http://jalopnik.com/5323679/over+fun...-is+f/gallery/

 

I saw this on the Autocar site:

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsAr...llCars/241857/

I'm sure they got a good deal off Lexus UK and it makes a change from the usual BMW 5-series, Volvos and Jags.

When I worked in Humberside the police used to run a number of Subaru Impreza WRXs, some with the back seats taken out and replaced with a dog cage and a German Shepherd. They'd chase car thieves and when they crashed or ran off, flick open the back door and set the dog after them.

 

nice change up. I love the ISF. I wonder why they are selling like **** though. I have only seen 2 or 3 since they first came out

 

i don't think they make that many do they? and if it's like other lexus manufacturing, the customers gets little or no 'choice' in color/options unless you want to order and wait a year.

 

Maybe for some in the US it takes up to a year, but not in Japan, and the custom-ordered ones for Norway's royal family, officials in Iceland, Monaco etc. didn't take that long...

 

so, when someone gets arrested, do they sit in the front seat?

cuz you know this thing has zero rear passenger space right?...

 

Good point. Tall criminal ( crims in the UK) will have to ride shot gun and behave themselves.

 

I've seen them about 10x here.

 

Part of the punishment

 

Nobody can resist Lexus smoothness and the reliability.

 

or put them in the trunk, james bond style.

 

The IS-F hasnt sold well in the US but you must admit some people are skeptical. and most people dont buy 65-70k lexus for performance. but using it as a police car seems kind of stupid and expensive. and heres a comment that makes complete sense. it was a comment on the article


"I really would like to see the report in which they justified spending $88k on a Lexus police car. Who are they trying to catch? Retired rich grandpas who are hooning??"

 

Actually the IS-F has sold on par with the M3 sedan, which has given Lexus execs cause to move forward or more -F models.

The other day I saw a Corvette police car here in SoCal, I guess they want to have their 'chase vehicle'.

 

I'm happy for Lexus to get some extra sales outta the F. I'm just shocked that it was chosen as a police car in terms of say backseat room and what not. Either way, if I'm gonna get arrested, I hope its in the UK!! lol

 

niiiice.. i'd want to be a cop out there just so i could drive one of those bad boys