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How to Buy A Kick-Ass Cop Car |
 Police Cars are the cars that most of us would like to avoid seeing on the road, and generally they are built upon rather bland family sedans that most of us would prefer not to be seen driving. But cop cars do have an appeal to car enthusiasts beyond black-and-white paint and seeing them sliding their cruisers around corners in hot pursuit on movies and TV, because we know that the reality of a cop-car's life is lots of brutal street work requiring hard-core parts to make it live during endless idling and urban patrolling.
The big cruisers are nicely equipped with a variety of heavy-duty and high-performance parts normally not available on their civilian counterparts-things like reinforced frames, extra-capacity cooling systems, and bigger brakes, springs, and sway bars. You know the drill-cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. Plus, the cars are usually stripped of their excessive luxury trappings, leaving a purposeful, utilitarian workspace ready and willing to be driven hard when the need arises. And that's why these cars are cool.
'06 Ford Crown Victoria P71 Police Interceptor*
Ford has been making police cars continuously since 1950, gaining a near monopoly in the business when GM discontinued production of the Caprice in 1996. Though the LT1 Caprices seriously outgunned it at the time, Ford has made steady improvements to the Crown Victoria Police Interceptor (CVPI) since then, making the Vicky a rugged and reliable law-enforcement vehicle. Though rumors had been circulating that Ford would discontinue its fullsize, body-on-frame cars after the '07 model year, it has pledged to continue making the CVPI through 2011. No word yet on its replacement, though it's speculated that it may be based on a revised version of the current Mustang chassis.
 When shopping for a CVPI at auction, the best cars to buy are the '03 and-later models with the suspension upgrades and slightly higher horsepower ratings. The larger departments tend to turn the units over more frequently than smaller departments and usually perform their own maintenance on a strict schedule. We regularly see prices for '03-and-later CVPIs in the $6,000.00 to $9,000.00 range.
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