VIDEO: Carbon Motors E7 purpose-built police car
Remember the Carbon Motors E7 purpose-built police car that this blog covered sometime last year?
The car has become a reality now and Carbon Motors is now trying to pitch the purpose-built vehicle to police departments, and what better way to do that than to showcase it at the 115th Annual International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference in San Diego.
Their pitch is simple and makes sense. While other servicemen like fire fighters and even postal delivery personnel get specialised vehicles, the 800,000 law enforcement officers in the US and pretty much all over the world have to make do with retrofitted vehicles not designed to function as a police vehicle, though I bet the Italian policemen who are assigned to the Lamborghini police cars probably don’t have much to complain about that.
Carbon Motors also claims the E7 has a lower cost of ownership, which could be a major draw factor for the US government who has had to blow plenty of cash recently on its financial sector bail-out. They’ve even done a comparison chart between the E7 and its competitors to show its advantages.
A quick point-form run-down of the specs is available after the jump together with a video of the E7. We now also have shots of the interior, complementing the 3D renderings of the exterior we saw last year.
VIDEO: Carbon Motors E7
VIDEO: Carbon Motors E7 – Roadshow Promo
PHOTO GALLERY: Carbon Motors E7
Click thumbnails to view high resolution photo
November 11, 2008 @ 5:29 pm
first! yay!
November 11, 2008 @ 5:32 pm
Wow…Cool!! Remind me the transformer..ah.. i forgot what its called..that police robot
November 11, 2008 @ 5:33 pm
damn…2nd..haha
November 11, 2008 @ 5:34 pm
It looks….. odd. A bit like a elongated Savvy or some sort. But it’ll serve well I think. XD
November 11, 2008 @ 5:37 pm
for being first, you will wake up tomorrow morning with one hand missing and your head under the bed being totally separated from your body, but you would still be alive! LOL.
man, this is a good pitch for the police officers. and i’d agree it’s a step in the right direction. but but….it has 18inch STEEL wheels???? (i’m assuming that’s not referring to the tyres). wouldn’t some other material be lighter and stronger than that?
diesel too. woohoo loads of torque. i’m guessing all that equipment is bogging down the car and preventing it from doing a better 0-100 time. 50%/50% weight distribution is good too! does it comply with pedestrain safety standards and what is its NCAP rating?
wouldn’t want to waste precious little police officers in accidents in this vehicle.
November 11, 2008 @ 5:41 pm
well… it surely somethng that public never gets… how big is the engine capacity?
November 11, 2008 @ 5:41 pm
300hp? cool!!!..
November 11, 2008 @ 5:46 pm
Just like transformers deception, it just totally cool, anyway how much will it be?
November 11, 2008 @ 5:49 pm
i wonder if the villain could steal this car from the cops.
sure the cops will have tough time catching up with the villain :p
November 11, 2008 @ 6:02 pm
maybe after this they will produce real ROBOCOP..
November 11, 2008 @ 6:11 pm
wonder what would happen to all the crown victorias in the US. Most of that model’s sales comes from police car purchases.
November 11, 2008 @ 6:16 pm
75 MILES per hour rear crash capability
1) Is that a typo or something?
2) So does it mean that the crimal have better protection than the cops?
3) As far as i know you would want police to do the crashing. Not the criminals. Someone has been playing to much Need For Speed…
November 11, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
not bad… they should have more blue flashers !!!
November 11, 2008 @ 6:42 pm
Picture one of these sneaking up your rear view mirror…
November 11, 2008 @ 6:46 pm
It does look like something that would roll off Proton’s production line…heheh…so I guess Proton designers have a reason to be proud…no? =P
November 11, 2008 @ 7:04 pm
looks like a toy car. haha
November 11, 2008 @ 7:54 pm
wow, this is an awesome car. there are switches and folding things all over the places.
November 11, 2008 @ 8:12 pm
its beyond awsome cool!!!.. 300 bhp!!! wow..
November 11, 2008 @ 8:30 pm
it is lotus designed if u followed paul’s blog from last year, so theres something for proton to be proud of
anyways, its a very nice stealth plane-ish car, i dont want to be chased by that. heck this is even faster than a stock evo
November 11, 2008 @ 8:38 pm
wow..IF Msia got this patrol car,im pretty much sure that more people would like to join the force..hehe..in Traffic la..
weewoooweewoooweewooo..beri laluan.beri laluan..
November 11, 2008 @ 9:09 pm
frontalside design of the car really have the lines similar to the satria Neo.
Yeah this car is awesome!
Better then the italians polizia Lambo?
