Well, if you have a million dollars, and want to quintuple it x10 in a few years, buy up a bunch of stripped down Crown Vics, and a heck of a lot of spare parts, and warehouse them.
Then, in a few years, you can have an auction, with about 200 police chiefs in cutthroat bidding to get their hands on “real” cars, not those [multitude of expletives deleted] “green” cars Ford is now making.
Of course, the top bucks will go for the “built like a tank” classic models, that are like battleship plate compared to the tin cans on the road today.
The Australians use the Falcon for police duty already and they’re tougher than the Crown Vics. Faster, too.
The Falcon is a modern RWD V6/V8 sedan that actually puts the BMW 5 series to shame in a number of ways.
The Vic is a Dino, may it rest in peace. The Auto & Police Blogs are pissed yes that it goes, but how do you make it 5 star crash? How do you bring it into the 21st century? If they go w/ the Falcon, they are starting with a really current chassis let alone suspension dynamics which have come eon’s in a subtle way.