Posted on 10/01/2004 6:50:09 PM PDT by DeepInEnemyTerritory
I don't think you can find the "cop" version of the Crown Victoria at a dealer.
gun makers should just charge cities whose mayors try to sue them 10 times more for that city's PD to buy.
they can claim it as insurance against law suits.
might start a neat little pissing contest ,too...
SHHH! don't tell Dateline NBC.
(remember the GMC truck debacle?)
Hmm...I had heard that, 15+ years ago that FORD's std. is 3000 hrs for major component/materials failure...the others (GMC..etc.) were 5000 hrs. :/
Pinto redux?
I have a 94 Lincoln Town Car. It is essentially the same car as a Ford Crown Vic.
It has 194K miles on it and it has not had a major failure.
It uses a quart of oil to 4500 miles. Not bad.
It runs and drives like new.
Taxi companies buy old cop cars and run them as taxis.
They routinely run them to 400K miles without replacing the engine.
If Ford only cared about cost, they would not have been installing switches that cut power to the electric fuel pumps in a collision on all of their models since at least 1987.
I defy anyone to name a front-engine vehicle that can be rear-ended at 75 miles-per-hour and not catch on fire.
It doesn't exist.
Which, the car or the missile?
Good point.
Unrelated to this lawsuit, I have had the gas tanks fall out of two Ford products. I will grant that these events happened prior to 1985, but I still remember.
I've read that limo companies in NYC routinely run new Town Cars 750K+ miles. They change the oil every 2000 - 3000 miles and aggressively maintain the cars.
Ever since GM stopped making the Chevy Caprice, Ford is the only manufacturer who still offers the large rear wheel drive sedan.
This is the tactic I had urged the cigarette companies to take with the states that joined in the tobacco lawsuit. Refuse to sell smokes in those states.
Have you ever had the valve seals replaced? It's a relatively cheap procedure and might be the cause of your oil consumption. It was a known flaw in that era.
The Crown Vic drivetrain is wellnigh indestructible with regular maintenance.
..No Doubt, for the higher priced autos (like LEO cars.), but for lower priced...one word: pinto/chevette/hornet :))
I had an '86 Chevey Cavalier that was a year old when some drunk rear-ended it while I was at a friend's house one night. The police estimate he was doing at least 70 when he hit my car. The impact crushed it like an accordion, but the car didn't catch fire.
I wasn't in the car when he hit it - even though it didn't burn, I doubt I would have survived the impact had I have been. At the very least I would have been seriously maimed and/or crippled.
It was burning a quart in 400 miles before I changed the valve seals.
It now uses a quart to 4500 miles. The manufacturer says burning a quart in 800 miles is considered normal in the new ones.
My point is that the engine is as good as new. Certainly not the "cheapest" as was asserted above.
And there are photos of Vics which, after catastrophic rear-end collisions which did not burn either. I did not mean to speak of 100% of all incidents, but rather on the average. Possible variables in non-fire cases could be quantity of gas in the tank, relative humidity, angle of incident, etc.
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