I think not
November 11, 2008 @ 9:14 pm
this car is only applicable to US anyway… we only can watch and drool over it… Waja as Malaysian police cars consider not safe as its a family sedan *roflmao*
November 11, 2008 @ 10:11 pm
extremely COOL
November 11, 2008 @ 10:35 pm
Hie,
Yup, this car reminds me a lot of Robocop series. Most likely the designer loves to watch Robocop too. LOL.
Owh yeah, it resembles a little bit like oversize Proton Waja, especially the rim and the front fender.
That police car does resemble a little bit like Barricade of the Decepticon.
I wonder if our Malaysian police will buy these cars too for hot pursuit.
November 11, 2008 @ 10:52 pm
nice car…better than many passenger car…
i dont know why everytime i look at it..it just remind me of a proton…
front bonnet looks like a waja
side fender looks like satria neo
front lights and all looks like proton savvy..
find out whose the designer for this..i bet he is a ex proton man..hehe
November 11, 2008 @ 11:07 pm
wa.. look like robocop car already.. kakaka.
the roof need some rework.. not nice.
November 11, 2008 @ 11:47 pm
‘nice car…better than many passenger car…’
-prem3377
I bet nobody wants to be a passenger on this car.
It have spacing to put hands at the back- handcuffed.
November 12, 2008 @ 12:19 am
nice man!
now police really got true authority and can participate in illegal races.
but cannot do PIT maneveures anymore since the car like a gem. lol.
November 12, 2008 @ 12:23 am
i think there ll be version of e7 for civilian later…like hummer h1, h2 n h3..and sure the rich ‘bling2′ hip hop guy ll be interested on it…hehe
November 12, 2008 @ 12:28 am
Wisdom said,
(I bet nobody wants to be a passenger on this car.)
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This is only your opinion, may be need to do modification at the interior, especially the seat, don’t compare your mind with other’s.
Paul Tan says: I think he means he does not want to be arrested by the police!
November 12, 2008 @ 7:04 am
Why doesn’t Proton negotiate for the rights to build the right-hand-drive versions for ASEAN/UK/Australia/NZ. Perhaps their R&D or LG CNS can improve it.
November 12, 2008 @ 7:43 am
whiteeye and wisodm has something to settle between them…
November 12, 2008 @ 7:47 am
pls dont spoil this topic with proton issue..or G issue..
November 12, 2008 @ 10:10 am
no wonder it resemblances so much of waja’s body. good job proton…i mean lotus! too! too bad will never see car like this in msia. say, who wants to go for a free ride hehehe.
November 12, 2008 @ 11:25 am
“This is only your opinion, may be need to do modification at the interior, especially the seat, don’t compare your mind with other’s.”
-whiteeye
Yes i believe you want to be the passenger of that car. Straight to ‘lokap’.
“Paul Tan says: I think he means he does not want to be arrested by the police!”
Thanks Paul for clearing that up.
“whiteeye and wisdom has something to settle between them…”
-autojohndoe
Haha. No heart feeling huh whieteye.
November 12, 2008 @ 11:40 am
ha ha ha…to punish and to enslave
November 12, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
To Paul Tan
Paul Tan says: I think he means he does not want to be arrested by the police!—
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How dare you to insult me, this is between me and Wisdom none of your business, mine your on business, what wrong to product it, as the design is cool. I have misunderstanding to respect this kind of person, anyway mind your on business.
November 12, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
To Paul Tan,
If you want to block me from signing in, fine! I’m not interested anyway, do careful words that come form you!
November 12, 2008 @ 12:50 pm
We are more not interested with you either!
Rubbish!
November 12, 2008 @ 1:27 pm
pls la whiteeye, dont make it personal…
later it can be ‘Whiteeye bashing forum’ … sori to say…
November 12, 2008 @ 2:13 pm
Legendary Whiteeye…huh!
November 12, 2008 @ 2:18 pm
“do careful words that come form you!”
-whiteeye
Its not ‘form’. Its ‘from’.
Calm down.
Good words come from calm heart.
And i believe Paul are being fair to justify my sentences. You’re getting funnier whiteeye.
November 12, 2008 @ 2:21 pm
‘mine your on business’
-whiteeye
Which means ‘my own are on top of your business’? Is that what you trying to tell us whiteeye?
November 12, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
‘what wrong to product it’
-whiteeye
What the heck is that? Haha. Marvelous!!! Priceless!!
November 12, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
Wisdom thanks for reminder glad to had an “English teacher” my ass, this is only the beginning, watch ur step!
bmpower and autojohndoe, if you want to get involve in it, you’re welcome!
