The Range Rover Freelander drew attention at the NAPFM thanks to its 2.2L Stop-Start diesel.
year on year. That is due to a much improved model range that has almost seen the demise of many cars in its range following the rationalization of the Evo high-performance models. Mitsubishi’s new baby Mirage was on show but of more inter-
est is the long-serving Shogun and recently announced updates to the Outlander and L200. The Outlander will soon be avail- able as a plug-in hybrid model.
PEUGEOT French-owned Peugeot is also one of the major players in the Emergency 999 market and was displaying its in-house capabili- ties with a number of cars and light commercials. Its interesting stand—one of the largest at the show—showed off both ends of its expertise with a selection of beat cars, cell vans, and dog vehicles along with Scenes of Crime light commercials. One show star was the ultra-covert 508 diesel hybrid hatch,
which marks a new era in hybrid motoring and an expansion of the unique diesel hybrid offering from Peugeot. To show the breadth of the firm’s specialized Vehicle Operation in Coventry, the mid-range Expert has been the subject of high-level talks between the French factory and the U.K. workshops to make the vehicle more compatible with the needs of emergency services throughout Europe. Inquiries were also made about a new high-performance 208
GTi police car; the firm was staying tight-lipped on whether one would ever be made for policing duties.
VAUXHALL (GM) Vauxhall has also had a busy year—an Astra sports tourer was recently shown to the Brit Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) as a “future proofed” police vehicle. Vauxhall claims the prototype model is a technological tour
de force boasting a host of features, which help make it among other things a mobile police station; three computers have built- in forensic and face recognition software, high-definition cam- eras can scan suspects’ faces while on mobile patrol, and CCTV footage can be downloaded and streamed live to a central crime database with its coup de grace the ability to predict crime “hot spots.”
The Jaguar 340 really was used as a frontline police vehicle in the late-1960s; the very expensive current models, not so much.
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