Not because they have no faith in their natiomnal products - they just aren't quick enough!
www.cnn.com/2006/AUTOS/funonwheels/03/30/subaru_po...l
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They used to have special bored-out 2.7 litre or bigger CX Citroens that could go pretty fast... bit sad they can't do it now, same sort of thing as here innit?
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I find that hard to believe is not a 3litre Pug,Citroen or Renault not fast enough or is it they want a couple of fast pursuit cars and will not buy German.
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Megane 225 should do the job.
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Motorway patrols have been using Fords for a while now, usually Focus estates. Maybe a glacial move towards open competition has started.
I would have thought a Megane 225 would have fitted the bill as well. (sorry)
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I was thinking that last night when I read this. You'd have thought a 225 or even GTi 180 would have been up to the job.
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Perhaps the French rozzers have looked into the servicing costs and down time of Renaults and found favourably for the Subaru
The remit was also for four wheel drive
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Sensible chaps!
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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There was a tender for four-door, four-wheel drive cars that could go faster than 240 km per hour (149 miles per hour)
There really wasnt much more they could go for. What else made in Europe fits the bill? ( I assume it had to handle well as well) Audi springs to mind. Certainly nothing French has those features.
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Porsche do a nice 4x4 as do BMW: both would fit the bill but cost 2x Subaru.
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I could loose an X3 or X5 round the bends in a 1.4 CLIO! even with papa and nicole on board.
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In the world of rocks flying and big oil field trucks running hard hauling machinery , drilling pipe , casing , miles and miles of both and thousands of truck loads of drilling mud and all kinds of outher stuff and everchanging road conditions Subarus whip the Europeans every time .
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Renaults are unreliable when used normally - in high speed pursuit, id be suprised if they made it through the first 5 mins without breaking down. Subaru however are pretty much a fixed cost purchase, as you would not be expecting it to fail. Last thing you need while chasing crooks is for your Renault to switch into ' get you home mode' :-)
On a more serious note, given that the Subaru is one of the quickest point-to-point cars and cheaper than a Mitsu Evo, one assumes that is a good reason to pick on. Our cops run them aswell dont they?
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The French police already have a fleet of Impreza 2.0 litre WRX saloons.. They purchased about 70 of them from Subaru France. Mainly they are used on the autoroutes. Ther French police were trained on these cars at Le Mans.
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Further to my earlier post they are all mica blue colour - as per the rally cars.
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Porsche and BMW 4x4's are for posing, not pursuit. Unless they want to block, or barge the pursued out of the way......
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Our police municipale down in Herault have still got an R4.I have heard it said in France that police won't chase you because you'll leave them behind but I also saw that in the UK police set up a trap for people stealing XR2's and similar but the car they issued to the police manning the trap was nowhere near as fast.
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Don't confuse the French police with the Gendarmerie;they're two seperate organizations and the Gendarmes have much faster vehicles than the police(police municipale are glorified parking wardens but they do have access to fire-arms).
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UK police also have Subarus - as do the Japanese motorway police as it happens!
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Porsche and BMW 4x4's are for posing, not pursuit. Unless they want to block, or barge the pursued out of the way......
May be for the X5 but certainly not the KN, the Turbo S is a very quick, excellent handling tool. I was staggered on a ride in one how well it handles. Damn thirsty though several I know of think that anything better than 16MPG is good!
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Porsche and BMW 4x4's are for posing, not pursuit.
Admittedly not a 1.4 that TVM refers to, but from my motorcycle a distance back I watched a Porsche Cayenne Turbo wobble and lurch all over the road trying to keep up with the Clio Sport (a 170 I recall) cornering on rails in front and eking out an ever bigger gap. This was on a sweeping A-road, too, not even a twisty B-road on which the gap would have been even bigger.
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There was a tender for four-door, four-wheel drive cars that could go faster than 240 km per hour (149 miles per hour>> There really wasnt much more they could go for. What else made in Europe fits the bill? ( I assume it had to handle well as well) Audi springs to mind. Certainly nothing French has those features.
Volvo, Jag X Type, VW Golf
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Couldn't open the link so don't know if 'green' credentials are involved. The dealers sell factory-built LPG/petrol cars in France. LPG pootling around and petrol for the chase, maybe?
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Couldn't open the link
The original story is now a year old so the link is probably dead. This also explains why the French police 'already have' 70 Subarus :-)
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It seems that the message has finally hit home with the French Authorities that their home produced tinware is absolute rubbish, - at least they have decided on one of the better Japanese makes and good luck to Suburu.
I am awaiting with interest for the launch of their forthcoming Impreza hatchback, which should really help their European sales and give VW/Audi & Ford/GM some sleepless nights.!!!!
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"Absolute rubbish" - I assume this is tongue in cheek? Or just part of the tiresome "bash French cars" (lumping them all together - they are all the same, aren't they?) syndrome we get from time to time. I've said it before, but will repeat it now: my 306 HDi has been the most reliable car I've had. Two family members run them also - very few problems indeed. Nice to drive, pretty economical, pretty good - for rubbish - really!
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The 306 was a decent car. The 307 appears not to be.
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