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Police mercedes ML
yorki:
The Greater manchester police are famous for their use of Range rovers and we have all heard stories of Police Range rover's towing 40 ton artics off the motorway.
Recently though the Greater Manchester police have been running around in Mercedes ML's ,but I bet they had the Range rovers this week when I saw 2 ML's towing an Artic off the motorway when 1 rangie would have done it before. I believe the GMP went for the ML's was because of the running cost of the Range Rovers ,but if it takes 2 to do the job of 1 rangie wouldn't that be cheaper .
Jim-Willy:
Nice to hear the coppers aren't wasting our money on stupid vehicles :roll:
Rich_P:
I had been informed they were going for the X5 as a replacement to the Rangies... :shock:
Their reasoning is not the mechanical aspect, as like, the Jaguar engines are superb, but the electrics were unreliable, and there had been conflicts between the police kit with the Rangie's computer stuff.
yorki:
Hi Steel .
Travel the M62 , M60 every day and GMP are definetly using Mercedes ML's , BMW 5 series estates and the odd Volvo V70. Not seen an X5 yet.
The Highway agency are using Ford Galaxy's and series 3 Discoverys so thats a plus on thier part.
Bush Tucker Man:
West Yorkshire Traffic has Range Rover L322's Sean, I've seen 2 differant ones at the Hospital.
They've got at least 1 Discovery 2, but it's fitted with a pneumatic light mast through the roof.
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