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Originally Posted by mrray13
I can assure you that I, as a police officer, will not miss the PPCV or anything like it. Hard to get in and out of, slow as dog snot, handling on the same sub par level, gas mileage only better then the Charger, it's only real claim to fame is it's reliability.
No, the car us LEOs miss, the bubble Caprice, with it's LT1. That was a cop car. Just a flat out all around better performer then any PPCV, same year or newer. I hope the new Caprice can live up to the old one's reputation!!
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I can say with authority that I know of more than a few members of two State Trooper bodies that don't agree regarding the CV, and to be blunt a bit of your pining sounds like it has more than a tinge of Chevy bias to it since any relatively new, P71 police package Crown Vic is going to turn circles around the old Caprice, it genuinely isn't even close (of course, given the difference in age this is how it should be....but it certainly doesn't follow your logic) And that in turn leads me to wonder what else you might be taking liberties with here
As for the new Caprice living up to the old one, not unless you leave durability out of the equation. FWD or not Ford seriously beefed up the chassis and suspension on the Taurus for police duty and I still think the life cycle on it is going to be disappointing compared to a CV. For whatever reason GM is by all appearances just throwing us a run of the mill Holden Caprice with a police package throw on top despite what some have claimed, no major reinforcement of anything, and that probably isn't a good idea. My guess, by 60k miles that thing is probably going to look like it's been taken off road daily if you take a peek underneath.