.. and "fast pursuit" in a Range Rover? No, thanks!
Ah, that is "fast" in the context of the early 1970's when Range Rover patrol arms were introduced. Even by then
most cars on the road dated from the 1950's and fist half of the 1960's, and in those you were lucky to reach 60 mph, and just maybe 70 mph. My A40 was lucky to do 50 with the wind behind it! It is my belief, correct me if I am wrong, but it was only in the late 1960's and early1970's that even the average Ford Cortina could start to do 80, 90, or even 100 mph, with new cross flow engines, and Gt, XLS, etc badges. Later that decade the really faster average car came into being, and started to do 125-130+ mph. This challenged, and still does, the Traffic police to match their patrol cars to the top speeds of even the lowly boy races hatchbacks.
It was in the mid-1970's that the limitations of the traffic police Range Rover for "fast" pursuits became apparent. It was also when my police chum lost his two colleagues in one.