Re: Caprice vs. Interceptor vs. Impala vs Charger

by JB2wheeler on Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:36 am

My daughter has a Volkswagon, forget model name, that is 4 wheel drive. Every time her or my son in law have to drive in deep snow they use the Volks instead of the Hyundai Sonata, but when they need to go on a long trip they take the sonata because it gets better gas milage and is more dependable. The Volks has not been a bad car, but when they drive in deep snow they always tear off (twice) a big plastic pan that covers something vital underneath and they have to buy a new one and is rather expensive. JB

by IndyG3 on Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:17 pm

Back to the police cars in question, anybody think GM will actually bring out a RWD vehicle like a new Caprice anytime soon?

by JB2wheeler on Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:20 pm

I think they will. Dont forget, for every cop version they sell they will sell 10 Taxi versions of the same car. I believe the only reason they did away with the 96 Impalas was because the government was bitching so much about gas milage. JB

by pila on Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:59 pm

I believe the gas mileage thing is based on the average of all models from the mfgr. Maybe there were not enough small cars to make up an acceptable average gas mileage (?)

by ant7377 on Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:14 pm

The new Caprice cop cars are out already, not all over but some places have them already. They are not selling it to the public(at least not yet) .