Oh yes, I know. My cronies and I, growing up, used to laugh at the performance of the cop cars and a few of us were fortunate enough to be able to honestly brag about outrunning them. (outrunning was the easy part, outcornering a bit more difficult, and of course, outrunning the Motorola or the whirlybird, near impossible).
I know cop cars aren't "performance cars". I was just making a comment on taxi drivers and how any extra shred of horsepower entrusted them is a scary thing. When my wife and I took a cab from the Seattle airport recently, I noticed that the driver was falling asleep behind the wheel as a cozy sunbeam shone in the window around dusk as he took us down the freeway. With the severe communication barrier, one wonders how they pass the driving test to get even their basic personal drivers licence. David wrote: A Crown Vic Police Interceptor is not really a performance car. It's got basically the same engine as a V-8 Mustang and considerably more weight.
