2011 Chevrolet Caprice PPV manual reveals Detective stealth model

By Tim Beissmann | July 14th, 2010

Chevrolet has released the technical manual for the Holden-based 2011 Chevrolet Caprice PPV (Police Patrol Vehicle) with details of two available variants: the 9C1 Police Package and the 9C3 Detective Police Package.

Both vehicles come with a number of unique purpose-built features for police work.

The Trap Speed Feature allows the driver to use steering wheel-mounted controls to record and store the speed of the car directly in front, while Stealth Mode lets the driver to turn off all the exterior and interior lights by rotating the headlamp switch to OFF to aid undetected approaches.

Other unique features include 18in steel wheels, heavy-duty disc brakes and improved suspension, an enhanced stability control system with police performance mode, upgraded coolers for the engine oil, transmission and power steering and a 170-amp alternator.

The 9C3 Detective has been designed for non-patrol and undercover police work. Offered in seven different colours, it does away with many of the more obvious exterior modifications of the 9C1 patrol version and is equipped more like a standard road car.

As criminals will not be transported in the 9C3, it gains revised front and rear seat configurations and a centre console with cup holders.

Both will be powered by a 265kW/521Nm 6.0-litre V8 with FlexFuel (which takes petrol and E85 ethanol) and Active Fuel Management. GM says its 0-100km/h time of less than 6.0 seconds will make it the police service’s fastest-accelerating and highest-top speed vehicle.

A six-cylinder version of the Caprice PPV is expected to become available in 2012.

General Motors will not sell either version of the 2011 Chevrolet Caprice PPV to retail customers, restricting sales to police departments only. GM is currently showing the vehicle around North America before orders for the 2011 vehicles are placed in the coming months.

Local Holden spokesman Jonathan Rose said the level of demand for the Australian-built Caprice PPV would become clearer in the second half of this year.

“Production and shipping dates are to be confirmed. The first step in the process is to showcase the car to the North American market and at that point GM hopes to start receiving orders,” Mr Rose said.

“We haven’t confirmed volumes at this stage but we know that the North American law enforcement market equates to about 70,000 vehicles per year, so capturing even a fraction of that market would be significant for Holden.”

Local production is not expected to begin until late-2010 or early-2011.

Joe

“Stealth Mode lets the driver to turn off all the exterior and interior lights by rotating the headlamp switch to OFF to aid undetected approaches”..

Doesn’t that happen with all cars when you turn off the headlamp switch?

SLX

No, rear brake and reverse lights will be on regardless on normal cars.

David

Coz you’ll be sneaking up on crooks from in front of them, with your tail lights off, not.

Shak

It also turns off all interior lights and only illuminates the speed on the digital display, and not the speedo.

Joofas

You obviously have no idea David… Regardless which way you approach, or follow, Brake lights in the dark light up a hell of a lot stuff behind you – giving you away to people in front of you as well.

Just try it for yourself one night
Da Crook

But Joofas (below?) if your chasing the bad guys why would you have your foot on the brake, isn’t the idea to catch up to them and not get further away, and besides most bad guys look out the front window when their driving – helps to see where you going…hahah

Mitch

How can it be under cover if the cars not sold to the public? would be very obvious

D

This is why I think they will definitely be released to the public- there’s no reason not to.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=668475019 Jake Williams

That was my exact first thought .

Betty Blue

Put me down for one Police Patrol Vehicle if they are made available to the public here. You never know when you will need to turn off all interior and exterior lights, and the speed trap thing would be handy.

RK

They won’t be offering the Caprice PPV to the public but I’m sure they will still sell bog-standard Chevy Caprices to the public, which will look the same if you don’t peek inside.

They will still use a variety of other cars for serious unmarked work just as they do now (what with unmarked Ford Crown Vics being suspicious regardless of how many civilians own ex-police Crown Vics).

