Australian Police Department Adds BMW i8 To Its Fleet
As far as police cars go, this is a pretty cool one, isn’t it? It was handed over from BMW Sydney to the New South Wales police department this month and will cover the Rose Bay Local Area Command.
However, as we’ve seen before with these ultra-cool cop cars, this one isn’t a high-speed pursuit vehicle. Instead, it’s been created as a tool to “break down barriers between police and the community,” according to Superintendent Brad Hodde.
He went on to say: “It enables the community to come up and start talking about the car. That conversation then leads to them opening up and they find out that we’re not such bad people after all.”
It makes sense: from our experience, the i8 gets a lot of attention even when it isn’t liveried up like a cop car…
Sources: BMW Blog, Car Scoops
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I guess it’ll be a shock to some peoples systems.
I don’t know watt you mean
Police in Sydney have a new toy to play with in the form of an i8, but it won’t be involved in any high-speed pursuits meanwhile in Dubai
Would hate to be a speeder in Dubai
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Must be a sleeper lol
Well Dubai doesn’t use their supercars for chases either ;) They are scouting around tourist attractions and basically work as tourist magnets themselves, while not being much involved with any police missions or chases…. they are damn cool, but sadly only a marketing gimmick.
They have different cars for high speed pursuits ;)
“i8” to be a cirminal over there now.
Gr8 m8, I r8 8/8.
Last week all the cops driving Toyotas were saying “man i8 having such a slow car”
The livery is horrible :D
It’s a car used to catch criminals. What did you expect? Lol
Agreed
I h8 the police sometimes
don’t h8 m8
Here’s our pursuit vehicle! (Not joking by the way, these are everywhere)
The camaro zl1 australian cousin … Bad for the baddies…
On freeways all you see are these and then when it’s chasing someone it’s loud af
I think im wet
Half way through a chase has to pull over to recharge
Meanwhile in Finland
“They see me rollin’, they hatin’…”
Why an i8? Why not an M8? XD
Waiting for that too…
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