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UK police forces are currently evaluating a version of the Jaguar XF Diesel S designed to be a high-performance pursuit vehicle.
The base model is the XF 3.0 Diesel S Luxury and adds on a roof-mounted light bar with 3600 blue flashing lights and integrated side alley lights, blue and white flashing LEDs inside the front grille, side mounted blue flashing LED lights, blue and red flashing LED lights integrated in the rear lamp clusters, and a Home Office-specification electronics ‘Police pack’ to power the full suite of lights, radio and other police equipment.
The XF Diesel S is powered by a 3.0 litre turbodiesel V6. 0 to 60mph can be hit in 5.9 seconds. There are two versions of this engine available and the one in the Diesel S is a twin turbocharged “parallel-sequential” version where a small turbo is used at low revs to quickly build up boost while at high revs a bigger one takes over, much like the engines in the BMW 335d and 123d.
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
Wow, this has to be good
This engine is pretty spectacular. There is a significant difference to BMW's turbo diesel engine though. BMW has a two stage twin turbo system as described in this blog post. But Jaguar's big turbo is on all the time while the small turbo will join in, in parallel from 2800rpm and upwards. Dig down into the specs and what you will find is:
275bhp
600Nm
42mpg (combined)
Read those three stats again. If this isn't a miracle engine, I don't know what is!
Pity that ghastly police stripes pasted on the side of such a beauty car
BMW police car better
[quote comment="241671"]BMW police car better[/quote]
Why?
How do you substantiate "better" in terms of a police vehicle?
I wonder how many of you have seen the Dodge Magnum Police Package……thats hell of one mean looking police cruiser.
275bhp
600Nm
42mpg (combined)
Read those three stats again. If this isn’t a miracle engine, I don’t know what is!
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Wow….i want one…600nm + 42mpg!!!!
The best police car is cheap and fast. if you guys watch top gear you would understand. they are right
High speed chase in UK? Where? Malaysians got better faster roads. They already have Subaru WRX chase vehicle which handles better, more practical and cheaper than this. 4×4 too.
With this car, they will be affraid to hit anyone. Maybe this is "buy british" slogan.
I don't see a 3.5l perdana V8 model for high speed chase:P
wah, very luxurious for police cruiser.
This is the future of police cruisers.. Diesel powered machine which combine good performance and at the same time, frugal on fuel.. best of two world
I want to be a british cop…
plant in house
[quote comment="241671"]BMW police car better[/quote]
lamborghini n corvette police car are better
Polis Malaysia gunalah Ferrari Enzo lak. Kater Kerajaan Byk duit,
[quote comment="243100"]Polis Malaysia gunalah Ferrari Enzo lak. Kater Kerajaan Byk duit,[/quote]
how to buy ferrari?? People already makes so much noise when our police force bought evos. People here are so proud with high performance police cars in overseas, but they only want our police just use proton instead. Malaysian always think police spend the taxpayers money to buy something. They actually forget, police benefits from traffic offenders millions.