Duckula

Yeah wouldnt it be like giving aussie detectives London black cabs to drive… me thinks people might notice it cos they are they only people driving them…. but then are we just assuming that americans have enough mental capacity to notice anything at all…. hmmm
ox

Yeah if they wanted to be discreet they would drive toyota camrys, no one would take a second look

Bob

Like they do in Canberra. I recently saw on a trip there an unmarked dark grey Aurion Sportivo. It caught me off guard that’s for sure.
MrSmith

They are increasingly using the Camry in Adelaide, need to look for the tell-tale lights in the front before passing these guys.

They are putting speed cameras on the front too.

Sergeant Schultz

Hey Joe, you’ve got to remember it is being sold to the US police, and not being the smartest in the world, they probably have yet to work out how to turn off the headlights. They called it stealth mode and then they have suddenly become aware of that funny switch thing with lights written on it … and it also comes with reverse stealth mode which emits a magical beam that helps you to see in the dark – lights back on… provides hours of fun when the doughnuts run out..

Betty Blue

I wonder if the Americans get 5 chances to start a car in their driving test? I know stupid Austrlians do!

carguy

US police have not even said they want this car yet. They will probably go for the Ford Taurus Police car because it will be made in the USA and it is a better package.

noj

To be honest I think they will stick with an American built car.

Shak

Can only be good news for our local industry. More demand for Holden cars means more export money and more Australian jobs. And with such a convincing package, why not. And most American crooks who get chased by these cars cant tell the difference between it and the Imapla, so i think the detective package works very well.
Henry B

i like the looks of this Holden based “Chevrolet”
wish me civilian could buy one
Shak

Did anyone realise that the Caprice has the gills in the lower intakes much like the CGI’s of the VEII?

steven427

LOL, noticed that the first time i saw em, straight away thought about veII and those cgi’s, nice pickup shak, could most likly be the new veII omega front bumper as they will go into production.

Shak

So i guess the gills are for sure on the VEII

smithy

ive noticed the turn signal housing has been changed to orange. my guess is that theyve done away with the eyebrow parklights which will be used for strobes and the signals are going to take up double duty as park lights/turn signals.
signma

this car looks nice, but lets face it Ford is better. A Ford Crown Victoria with a 6.4L V8 3V head and a 7 speed auto would be a better alternative.

At the end of the day, this indeed looks quiet cool, its not in fact a VE commodore, since the VE is in fact owned, engineered, designed and drawn by the germans, english and americans.

Its only made believe that it was a billion dollar baby designed in Australia.

Ford Falcon has been engineered by us here in Australia since 1970 100% and is 100% Australian owned with a Ford Badge on it.

Holden Commodore is not Australia, it only has a badge of an animal that does not even exist in this country, yet represents symbolism from WW2 and german war versus the whole world.

Tomas79

100% Australian owned

MAte, maybe you shouldnt do drugs before you start posting things on the internet!!
Shak

I agree that the Fictional Crown Vic you speak of would look very nice alongisde the REAL Caprice. The US Police Force need to drive cars that actually exist!
Globalman

signma, I am not sure what is going on upstairs, but there is a short out somewhere. The Commodore is just as Australian as a Falcon – not much in it really – both are offspring from US companies – GM/Ford. In fact, you could almost put a Camry into the same basket – 100% Australian made using Japanese components from a Japanese company. And whats with the waffle about WW2, and the Germans – I think the rest of the world has gone past that – like 50 years ago.

AussieCars

Signma`s post is Gold lol
Read his post but imagine your at a bar and a really drunk old guy is slurring it to you. =P

Karl Kranlschaft

It might seem obvious to us that it would stick out over there but we are car obsessives on this website. I garuantee the average American wouldn’t pick what kind of car it was. And yes it does appear to have the VE2 bumper. Signma. Can I ask you Are you high. Zeta was Australian designed . And the crap about 6.4l 3v crown vics makes err no sense.
Karl Kranlschaft

Hahah true Shak. Soon they’ll be using lightsabers . ( introducing the all new Crown Vic Phantom police edition , 24.5 feet and 6.4litres of pure nothingness)