Mileages of ex police cars suspcioiously low?

It has a roundel on it no matter where it's made. I think that little piece
of trim costs $5-10,000.

 

These MkII's were built long before Ford got involved. Possibly before BMW
even IIRC.

Huw

 

Nope, the current Rangey petrol engine is the Jaguar V8. Older current shape
ones had the BMW 4.4 in.

Diesels are still the BMW one at the moment though I think


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Steve () gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

17.5% VAT (sales tax) is included in the price you see on damn near
everything - rather than a smaller percentage which is added on later.

How much is an X5 there?
They start at £36k here.

But you can *bet* that plod won't be paying *ANYTHING* near that. For a
start, the manufacturers trip over 'emselves to have plod driving their
vehicles...

I don't think you're alone in that sentiment...

 

x5 3.0 $42,500+695 delivery plus options, of which BMW has MANY.
x5 4.4 $53,600"
"
x5 4.8 $71,100"
"
http://www.bmwusa.com/vehicles/x5/

 

Many rental car groups just keep the absolute basics in maintenance ,so by
sale time which is about the time they think costs are going to occur ,they
sell them off .I don't know about police cars but I figure they too would
sell off around the time things need fixing over and above basics.When I
brought my first new Taxi some years ago ,it had a label" taxi police pack
".I wont even bother to tell you how long the back shock absorbers and the
front shocks went well as did the discs .The air filter had a foam insert
which meant at @40 k the filter looked like new but the suspension needed
new ball joints ,due to a lack of grease nipples and some heater connections
which were super light failed ,with the replacements 3 times the weight and
cheap .
I am sure the motors on police cars are" fiddled" to go better by the police
garage as well as the basic car being built with higher output alternator,
battery ,lights, hard pads and better shocks.Needless to say better regular
oil changes as well .Often an oil cooler for the beefed up transmission as
well which has to work hard between McDonalds restaurants and the local
police station .Trouble is in tests it was found police cars went from a
cold motor start to flat out in a matter of seconds which shortens the life
of all the above up grades .Pigs don't fly, but they sure try .