Being the nation's largest provider of police and municipal vehicles with around 45,000 police cars sales every year, Ford wasn't about to let General Motors and its new 2011 Chevy Caprice patrol vehicle to get a piece of the pie without a fight. Today, the Blue Oval company announced that it will introduce an all-new, purpose built Police Interceptor specially designed and engineered to replace the current Ford Crown Victoria law enforcement vehicle lineup from 2011.
We don't have any pictures of the car (the vehicle featured here is a Carscoop photoshop based on Ford's 2006 Interceptor Concept) nor on which model it will be based, but the Detroit automaker said that the new Police Interceptor is being developed in conjunction with Ford's Police Advisory Board, which provided input during the past 14 months on key vehicle attributes, such as safety, performance, durability, driver convenience and comfort.
"We have heard the repeated requests from the law enforcement community to continue uninterrupted support of the law enforcement community," said Mark Fields, Ford's president of The Americas. "Ford is answering the call with the new Police Interceptor – engineered and built in America."
Ford said that it plans to reveal the new Interceptor and provide full vehicle specifications sometime during the first quarter of 2010.
22 Comments:
concept pictured is fantastic.
Ford need to build Carbon Motor's interceptor.
its just going to be a Taurus... nothing exciting... hopefully they give the police the SHO version at least
That chop looks really badass ! However, me also thinks that Ford will go for something like a Taurus in the end
Between the "Caprice" and new Interceptor, I don't have high hopes for Carbon Motors success! Which is too bad because they have/had a really nice concept.
Back in 2006, I fell in love with the Interceptor concept and felt it was the perfect replacement for the Crown Vic; it looked fucking mean! Even the chop above exemplifies that! THAT is a cop car!
I won't feel the same way if Ford chickens out and just gives the police a glorified SHO Taurus. If they do, I won't pull over for them; I'll just run.
Yeah, that's right. An unintimidating police car won't make me a responsible public citizen and will make me disreguard the law.
You hear me Ford? You put red and blue lights on a Taurus and I will go on a crime spree becasue your wussy car can't scare me into compliance!
I forsee a yellow cab version of it!
Is there headroom space?? Crouching Tiger hidden Dragon.
Badass enough for Robocop!!
I'm sure they moved the gas tank for this one.
Love that chop, awesome!
I think that a lot of people here are assuming
that this vehicle will be based off of the front
drive Taurus. I'll bet it will be based off of the Austrailian RWD Falcon.
Looks like the last P.O.S from from FIX OR REPAIR DAILY!
No way a cop would like that car. Getting in and out of it with a Sam Brown belt on would suck. Sure, it looks good. But is it at all practical? In the end, I think practicality will win.
ford wants you the car buyer to think it is a taurus but is really a ford 500 that ford could not sell so ford took the ford 500 name tag off and put taurus on ford was not selling the 500 so someone in the big 0ffice said we will fool the public and change the name
I can picture RoboCop getting out of that -- was that the inspiration?
"ford wants you the car buyer to think it is a taurus but is really a ford 500 that ford could not sell so ford took the ford 500 name tag off and put taurus on ford was not selling the 500 so someone in the big 0ffice said we will fool the public and change the name"
Nobody is fooled by the name swap.
Also, nobody belives that the 500 is any better than the new Taurus, especally when the body work and dash have been changed.
You're only fooling yourself.
motor trend says that its built on the same platform as the new mustang so you know its at least rwd.it's not a taurus. and yes even robo cop drove a taurus. hopefully they do what they want and build a rwd platform that is a global retrofit for the mustang, falcon and etc. if they do this car will happen.
i wonder who photo shopped this picture because you can clearly see the chevy center cap on the car and the new caprice push bumper. put its a very nice try. f@%K the Taurus
I currently drive the Ford Police Interceptor at work and hate the seats. Chevy was way ahead when it came to this but unfortunately they are phasing them out (at work). I hope whatever car they(Ford)come up with it has power adjustable RECARO seats as is rumoured to happen. The Chevy is a pretty cool looking car too.
Should use the australian falcon, rear wheel v8 or turbo 6 cylinder. 368 - 388 hp from factory $40000
Austrailan Ford Falcon Police interceptors would do the job well and would be a perfect replacement for the crown victoria.
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