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Thomas - Glock 23
"If you find yourself in a fair fight... your tactics suck!"

Wow just saw the date of the articles release date. I'm a tad bit late...

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Thomas - Glock 23
"If you find yourself in a fair fight... your tactics suck!"

I remember when that article ran in the times-union, I wondered if it would ever play out. Rutherford said in the article they have to push to get 5 years out of their city cars now, and this E7 concept "should be good for up to 250,000 miles." I wonder what the city is averaging as a whole for miles per year on the cars currently in use.

Who knows. The last time I was in a cop car a few weeks ago (the front seat NOT the back seat haha) I saw the car had almost 200,000 miles on it. Not to mention how hard/rough they drive them

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Thomas - Glock 23
"If you find yourself in a fair fight... your tactics suck!"

Yeah, I heard once that KBB average for regular vehicles is like 12K miles per year so something like that. So I'd think patrol vehicles would see 20-25K easy. Point being that at 25K miles per year, the E7 would double the life of their cars. The question then would be if the E7 would be double the price.

Somewhere in the article I think it says that after having to pay extra to add after market lights, sirens, engine, and all the other upgrades to the impalas/crown vics, they would be paying around the same for the E7 since it was specifically built as a police car and already has all those gadgets.

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Thomas - Glock 23
"If you find yourself in a fair fight... your tactics suck!"

20k for the police package stripped impala and 5k for the gadgets and whistles inside...

I highly doubt this thing will come in under 25k per unit.

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Thomas Jefferson, 1822

LOTS more than just 5K for the "gadgets and whistles"... where'd you get that?

Several years back there was a TU article about how JSO was spending some outrageous figure per car just for the lights alone. I don't remember the number now but it was truly nuts, like five-figures per car. For lights.

A guy I knew at Garber who occasionally did install work told me a high-five-figure price-tag just to convert the bare Crown Vics CCSO was using at the time.

I would expect just the raw cost of the computer and radio equipment alone exceeds 5K.

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"then needs about $5,000 in aftermarket lights, radios, sirens, etc."

I got it straight from the article...

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Thomas - Glock 23
"If you find yourself in a fair fight... your tactics suck!"

Ah. I haven't read the article since 2008.

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"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin