There is a Police Equipment Show in Beijing, and it’s a meeting of the minds: Chinese cops want to get out of their Santana wagons (read gen 2 Passat Variant), and Chinese carmakers want a slice of the lucrative government pie. Our friend Tycho of ChinaCarNews (formerly known as TheTycho.com) went to the show and took his camera along. Above a uniformed Shanghai-Volkswagen Passat Lingyu, the logical successor of the ubiquitous Shanghai-Volkswagen Santana. More Chinese police after the jump …
Brilliance brought two cars which they hope to sell as Chinese cop cruisers. This is a Brilliance FSV.
And this a Brilliance BS6. This is the car I would take. It’s got my name on it.
The Suzuki Alto, a kei car of Japanese lineage, is probably better suited for parking regulation enforcement than for the hot pursuit of speeding bimmers.
Ford fields a Mondeo. In lieu of Panther love …
Dongfeng-Nissan shows an X-Terra, complete with video equipment.
More pictures of China cop cruiser hopefuls at ChinaCarNews.
I can’t imagine the nightmare of trying to maintain a fleet of VW police cruisers. The motor pool must order ABS modules, coil packs, and MAF meters by the gross.
Do they get as excited about lighting setups as do some folks here?
Apparently not. The light bars look at least a decade out of date, there are no strobes/LEDs in the mirrors, and none of them have a cow catcher with a quad light setup. I should send them a Galls Catalog….