November 12, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
wohoo..
whiteeye :
Paul has every rights and business to comment watever he wanted in his own site i believe..
ur d one who had issues with one of the forumnist in the forum, n i also believe that its none of our business to even know what u guys are quarreling about right?
(sorry, i dont know what happen between u n wisdom)
also, i dont think anyone insults u here..Paul is just clearing out some points that u misunderstood.
nonetheless, please get over ur arguments somewhere else n if can..no need to get too personal i hope..
everyone have their own piece of mind to share right? so chill
happy motoring~
November 12, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
Rufus,
Nothing much happen actually. Its just me and our friend whiteeye aka whiner having some english tution.
Paul will never ban people because i believe he understand the concept of online blogging / forum. Its an open world. But he got limit too.
Some people easily got offended like our whiteeye whiner here. But he’ll learn.
November 12, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
whiteeye said,
November 12, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
To Paul Tan
Paul Tan says: I think he means he does not want to be arrested by the police!—
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How dare you to insult me, this is between me and Wisdom none of your business, mine your on business, what wrong to product it, as the design is cool. I have misunderstanding to respect this kind of person, anyway mind your on business.
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whiteye.. just cool down bro. and paul wasnt trying to be sarcastic. so no need to get upset. and as rufus said, everything said in this blog is paul’s business anyways. we are just the ones who “tumpang” here.
also, its a public forum.. whatever you say or do, everyone can see it. so what you’re saying is also our business.. the quicker you understand that, the less upset you will feel. so just relax man.
November 12, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
[
whiteeye said:
Wisdom thanks for reminder glad to had an “English teacher” my ass, this is only the beginning, watch ur step!
bmpower and autojohndoe, if you want to get involve in it, you’re welcome ]
Now everyone scared already, pls whiteye, dont hurt us!!! Pls go somewhere else..pls,pls..we r so afraid of u… (suggestion : english class)
( With that kind of attitude, you r inviting everyone.
)
November 12, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
get into the e7 car! get into the e7 car!
there is a chaos out here….
u will be safer in there…
November 12, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
Yeah, back “into” the e7 car; i believe one day the car will be sold to public like the humvee, because i think lots of non-police people like the car..
November 12, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
i think there will be new ROBOCOP movie and the car will be featured… i am waiting for it….
November 12, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
Only to Wisdom, watch out ur word, i don’t need your tuition, if you so educated go and be a lawyer,do you think that you have the right to judge people’s English , don’t play a fool of me, You are the one who started it, so be it!
RCM do you want to get involved in it? If you don’t know anything just shut up!
November 12, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
Rear door is suicide type. cooooool!!!!!!
November 12, 2008 @ 5:04 pm
“whiteeye said,
November 12, 2008 @ 12:28 am
Wisdom said,
(I bet nobody wants to be a passenger on this car.)
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This is only your opinion, may be need to do modification at the interior, especially the seat, don’t compare your mind with other’s.
Paul Tan says: I think he means he does not want to be arrested by the police!”
-The post where it all started. Thanks.
November 12, 2008 @ 5:07 pm
pls dont start it again….
everybody!!!! get back into e7 car!!! there is likely chaos to happen again….
hahaha… no hard feeling though…
November 12, 2008 @ 5:56 pm
after watching the clips, it really looks like how they introduced robocop in the first movie lol.
November 12, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
i wonder..
the car itself is a beauty..
will they really use the PIT maneuvers to stop bandits..?
huhuuu…habis la calar kereta…
one more thing…the siren lights…if broken…how much are the repair job?
walauu…;)
November 12, 2008 @ 7:40 pm
“pls dont start it again….
everybody!!!! get back into e7 car!!! there is likely chaos to happen again….
hahaha… no hard feeling though…”
-autojohndoe
Let me in! Let me in! Its a lost Wild Bore out here!
Haha. Piece.
November 12, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
english teacher…
peace or piece..?
LOL just kidding man… ;p
November 12, 2008 @ 8:06 pm
Haha. This is hilarious.
I might want a piece of him. lol
November 12, 2008 @ 10:29 pm
cool car …like the consistency of lines
November 12, 2008 @ 10:47 pm
whiteeye no need english tution teacher.
He/she need Psychiatrist actually…
November 13, 2008 @ 8:53 am
bmpower said,
November 12, 2008 @ 10:47 pm
whiteeye no need english tution teacher.
He/she need Psychiatrist actually…
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i got friend work as Psychiatrist at tanjung rambutan, i can ask her to arrange the session….i really mean it..
November 13, 2008 @ 9:14 am
Its the new TrAnSfOrMeRs.
