stevie boy

whilst passing my local mitsi garage last saturday i thought i'd have a look in. my mate asked the salesman if they'd sold many of the fq400 and he reckoned that the police have bought half of them. not saying its gospel just relaying what he told me with a straight face.


stevie

MJW

Plenty of japanese scrap metal and dead pedestrians in the offing then !

drb5

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I'll put my money on that being bull. The police won't splash that sort of cash on a car that requires as much servicing as a Lancer, as well as part's costing as much as they do, etc, etc. Sure enough, they ran 528i's.....why? Cause it didn't warrnt going particularly higher engine size in way's of servicing and fuel bill's. Not saying every county is the same, but they won't be far off it.

Gidney&Knowlesy

Good news for the public as the car will be in the garage every other week. IIRC Traffic cops do well over 100k a year & the EVO 400 needs servicing every 4k...That's at least 25 visits per year.........

I don't think so

B0DSKI

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The Essex police had 3 or even 4 Evo 7's when they first arrived, the dealer told me that they were always coming back in for work on clutches, brakes and gearboxes because the Old Bill drove them like *****, 6000 Then dump the clutch etc etc

Baggers

If you didn't have to pay for it to get fixed wouldn't you? Imagine one as a pool car - it wouldn't last 5 mins...

rb5 286

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i saw one of these on sunday on my way back from Bolney on the M23

unmarked police FQ400 in silver!!!!

he had pulled a motorist over on the hard shoulder and was just getting back into his FQ when i went past on the inside lane.

obliged him with a quick blip on the throttle for a nice POP



beware they're out there!!!


still at tleast you can feel comfortable that you'll get a nice lead on them before the turbo finally comes on boost on the FQ

Nathan L

The Sussex Evo's are not FQ's they are the MR260.

Still fookin scary in the rear view mirror though.

trails

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was it def a 400 not just one of the lesser (hahaha!), 300+ models with the winglets?

neesha

was an entry level low mr260 with low level spoiler !

DBY

They are not MR 260 they are just straight 260 .MR's are reserved for the 300,'320, 340

Regards

John

S.B.

And 400

S.B.

4k don't you mean 4.5k

J4CKO

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A trained Police driver in a normal Evo is a formiddable combination, I mean a proper Police trained driver not PC Plod who has done the basic test. Cant see why they would need the FQ400 as your average punter whatever they be in wont get away from a 260 with the added support of a helicopter and 20 or 30 Motorway cars. Mate of mine on traffic used to get frustrated with the T5's though, more than enough power to stay with a Scoob on the motorway, but if they left the motorway a different story, ploughed straight on and the brakes caught fire.

5cby

ive seen a few plod in skoda octavia rs
saw a black 1 today on the m25 anti-clockwise
just how powerful are these skoda things now?

steve

andy99turbo

In the part of Herts I live there are at least 3 unmarked Octavia Vrs's around.

They are pretty quick, although I did read somewhere that a mistake was made by one tested by autocar that was sub 7seconds to 60mph, it turned out Audi had supplied one with circa 225bhp !! Instead of the usual 180bhp.

Im sure it still goes on, supply magazines a slightly tweaked version of your car for road testing !

C2forWRX

I aint paying tax for coppers to dos about in MR400's! thats a disgrace! they will have lambo gallardos like the italians next

Andy M3

I personally would choose a S60R as an undercover high speed saloon. It will easily match the rolling pace of the 400 beyond 100mph and although not having the same handling ability, it would handle very well with AWD etc. And i bet a Volvo will sit at 160 mph for a lot longer than an Evo.

As has been said, total waste of tax payers money !

The Skoda Octavia's are a superb choice, quick enough and only £15k retail, which means the police will get 15% knocked at least, and it makes me feel better

s70rjw

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No Force is going to buy FQ 400 at £45k. The reasons Imprezas were tried and turned down were fuel/ servicing/tyre/brake costs Thats on standard cars. Health and safety dictates to what degree Police will persue a motorist. Long before a car such as the FQ400 would have been considered as the appropriate tool the persuit would have been called off due to public safety. 260 Evos maybe......FQ400 I stand to be corrected with conclusive evidence

scrappydoo

Andy M3

An S60R matching the pace of a 400.. LOL!! Now that i would like to see. Ive had many in my FQ300.. Not a chance mate..

Bully3176

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There are several forces in this country running very Prodrived STi imprezas actually? One example I could give is humberside! They have 4. 2 marked and 2 unmarked. All run on optimax

XS-Home

I can't see them running these as intial feed back is that many FQ400's have gone back for warranty work already....& that's driving them a road legal speeds, not the 159 mph that some forces manage.....

drb5

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This might open some of you guy's eye's!!!

http://www.lancerregister.com/art_fq400report.php

Daz34

By the looks of things, you need lots of mechanical sympathy to drive an FQ400 and coppers don't have any
Most police class 1 drivers don't need something as fast as that to keep pace with a car in a pursuit anyway.

Robocop

Swindon Police did have a FQ300 last year for a while.
They hold the national fleet show for Police at Wroughton airfield near Swindon.
I remember seeing a few car transporters with loads of cars all stickered up with Police logos.
The following week there was an article in Fleet News saying they were trying out Evo's. I thought then, I wonder if I'll see one and darn me, within a month I saw the Police with a marked Evo in the town centre and on the M4 a few times.
I haven't seen it for some time now. Perhaps servicing costs took their toll and they needed the cash to buy all the camera vans that scatter the M4 every 1/2 mile.

Adidas

http://www.molki.free.fr/fakesv/imag...autopolice.jpg


At least you could do him in the twisties

Andy M3

I can appreciate you look at the power to weight of both cars and the volvo is heavier and not as powerful - but the Evo has lots of drag, which helps brakes and handling but not the in line performance. For longevity and performance, the S60R would take some beating - even midrange i would be very brisk.

davecweed1

yep, S60r, very nice car, quick enough for me!(i own one), if the car was a bit lighter it would be a cracker!

dave

TonyBurns

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Most of the police persuit volvo's are tweaked to well over 300bhp, easily done thing

Tony

SPEN555

Pistonheads website yesterday was talking of an FQ450! LOL!