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Since Ford stop making the Crown Victoria in 2011, many police departments have been slowly getting rid of their Crown Victoria's and been buying the Ford Taurus, Dodge Charger, Ford Explorer, Chevy Tahoe, etc. There's still quite a few of them around but not as many as there were 5 years ago. There are still police departments that have their fleet at 30% Crown Victoria's but eventually they'll get rid of them. Most of the ones still in service have 80,000+ miles. Crown Victoria's will always be around but they won't be in use for law enforcement forever. I've been noticing less and less on them on the road for the last few years and it's quite sad to be honest. The Crown Victoria always seemed like the perfect cop car and had a authoritarian look. I'm not a fan of the soccer mom Ford Explorers.
When will Cops stop driving the Crown Vic's as Patrol Cars? Detective and Undercover? Does your department still have them?
The last time I took a cab in NYC we were riding in a Ford Crown Vic. I asked the cabbie how many miles until they scrapped the car. He said, "about 275K".
There is a huge infrastructure that evolved to maintain and rehabilitate those cars to make them last.
So even though Ford quit making them in 2011 many police and public offices will continue to use them until they they have no option but to scrap them.
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Here they are not driving Explorers, but the new Ford police interceptor vehicles which come in a sedan or a SUV version, with AWD. They are specific to patrol cars, not available to the public.
My town has a couple of Crown Vics still in service. The others have been replaced with Explorers and one Caprice they purchased to test. But the CV's are then passed down to the Rec Dept, Veteran's Services, Inspectional Services, et al. They stay in service for another 4-5 years beyond their life as a cruiser.
I watched a special on a guy back east that had a taxy company. He had a warehouse literally full of CV parts. I mean everything. Cops around here mostly drive Chargers. I think there might be one or two leftover back up CVs
Since Ford stop making the Crown Victoria in 2011, many police departments have been slowly getting rid of their Crown Victoria's and been buying the Ford Taurus, Dodge Charger, Ford Explorer, Chevy Tahoe, etc. There's still quite a few of them around but not as many as there were 5 years ago. There are still police departments that have their fleet at 30% Crown Victoria's but eventually they'll get rid of them. Most of the ones still in service have 80,000+ miles. Crown Victoria's will always be around but they won't be in use for law enforcement forever. I've been noticing less and less on them on the road for the last few years and it's quite sad to be honest. The Crown Victoria always seemed like the perfect cop car and had a authoritarian look. I'm not a fan of the soccer mom Ford Explorers.
When will Cops stop driving the Crown Vic's as Patrol Cars? Detective and Undercover? Does your department still have them?
The NY State Troopers still have a ton of Crown Vics in inventory, they'll probably be driving them forever at this rate. They've also got Tahoes, Chargers, and Taurus Interceptors, but relatively few of the latter.
Interestingly I never see any Caprice PPVs anywhere.
Interestingly I never see any Caprice PPVs anywhere.
The county cops here all have CVs and a handful of new Taurus interceptors, a few other counties have Chargers and Tauruses, while the state patrol has a fleet of Caprice PPVs.
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