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[Jim]

I recently attended an event and pick up some of the latest Vauxhall Police Vehicle Range brochures, and here they are:

[tidla]

Leg room in the vivaro seems a bit cramped.

[the alarming man]

its strange how no police forces in the south have taken the vauxhall offering...apart from the M.O.D and B.T.P...

[Jim]

its strange how no police forces in the south have taken the vauxhall offering...apart from the M.O.D and B.T.P...

Thames Valley have a lot of Vauxhall's on Fleet, The Met have a lot of Vauxhall Astra's & Zafira's too

[the alarming man]

met are getting rid of vauxhalls in favour of hyundai???...may be the 7 year warranty?

[tigers_gonads]

Coppers have used Protons with a lpg conversion up here for years

[the alarming man]

i guess it comes down to cost in the end....

[Rods2]

In Sandhurst part of Thames Valley, local police use Astras

[joshwyatt]

The Chiltern Transport Consortium who is the body that looks after Thames Valley Police, Bedfordshire Police, Civil Nuclear and Hertfordshire Police extensively used Vauxhall's for some time. In TVP, that's Astra's, Vivaro's, Coras'a, Vectra's and Insignia's.
However, it sems the Insignia is proving to be rather unreliable. They are the 2.0 petrol turbo, and seem to be off the road most of the time, with turbo's lasting up to 20k miles.

However, Volvo V70's are now being used, they are traffic division or speciliast roles.

Thanks for the upload Jim, very interesting 

[PAULCDX]

Bring back the Omega   

Nice looking set of cars and vans there Jim, thanks for posting 

[Jim]

Bring back the Omega   

Nice looking set of cars and vans there Jim, thanks for posting 

No Worries

[Crazycarzowner]

We've just gone from having Astras as pandas to Hyundai's as they're ££££ cheaper + have the 7 yr warranty as already said. To be fair with all the hammer tha Astras took (running 24/7 and not being looked after by whoever drove em  ) they stood up to it very well. I'd like to see what the Hyundais are gonna be like in 3-4 years. The seats on them have had to have hard wearing over covers added due to the wear & tear on they got on test, quite a lot of the seats split!!!! They are very plasticy, cheaply put together and have the most annoying of sensors for reversing BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! in a high pitch screech. Got rid of our traffic T5 Volvos too  , now all BMW530's 

[waspy]

A few years ago, our force where using Skoda diesels. The first time I saw one I PMSL big time. The copper driving it didn't seem too pleased & the look on his face

[Ian_D]

The Ampera looks ace all marked up!

[the alarming man]

A few years ago, our force where using Skoda diesels. The first time I saw one I PMSL big time. The copper driving it didn't seem too pleased & the look on his face

thats all kent use  is skodas (octavia and fabia estates)...aparantley a lot better then peugot's 406's...but not as good as volvo v70's lol..