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• spydrix

  You can't fit people in the back seat of the Camaro. So what good would that do. From someone who has driven both, it's obvious you haven't set foot in the new Taurus sho. It might be just slightly slower off the line, but not much, with the all wheel drive there isn't any slippage. And the convenience of all the new features make the Camaro seem like yesterdays news. Now, I like the Camaro, especially the look, but I'd recommend the Taurus sho over a Camaro any day.

• olin

  There is one more thing in our town. The RSVPs in particular, the ones who work in Traffic Divison. They have old worn out used CVs and they function perfectly for the task. In the back there are as many as 50 orange cones, barracades, signs, flares, fire extinguishers, and a bag which has their daily tasks. Almost as much as a police officer might have. When they drive these cars, hand me downs, they are all but worn out. Got one with 120,000 miles on it and considered it a gem, nearly new to the RSVPs. They also have the same electronic equipment as the police officers have, MDTs and radios, and center consols are impossible to use for this. Retooling for a police car seems TERRIBLY expensive for a volunteer group using hand me down and worn out equipment already. The gross vehicle weight is 4250 and the RSVPs load it up to near that. They drive the same roads, the same bumps, and with out the speed, but the same locations police officers go to on TAs and it's a challenge. To downsize to a Taurus would not only be useless and expensive, but the hand me down would be clearly unacceptable. Even a truck won't work for the elderly folks who use these having to climb in the back and pass things out. RSVPS RULE!

• Peter

  The body on frame, rear wheel drive, V-8 CV's will still be rolling when those new Taurus PI's will be in the shop. That front drive junk might work for Joe sixpack but not police work. Unfortunately auto reviewers and car magazines have convinced Americans that the Ford CV is dated junk and anybody considering one belongs in a mental institution. So apart form police sales and a few Mercury's that platform just doesn't sell to the general public. So it has to go in favor of the junk that is selling. As always Ford and the general public will figure this out much to late and one of Americas greatest cars will be gone for good. Improve the CV don't junk it.

• rookie

  All you old cops need to stick a sock in it. Nobody cares about “old Bessie”, your CV of 15 years. We need fuel efficient cars in 2010, you do not exist without money and gas is money and a lot of it……and yes turbo's are beasts. Did you see this car can be hit at 70mph in the rear? Stay fit or quit if you want in this ride, no Waffle House cheese fries for you Taurus riding cops.

• Walter

  I have been driving various Crown Victoria's for eight of the last nine years as a taxi driver. One road near here called Hillen Parkway is notorious for it's slipperiness. I was cruising up this road just under the posted speed. Moisture from overhead trees must have dampened the road. Moisture made this a slippery section of road which was also curved to the right. Moving slightly out of my lane to avoid a car already buried in the hillside to the right, the shoulder not being very wide, my car began to spin. I did two 360 degree spins across a raised median, one which scraped the undercarriage and raised the car an inch or two higher than it normal height. The car ended up head on in the far lane on coming traffic. I had two choices, head straight into traffic, or try to recross the higher that curb height median one again. I had no time to think, I swung a hard right across the median hoping the tires would continued to hold. They did. I pulled into the repair shop, the place where I was heading in the first place, low and behold nothing was apparently damaged but those series of events. Later after a day or two of driving I did begin to notice a slight wobble in the right front wheel, the rim had been bent. The work I had done at the shop was I needed a catalytic converter replaced as my car was unable to develop full power or accelerate properly due to a partially blocked converter. I had a 96 Taurus as a cab for a for a year, and have seen personally how other front wheel drive car perform as taxi. They spend twice to three times as much time in the shop. I can not imagine my Taurus (yes I owned that particular cab) holding up in the same spin-out as the Crown Vic. Also I had to personally replace two transmissions in the year I owned that Taurus taxicab, it cost me so much money I could not afford to but a replacement cab when it was too old to use (county rules).

  Crown Vic's RULE as taxicabs and police cars, nothing else is durable enough. So…
  Enough said.
  Walter

• Dave

  You've got to be in admin….Sit behind your desk and push your papers!!!!!!!!Dave

• charlain

  that taurus looks like it would be useless in snow or back country roads i say the perfect police vehicle has got to be the ford raptor f150 svt for all places city and country , i think the day of the police car is over , ford of all companies should realize this

• Bill

  Pickup trucks and SUVs are lousy pursuit vehicles. Their center of gravity is too high and their turning radius is too big. Plus pickups are too light in the rear. The rear tires will break loose too easily on hard acceleration.

• Dom

  you idiots… the cv are awsome cars but the sho is better.. First it has ALL WHEEL DRIVE how canyou beat that up north hear. second it saves gas with more horse power so how can you really complain. Almost the same size and cvs but not quiet. Ford was also smart by having police station come in and hand select what they would want in the car and were. So pretty much it is the perfect car

• STEPHEN

  I DISAGREE WITH THE VEHICLE SWAP. WE ARE TAKING A HIGHLY RELIABLE VEHICLE WITH ONE OF THE STRONGEST MOTORS FORD HAS EVER BUILT AND REPLACING IT WITH A TECHNICAL MOTOR. TODAYS MOTOR ARE SO ADVANCED IN TECHNOLOGY. EVERY COMPONENT RELY'S ON ONE ANOTHER. IT ALMOST SEEMS THAT IF THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT IN TODAY'S VEHICLE'S COME ON, THEY JUST STOP RUNNING. THE CROWN VIC HAS BEEN THE BEST AND MOST RELIABLE CAR OFFERED TO THE POLICE OFFICERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. I DON'T THINK FORD HAS THEIR MIND IN THE RIGHT PLACE. SEEMS TO ME FORD'S MAIN CONCENTRATION IS MARKETING THE FORD TAURUS. NOW, ON THE OTHER HAND, YES THE TAURUS IS FASTER AND MORE FUEL EFFECTIVE. YES IT MIGHT TURN OUT TO BE A GOOD POLICE VEHICLE, BUT IS IT WORTH TAKING A KNOWN EXCELLENT POLICE CAR OUT AND PUTTING IN THE NEW TAURUS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT IT WILL MAKE A GOOD POLICE CAR. I GUESS ONLY TIME WILL TELL. I HAVE A FEELING I WILL BE COMING FORWARD IN ABOUT A YEAR AND SAYING “I TOLD YOU SO”

