ResidualFreedom

I just finished watching this weeks episode of Numb3rs.. great show.. dumb episode though..

Anyway, near the end of the episode the Female FBI agent is doing some surveillance on a suspect, I notice the familiar headlights on the car in the camera view.. Then she speeds off in the car to corner in the suspect.. Then you see it.. a Black 3rd gen TL with flashing red and blue interior and headlights come to a sliding hault, and this chicky coems flying out with her gun drawn..

We don't have the FBI here in Canada, do the agents in the US typically ride around in Acuras..lol..

i won't be able to get a pic until I download the show and get it as a freeze frame.. I just though I would share, not sure if anyone here saw it.

Tonywp75

hahah...the FBI wish they drove Acura. I think most of the US agency drive GM cars.

Oh yeah, i saw the show Numbers..a while back and the FBI guy dad..drove a silver 3rd Gen TL.

leedogg

I've rarely seen a non US made cop car. Trying to remember if I've seen any actually...

joe80055

There are a shitload of non US cop cars here in Brooklyn, NY... I'm I-95, ran into a 3 series that was undercover

Iceman23

there are some evo cops in CA, and I've been pulled over by a impreza cop on just as i drove into FL... in Texas though, everything is pretty much a ford or chevrolet... including a corvette cop...

KOIBOY

I believe that the some agency in Baltimore has a Burgundy 3rd gen TL as cop. It maybe Port Police, County, City or MD state trooper. I am not really sure which though. I saw it in the emergency cut across on I-95 N North of the Inner Harbor Tunnel where I-95N and the beltway converge. Anybody familiar with that area knows how many cut through's their are in that areas and knows that it is favorite hangout of cops.

Going 75/80 in the far left lane I saw the Green and Black Crown Vic and slowed down. I then noticed the TL next to the Crown Vic as well as a large Black Chevy Pickup with a full limo tint on all the windows. I doubted that the truck and TL were cop cars. But then the truck speed off in full view of the cop in the crown vic. It was reckless enough that a civilian would have gotten immediately pulled over. 3 miles further up the road, the Truck had a full set of red and blue lights flashing and had pulled another motorist over. I tend to conclude that TL was also a cop car. Unfortunately I didn't get a good look at the driver as I was focused on not hitting the speeding truck.

Every time i see a cop car that isn't a crown vic, impala, or something instantly recognizable my skin bristles and I scream "That's so unfair." Eh but such is life.

lscld

Yeah I live in Austin, Texas and I can't recal seeing anything other than a ford, chevy, or dodge cop cars/trucks. Though, the sheriffs and police around here are more prominently usong BMW motorcycles, but that's about it.

randomthought

Never seen anything like that, except on TV. I think it was somewhere in africa, but the cops were usin e36's. Most in my area are crown vics. Never seen anything other than those at the station near my house, other than the SUV and trucks, all of which are american made. It'd be nice to see something other than american american made police vehicles in my area, as long as they not pulling me over.

Meek32v6

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theres a video on You Tube. Just search Acura TL

Laxplaya11385

just watched the video on youtube. She didn't use the latch to close the trunk! Now there are finger prints all over it...tsk tsk

mr.motoring

An unmarked Dodge Durango pulled me and my sister over just within the Louisiana/Texas border on I-10. She was driving a Hertz Ford Contour because we were on our way to Houston to pick up my TL-S (see avatar, minus the light bar). The cop made us get out and did a random drug search on us and the car. Long story...

morgan040

Here in WA state we have mainly GM cop cars but I have seen a white Volvo Turbo wagon undercover cop car, and Last week at the D.O.L. I saw a poster with 2 undercover state patrol cars one was an H2 and the other was an Acura NSX. and the title of the poster read,

" You like to street race, watch out cause you'll never now what we will be driving next."

Meek32v6

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That sucks! Some kinda FREE country we live in:P

AcurasGhost

ResidualFreedom nice avator/icon! I've been all around this site and never saw that one ...

DaT1PiNoYduDe

I just got done watching the episode, im an avid watcher of NUMB3RS, I remember the previous episode with the TL, where they used the navigation, now they got it using red/blue lights rolling code 3 with sirens. Pretty cool seeing it though, aspiring to work in law enforcement and having a TL that made my night hahah

ResidualFreedom

Thanks brother.. I've actually had it as my Avatar for a while.. I want to do a better one this year at one of our Toronto area meets...

We lined up the cars to form the large "A" symbol, then I cilmbed up on a big rig to take the shots. I then realize the cars are too close to get all them in the pic.. I tried to cut and paste some pics together (I took a ton of pics) but I'm not that good at photochoppin' ..

