabi Police unveil the F999 Noah Joseph

Wednesday evening before the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last month, crowds gathered along the Corniche, Abu Dhabi's seafront boulevard. Two police cars sped down the road, swerved to a stop, ...

Pull Over: Broward County Sheriff gets a full-dress Challenger R/T Alex Nunez

We like police cars. Seriously. Just not when they're filling our rearview mirrors, blue-and-reds ablaze. Then, our fanboy status diminishes markedly. In the meantime, however, we get pretty ...

VIDEO: Self-policing Wisconsin woman calls 911, turns herself in for drunk driving Noah Joseph

Here at Autoblog, we definitely don't condone drunk driving. But we have to admit it is a bit of a tricky thing. How are you supposed to tell if you're drunk if your judgment is already impaired? ...

Sir Frank Williams praises fire fighters for saving factory Noah Joseph

Since falling from its glory days of yore – when it won nine constructors championships an seven drivers titles – the Williams F1 team has been desperate to light a fire under its ...

Autoblog at the 7th Annual Wings, Wheels and Rotors show 1 month ago on Autoblog

This past Sunday was the 7th Annual Wings, Wheels and Rotors Expo at the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, California, and after our experience there last year, we just had to go back for more. As you might guess from the title, this is more than just another hot rod gathering. ...

Pics Aplenty plus VIDEO: Chevrolet Caprice PPV on patrol 2 months ago on Autoblog

It occurs to us that as much as we want to test the just-announced Chevrolet Caprice police patrol vehicle [official details], the only chance we might have is from the back seat. The new police cruiser from General Motors has been designed specifically to woo precincts away from the Ford Crown ...

The cops get a Zeta sedan: GM unveils 355-hp Chevy Caprice police car 2 months ago on Autoblog

Well, it's official. General Motors has resurrected the Australian-built Zeta sedan for North America, only this time around, it's just for the cops. Set to arrive in your local muni's police fleet in 2011 is the Chevrolet Caprice police patrol vehicle (PPV). First thing's first: it is not the ...

REPORT: Zeta-based Chevy "G8" police car to be unveiled Monday 2 months ago on Autoblog

The Pontiac G8 has not deserved its lot in life, and despite the Australians trying to steal it back with the debut of two special edition Holdens that look awfully similar, this rear-wheel-drive sport sedan will find one way or another to stay on sale in the U.S. Unfortunately, its customers ...

Trio of bulletproof presidential Hyundai Equus limos are first-ever armored stretches built in Korea 2 months ago on Autoblog

By now, vehicles like the Genesis and Equus have convinced most of how far Hyundai's come from bring the purveyors of punchline hatchbacks. But in case that wasn't enough, Hyundai has dropped the bigger-than-the-average-bear Equus VL500 limousine on the home market. Still not enough? How about ...

REPORT: GM still working on importing Holden Commodore with police package 2 months ago on Autoblog

Stop us if you've heard this one. GM's Australian-based arm is looking to send its Holden Commodore to the United States. Right, um, that's the Pontiac G8, right? Actually, no, it's dead. And it may not be a Chevy either, depending on how you read the report from drive.com.au, which quotes GM ...

Transformers "Barricade" Saleen Mustang sold at auction for $36,000 3 months ago on Autoblog

For better or worse, not all of us can be Sam Witwicky, swapping spit with Megan Fox and attempting to foil galactic evil robots taking the form of common automobiles. But then, there's nothing common about this particular automobile. It's the actual Saleen Mustang that played the part of ...

Nürburgring Rapid Response Nissan GT-R: World's fastest fire engine 4 months ago on Autoblog

If there's one performance metric that's pure marketing hype, it has to be a vehicle's Nürburgring time. Our good pal Jack Baruth brilliantly debunked this ever-growing myth. In case you missed Jack's article, here's the gist: "Sorry. There's no "Nürburgring lap time record" for a ...

