The MK10 Jag is up there in the top 5 coolest cars ever made, just look at it in the fading sunlight with those big, dim headlights that look so much classier and cool than any overly bright HD lights today, that long, wide body wallowing side to side, just magnificent.
where is Opel Lotus Carlton Omega.....!!! the ultimate getaway car... it was so fast that it's once said that a group of joyriders outran a police helicopter in it.!
How can they not mention the Sierra Sapphire Cosworth? Some were apparently stolen in the police car storage yard before they were modified into police cars.
You can't outrun the radio and you can't outrun a helicopter. I'm sure glad I never had to go in pursuit in a Jag with a single dim blue light on the roof. Our units are covered in lights with two 150 watt sirens and people still wouldn't get out of the way.
I had the estate version one of those 3.0V6 Mk1 Grannies. Massive tank of of a car but it would barely clock 100mph. But it had humoungous torque that almost felt able to pull a tree out by the roots. At one point I used it to drag a HGV3 sideways.
When i went on the job, the fastest patrol car I drove was the 1970 Plymouth Fury I. It had the 383 four barrel and a heavy duty police package including a dual battery system. In 1973, we went to the full size Ford with the 460 4 barrel. Due to smog control equipment, the performance was dismal compared to the Plymouth. The car could hit 135 but it took forever to get there. Cars after 1971 had the engines detuned to 200 horse power or less in the U.S. The fastest or best performing police car was the AMC Matador with the 401 engine and after that engine was detuned to about 205 horsepower, it still had the top performance. The same engine in 1971 before the mandatory detuning, put out about 340 horse power. The British engines were small to begin with and they got all they could out of the smaller powerplant due to fuel costs. They had the right idea all along because now you can close to 400 horse power out of some 4 cylinder engines and certainly out of a 6.
That is actually the 850:s replacement, the V70 :) The S70 was the saloon version, and the V70, the estate version, it arrived for the 1997 model year.
a fast helicopter is around 180mph unless you get into military types. so on a nice long straight stretch like say the Nevada desert you can still get away.
APU 375F Jaguar Mark II, registered May 1968, tax due 1 Sep 2019! TWF 593H Jaguar 420, registered Mar 1970, tax due 1 Jul 2019! TWS 389T Ford Granada, registered Sep 1978, MOT expires 17 Aug 2019, currently SORN RGP 543R Ford Granada, registered Aug 1976, tax due 1 Nov 2000
