Police Lotus Elise

[gbjeppm]

I drove down to Brighton on saturday, and was amazed to see that Sussex police have invested in a Lotus Elise.

I have been struggling to think of the justification for a 2 seater sports car at the tax payers expense, and to be honest failed miserably.

Anybody got any ideas?

 

[stats007]

Are you sure Lotus haven't loaned the car?

 

[recycled]

could be a seized drug dealers one.
I think thames valley also had a 360 modena in 2002 or there abouts which was seized from proceds of crime

 

[GrahamC230K]

marked or unmarked?

I know there was an unmarked Impreza being used by police in Brighton, scarey enough, an elise you would never suspect.

 

[Rose Chap]

At Goodwood this year there was a Ferrari 599 livered up as a UK Police car, complete with flashing lights and a siren.

However, it was just a publicity stunt to draw attention to road safety. When not doing the hill climb it was parked in the Ferrari area next to a very decent traffic policeman who was happy to answer questions or give advice about road safety issues.

The Lotus could be something similar?

 

[Will]

Yep, there's a few cars like this used for Police PR publicity.

I also saw a few at Goodwood FOS and there was a Police 'blade' (Honda sports motorcycle) as well

Will

 

[stats007]

There used to be a yellow M3 in Kingston.

 

[Will]

Police or otherwise

Seriously - I've never seen that, and I used to live in Kingston!

When was that?

Will

 

[stats007]

Police - must be 10 years ago now I suppose.

 

[gbjeppm]

marked or unmarked?

It was fully marked up.

 

[BTB 500]

Sussex Police used to have at least one MGB GT in full 'jam sandwich' livery.

 

[imadoofus]

http://www.dreammachines.org.uk/news_item.php?item=8

 

[recycled]

it would probably break down and leak in 2months

 

[gbjeppm]

Thanks to Imadoofus:bannana:

We now know the car is on loan to the sussex police to promote road safety.

 

[andy_k]

yep, very much on loan, the police have gone to great lengths to make sure the public know it's a loaner as well

They take it to nearly every major event in the area with a couple of (obviously well trained in PR) officers who are only too happy to talk about their "toy" and yet still manage to end every conversation with "remember to drive safely" or some equally banal remark

The lotus does look very pretty though

Andy

Andy

 

[C43AMG]

They also used the Daimler Dart.

 

[ceejaySL]

..............did some work a few years ago in one of the Mets main garage at West London and was surprised to see the extent of plain unmarked cars and bikes, covering some superb machinery.

Bikes like Fireblades, Blackbirds, ZZr's R1's all unmarked and used as part of covert ops.............

 

[Flasheart]

Didn't they have a marked up Murcielago for the Gumball a few years ago?

 

[Ian B Walker]

On the A59 up here the cops are using two Scoobies, unmarked. Not fair

 

[television]

marked or unmarked?

It depends on if its been in Tesco car park, or used to ram anything