Zeta Chevy Caprice
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Zeta Chevy Caprice
Looks like the middle eastern Chevy Caprice will make it to the US as cop cars.
Wonder if you will be able to buy decomissioned ones after they are done with them?
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/05/t...caprice-polic/
Wonder if you will be able to buy decomissioned ones after they are done with them?
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/05/t...caprice-polic/
Well, it's official. General Motors has resurrected the Australian-built Zeta sedan for North America, only this time around, it's just for the cops. Set to arrive in your local muni's police fleet in 2011 is the Chevrolet Caprice police patrol vehicle (PPV). First thing's first: it is not the Holden Commodore, a.k.a. Pontiac G8 (rest in peace). It's a left-hand-drive version of the long-wheelbase, Zeta-platform Holden Caprice/Statesman. Many of you already know that this car is also sold in the Middle East as, you guessed it, the Chevy Caprice. Also, as had been rumored – you can't buy one. It's a fleet special only, and we can envision fistfights breaking out over these at police auctions in a few years.
The Caprice Cop Special gets an E85-compatible 6.0-liter V8 dishing out 355 horsepower and 385 lb/ft of torque, and as you'd expect, the engine's duly ruggedized for police duty with oil, transmission and power steering coolers, along with a heavy duty alternator. And yes, the brakes and suspension are uprated. Cue the Elwood Blues litany whenever you're ready.
Inside, it's obviously outfitted with all the toys, including seats designed to accommodate officers' gun/equipment belts, a front-seat computer, and all the other stuff you'd expect to find in a police car. And since the fuzzmobile's based on the LWB sedan, there's plenty of room in back for you to relax should you find yourself involuntarily sampling the rear passenger seating. Actually, with your hands locked up behind your back, it probably won't be that comfy after all. Check out more photos of the Caprice PPV in the gallery below.
The Caprice Cop Special gets an E85-compatible 6.0-liter V8 dishing out 355 horsepower and 385 lb/ft of torque, and as you'd expect, the engine's duly ruggedized for police duty with oil, transmission and power steering coolers, along with a heavy duty alternator. And yes, the brakes and suspension are uprated. Cue the Elwood Blues litany whenever you're ready.
Inside, it's obviously outfitted with all the toys, including seats designed to accommodate officers' gun/equipment belts, a front-seat computer, and all the other stuff you'd expect to find in a police car. And since the fuzzmobile's based on the LWB sedan, there's plenty of room in back for you to relax should you find yourself involuntarily sampling the rear passenger seating. Actually, with your hands locked up behind your back, it probably won't be that comfy after all. Check out more photos of the Caprice PPV in the gallery below.
![](http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/10/01-caprice-police-press-620op.jpg)
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Calling Jon Moss - They really need to take a few of these and do a caprice based Impala SS part duex!
I'm surpirsed somebody hasn't done a chop like the Tarus SHO pics that showed up awhile back.
I'm surpirsed somebody hasn't done a chop like the Tarus SHO pics that showed up awhile back.
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Crown Vic has more lives than a cat. CV was supposed to be dead last year, the year before that, and the year before that.....and now after saying yet again that the CV is going to die, sources within Ford are hinting that the old girl may get another reprieve.
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“The announcement for the Caprice is currently only as a police patrol cruiser,” he said. “It will be RWD with a 6.0-liter V8. We have not made any firm plans yet on a retail version of the Caprice. That said, we are working on a next-gen Impala that comes in above the Malibu. More to come.”
http://www.autoweek.com/article/2009...#ixzz0UBnSPhs1
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