Jaguar XF Police Cars On Duty in England

Hello God? It's me, Tony. Are you jerking me around? Seriously man. I know we don't talk all that often – oh and hey, I really want to thank you for Caitlin – but I really want to know just what the Hell your thinking letting Jaguars being turned into cop cars. Honestly, man.

Yes, I know, the shine has somewhat dimmed on Jaguar over the years. What once was a car company that posted "Grace. Pace. Space." and slew all that came before them at places like Le Mans has now been passed around like a doobie at a Grateful Dead concert, ending up in the hands of Tata. Not that there's anything wrong with Tata. They seem like nice guys, and they're doing nice things with Jags (or promising to). But cop cars?!

Dear God ... just give me a second here ... okay (deep breath) ... okay ... cop cars ... right. A year after the British company announced the development of a police package for the new Jaguar XF sedan, and the first ever pursuit versions of the English saloons are about to go out on patrol across the Midlands. (Sniff.)

The Jaguar cop cars (sob) are in the hands of the Central Motorway Police Group, which patrols motorways across Staffordshire, Mercia and the West Midlands. The Central Motorway Police Group just purchased bought seven high performance Police-spec XFs. (Hysterical crying.) All of the XFs are based on the Diesel S model, and have a 3.0-liter plant churning out 275-horsepower and 443lb-ft of peak torque, (wailing) while still returning 42mpg UK and a CO2 rating of 179 g/km. (Gnashing of teeth.)

"Police forces across the country have been evaluating the XF and we are delighted that the team at the Central Motorway Police Group has chosen Jaguar to join its fleet," Geoff Cousins, Managing Director for Jaguar Cars UK, blasphemed.

The police-spec XFs (heavy lamentation) package includes a roof mounted light bar with 3600 blue flashing lights and integrated side alley lights, blue and white flashing LED lights inside the front grille, side mounted blue flashing LED lights, blue and red flashing LED lights integrated in the rear light clusters and a Home Office-specification electronics 'Police pack'.

I'd like to write more ... but I can't right now ... I just need to be quite for a while ...

Source: Car Scoop