November 13, 2008 @ 10:23 am
I QUOTE:
“whiteeye said,
November 12, 2008 @ 12:02 pm ”
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I’ve been in Paul.Tan.Org or any other forums in the web for many years. This is the first time in my lifetime, I see an idiot who even doesn’t know what his writing (whiteeye) . There are times when I’m not in the same term with Paul.Tan (the owner of the website), but he is still a cool guy, brilliant enough to cater car enthusiasts to visit and unleashed their comments as well. He deserve my respect. But still, it is a taboo to ‘whack’ site admin without proper reason. Unlike you “whiteeye” you’re an asshole who doesn’t even know how to respect people. And your command and understanding of English language is very poor till’ you can’t even understand what “Wisdom” was trying to say! Typical idiot+arrogant+wannabe dogs+lowlife son-of-the-bitch. Your argument are basically non-substance with nothing at all to argue in the first place, just plainly post your idiotic comments without nothing in particular to say. Just wanna cheap attention. Well, you’ve got one; I’m giving you the “Paul.Tan’s best Blind-Idiot-Basher Award” to you “whiteeye”. Administrator of the website, please remove this asshole from the system. No point keeping his account in the server, you don’t want to taint your server with this idiot. He doesn’t even deserve 1 byte of the server’s memory! I rest my case.
November 13, 2008 @ 11:14 am
calm down everyone..
i think bro whiteeye just snap thats why he’s so mad..
n pls wisdom n others, dont tease him nor his english..
he’s just like us, cars enthusiasts..
p/s: siapa kata paul tak bagi komen dlm BM…? so, taip je la dlm BM…adoi laa…
(if thats the main reason why all of this started la…be nice ppl…)
November 13, 2008 @ 11:18 am
err..wonder whiteeye is malaysian or not?
November 13, 2008 @ 11:47 am
The misunderstanding factor in this ‘mataputih & bijak’ war because ‘mataputih’ say he wats this police car turned into passenger cars.
Its like say ‘beautiful’ to its friend but his friend don’t see the object.
Please write in full sentence,LOL. By the way, sure the police car look mean @ scary when its show up from behind, cos no way to outrun them. Just stop or be stopped(busted).
November 13, 2008 @ 11:49 am
fighter_B2500 said,
November 13, 2008 @ 8:53 am
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your psychiatrist fren at tanjung rambutan, is she pretty? i wan to meet her too
rufus-x said,
November 12, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
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you got a point there. nice to see, but how nice to maintain? unless there are no crimes that would damage the car.
November 13, 2008 @ 12:01 pm
He’s gone. Now nobody will entertain us.
November 13, 2008 @ 12:10 pm
bound and gag whiteeye and throw him into this cop car, let him struggle inside for an hour, then throw him in lockup let him get married to ‘Big Bear’ Billy.
November 13, 2008 @ 12:22 pm
ignas :
wouldnt it be nice if the nano-skin techs like the ones on knight-rider version 2008 truly exists…haha
(just saw the movie again last nite)
then all of us wud have a bumper car fiesta when we get bored LOL ;p
November 13, 2008 @ 2:09 pm
european police cars are the best, malaysian one you can outrun them anyday
November 13, 2008 @ 2:40 pm
rufus-x:
havent watch that movie yet, but i bet it would hehe. ok, its in my list of the next pasar malam visit
shhh…
mukhri88:
that joyride part reminds of me the movie, Grindhouse: Death Proof. owned! lol.
November 13, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
How can suicide doors improve the safety of this car? hence the name..
November 13, 2008 @ 8:22 pm
How can suicide doors improve the safety of this car? hence the name..
-Realeyes
Well i guess its more towards the safety of goods that will be transported using E7. Normal door could give him the opportunity to jump-out to freedom whereas suicide door will make him smashed to the tarmac for good.
November 13, 2008 @ 11:48 pm
This car just looks good.
Im sure if it’s released a civilian version would sell well too, just like the civilian hummer.
November 14, 2008 @ 11:06 am
Realeyes said,
November 13, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
How can suicide doors improve the safety of this car? hence the name..
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easier for the bandits to escape
November 14, 2008 @ 6:25 pm
this car if not half,it’s partially comparable to the lambo 560-4 which is currently being used for the italian polizias…damnit this car sure breaks badasses from running away even before it begins!
November 14, 2008 @ 10:19 pm
what the f**k is this !!!!!!! U guyz given me a “HEART-ATTACK” man !!!! A friendly comment from Paul Tan had been mis-intepreted till u guyzZz are bashin’ out !!!! Neway, ChIlL GuyzZz!!!!!! Mentally-disturbed guyZzZ are given exception here !!!!!
November 15, 2008 @ 3:06 pm
what car is this based on, dodge charger?