Yeah I'm sure the Dodge Charger would be an awesome cop car but I have not driven one. I have however, driven a late Crown Vic rental car on vacation in Orlando. While I am not a Ford fan, I must say I was very impressed. For a big car with a small (4.6) engine they really get down the road. They also drive and handle very well. Now considering what I was driving was a run of the mill CV and not a Hopped up Police car, I can see why anybody would like them. As far as any Intrepid being faster, I'm not saying that it couldn't happen, but AM saying that I really need to drive one of those if they run THAT good.
On a related subject, When I was a young man running around Flint back in the 80's I knew of a kid who's dad pulled some strings and got him a low mileage 77 or 78 Dodge Coronet police car w/a 440. All he did to it was put headers on it and an aftermarket ignition. Man that thing was fast. I mean seriously quick and w/top speed as well. Those cars were monsters. He could roast the fairly large Goodyears with ease. Good luck trying to outrun one!

 

I forget which magazine it was, probably SCC, that had a run down on all the cars being tested by law enforcement for use. They had the Dodge Intrepid, Ford Crown Victoria Interceptor, Chevy Caprice and a Hummer. The Intrepid beat them all in just about every way.

 

Funny thing. I mentioned the green 01 Intrepid ES the RI state police have in my last post. I was following Lilplug down the highway today (her friends SRT4 was not running to good to say the least) and there it was!!!! The Green ES with a car pulled over.....looked like racial profiling to me...LOL (black cop, white motorists)

Anybody in RI or Mass remember this. It's forest green and the plate is a regular private pass plate, it is BV-914.

 

ironicly, more millionaires own crown vics than any other car. Go figure. (that is an actual fact!)

 

and that's why they are millionaires.

 

Now come'on, mopar, you cant toss that out without backing it up Rip, that car was used last spring as a tester by the Maryland State Police. If they dont have some fielded soon, Id be very surprised. Regular police package production starts this month, it'll take a while for them to fill orders, I imagine.

Most states dont do their own independent testing of police cars. Most just see what the Michigan SP does. They have a shootout style test every so often. I know the Magnum was included in last springs testing, but I dont think the results had been released last I checked.

Ah, here it is.

http://www.justnet.org/pdffiles/msp2005report.pdf


Imagine, cops having a 145 or better top end. As opposed to the wimpy Crown Vics And it it only gets 15 in the 1/4, it'll kick all thier butts