Vehicle Gallery - Discussion Thread

carzony

Those mondeos still look very fresh, Even after a few years of service :eek:

Terrontress

On the G8 video, does anyone know anything about the armoured Land Rover at 3:19? It looks like one of the old Snatch Land Rovers painted white. Over the days I have also seen some Pangolins with English numberplates. Other English forces must have access to these.

Terrontress

Terrontress wrote: »

On the G8 video, does anyone know anything about the armoured Land Rover at 3:19? It looks like one of the old Snatch Land Rovers painted white. Over the days I have also seen some Pangolins with English numberplates. Other English forces must have access to these.

Saw some pics on twitter saying they were Army ones painted up. And I've seen some of those English armored ones before on either a news story or website.

Mr Simpson

carzony wrote: »

Those mondeos still look very fresh, Even after a few years of service :eek:

Kinda shocking how the only new yokes there are the camera vans:(

Mr Simpson

Mr Simpson wrote: »

Kinda shocking how the only new yokes there are the camera vans:(

The D-Max is new. The Castle also have the new Mondeo and Focus and new bikes.

Hooch

foreign wrote: »

The D-Max is new. The Castle also have the new Mondeo and Focus and new bikes.

And the vans are 08

POGAN

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The D-Max is new. The Castle also have the new Mondeo and Focus and new bikes.

New focus with the fugly light bar!!

Capri

Go to 3mins and 29s if you need a smile

:p:p:p

5500

I walked past one of the old ICO vehicles on scene in Dublin but only 2 crew on board, are they being used as a rapid response vehicle or for interns? Are they P or AP crewed?

donvito99

POGAN wrote: »

New focus with the fugly light bar!!

Yes I saw this knocking about, is there a matrix on it or something?

Mr Simpson

foreign wrote: »

The D-Max is new. The Castle also have the new Mondeo and Focus and new bikes.

Hooch wrote: »

And the vans are 08

I stand corrected. I thought the vans were newer than that though

POGAN

donvito99 wrote: »

Yes I saw this knocking about, is there a matrix on it or something?

Scroll bar on it like the RSU why couldn't they use the same one!! It's was the escort on Tuesday in Wicklow awful but it's transport!!

Old diesel

carzony wrote: »

Those mondeos still look very fresh, Even after a few years of service :eek:

They look fresh - but what are they like mechanically - if they are getting on for 300,000 kms as garda cars - youd expect them to be a bit "rough" mechanically.

Are they all 2 litres - or was someone kind enough to squeeze in some 2.5s or 3 litres in.

They had a nice unmarked Mondeo in Mallow - seen it at a checkpoint, nice car - youd never think it was a garda car.

carzony

Old diesel wrote: »

They look fresh - but what are they like mechanically - if they are getting on for 300,000 kms as garda cars - youd expect them to be a bit "rough" mechanically.

Are they all 2 litres - or was someone kind enough to squeeze in some 2.5s or 3 litres in.

They had a nice unmarked Mondeo in Mallow - seen it at a checkpoint, nice car - youd never think it was a garda car.

I'd assume most of them mondeos would be coming close to getting scrapped anyway? That shape mondeo was made famous by the garda

Pure guess but i'd bet most of them mondeos are either 1.8 or 2.0?


funny you don't see many of the mondeos that i'v linked below

POGAN

POGAN wrote: »

New focus with the fugly light bar!!

That you can't see until you are on top of it.

carzony wrote: »

funny you don't see many of the mondeos that i'v linked below

They were not bought as part of a full tender that's why there is so few of them. That one in the pic is the Harcourt Terrace one that has been moved on since the station closure.

POGAN

Old diesel wrote: »

They look fresh - but what are they like mechanically - if they are getting on for 300,000 kms as garda cars - youd expect them to be a bit "rough" mechanically.

Are they all 2 litres - or was someone kind enough to squeeze in some 2.5s or 3 litres in.

They had a nice unmarked Mondeo in Mallow - seen it at a checkpoint, nice car - youd never think it was a garda car.

Unmarked mondeo in mallow??? They only have a diesel vectra!! do you mean new 131? Tango unit down there got new 131 mondeo but its marked

Old diesel

POGAN wrote: »

Unmarked mondeo in mallow??? They only have a diesel vectra!! do you mean new 131? Tango unit down there got new 131 mondeo but its marked

Oh yes - I know the new 131 marked Mondeo - but I meant an unmarked Mondeo in past tense - that they had one.

Seen it at a checkpoint last summer - probably gone now , maybe it was a yoke they got in on loan from another station - after the chief super - or was it Inspector - started making lots of noise about having insufficient cars available.

Only seen the new 131 parked up one day - coming out of Mallow (near the railway bridge if you know the town) - i suppose its too much to expect that it has a proper engine in it - probably 2 litre diesel again :mad:.

