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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Just spotted this in another forum, looks great (except in my rear view mirror).
For the uninitiated it's the latest Mitso Evo X (read 10). ![]() ![]() Sorry about the thumbnails, I did it wrong.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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That looks cool,
The police cars these days certainly have style. I havnt got a pic to upload at the moment, but the W.A. Highway patrol cars - XR6 Turbos - look fantastic. Doesnt make you feel so bad when you get pulled up!
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makes me want to become a cop even more :p
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Perth
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who bought that for them?
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Perth
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You and I did bud, along with other tax payers. At least were not coughing up for Lambos like the italians
Tip for young hoons, If you want to further your career of exceeding the speed limits on public roads at every opportunity, look whos recruiting...... P.S. Just a little dig at the Thin Blue Line, no malice intended. |
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Those orange stripes make them highly visible and they look good too!
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the cops get soo many useless cars!
same as the vic cops have a hummer and a 300c, its all visability and trying to get more people into the poice! nsw cops are flying around in typhoons and turbo's
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Pretty sure theres a pic of an FG XR6 WA police car on the forums somewhere. Last edited by GS608; 02-10-2008 at 08:36 AM. |
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I hope they have better success with these than they had with WRX's...
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Victoria
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Would be interesting to see if these cars are donated. If so then they are not allowed to use them for urgent duty driving and thus defeats the purpose of having such a car. I dare say they will be as popular as the WRX's. Go alright but the small interior not really suited to carrying members, especially larger members, with all their gear etc.
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"If" these cars are allowed full pursuit use then they will have had to pass a much more stringent operational appraisal to get through, if not then they're just evaluation show ponies..
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Paulie
Join Date: May 2005
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are these to be used for highway patrol or inner city/burb work?
color scheme would have looked better on a Commo or Ford btw more economical than the bigger cars i suppose 300c ok id say for highway work, but Hummer? id hate to throw the rice word in but there it goes
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My money would be on this vehicle being a donor car, just like the Monaro GTO that got around with the Melbourne TMU in 02/03. That car was done up in the all police decals etc but was not allowed to be used in urgent duty driving.
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rice?? oh dear I thought that mentality had gone out the window a long time ago, it's a shame really...
Anyway on topic I really hope they don't put these things in the dandenong ranges black spur etc... Would be incredibly hard to get away from them if you were silly enough to try and outrun them
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most likely just a police show pony. saw it at the police remembrance day parade. we were walking through swanston and just saw this evo x.
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That mentality is here now and still very much alive!!! So what's wrong with laughing at something that looks a bit out of the ordinary.. just look here... http://fordforums.com.au/showthread....highlight=rice and yes i would go Aussie made product over any import/Japanese and im not saying that Jap cars are inferior in quality etc
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hah thats awesome!
hope to see them up in sydney(kinda). There's alot of new Lancer(not Evo) patrol cars around up here now, i pity the guys who drive them lol. i've even seen a few corolla sedans, and this ISNT in the CBD EDIT: howcome the post your rice thread was closed?
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Ahh didn,t notice that.... that was so much fun! Too Popular?? hehehe
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For a minute i thought that was a povo pack lancer due to the lack of projector headlamps but then seen brembos and bonnet vents. What a waste of a good car
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Apparently the UK Police forces will be purchasing 450 Evo Xs to patrol their highways.
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All the ricers will be scared now because it doesn't just look like an EVO like all the Ricers' cars - IT ACTUALLY IS ONE!
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NSW have a lotus elise cruising around Sydney,seen it on the M5...
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that would be quite hard to avoid.
4Vman, you are right about the wrx failing, But i didnt know the drivers couldn't drive em. damn shame in my opinion. But how bout this little tacker? hmmm ![]()
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They always have a marketing car in VIC they've had a Z3, Z4, Monaro, 300C and obviously now a Evo
Generally they are donated because of the free publicity and the cars go to the car shows and expos and do the school runs and are a publicity and recruiting exercise. |
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