The acura EL group was there too, they happen to spell out EL prior to this pic, and they were actually able to get up into a hotel room while the maid was cleaning it, so they could take a pic.... I'm going to be attempting to take the pic from the hotel this year so we can get a better angle.

brianp6621

test

nitehawk23

if this was already mentioned sorry for the repost. have you guys seen those undercover mini vans? omg i was driving and this dick decided to stop me, i was coming home late from work around 12am or so (thats my gay shift) and the cop turned on his lights and i pulled over. I take it the ronjon kit and chrome rims played a small part in stopping me but he asked me the stupidest questions.

Q where are you goin this time of night?
A home, i just finished my shift.
Q why were u driving so slow?
A i usually drive slow at nite.....visibility is poor (yes i kno we have the best lights but meh)
Q whats that in ur hands
A my tim hortons coffee

the funny thing i was driving about 5-8 km/h slower than the limit on a 60zone.

any one have anything to add or say to this???

flatfoot

Any foreign cars that are used by nypd or local agencies are cars that have been confiscated, usually because of it being used for narcotics at time of arrest. Most are sold at public auction, a few(very few) are kept for surveliance or undercover use.
At work, I have had the pleasure of testing out the new charger as a replacement vehicle for our existing fleet.

Thanks

A_UFO

Why is coming home at midnight considered the gay shift?
Or did you mean to write day shift?
Or was that a Freudian slip? :gheylaugh:

TacoBellSauce

ive seen tuned out maximas and evos pullin people over in NY
but this one takes the cake
Jersey City PD have a black R33 Skyline cop car confiscated a month or so back

K-Shawn

In the Bronx you have Nissan Altimas, Lexus GS400, & Range Rovers as TNT undercover units.

Beckles

South Carolina higway patrol had a BMW M5 at one point (donated by BMW since they have a plant in Greenville) and the County Sheriff's where the Mercedes plant is in Alabama had M series SUV's at one point. Wonder what the Marysville, Ohio PD uses?

cM3go

waiting for freeze frame picture

joed40

They usually get the cars from drug arrests.

If you are caught selling out your car you will get it confiscated and ultimately reused by another dept. for that purpose.

chill_dog

Yeah, SC has all kinds of BMW stuff...bike cops ride Beemers, not Harleys like most places.


Funny thing, I actually saw Numb3rs on Friday (the second time I've seen it) and saw the TL at the end...wondered if anyone else saw it and/or would post about it.

netinfiniti

Martin County in FL even uses the Prius.

azninvazion

in brooklyn there is an ndercover MDX. blacked out completely no roof rack lights in the grill and on te windshield

twigglius

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Arizona has some Volvo's!

Repecat

I think Aspen, CO uses Saabs for law enforcement vehicles. They have used them for many years, and probably for their superior handling in a snow environment. Saabs have great heating systems, too.

twigglius

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Saabs are still suuuuuper ghey!

1995hoo

The city of Falls Church in Virginia used to use Volvo 240s as cop cars. They were either donated or sold to the city at a special price by Don Beyer Volvo, a dealership located in Falls Church.

Hendersonville, North Carolina, used to have a BMW 6 series (not the new model) and a Range Rover. They confiscated the vehicles from drug dealers.

xelvic

The County Sheriff here uses the new HEMI Dodge Chargers. There SWEEEEEEEEET!!

BustedJack

you mean this? It's been on google video for awhile
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...123032&pl=true

BustedJack

BTW,
PIGS in all sorts of form (FBI, State Trooper, local) cannot drive anything that is NOT domestic. In other words, they can ONLY drive GM, Ford, Dodge or any cars made by USA. Acura belongs to Honda hence Japan regardless the TL was made in Ohio.

MisterLinus

Saabs and Land Rovers to be exact; and not just Aspen, Vail and a few other ski areas use them as well.

TL2ENVY

In NYC we have every make and model car I work in the auto crimes unit in the nypd and we have a leasing company we use and we can get our hands on any car. When the HID's were getting stolen like crazy back in like 2003 from acuras and maxima's we got 4 tl's and 4 maximas and planted them around the city waiting to catch those scumbags. And our surveillance vehicles ranged from 5 series BMW's to Izuzu Rodeos. These cars did not have any lights or strobes installed you were on your own to provide the dome light for the dash. The vehicles get rotated every 2 weeks or so in order to keep the criminals from recognizing us. Ive seen it get as crazy as having a yellow lamborghini for a undercover narcotics officer doing felony weight buys. That car i do believe was confiscated though. NYC has it all normally you wouldnt see a car like a acura or bmw doing patrol those are basically saved for investigations.

1995hoo

And this is according to whom? "Cannot"? You imply that this is some sort of federal statute.