Coolest police car ever!

[Average Guy]

American "unmarked" police cars do look quite easy to spot with all the equipment they have on.

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[CAPT_Howdy]

Umm... that's not unmarked.

Or American.

Here, though - try to spot the police equipment:

Not every unmarked car has the spotlights or push bars. In fact, some look like perfectly ordinary humdrum vehicles.

 

[Average Guy]

I'm confused now. Are you telling me that the youtube title is lying about it being unmarked and that Indiana isn't a state in America?

Edit: Ooohhhh, you think I'm talking about the Focus RS. I was talking about the Mustang and then just posting a picture of a Danish police car to contribute to the thread

 

[CAPT_Howdy]

Yeah, 'cause the post was on another page. I was wondering why you talking about unmarked police cars while showing a marked Focus RS.

The lights on that 'stang would be very hard to spot when you're driving down the road, though. And a lot of enthusiast drivers know to watch their speed when they see a Charger or Taurus or Crown Vic that's got steel wheels and blacked out trim but you wouldn't notice that Mustang until the lights came on - by which time it would be too late.

 

[Andeh]

Yeah, 'cause the post was on another page. I was wondering why you talking about unmarked police cars while showing a marked Focus RS.

The lights on that 'stang would be very hard to spot when you're driving down the road, though. And a lot of enthusiast drivers know to watch their speed when they see a Charger or Taurus or Crown Vic that's got steel wheels and blacked out trim but you wouldn't notice that Mustang until the lights came on - by which time it would be too late.

I have a pretty good spot rate in this country, I can normally find the LEDs hidden behind a grille quite swiftly, however that's because I know which cars to look for. (In Cumbria, Imprezas, Volvos, elsewhere Skodas, more Volvos...). If the police started using something else, I'd be caught off guard. Not that it matters much anyway with my driving.

 

[Average Guy]

Yeah, 'cause the post was on another page. I was wondering why you talking about unmarked police cars while showing a marked Focus RS.

The lights on that 'stang would be very hard to spot when you're driving down the road, though. And a lot of enthusiast drivers know to watch their speed when they see a Charger or Taurus or Crown Vic that's got steel wheels and blacked out trim but you wouldn't notice that Mustang until the lights came on - by which time it would be too late.

The back has a lot of antennas and two lights next to the license plate.
Here the way to spot them is lights behind the front grille and no advertisement under the plates. Usually Modeo's, Passat's or various Skoda's.

 

[Hbriz]

Here the way to spot them is lights behind the front grille and no advertisement under the plates.

Same here - Falcon or Commodore, sometimes Camrys with no dealer number plate frame often means unmarked police car. Usually you can see the lights too, some have very obvious lights located on each side of the number plate, they look like two white rectangles. Others have fairly bulky lights on the dash and rear parcel shelf, so that's fairly noticeable too. The most conspicuous ones have massive aerials sticking out of the boot.

 

[Spectre]

The back has a lot of antennas and two lights next to the license plate.
Here the way to spot them is lights behind the front grille and no advertisement under the plates. Usually Modeo's, Passat's or various Skoda's.

Unmarked car in Florida. Aside from its behavior, how would you figure out what it is, again?

http://www.pixiq.com/article/Florida Man Pulled Over, Asked For ID After Photographing Unmark

The Amarillo, TX police bought a few of these - this is one of their actual units:

This is one from the Gardena, CA police:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26423305@N00/5356271646/sizes/l/in/pool-1743804@N21/

There's a lot of US unmarked cars that are NOT easy to spot.

 

[Aston Martin]

 

[TroyWK]

Same here - Falcon or Commodore, sometimes Camrys with no dealer number plate frame often means unmarked police car. Usually you can see the lights too, some have very obvious lights located on each side of the number plate, they look like two white rectangles. Others have fairly bulky lights on the dash and rear parcel shelf, so that's fairly noticeable too. The most conspicuous ones have massive aerials sticking out of the boot.

My FB page on the matter> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Unmarked-Undercover-Police-Cars/124701597615000

and they do use license plate frames sometimes.