2 litre Eco boost would be the chap for the job - 240 ps would be lovely on a traffic car (imo).

Old diesel

This is the unmarked Mondeo that i was on about earlier that i had seen in Mallow

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanecasey51/5670465315/

Mister Jingles

Old diesel wrote: »

Oh yes - I know the new 131 marked Mondeo - but I meant an unmarked Mondeo in past tense - that they had one.

Seen it at a checkpoint last summer - probably gone now , maybe it was a yoke they got in on loan from another station - after the chief super - or was it Inspector - started making lots of noise about having insufficient cars available.

Only seen the new 131 parked up one day - coming out of Mallow (near the railway bridge if you know the town) - i suppose its too much to expect that it has a proper engine in it - probably 2 litre diesel again :mad:.

2 litre Eco boost would be the chap for the job - 240 ps would be lovely on a traffic car (imo).

I doubt Ford even offer them engines here for standard cars. Everything today is DIESEL DIESEL DIESEL. The Octavia vRS would be the best suited car to traffic, many uk forces are using them now.

kub

Old diesel wrote: »

This is the unmarked Mondeo that i was on about earlier that i had seen in Mallow

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanecasey51/5670465315/

That is a North Cork Div unmarked car, can be seen anywhere from the west of Mallow all the way over to Youghal. Based in Fermoy Afaik.
It was seized by Cab and given to AGS.

POGAN

Old diesel wrote: »

This is the unmarked Mondeo that i was on about earlier that i had seen in Mallow

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanecasey51/5670465315/

That's the fermoy st220 it was on loan to mallow traffic for a Time last year!! It's was lovely car pitty it's not around anymore!!

jagged

kub wrote: »

That is a North Cork Div unmarked car, can be seen anywhere from the west of Mallow all the way over to Youghal. Based in Fermoy Afaik.
It was seized by Cab and given to AGS.

Spot on

Old diesel

Mister Jingles wrote: »

I doubt Ford even offer them engines here for standard cars. Everything today is DIESEL DIESEL DIESEL. The Octavia vRS would be the best suited car to traffic, many uk forces are using them now.

Good point - but im just thinking now that Ford produced a police spec Focus ST in estate form some months back. Should be easy enough to get them to produce a few of them for Garda use - im sure they wouldn't turn down the business.

I shall see if i can find a picture of it

Old diesel

Old diesel wrote: »

Good point - but im just thinking now that Ford produced a police spec Focus ST in estate form some months back. Should be easy enough to get them to produce a few of them for Garda use - im sure they wouldn't turn down the business.

I shall see if i can find a picture of it

Old diesel

Thanks a million for finding that Foreign.

Fine looking machine - definitely a potential option as a high performance Garda patrol car.

Should be no bother to get one in on demo and get a few ordered when Ford are already supplying garda cars this year.

POGAN

Old diesel wrote: »

Good point - but im just thinking now that Ford produced a police spec Focus ST in estate form some months back. Should be easy enough to get them to produce a few of them for Garda use - im sure they wouldn't turn down the business.

I shall see if i can find a picture of it

They turned down bmws 5 series estates even tho they where very cheap because it would look bad to public

Capri

Mister Jingles wrote: »

I doubt Ford even offer them engines here for standard cars. Everything today is DIESEL DIESEL DIESEL. The Octavia vRS would be the best suited car to traffic, many uk forces are using them now.

PSNI have Octavia vRS's, RUC in the old days pioneered Mini Cooper S's as unmarked cars AFIR

I can understand the thinking behind buying plain cars - even if we need a 'Mad Max' every now and again, but we can't have Focus RS's parked and waiting every 40km in the country - remember, radio waves travel faster than any supercar :P:P And a good driver can make any car into a pursuit car :cool:

Some unmarked cars -
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Unmarked_policecar_slovakia_passat_b5_2.jpg :cool:

http://www.britishv8.org/articles/Images-V15-3/PolicePhoto.jpg :eek:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3085/2597912880_bf29e2d899_z.jpg :cool:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/homer----simpson/4607837241/

POGAN

Old diesel wrote: »

Thanks a million for finding that Foreign.

Fine looking machine - definitely a potential option as a high performance Garda patrol car.

Should be no bother to get one in on demo and get a few ordered when Ford are already supplying garda cars this year.

There's 190 bhp mondeos being kitted at the mo for advance cars

Mister Jingles

Those ST Focus's would be great traffic cars, lighter then a mondeo/5 series, can still carry a bit of gear in the rear and put many high performance bmw/audis to shame. Doubt they'd ever be bought though.

POGAN wrote: »

They turned down bmws 5 series estates even tho they where very cheap because it would look bad to public

Was this the case or just a Chinese whisper that grew around the internet ?

Mr Simpson

Mister Jingles wrote: »

Was this the case or just a Chinese whisper that grew around the internet ?

It was the case, confirmed on a different site