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December 1st, 2009 05:20 PM #1
Too bad for the much vaunted Polizia supercar
When the Italian police unveiled their state-of-the-art Lamborghini patrol cars, they cannot have been short of volunteers itching to take the supercars in pursuit of speeding criminals.
A team of elite drivers was trained to chase down speeding motorists and deliver urgently-needed transplant organs in the futuristic vehicles, capable of reaching more than 200mph.
What they apparently were not prepared for was a distracted motorist who pulled out of a petrol station without looking.
Today, a bandaged and bruised police driver may have had a tough time explaining how he managed to write off one of the force's prized Lamborghinis when he rammed it so hard into a line of parked cars that one of the stationary vehicles ended up on the police car's roof.
According to the police, the crash was caused by the driver of a slow-moving Seat Ibiza who emerged without looking from a service station, clipping the Lamborghini and sending the vehicle swerving into the parked cars.
The front end of the Lamborghini was crushed in the accident, near Cremona, and the driver and a passenger were injured, although not seriously.
The Lamborghini Gallardo, worth £130,000 and capable of reaching 62mph in four seconds, was one of a pair donated by the Italian manufacturer to the police to do battle on Italy's roads, where 1 million motorists are injured annually and 4,731 died last year.
Both cars include transmitters to send images back to HQ, a defibrillator for accidents and a fridge for transporting donor organs. The two officers were returning from a convention in Cremona, where they had been addressed a student audience on road safety.
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December 1st, 2009 05:28 PM #2
Would the San Juan Police's nitrous equipped Altis patrol car have the same fate?
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December 1st, 2009 05:33 PM #3
^Nah! Compared to the roads which the Italian Polizia use, San Juan traffic is waaaaaaaay too SLOW.
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December 1st, 2009 07:26 PM #4
:sad:
Hmmm.... could it have been the lambo was chasing an escaping vehicle making the driver not to break instantly upon seeing the oncoming vehicle ?
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December 1st, 2009 07:56 PM #5
wow me police na pala tayo na ganyan. kawawa naman lambo sana binigay nalang sa akin
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December 1st, 2009 11:21 PM #7
Ooohh nasty! But then again they already have the new LP560-4 Polizia so they figured they'd just crash the old gallardo polizia.
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December 2nd, 2009 02:07 PM #8
O.T. i wonder why honda doesnt want their cars to be used as police cars or taxis...not reliable?
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December 2nd, 2009 02:28 PM #9
Sigh... that old chestnut?
Honda doesn't want its cars used as police or taxi vehicles because they want to maintain the "prestige" view of the brand here in the Philippines.
In other countries, there are Honda taxis.
In fact... in Germany, you can now buy a special CR-V diesel taxi package:
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2008/08...i-taxi-in.html
Honda doesn't want its cars as taxis here, because a lot of people here see taxis as "cheap" and "common". The number one reason some people use not to buy a Corolla (and it's a damn stupid reason) is that it's "mukhang taxi". Thus Honda imprints the image of the Civic as a "premium" or "sosi" car upon the public by dissuading buyers from using it as a taxi.
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