Australian Police Department Adds BMW i8 To Its Fleet
As far as police cars go, this is a pretty cool one, isn’t it? It was handed over from BMW Sydney to the New South Wales police department this month and will cover the Rose Bay Local Area Command.
However, as we’ve seen before with these ultra-cool cop cars, this one isn’t a high-speed pursuit vehicle. Instead, it’s been created as a tool to “break down barriers between police and the community,” according to Superintendent Brad Hodde.
He went on to say: “It enables the community to come up and start talking about the car. That conversation then leads to them opening up and they find out that we’re not such bad people after all.”
It makes sense: from our experience, the i8 gets a lot of attention even when it isn’t liveried up like a cop car…
Sources: BMW Blog, Car Scoops
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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go sydney!
“It enables the community to come up and start talking about the car. That conversation then leads to them opening up and they find out that we’re not such bad people after all.”
If you wanted to do that you should have just imported an S15.
and then defected it…
The only reason I’d become a policeman in Australia…
If they want to “break down barriers between the police and the community” shouldn’t they have a Mustang?
Oh I8 all of these new Police cars
Meanwhile in Malaysia…
Expensive & really cool police car which could be used to stop speeders: Check!
Said police car is not really used for anything: DING DING DING WE’VE GOT A WINNER!
Typical Australian government, even when they get exotic police cars they choose a weakass 3 banger