Just your "average Taxi" right.. WRONG Oh yes. It's intentionally designed to look like a taxi, no markings etc. Note the red lights, front & rear view mirror area. The roof sign actually says "Police" This is the latest POLICE RADAR CARS.. In use in Georgetown & Milton areas.
The Toronto Police Garage is just around the corner form my office. They work on "Taxis" in there all the time, plus utility company vans, Buick Allures, Chevy malibus, you never know what the police are driving anymore. I was talking to an officer at the Timmies one morning and he had this black V8 Taurus.Oh ya G6's and Montanas too.
That picture is pretty cool though.
-- Edited by 73SC on Monday 9th of November 2009 11:01:24 PM
they were using crown vics with ghost writing on the sides in london , but i've recently seen the crown vics without the lettering . a burgundy one & a grey one
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I was talking to an officer at the Timmies one morning and he had this black V8 Taurus.
-- Edited by 73SC on Monday 9th of November 2009 11:01:24 PM
Timmies, where else?
I never knew that there were V8 Taurus (other than an SHO, but I assume it was not one of those). Don't forget all the Tahoes, I saw a couple doing their dirty work today.
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I was talking to an officer at the Timmies one morning and he had this black V8 Taurus.
-- Edited by 73SC on Monday 9th of November 2009 11:01:24 PM
Timmies, where else?
I never knew that there were V8 Taurus (other than an SHO, but I assume it was not one of those).
It looks pretty much like this pic, out of 54 Divison too, uniformed officers drive it. I was talking to him at the Bermondsey/O'Connor Tims back in August. It just looked old so I struck up the conversation to get the scoop.
Such a blast to drive! However, the only people that fly past me, are women! It's like they are clueless!!!
The best was on Halloween at night. I had a black coat on and going home. I see this kid speeding, and decided to stay at the stop sign. He finally see's me, and hammers on his breaks. ends up going through the stop sign, almost in the middle of the intersection, and stops there. When I drove slowly by him (since I couldn't give him a ticket). Just seeing his face... Priceless. I am sure he had to change his pants after that one!!!! He knew he would have gotten a bad ticket!
-- Edited by mike667 on Tuesday 10th of November 2009 09:27:47 AM
-- Edited by mike667 on Tuesday 10th of November 2009 09:28:39 AM
they were using crown vics with ghost writing on the sides in london , but i've recently seen the crown vics without the lettering . a burgundy one & a grey one
grey one I personally was greeted by that one He just wanted to give me some paper to read!!!
The 3.4 L SHO V8 was introduced in the spring of 1996. It incorporated many of the traits of the SHO V6, including the aluminum cylinder heads and 4-valve per cylinderDOHC design, but differed with an aluminum rather than iron block and no variable length intake manifold. The SHO V8 has a split port style intake valve setup. The primary valve is exposed all the time and has the fuel injector spraying on it, while the secondary valve is only exposed when the Intake Runner Manifold Control opens the secondary plates at 3400 rpm. Power was similar too, at 235 hp (175 kW) and 230 lb·ft (312 N·m) of torque.[1]
Bore and stroke were identical to the Duratec 25 at 82.4 mm and 79.5 mm, respectively. The engines shared other traits as well, and insiders report that the designs are related, though not closely. Notably, the two engines share the same bell housing pattern and 60° V angle. The 60° angle makes it compact and more suitable for transverse mounting, but it is not ideally balancedV8s are typically 90°necessitating the use of a counter-rotating balance shaft.
Manufacturing was also a shared process. Ford manufactured the aluminum engine blocks, using a patented Cosworth process, at their Windsor, Ontario plant, then shipped them to Japan for finishing by Yamaha. The finished engines were shipped back to the Taurus plant in Atlanta, Georgia for installation.
Unlike the SHO V6, the SHO V8's valvetrain was an "interference" design, one that is shared by many engines built today, meaning that the piston will collide with the valves if the camshaft or timing chain fails. Due to some cam sprocket failures, the engine acquired a reputation for potentially catastrophic failure.
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