I feel like that’s probably the one thing a vehicle marketed as bullet-proof needs to be… like, actually bullet-proof.
Ready for Blues Brothers 2
To pursue the Blues Brothers, filmmakers bought more than 60 old police cars at $400 [ $1,573 today] apiece, according to news reports at the time
Yeah. A vehicle known for trapping occupants when damaged, then burning them alive. Are you sure that’s the kind of vehicle you want to be in when it gets shot at?
I mean they are, who in their right mind would shoot a police car!? But I guess that is America. Crazy
Someone who is or is about to be attacked or killed by the police I’d imagine.
Fun facts I’ve gathered up…
- 10 Cybertrucks were donated to Las Vegas police.
- Las Vegas haven’t noted whether to keep or sell them.
- Any vehicle going into police duty must be “upfitted” aka upgraded with a police package (lights, siren, comms, armor, etc).
- Police prefer a certain known standard performance vehicle specs for duty (horsepower, towing, speed, mass, manuvrrability, etc). Teslas are too young to have demonstrated anything of this.
- Some out-of-spec police cars (e.g.- retired, siezed, donated) might get another use as community outreach vehicles (D.A.R.E. cars).
- Article states an upfitting company named UP.FIT {corrected name} Las Vegas, aka UNPLUGGED PERFORMANCE ®. They are not a preferred public service vehicle upfitter, as they ONLY modify Teslas and only Teslas for contract.
- Sheriff McMahill is an uneducated media regurgitator.
Wait they’re still doing DARE after it was shown to increase drug use among teens?
DARE is where I learned to make crack, and made my list of drugs I wanted to try.
A sociology professor of mine worked her first job for Rand. Her assignment was to determine the effectiveness of DARE. She found that it was only effective on eighth grade boys. Rand thanked her, paid her, and shelved the report, because this was the Reagan era.
Didn’t Las Vegas also buy his stupid loop?
And the entire city is going broke because of ridiculous costs and xenophobic policies towards tourists. Those tunnels will be homeless shelters in a few years.
yes and they commissioned him to build more recently.
These things look even dumber as cop cars.
They aren’t even waterproof.
That’s why they are in Las Vegas
Are you sure that’s the only problem?
Good
Good the cops shouldn’t be protected while they protect the status quo and serve as an enforcer of most things wrong.
Problem? Idk, personally I kinda prefer Nazis to not be bullet proof.
The original design had a 3/16" stainless shell and some very special glass, especially the windshield. I know that the production model is just a similar-shaped cast aluminum Tesla frame with appliance-grade stainless sheets glued to it. It’s basically a different vehicle from what they showed off.
A youtube creator showed what the said was a production car being shot with various calibers, the .22 barely dented it and if I remember right it resisted everything up to .45. My issue with that is I’ve seen the body panels and seen people proving its just the same stainless that a refrigerator has, and about the thickness of any car door, and I put .22 rnds threw both of them many times.
There’s a jerryrigeverything video linked in the article. It barely holds up to a 9mm and falls to a .17.
Has anyone tried a pellet gun?
Embracing the dystopian aesthetic.
They can’t compete with a 20 year old crown vic
https://www.pontiacperformance.net/TechArticles/CV_BallisiticPanels.html
It’s a sad joke.
Shh!
Let them find out.
