Police are wrong - help me prove it!
16 June 2004, 09:45 PM
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Police are wrong - help me prove it!
Right, I need serious help to settle a dispute with a policeman friend of mine. He's made a claim about how speedy his Volvo T5 is. I can't argue with his "under 7 seconds to 60", but he's claiming a 0-100 time I just can't believe. What I need is evidence, as opposed to guesstimates. I've tried various mags, but none I've got give the all-important 0-100 time. Come on guys - help me put one over on my friend in blue!
16 June 2004, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Dave Blows
Right, I need serious help to settle a dispute with a policeman friend of mine. He's made a claim about how speedy his Volvo T5 is. I can't argue with his "under 7 seconds to 60", but he's claiming a 0-100 time I just can't believe. What I need is evidence, as opposed to guesstimates. I've tried various mags, but none I've got give the all-important 0-100 time. Come on guys - help me put one over on my friend in blue!
16 June 2004, 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Dave Blows
Right, I need serious help to settle a dispute with a policeman friend of mine. He's made a claim about how speedy his Volvo T5 is. I can't argue with his "under 7 seconds to 60", but he's claiming a 0-100 time I just can't believe. What I need is evidence, as opposed to guesstimates. I've tried various mags, but none I've got give the all-important 0-100 time. Come on guys - help me put one over on my friend in blue!
16 June 2004, 09:58 PM
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It is nigh on impossible for a production car's 0-100 time to be less than double the 0-60 time. So if he's saying less than 14 secs he is very optimistic.
17 secs as mentioned sounds about right
17 secs as mentioned sounds about right
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16 June 2004, 10:51 PM
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police car
It is a police car we're talking about - he's a traffic cop. A 2003 model. Not modded in any way, apparently. Don't know any more. But it is because his motor is fully kitted out with all the police paraphernalia that I've entered this debate with him about the 0-100 time he reckons he can post. The interesting thing is that he can't prove it with "official" stats any more than I can disprove it. Until someone can deliver evidence from an unquestioned source. It's not life or death - but I'm desperate to prove him wrong!
16 June 2004, 11:04 PM
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If he is that sure then get him to take you out with a stop watch 
T5s are fast though - dont forget Volvo have a special police development unit and some forces spec their own and they are not standard cars by any means.
T5s are fast though - dont forget Volvo have a special police development unit and some forces spec their own and they are not standard cars by any means.
16 June 2004, 11:16 PM
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http://tnmotorsports.com/dyno.htm
Get him to find out the poundage of his traffic car with his (lightweight I'm sure) colleague in it!!!
0-100? The whole shift including doghnut stops! 
Get him to find out the poundage of his traffic car with his (lightweight I'm sure) colleague in it!!!
0-100? The whole shift including doghnut stops!
17 June 2004, 07:59 AM
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I was shown round a Police V70 T5 at Boxhill last summer - he claimed the car had near 300bhp after the mods. Standard was 250. So obviously some forces do up their spec slightly.
17 June 2004, 08:33 AM
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High Speed Reponse Units/Vehicles are modded. They have to be to compensate for huge weight increases created by all the Police gubbins they have to lug about. Why would they purchase a fleet of e.g. T5's with say 250 bhp when the weight of their gear could potentially reduce that power output quite substantially.
I also know that Surreys fleet of T5's are serviced at a local Volvo dealership so no regular in-house police servicing for the T5's. I wonder why
I also know that Surreys fleet of T5's are serviced at a local Volvo dealership so no regular in-house police servicing for the T5's. I wonder why
17 June 2004, 10:16 AM
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I also know that Surreys fleet of T5's are serviced at a local Volvo dealership so no regular in-house police servicing for the T5's. I wonder why
17 June 2004, 01:14 PM
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17 June 2004, 01:48 PM
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tell him to check out last months evo mag, you'll see all 0-100 times for a variety of impreza's, can't remember what mine was but my 0-140 time was 19.8 seconds that's pretty impresive 
............don't think his volvo will touch that
i am awaiting a court appearance as we speak, the officer who caught me told me that nothing the leicestershire constabulary had would touch mine...............shortly before handing me my ticket
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that's pretty impresive ............don't think his volvo will touch that
i am awaiting a court appearance as we speak, the officer who caught me told me that nothing the leicestershire constabulary had would touch mine...............shortly before handing me my ticket
LOL
17 June 2004, 04:22 PM
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check out www.autotrader.co.uk and do a search for volvo and it'll list all the models S70 and V70 are there
S70 and V70 are there
17 June 2004, 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Cupramax
S60 you mean... no such thing as an S70
no such thing as an S70Noooooooooooooooooo, definitely no such thing as an S70.
Last edited by Nathan L; 18 June 2004 at 12:10 AM.
17 June 2004, 11:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Nathan L
Buwahahahahahahahahaha.
Noooooooooooooooooo, definitely no such thing as an S70.
Noooooooooooooooooo, definitely no such thing as an S70.