What's Wrong With This Picture: Meeting In A Dark Alley Edition
Published: August 24th, 2010
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Dodge previews its 2011 Charger by showing a police version almost completely shrouded by the darkness of what appears to be a typical Detroit neighborhood. And as much as we’d like to see more of the next-gen Charger, we understand what Dodge is going for here: after all, government fleets seem far more interested in purchasing Chrysler Group products than we lowly consumers.
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Wow...the Caprice with it's proper V8 and RWD was reason enough to not to buy the Taurus...now PDs have this....
They could make an ad with a gaggle of Chargers pulling over a Chrysler 300 for a felony stop. A cop car that looks like a teenage boy's idea of a cop car and a gangsta car that looks like, well, you get my drift.
I had business in DET a coupla months ago and downtown was happily progressing along the dystopic timeline it began in the early 70s (when my fam lived in GR). While those with a vested interest (real estate brokers and dreamers not wiling to walk away when they could) will tell you different, it really is as bad, or worse than you can imagine. RoboCop was an understatement. DET was finished in the 70s. Between the miserable weather, the horrific taxes, and the preposterous cost of Mongo-labor, the writing was on the wall 40 years ago.
That Charger pic looks a LOT like this Ford CVPI poster pic for fleets: http://www.posters57.com/images/2007_005.jpg=600.jpg It's pretty obvious Chrysler wants that 80% of the police market that Ford is giftwrapping and giving away with the cancellation of the Panther platform. Since Ford does not seem interested in offering a realistic replacement, I say go for it.