Best looking police cars

[George 1978]

Vauxhall used to supply Thames TV with police cars for The Bill, usually Astras, although as "Sierra Oscar" was their call sign, one would have expected Ford Sierras? - I think they did eventually.

[I. R. Fincham]

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Can't beat the classics. Love the old panda cars in pale blue with white doors. There were various models of car used, but all with the same colour scheme.

[Moonraker]

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Mk1 Ford Escort. As it was my first car

[matt321]

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[80sChav]

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Any by Ford to be honest looked cool I thought!1

Especially the Fiesta's - like on The Bill or Bigger ones like Grranada's or Sierra/Mondeos!!

[George 1978]

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I used to think that police cars were called panda cars because a lot of them were Fiat Pandas, but I suppose that it predates that.

[escorteclipse1990]

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Mk1 Ford Consul/Granada's looked good in Police spec, also mk2 Escort's in that light blue with white doors.

[Richard1978]

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The Ford Crown Victoria was a popular USA police car & taxi for many years, so much so that they were still made for a while after stopping private sales.

[onthebusesfan]

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i love them i wouldnt mind owning one of them the blues brothers one i would have.

[victorbrunswick]

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Seen in countless movies and TV shows, the most iconic American police car in the '70s had to be the Dodge Monaco.

[sandrra]

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This one is definitely the best from all of here! :O What kind of a car is that? Looks incredible - modern and old-school at the same time.

[onthebusesfan]

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i like the old morris minor ones and the rover p6 ones to they had more character to them.

[Hair Bear]

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Queue control. Seen it done many times prior to the introduction of so-called 'smart motorways'. The end of a queue of busy fast moving traffic can travel very quickly back along a carriageway. The sight of blue lights were generally enough to slow or alert oncoming traffic so they used to run back along the shoulder to slow the approaching cars and had to keep pace with the back of the stationary vehicles. Very effective.

[Twocky61]

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I was told, although I don't know the truth behind it, that the Jag was the preferred motorway car over the BMW because although they were comparable in performance the Jag could go very much faster backwards down the hard shoulder for queue control(!).

reversing on the motorway? Illegal so they should have points on their license at the very least

[Mulletino]

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i know how you would have felt buddy. happened to me on more than one occasion when i used to go car hunting with my dad. i tried to get my dad to buy a daimler double six, but he just walked away from it. :cry:

My parents had a Daimler Double Six in the 80s, 5.3 litre V12, would pass anything but a petrol station and needed two fuel tanks. Loved that car, except in the supper with its hot leather seats on bare shorted legs.