• STEPHEN

  LETS SEE. $2500.00 A MONTH ON GAS PER CROWN VIC OR $2500.00 PLUS A WEEK IN TURBO REPLACEMENTS DUE TO THE CONSTANT TURBO REPLACEMENT.
  THE TAURUS WILL NEVER MOUNT UP TO THE CROWN VIC. CROWN VIC WILL ALWAYS BE BETTER THAN THE TAURUS REGAURDLESS OF WHAT FORD DOES.

• Beungood8

  Most departments have a no-pursuit poicy now-adays.

• Beungood8

  I agree,FWD sux for patrol. I talked with a guy from a departmnt that used them and they all hated them and wanted the CV's back.

• Beungood8

  It's a great idea until you need maintanence or your Carbon Cruiser gets T-boned and you need parts. Where do you go? do they HAVE parts on hand,infrastructure dealer networks,techs who know how to fix them?…

• M Mouse

  Eh, kajdb, other people can get & drive Ford Crown Vics. It's not that they can't get them, it's that they don't want to drive a large sedan that they associate w/ Gov't. or grandpa & that gets worse gas mileage. So, in light of your apparent cluelessness, I tend to think that Jake is not the moron here.

• 519MP

  i would like to see that taurus hop a few curbs

• Bluntedworm

  Lol, the Crown Victoria is 75 mph rear impact certified too…

• Bluntedworm

  You make a few good points, but the CV has been the same size continuously. Only changes occurred when they switched from box bodies to aero bodies, and then to whale (current bodies) in '98.

• Toned2010

  the new ford sucks ill be getting chargers from now on after 20 years of loving the vics

• ADEMONTE5

  I WONDER WHO THE JACK ASS IS AT FORD MESSING UP A GREAT CAR THE MOST RELIABLE IN THE WORLD ,,, REMEMBER THE CAPRICE POLICE DEPARTMENTS ALL OVER THE USA GOT THEM REFURBISHIED AND USED EM 4 TO 5 YEARS AFTER THAT FOR SHOULD NOT MESS WITH A GOOD THING ,, U CAN ALWAY MAKE A GOOG THING EVEN BETTER CHEVY HAS A WHIPPMY LOOKING POLICE CA IM LOL ABOUT THE STUPIDIY

• Reebs

  It doesn't matter how fast your car drives, it's if you can handle it. I'll be behind you and watch your Camaro lose it on in the curb as I hit every apex and then clean you and your car up:)

• BONDOMAN777

  I HAVE TO AGREE WITH THE OTHER CV FANS. I HAVE DONE COLLISION WORK ON THESE CARS FOR 14 YEARS .CHANGING TO A UNITIZED BODY FOR A POLICE VEH. IS GOING TO BE A COSTLY ONE FOR TAX PAYERS.THE CV HAS PROVEN IT SELF.WITH ITS BOLT ON COMPLETE FRONT END & BOLT ON COMPLETE SUSPENSION CAN MAKE A REPAIR JOB GO QUICKLY.BESIDES ALL AGENCIES AR TOOLED UP FOR CVS.ADDING ANOTHER BURDEN TO TAX PAYERS TO PAY FOR ALL NEW EQUIPMENT . IF FORD DOSEN'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THE CV PUT IT UP FOR SALE MABY SOME ONE ELSE CAN SEE A GOOD THING AND KEEP IT GOING

• Doug

  Someone at Ford better realize that Law Enforcement carries alot of different equipment in order to do their jobs from highway and city/town patrol. Sniper and Suba Teams.Drug UnderCover Teams and many other teams and uses including many units and Depts of the Federal Government.DEA-FBI-CIA-HOMELAND SECURITY.Some jerk at Ford Motor Company wants to Downsize one of their best selling cars.WOW !!! GM AND CHRYSLER are Smiling I can see the Dodge Chargers and Chevy Caprises and Impala Full size will make a comeback.GO Chrysler.

• Kevin711

  Hmmm…. Has technology surpassed it or has idiotic federal legislation killed it???? The feds mandating something does not make it make it a technological advancemet

• Bobemakk

  I owned a 1999 Ford Crown Vic and purchased it new. It had over 135,000 miles (almost trouble free) on the odometer when I traded it in for a 2008 Lincoln MKZ. If hope the Lincoln is as good as the Crown Vic. So far so good.

• Ben

  As an owner of a 2006 Crown victoria, I can say I love my car. Let’s face it though, a complete shell redesign (the side impact performance is a joke) would be necessary to keep this platform alive.

• Dianpratama02

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• John04199

  I think ford made a big mistake by ending the cv production before they had a new car to take its place. What were they thinking???

• Proud owner of 93 Crown Vic

  New York City will have a Nissan taxi cab in 2013? So used to seeing the Crown Vic taxis in newscasts from New York. With ground zero and all the patriotism that New York City invokes, how do you replace the Ford Crown Vic  with an import as the offical taxi of New York CIty?