For anyone that's interested, take a look:

http://www.policecaruk.com/40YearsOfGMPRan...overs.html 2010 MY Vogue SE TDV8 3.6 Stornoway Grey- fully loaded

Thanks for the link noddy, interesting read

Wonder why thy moved over to the rubbish X5 when ffrr like the tdv8 are more powerful and drink just as much juice?? Maybe depreciation isn't as bad on them, shame really

Thanks for the link Noddy

I was talking to some Strathclyde Traffic boys at an RTC recently and they have done the some and changed to X5's and are now really regretting it but that the pension protecting pencil pushers don't and won't understand the difference . 2008 MY Supercharged
Rimini Red / Jet
four zone climate
remote park heater
and no ugly kid windows.
magnus satis quod turpis satis

An interesting read from an outsider's POV and unfortunately another case of how everything is changing in this country (for the worse IMHO), it's happening across all sectors, used to be just the bean counters getting control and screwing things up but now there are people getting control of decisions that they don't have a clue about and will not be held accountable for so there's really no pressure to ensure the decisions made are correct and the right people are very rarely consulted.

Sounds like a bit of a moan, not supposed to be just a realistic view unfortunately.

Interesting read nonetheless, thx.

Thought it might be interesting to add a few piccie's that I have on my pc. They are of a Girvan Range Rover ambulance after a head on RTC (wasn't me driving) with an articulated truck.
I was lucky enough in my career to drive these vehicles & apart from extreme body roll they were magnificent.
Robert.





Admin note: this post has had its images recovered from a money grabbing photo hosting site and reinstated  The reason women's minds are cleaner than a mans mind is that women change their minds more often!
When women say fine a mans in deep doodoo as fine has so many meanings.

Its a matter of cost - simple. If like us in London the traffic fleet is BMW then getting an X5 instead of a Rangie is much cheaper.
However even they are considered to ostentatious for our service so we ended up with Shoguns...  2006 MY Autobiography. With 'toys'
Honda ST1300 Pan European

Gone
Jaguar 3.0 SE X Type
Honda CBR1100XX Blackbird

TJF by the way for anyone who knows what that means.