 

[watto]

My FB page on the matter> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Unmarked-Undercover-Police-Cars/124701597615000

You know what's easier than making a page and worrying about unmarked cars? Not breaking the law. Anyway, majority of unmarked cars in inner-urban Melbourne are detectives who generally don't have a radar licence or the ability to hand out on the spot fines. They can pull you over for speeding but would have to detain and wait for general duties or highway patrol to come and fine you.

Source: Good friend is a Det Sen Con.

 

[TroyWK]

You know what's easier than making a page and worrying about unmarked cars? Not breaking the law. Anyway, majority of unmarked cars in inner-urban Melbourne are detectives who generally don't have a radar licence or the ability to hand out on the spot fines. They can pull you over for speeding but would have to detain and wait for general duties or highway patrol to come and fine you.

Source: Good friend is a Det Sen Con.

I'm quite happy posting their pictures anyway, It doesn't hurt anybody and I think high visibility policing is a better deterrent than unmarked cars anyway.

 

[Gingertom]

Enjoy a picdump.

British rozzers know how to roll, aaawwww yyeeaaaahh!

http://imageshack.**/a/img21/7136/policexf003.jpg
http://imageshack.**/a/img46/8695/220702sko.jpg
http://imageshack.**/a/img255/9257/69579for5focusstpolicep.jpg
http://imageshack.**/a/img43/13/29748amgr.jpg
http://imageshack.**/a/img853/7215/1991737sieracosworthpol.jpg
http://imageshack.**/a/img248/7306/198328ipolicecapri.jpg
http://imageshack.**/a/img809/5239/001rs200police.jpg

*cough*

http://img526.imageshack.**/img526/6491/se001935.jpg


Also, when 2 cultures collide:

http://imageshack.**/a/img526/8431/040711cwd.jpg
http://imageshack.**/a/img267/5681/040711awd.jpg
http://imageshack.**/a/img33/7155/040711wd.jpg

 

[Aston Martin]

*cough*

http://img526.imageshack.**/img526/6491/se001935.jpg

 

[ScarFace88]

http://imageshack.**/a/img33/7155/040711wd.jpg

Someone forgot to change the trim on the brake lights...

 

[CrzRsn]

Someone forgot to change the trim on the brake lights...

Doesn't the UK require amber turn signals? P71s have red turn signals, so they might've swapped out for a regular Crown Vic cluster due to the rule.

 

[Labcoatguy]

Someone forgot to change the trim on the brake lights...

Doesn't the UK require amber turn signals? P71s have red turn signals, so they might've swapped out for a regular Crown Vic cluster due to the rule.

He's talking about the chrome strips below the lights; those should be black or gray on a marked cop car.

 

[CrzRsn]

He's talking about the chrome strips below the lights; those should be black or gray on a marked cop car.

Right, but thats not a separate trim piece, thats part of the cluster. I think it would be hard to find a cluster that has an amber turn signal AND a blacked out bar so the importer probably swapped the unit for the first one that was readily available. That said its probably really easy to swap out after the fact so who knows why it wasn't done :shrug:

 

[Labcoatguy]

Right, but thats not a separate trim piece, thats part of the cluster. I think it would be hard to find a cluster that has an amber turn signal AND a blacked out bar so the importer probably swapped the unit for the first one that was readily available. That said its probably really easy to swap out after the fact so who knows why it wasn't done :shrug:

Thank you, man-on-the-inside at Ford

 

[ScarFace88]

Doesn't the UK require amber turn signals? P71s have red turn signals, so they might've swapped out for a regular Crown Vic cluster due to the rule.

They do, along with the rest of Europe AFAIK. I think the amber turn signal is a year to year thing. My car has them, but it is a Street Appearance Package car, so it's basically a base civillian Crown Vic with police interceptor suspension, dual exhaust and other stuff.

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Right, but thats not a separate trim piece, thats part of the cluster. I think it would be hard to find a cluster that has an amber turn signal AND a blacked out bar so the importer probably swapped the unit for the first one that was readily available. That said its probably really easy to swap out after the fact so who knows why it wasn't done :shrug:

I'm pretty sure that's a separate piece, I'll ask on crownvic.net.