Comments on: Australian built Chevrolet Caprice police car unveiled at LA Motor Show

By: LC

LC — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:57:55 +0000

Well the Crown Vic in it’s final days was used exclusively as a fleet car: sold only to Police and Taxi companies.

They got away with having undercover versions of that for long enough. I somehow don’t think it’ll be much different here.

By: Ashley Brient

Ashley Brient — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:03:32 +0000

This Police car is being made in my home town, Melbourne Australia,

LA are getting the same cars for there Police Force, there building them here in Melbourne and are going to import around 6.000 cars per year, but the cars are only for the Police, there not available to buy any where in the United States.

Australia\’s been using this type of car for years, with new ones coming out every 3 years but our ones are available to by in Australia, and Melbourne, and the cars have the badge Holden

By: Holden History

Holden History — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:10:06 +0000

G’Day
We’ve been using the current model Statesman in Canberra as part of the Silver Service Taxi fleet.
I was lucky enough to drive one before the owner wrote it off, and the only thing I didn’t like about it was that the V6 was noisy on acceleration. Since the owner wrote it off, we’re back in a Fairlane and whilst its really quiet on take off, it lacks the presence on the road that the Statesman has.
Oh, and I’m a huge fan of the Auto Wipers, especially if you forget to turn them off when entering a car wash…

By: Onepoppa

Onepoppa — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:35:08 +0000

I don’t know what people are saying about “the contract”. All US policing is local – county, city, and state forces are all separate, and each makes it own purchase decision. So presumably some will buy Chevrolet Caprice ( an old Chevy nameplate by the way – Holden just used it) – as many today buy Chevy Impalas (FWD), some will buy Dodge Chargers, as they do now, and some will buy Fords.

By: Motorhead

Motorhead — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:43:19 +0000

The Crown Vics they mainly use now aren’t made in the US anyway so it shouldn’t matter a great deal, the Aussie dollar being strong against the green back would be effecting their ability to do it at an acceptable price & profit margin I’d imagine tho.

By: Robin Graves

Robin Graves — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:55:54 +0000

I bet the seppos are trying to keep it hush-hush that they are made in Aus. Its not readily obvious from their website. I love how the website also states “Dependable Auxiliary Battery” – probably coz they still cant fix the problem with VE’s getting flat batteries hahahaha

By: Shak

Shak — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:26:44 +0000

Al juraj ur right. But what did you expect from form the Yankee’s

By: Al Juraj

Al Juraj — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:06:58 +0000

Quite dumb to have the same colour signal lights as brake lights. That’s confusing.

By: Philthy

Philthy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:21:04 +0000

US has completely different rules for taillights, eg, blinkers can be red. I’m guessing they’re specific to this car

By: Shak

Shak — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:20:23 +0000

Both Statesman and Caprice come with LED’s. One thing that seems to be confusing people is that whoever wins the contract will supply all the PPV’s. It wil actually go to multiple manufacturers just like before. Remember Dodge and Ford supplied at the same time.