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Video: When your country floats on oil, your police drive only Porsches

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Filed under: Sedan , Performance , SUV , Government/Legal , Videos , Porsche , Police/Emergency , Middle East , Luxury Qatar’s police force has a sizable fleet of Porsche Panamera and Cayenne patrol vehicles at its disposal. How is this? Well, Qatar has lots of oil, for starters, so there’s that income. The emirate also holds a 17 percent stake of preferential shares in the Volkswagen Group.

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Report: Georgia police car accidentally sold on Craigslist

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Filed under: Sedan , Etc. , Government/Legal , Ford , Police/Emergency We’re not strangers to the allure of Craigslist . The classified ad site is our go-to distraction when it comes time to contemplate our next project vehicle, and we’ve been tempted by the occasional decommissioned Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor more often than we care to admit. As one Chattanooga, Tennessee man recently found out, those vehicles may be more trouble than they’re worth.

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Report: Georgia police car accidentally sold on Craigslist

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Filed under: Sedan , Etc. , Government/Legal , Ford , Police/Emergency We’re not strangers to the allure of Craigslist . The classified ad site is our go-to distraction when it comes time to contemplate our next project vehicle, and we’ve been tempted by the occasional decommissioned Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor more often than we care to admit.

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Official: Ford Police Interceptor vehicles pacing NASCAR races in Miami

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Filed under: Motorsports , Sedan , SUV , Ford , Police/Emergency Oh, how far things have come. NASCAR , as you may have heard, traces its roots back to moonshiners trying to outrun police cars. Now it’ll be the stock cars chasing after the police when NASCAR rounds out the season at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The vehicles in question are Ford ‘s latest “purpose-built” Police Interceptors – the Taurus -based sedan and Explorer -based utility – which Dearborn rolled out last year to replace the old-school Crown Victoria-based squad cars patrolling America’s highways and city streets

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Video: Ohio woman leads police on triple-digit topless car chase

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Filed under: Etc. , Government/Legal , Videos , Police/Emergency God willing, you will never party this hard. Police in Bainbridge, Ohio were recently led on a high-speed chase that saw a renegade driver clocked at 110 mph. According to Cleveland’s Fox 8 News, after officers deployed spike strips to bring the fleeing sedan to a halt, they were met with a mostly nude, very intoxicated woman

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What the fashionable detective will be driving this fall

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Filed under: Car Buying , Government/Legal , Chevrolet , GM , Police/Emergency Anybody can buy a cop car. The roadway is littered with clapped-out Chevrolet Caprice cruisers that cause motorists to instinctively to slam on the brakes while the driver rolls smugly on by. Not everybody can pick up a brand-new 2011 Chevrolet Caprice cop car , however, but a few dealers actually have them in stock.

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What the fashionable detective will be driving this fall