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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 06:31 AM
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Police Vehicle Evaluation

This is the test data for currently available police cars, as performed by the Michigan State Police. The results begin on page 27:

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/ms...p_182663_7.pdf

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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 06:40 AM
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interesting.
Why is the Charger called a "DODGER CHARGER?" Then below it shows "DODGE MAGNUM" I think they put an extra "R" on there.
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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 07:00 AM
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Very interesting and a neat read, specially since I live in MI (not that I would ever run from the Police
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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 08:41 AM
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there's no difference between the 3.5L Magnum and the 5.7L Charger in the acceleration tests...that's definitely wrong.
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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 09:35 AM
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Allright nice find ! Now I know that the only one that would still see me in the horizon on a chase is the 5.7l black charger lol

Not that I would run from the police cuz that's stupid.
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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by anjapower
there's no difference between the 3.5L Magnum and the 5.7L Charger in the acceleration tests...that's definitely wrong.
Something is definitely wrong; you misread the results. The two aren't even close in acceleration. For example, their respective average 0-60 is 8.99sec vs 6.53sec. There's also a summary of all results starting on page 38. Something tells me you didn't look very closely at the document.

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