Re:<WOB> the ultimate police machine

["Bruce Heersink" <gobuffs93@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I've heard rumours about this before but today i saw one for myself: an 
>E36 M3 police car. At the first glance you could mistake this car for 
the 
>usual green and white 316, 318 or 320 cars which are frequently 
>patrolling the streets in this part of bavaria but closer inspection 
>revealed this to be a genuine M3 (badge, alloy wheels, body kit, big 
>brakes ...). It had a wedge-shaped thing on the roof with the usual 
blue 
>lights and display plus some small black thingies on top which i could 
>not identify in the short time. I bet this car is equipped as a pursuit 
car.
>I wonder if there are more M-cars used as police cars around the world 
>and this reminded me of the Porsche 928 which was equipped as autobahn 
>pursuit car in the early eighties.

what you saw was supposedly the last (or was it the 50,000th? i have 
heard both rumors) E36 M3 given to one police precint somewhere in 
Germany...another BMW police car is the E34 M5 that BMW gave to the 
South Carolina State Police back when BMW got the OK to build a factory 
there (i think they have since given it back to BMW)...this isn't 
counting the states that have bought BMW motorcycles (California comes 
to mind)

Bruce
98 M roadster

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