Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: 1K3 on June 30, 2005, 08:41:01 PM
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PORCHE!!!
(don't have the link right now)
They'll start adding Porches on their fleet.
Not to bash California (my beloved former state) but Corvette is 2x cheaper for the same performance.
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Maybe they are getting the station wagon model? That thing would make a good cop car.
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Looks like Ponch & John are gonna be getting twice as many chicks now!
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Boxsters, WTF?
Vette will eat those alive. Hell my car can outrun them.
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Me thinks they won't be stock.
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Urban cammo. If you wuz tooling along at 80 in your 'vette and saw a porsche crowding the rear sun deck, you'd probably boot the chevy a bit to open the distance. Then he's got yah over 90, reckless driving, lock up, impound... coupla days of doing that'll pay for the porsche in fines.
Did the same thing out here some years back with Mustang SVO's. County finally had the cops get rid of 'em.. some hotshot lawyer ripped 'em up.
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Interesting the way they waste taxpayer money out there.
Thought Cali had financial problems.
If they can afford a fleet of Porches hell I wish I had such financial problems.
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Considering how the article talked about mullets, it shouldn't take a genius to figure out that this isn't true.
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WTF convertibles as cop cars?
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you guys have tghe link?
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LOAD OF BS.
This in a state that is already broke.
They should fire the ******s who came up with this.
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
Boxsters, WTF?
Vette will eat those alive. Hell my car can outrun them.
Dunno about Boxsters but Walter Röhl drove Cayman S (basically a Boxter "Coupe") around Nordschleife in 8min 11secs.
That's 4 secs better than 911 Carrera and 7 secs better than Boxster S.
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ding ding ding!
California Highway Patrol selects Porsche as 2006 pursuit vehicles
ATLANTA, June 27, 2005 - The California Highway Patrol has announced today that its is standardizing on the Porsche 987 Boxster as its 2006 pursuit vehicles to replace its aging fleet of Chevrolet Camaros.
CHP spokesman Officer Bruce Nowwegotcha said that after extensive testing the Porsche Boxster was found to have all of attributes necessary for a proper pursuit vehicle. "The Boxster has 2 trunks which allows us to stash all of our police stuff" Officer Nowwegotcha was quoted as saying. "The Camaros were at the end of their useful life, and were never able to be used fully given that CHP officers are prohibited from wearing mullets while on duty" he added.
The initial order for 200 Porsche Boxsters will be completed by the end of 2005 with the majority of units being placed in service in high enforcement areas.
Porsche Cars North America spokesman Lorna Gattasped said that the CHP contract represents a new market for Porsche in the US and expects other states to watch closely the CHP purchase (So... WHO'S NEXT?).
(pictures)
http://www.dubspeedracing.com/modules.php?name=News&file=showarticle&threadid=5955
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corvette may be cheaper, but all porshes handle better. this is due to their placement of the engine and the short wheel base.
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not bad at all!
and we are being chased on the Autobahn by Porsche 911 Gt3's
But hey look at the Italian Highway police, the have this Toy! (http://www.italiaspeed.com/2004/cars/lamborghini/05/police_gallardo.html) LOL
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Finnish highway police had Porsche 911s already in sixties but now they have just one Jaguar S Type-R (+boatloads of VWs, Fords, Mazdas etc).
Well maybe they don't have that Jag anymore; they were chasing a motorcycle with it and crashed the car.
I bet the driver won't drive anything else but Nissans from now on ;D
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Overly expensive cars for the police is a major incident of what we call in the Navy "Fraud, waste, and abuse"
Though this looks like it's not true.
Every department has some fancy car that they confiscated and painted up in their colors. That is what seems to be in that picture.
From another site:
The California Highway Patrol is weaning itself off its fleet of now-discontinued Chevrolet Camaro pursuit cars, switching to new Porsche 987 Boxsters. As a spokesman for the CHP bizarrely put it, “The Camaros were at the end of their useful life, and were never able to be used fully given that CHP officers are prohibited from wearing mullets while on duty.” (Apparently, droll humor isn’t unlearned during baton-fighting exersizes.) An initial order for 200 Porsche Boxsters will be fulfilled by the end of 2005, with the majority of units being placed in service in high-enforcement areas, like Irwindale. (PS: Check out those Brembos! These guys mean business.) [Update: Man, we’re dumb. We so wanted to believe that this was true, that we got burned. Apparently Mr. Nowwegotcha has a better sense of humor than we thought. The mullet joke was too good to be true. Yeesch. The photo is of the CHP’s show car, likely taken at the 2005 Palo Alto Concours d’Elegance.]
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Originally posted by ASTAC
Overly expensive cars for the police is a major incident of what we call in the Navy "Fraud, waste, and abuse"
Though this looks like it's not true.
Every department has some fancy car that they confiscated and painted up in their colors. That is what seems to be in that picture.
From another site:
The California Highway Patrol is weaning itself off its fleet of now-discontinued Chevrolet Camaro pursuit cars, switching to new Porsche 987 Boxsters. As a spokesman for the CHP bizarrely put it, “The Camaros were at the end of their useful life, and were never able to be used fully given that CHP officers are prohibited from wearing mullets while on duty.” (Apparently, droll humor isn’t unlearned during baton-fighting exersizes.) An initial order for 200 Porsche Boxsters will be fulfilled by the end of 2005, with the majority of units being placed in service in high-enforcement areas, like Irwindale. (PS: Check out those Brembos! These guys mean business.) [Update: Man, we’re dumb. We so wanted to believe that this was true, that we got burned. Apparently Mr. Nowwegotcha has a better sense of humor than we thought. The mullet joke was too good to be true. Yeesch. The photo is of the CHP’s show car, likely taken at the 2005 Palo Alto Concours d’Elegance.]
Usually those fancy/confiscated cars are used mostly to impress and establish repore with kids.