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2012 LA Auto Show Challenges Car Designers to Envision the Patrol Vehicle of 2025
Mike Lowery, the character Will Smith plays in Bad Boys I and II, is probably the action-movie cop that drives the best cars. One can hardly argue that a Porsche 911 Turbo and a Ferrari 575 M sharing scenes with director Michael Bay’s personal 550 Maranello, beats a Crown Vic Interceptor or what-have-you any given day and twice on Sundays as a means of transportation for law enforcement officers.
Granted, this is a fictional character and the aforementioned cars are his own, rather than standard-issue patrol cars. Moreover, Don Johnson predated him with his Ferrari Daytona Spyder and subsequently, the Testarossa in Miami Vice.
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Original Miami Vice Ferrari Testarossa To Go Under The Hammer
Yes, yes, the Miami Vice Ferrari is one of the most recognizable prancing horses in pop culture, but can we just focus on the fact that this particular Testarossa is a wonderful, unspoiled and untouched automobile? Read more »...
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Cops Release Dashcam Footage Of Officer Slager Pulling Over Walter Scott
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has shared footage from the patrol car of North Charleston officer Michael Slager showing the moments leading up to the fatal shooting of Walter Scott. Read more »...
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Mercedes’ La Show Ener-g-force Would Make One Cool Looking G-class
This year’s LA Auto Show Design Challenge theme was about the ultimate highway patrol vehicle of 2025. Mercedes-Benz was one of the carmakers that picked up the gauntlet and its Advanced Design Center California came up with the Ener-G-Force patrol...
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Ford To Reveal Brand-new Police Interceptor In 2010 To Replace The Crown Victoria
Being the nation's largest provider of police and municipal vehicles with around 45,000 police cars sales every year, Ford wasn't about to let General Motors and its new 2011 Chevy Caprice patrol vehicle to get a piece of the pie without a fight....
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2010 Nissan Patrol Scooped During Presentation
A bevy of images featuring the production version of the new Nissan Patrol have made their way into the internet. From what we can tell, the pictures seem to have been shot during an official presentation of the vehicle. The new Patrol will be Nissan's...
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