Carbon Motors picks Connersville, IN for new HQ, E7 police car production 4 months ago on Autoblog

Carbon Motors, soon-to-be makers of a dedicated police cruiser known as the E7, has finally chosen a new place to call home: Connersville, Indiana. Taking up residence in an abandoned plant from auto parts supplier Visteon, Carbon intends on investing $350 million to renovate the 1.8 million ...

Fritz Henderson to Autoblog: Chevy Caprice is being looked at as "police application" 4 months ago on Autoblog

Ever since General Motors announced this spring that it was killing the Pontiac brand as part of its restructuring, fans of the Holden-developed G8 sedan have been clamoring to save it as a Chevrolet. After company officials repeatedly said over the past two months that no such thing would happen, ...

Irony Police: '73 Dodge Polara Air Pollution Control replica 5 months ago on Autoblog

Over at Clunkbucket, Mike Bumbeck has an "odd rod" feature highlighting one of the more interesting law-enforcement vehicles we've ever come across. Back in the early 70s, the Bay Area Pollution Control District decided to form a Vehicle Patrol section to issue citations to emissions scofflaws. ...

Carbon Motors reports 10,000 pre-orders for diesel-powered E7 police car 5 months ago on Autoblog

- As it turns out, there's quite a backlog of pent up demand for a purpose-built police car. Who knew that law enforcement officers were so fed up with their current fleet of Ford Crown Vics, Dodge Chargers and Chevrolet Impalas? Apparently, that would be Carbon Motors, which is now reporting an ...

Motorcyclist sues NY State Police over motorbike-only roadblocks 5 months ago on Autoblog

Upstate New York has earned a reputation as the speeding ticket capital of the country, but even with overeager state troopers patrolling the highways, motorcyclists feel singled out by law enforcement. That's why one rider/attorney is taking the state police, along with county and state officials ...

STUDY: UK police officers confuse diesel and gas pumps four times a day, cost taxpayers £1 million 6 months ago on Autoblog

British police have an expensive problem. It's not crime and it isn't corruption, it's much worse. The £1 million problem is stupidity. Over the course of three years, UK cops have on 4,709 occasions put the wrong fuel in their police cruisers. That's an average of four cars damaged per day, ...

Jaguar UK launches new police package for XF 6 months ago on Autoblog

The long arm of the law now has a cat to stroke with Jaguar's creation of a high performance police pursuit vehicle. It hasn't been commissioned by forces yet, but is apparently under evaluation by UK authorities across the country. The model in question is the new twin-turbo XF Diesel S, a ...

Vauxhall unveils new police package Insignia 6 months ago on Autoblog

GM UK Special Vehicles has just introduced its take-no-prisoners Police-specification Vauxhall Insignia. Available to police fleets throughout the UK, the car is available in sedan or Sports Tourer body styles (shown above). Powertrain choices include a 220 PS (216 hp) 2.0-liter turbo or a 260 ...

Bizarre Medical Wagon: BMW presents X6 ambulance at rescue vehicle show 6 months ago on Autoblog

You know you've always wanted to drive a four-hundred-horsepower BMW through city streets like a bat out of hell, and now the Bavarian automaker has the legal remedy. All you'll need to do is get certified as an ambulance driver and convince your local emergency response unit to invest in this X6 ...

REPORT: Group working on bringing Holden Commodore to U.S. police forces 7 months ago on Autoblog

Naturally, the death of the Pontiac brand has put a crimp in sales plans at Holden, General Motors' Australian arm that assembles and exports the Pontiac G8, essentially a lightly reworked version of the brand's own Commodore sedan. Interestingly, according to Aussie website GoAuto, a most unlikely ...

SmartForFiveOh: Small Florida town employs Smart police cruiser 7 months ago on Autoblog

When your Police Chief is six-feet tall and weighs 280 pounds, you might consider it cruel and unusual punishment to issue him a Smart fortwo as his police cruiser. But that is exactly what the folks in Belle Isle, Florida have done. Heck, if it's good enough for Batman, it's good enough for ...

