the new cop cars are based on bmws

[DaveSmed]

stamar, you really should stick to talking about something you might have a bit of a clue about.

This topic (and many others i'm sure) are really making you look full of shit.

[Nsquared97]

Your largest manufacturer data doesnt matter, Im not sure if youre talking to yourself or whatever. I mean its great we can all look up whos the largest manufacturer where but what does it have to do with cop cars? Are cop cars made by the largest manufacturer? I didnt look up who the largest manufacturer anywhere is because it didnt matter.
Can you come up with one reason why it would matter?

How about because you said something that was inacurate, and he is calling you out on it? I for one think it's a good thing to try and keep some accuracy in all the BS that appears on the internet.

Im sure I said based on bmws. They make their own car definitely. Put it together here with us market stuff and euro market stuff

but it is BASED on the millions of cop cars in europe. Im sure bmw is not the most common cop car in europe even I think there are more mercedes, fiats, renaults etc but its up there. You can look it up but dont post it here thanks

I think most of the posters here have the intellectual ability to understand BASED on bmw cars. hopefully improved and focused to law enforcement.

Ok what are you not getting? They are NOT based on BMW's! Just because it happens to have the driveline of a BMW, DOES NOT mean it's based on one of BMW's products. Effictively what your saying is that the guy who threw a LSx in his E30, well his car is now based on a Corvette.

a cop car is running 24 hours a day, particularly a highway patrol car.

going 1200 miles a day in a highway patrol car runs 24 hours is way more than feasible and likely. By your estimate numbers it would and should cost much more especially considering tons of time a cop car is running and traveling 0 miles with an arresstee. How about this word problem, how much gas could a cop car use in 24 hours? Because they do, they run 24 hours a day often averaging 8 mpg....Whether its relevant or not, because 500$ was just an estimate, figure out a real number.
Actually running 1000 miles a day is very common for many cop cars, at significantly lower mpg than stock filled with passengers and heavy cop gear that significantly lowers mpg.

You do realize your saying that those cop cars drive 365,000 miles in a year then right? That does not happen period. They are running 24/7 yes, you are correct on that. But they are also sitting on the side of the road idling about 80% of the time, which consumes far less fuel than the 8mpg you stated, which is a number you pulled out of your ass because it's not true for any modern cop car.

I cant remember which one said the vic interceptor is slow or something. It could be slow compared to sports cars but compared to other cop cars its the fastest. (now hold on sonny while jr mints looks up those mustang cop cars. Its true, some cop cars are faster but they are not THE cop cars they are a special thing. There could be corvette cop cars somewhere. Ive never heard of one but there could be. Ive seen the mustang cop cars they exist they are faster because they are not huge cop cars)

Its a very heavy vehicle with a souped up gas v8. Its the only police car that reaches 130 mph.

Ok where the hell did you come up with this? Crown Vic's are slow as shit, period. The Charger R/T is far faster, with a top speed limited to 145mph. Read this and educate yourself, even a newer Miata will outrun a Crown Vic without breaking a sweat.

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/sedans/112_0704_police_car_comparison/viewall.html

So that concept is just that with heavy bmws you lose the top speed of the crown victoria. But thats all.

Switching the Gas engine to Diesel gives the bmw cop cars some trouble in high speed pursuits. Not being a cop I cant say thats not important, but I just pointed out that its incredibly expensive.

Clearly you don't know crap about physics. You do realize HP is derived from torque, right? As I am understanding it, your saying these cars won't be very good top speed wise because they are diesel, which doesn't really mean much at all. It is very possible to have a fast diesel vehicle, just look at Audi's LMP1 program.

Anyhow whoever has something to discuss good job. I guess you could try and contradict my only point lol but its sort of just an obvious observation.
The like arguing about who makes holden childish crap doesnt really keep the conversation alive or bring any new relevant facts.

We aren't trying to contradict your "only point." We are trying to point out to you that your wrong, and that you need to quit spewing your complete bullshit on here because there isn't a single person on here that wants to read it.

stamar, you really should stick to talking about something you might have a bit of a clue about.

I highly doubt there is something he actually knows anything about.

[leothedrummer]

Every single Commodore/Statesman variant up to the VE is a rebadged Opel. The VE still uses a foreign drivetrain and the Zeta platform isn't a lot different to the V platform. GM probably just took an existing '06 V platform and upgraded the suspension.

Hang on a minute - in what way at all is a pre-VE Commodore relevant to this discussion? When old mate suggested that the USA would be using rebadged Statesman's, he sure as hell wasn't talking about VQ's or WH's. Also, the Alloytec is an Australian engine and why on earth are you making assumptions and then passing them off as fact? Bloody hell, I don't like Holden either, but the amount of nonsense you're spewing for no real reason at all is utterly ridiculous.

[OniKyan]

Alloytec is not an Australian engine. It was deisgned and developed in Detroit, Holden just produced a 3.6 variant.

[ohthejosh]

A lot of things were said four years ago.....

I see what you did there.