Law suite lifted on US Ford cop cars

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Found this on the Copcar.com forum. A bit of background. Over the last couple of years a number of Law enforcment agencies in America have started legal action against Ford Motor Company over the Police Interceptor, a Crown Victoria with Police equipment, claiming they are vulnerable to catching fire when hit from behind at high speed. Late last year another law suite was withdrawn which claimed that vehicles supplied to one agency wasn't equipped as advertised. It is important to note that the Ford PI is the only RWD Police car, as opposed to SUV, available in America.
From the Detroit Free Press:

Cops drop Crown Victoria patrol car suit

January 27, 2005

Two Indiana police departments dropped a lawsuit against Ford Motor
Co., in which they claimed the automaker's Crown Victoria patrol cars are
vulnerable to fires in high-speed, rear-end collisions. By dismissing the suit,
Indianapolis and the Marion County Sheriff's Department paved the way for
the departments to resume buying the cars, Ford said. The suit was one of
more than two dozen prospective class actions by police agencies claiming
the fuel tank location put officers' lives at risk. In October, Ford won the first
Crown Victoria class action to go to trial. Other departments have dropped
similar suits or opted out of class actions since the verdict, after determining
the car wasn't defective, said Ford attorney Doug Lampe.