UK police in hot water for "recreating car chase for 'petrolhead porn TV' 7 months ago on Autoblog

For an episode of the show Police Interceptors, which airs on channel five in Britain, the producers wanted to recreate a police chase. But instead of throwing together some archive clips and fast-cut footage of police cars caroming through empty streets, the show gave presenter Natalie Pinkham ...

Classic JDM TV: Seibu Keisatsu's "Super Machine-X" Skyline 2000GT Turbo 8 months ago on Autoblog

Unfortunately, I don't speak Japanese, because then I might have enjoyed the old detective drama Seibu Keisatsu even more than I did watching the video above and the two subsequent parts embedded after the jump. The crew at Japanese Nostalgic Car posted these last week, explaining that this ...

Pull off to the right for Ford's new E-Series Super Duty Ambulance 9 months ago on Autoblog

The Ford E-Series Super Duty cargo van is a staple of emergency response teams throughout the U.S., and it's getting faster and cheaper for 2010. New for 2010 is petrol power for paramedics in the form of Ford's 6.8L V10 Triton engine. Prior E-Series vans were only available with diesel ...

Alabama Slammer: Seized Porsche 911 becomes newest member of Hoover PD 9 months ago on Autoblog

In a twist on the great circle of life, a motorist has his Porsche 911 searched during a traffic stop by Hoover, Alabama police, and they find 10 kilos of cocaine in two hidden compartments. The case traipses through the court system for over a year, the bad guy goes away, and the car is handed ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 9 months ago on Autoblog

A NEW KIND OF COP CAR, A NEW KIND OF BUSINESS MODEL Autoblog has followed the developments at Carbon Motors ever since the start-up unveiled its new police cruiser a year and a half ago. And while the car looks impressively good, what makes this company worth watching goes well beyond the product. ...

Carbon E7 police car headed for duty in 2012 10 months ago on Autoblog

The Carbon Motors E7, a purpose-built car for law enforcement, is continuing to march toward reality. Carbon Motors has targeted 2012 as the start of production, and cars can already be pre-ordered at the company''s website as a way to raise capital for the start of series production. We'd ...

Forum Thread of the Day: "Ticket for going too slow" 10 months ago on Autoblog

If you're looking for a good, amusing read, head directly to OrlandoForums.com where hilarity has unfolded at the expense of one particularly dumb street racer and "Honda Enthusicit" who used the website's "Ask an Officer" section to inquire about how to fight a ticket for going too slow. ...

REPORT: Ford Police Interceptor to go FWD or AWD? 10 months ago on Autoblog

It's hard to turn away as loyal customer base as Ford has for its Police Interceptors, but the writing is on the wall for the Ford Crown Victoria, and has been for some time. The full-size sedan is based on Jurassic-era technology, and as of last year, it was taken off the consumer market and is ...

South Yorkshire police enlist Mitsubishi Evo X in the force 12 months ago on Autoblog

The South Yorkshire police just added a ten to their squad. No, that's not a sexist statement about some new hire, it's a reference to the new Mitsubishi Evolution X they just added to the fleet. Joining an already-intimidating Evo VIII and IX in the motorpool is a specially equipped X that should ...

VIDEO: French motorcycle cop training is not easy, but looks fun 12 months ago on Autoblog

Spend some time in France and you would naturally assume that the police are just as relaxed as the rest of society. However, have a look at the video after the jump and you'll see that it requires strenuous training to look so calm. French motorcycle gendarme training is part trials, part ...

Dodge recalls over 20,000 Charger and Magnum cop cars 1 year ago on Autoblog

Demonstrating that good cop cars can also go bad, Chrysler has announced a recall of Dodge Chargers and Magnums equipped with the police package and column shifter. While the cars aren't exactly taking sides with the villainous, they are having difficulty displaying the proper transmission ...

SEMA: Save us Subaru Mountain Rescue Vehicle! 1 year ago on Autoblog

Leave the Saint Bernards at home, honey, we've got something better. The Subaru Mountain Rescue Vehicle was made for the National Ski Patrol -- an organization we had never heard of until we saw this truck. On its tiptoes it has 14 inches of clearance, and the staid passenger car driving ...

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