Ford Police Interceptors win acceleration war against Dodge, Chevy

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Ford Police Interceptors win acceleration war against Dodge, Chevy


By Jeffrey N. Ross RSS feed Google+

Posted Oct 17th 2013 12:01AM



Just last month, Ford announced its first-ever non-pursuit-rated version of the Police Interceptor sedan for agencies looking to maximize fuel economy, but that doesn't mean that Ford is giving up on chasing down the bad guys. While the Dodge Charger can lay claim to the fastest lap time at the Grattan Raceway test facility held by the Michigan State Police, the results are now in for the Police Vehicle Evaluation acceleration tests. And Ford's Police Interceptor duo (sedan and utility) came out on top.

In the acceleration tests, Ford says that the Taurus-based PI Sedan with the newly available 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 was the quickest among prospective police cars in both 0-60 and 0-100 mile per hour times. The sedan posted its best 0-60 time of 5.66 seconds, besting V8-powered competitors like the Chevy Caprice and Dodge Charger by more than 0.3 seconds. In the 0-100 test, Ford opens the gap further taking 13.5 seconds compared to the Chevy's time of 14.35 and the Dodge's time of 14.57.

As for utility vehicles, the Explorer-based PI Utility, which accounts for 60 percent of Ford's police vehicle sales, essentially went head-to-head with the V8-powered Chevy Tahoe with similar results. Equipped with the new EcoBoost engine option, this big SUV hit 60 mph in just 6.28 seconds and 100 mph in 15.51 seconds compared to times of 8.22 seconds and 21.95 seconds, respectively, for the Tahoe. Other important tests in the PVE include braking and top speed, but while no automakers have stepped up to boast about their numbers in either of these categories, Ford's images show that the V8 Caprice had the highest top speed of the cars at 155 mph while the Tahoe's 139-mph speed made it the fastest utility vehicle.
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Ford EcoBoost Police Interceptors Outrun Chevrolet Caprice V8, Hemi Dodge Charger in Michigan State Police Testing

-Ford EcoBoost® Police Interceptor sedan repeats top performance and retains its title as best-in-class overall acceleration pursuit vehicle

-New Ford EcoBoost Police Interceptor utility vehicle acceleration faster than Chevrolet Tahoe and all base V6 competitors

-Ford Police Interceptors maintain segment sales leadership for 16 years straight
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[Moby Vic]

I just took a road trip from Florida to North Carolina and back, and saw all the new police vehicles in action. There seem to be more Chargers in service than anything else. I saw several Crown Vics, also, a few new Interceptors, and one Caprice.

I also saw Chevy Tahoes. I didn't see any Police Interceptor Utilities, but they're popular with some agencies here in central Florida.

[Cuyper]

I tell you what you have to respect the Police cars we have here in Australia too. I got passed by an XR6T doing absurd speed in Canberra last year, he must have been doing well over 200, the sound as he went passed, never heard anything like it.

I also recently saw an in car camera chase of a friends VE SS patrol car easily catching a GSXR1100 who was running in the ****ing rain on a curving single lane country road.. The patrol car casually sitting smack on 135 mph on the cam readout about 3 meters away from the bike while reading the rego plate and then called the chase off due to the bike guy not willing to pull over (still got a knock on the door so whats the point). You think you can get away from those guys, you are thinking wrong, they are Keen!. You can say what you like about the VE but after you see something like that and understood he's driving one handed talking on the radio the whole time to the station, that's a seriously stable high speed car.