I wish the Australian Police Forces would use Volvos - XC-60 - as they were trialing them in Dubbo, and Dubbo kept them. I wish they were still going to make the SR-T 300 and in RHD from the factory. Possibly the big Opel - Commodore, if it still exists now that it has been taken over by PSA. ? Germans too dominant, expensive and already proving problematic.

Skodas and Bmws are the new police cars, theres a couple of BMW I6 as police cars here in Hamilton now aswell and the Holden equinox and Acadias as K9 units

What does a yank get up of kissing Aussie but. $$$$$ that’s all the game is honestly about.

Lots of different toyotas in the fleet too

They have also added a BMW Hybrid to the force now

Omgosh yes! Brilliant movie.

Yes my favorite movie 🎬

"We're taking this bloody car to Invercargill, boy"

There's also Smash Palace where the old Black Kingswood gives chase to an Formula 5000, briefly. :P One of my favourite shots is just behind the air scoop at high speed on NZ roads.

​@@raptormaster666 Yep great movie, Bruno Lawrence is a bloody kiwi legend, he is good in "The Quiet Earth".... another kiwi car movie is "Shaker Run" not as good as pork pie or smash palace, no Bruno either.....but worth a look....

The Ford Falcons were the best

seriously? what did it have under the hood?

Yes I remember when they came out. We used it to pull the boat in Taranaki. From memory it was a 3 litre V6 and the Police were given cam and exhaust upgrades.

Yep they were extremely fast. Remember Japanese engine technology was way ahead of the rest of the world. Compare 80's DOHC 16 valve toyota celica 2.0l engine with T-VIS mid 80s 140hp whereas Aussie 4.2l v8s started at about 175hp at the time for much heavier cars wikipedia - v3000 for 1988, the older fifth generation bodyshell stayed in production alongside it. Mitsubishi Motors New Zealand intentionally decided to retain the fifth generation sedan bodystyle for a new, unique to New Zealand, flagship model-the 110 kW (150 hp) 3.0-liter V6 engined Mitsubishi V3000. The V3000 was developed specifically to give Mitsubishi New Zealand a six-cylinder family car, suitable for towing boats and caravans, to compete with the imported Ford Falcon (EA) and Holden Commodore (VN) models. While the rear styling of the previous Sigma model was retained, the frontal treatment was changed to now feature a more formal, upright chrome grille (the bonnet and grille were from the top-of the-line Sigma SE), and uprated suspension. The V3000 was available in basic Executive, mid-range Super Saloon, and top-of-the-range SEi trim levels, the latter with luxury trim and digital dashboard. Later a sports version Elante was introduced, based on the Executive. The V6 engine combined with relatively low weight and gearing ensured excellent performance, New Zealand's traffic patrol selected them as patrol cars to replace the turbocharged Sigma GSR. These police cars had the Elante suspension pack, which was an option on other models. For 1990, the V3000 was further updated and now featured the front styling of the Eterna hardtop. New Zealand was the only market where this restyling was applied to the fifth generation four-door sedan bodyshell. Assembly of this model continued until 1991,

My sister's Captiva is actually pretty nice.

a rare one indeed@@joshklaver47

I own 4 mitsi v3000's ones a ex mot police car that become a streetstock and was 1nz in i think 2009. Cant wait to race it next year

Based on the magna? They were magnas. Different names for different markets. Fun fact: the TR/TS Magna was at the time the only Aussie car with no safety recalls. Had 2 TS magna V6's and both were super reliable, good on fuel and dirt cheap.

Very suprising. I thought they would've gone with BMW and VW. Skoda's are good cars though, good decision to go with them either way

if not zb wagons, but yeah mainly skodas, which are sporty cars and pretty dam smexy!

​@@sullivanl3305They kinda did go with VW...

RIP Holden

@@sullivanl3305 Skodas are VW's but made properly!

My Step Dad used to really be into LTD's he told me they were kinda monsters in terms of power/engine, was that true? how were they different to normal falcons?

Only a few years after they absorbed the old MOT (Ministry of Transport, road and traffic ) into the Police fully and created the 3 branches we now have (TSS traffic safety service, CIB criminal investigation bureau and the GDB general duties Bureau? better known as General Dogs Bodies

Goulburn cops (60ks from Canberra) used 340 chargers , I was driving home from Newcastle (my G/F came for surprise w/end) HK Monaro 327 Saginaw ,10 inch gm diff, and got busted at 147 ,k's , no cars 3 am gave them a sob story , the road is fairly straight in parts , they came 6 inches behind in the dark then gave me everything , i thought a UFO had landed behind me ,behind me high beam , red n blues , siren , scared the bejesus out of me , that was the plan from the start i think

@@duncanyourmate2433 Those Chargers are so rare today. Tonsley Park managed to get a glut of 340's by mistake. They ordered 360's.

​​@@royferntorpthe 340's were intended for the next Bathurst Chargers until the supercar scare changed everything and they put autos behind them and further souped up the 265 to race as the E-49 instead. They ordered all those 340's specifically for racing- no mistake.

@@rossbrumby1957 A lot of those 340's ended up in the Chrysler by Chrysler models. Maybe that was where the rumours started. They were all advertised as a 360.

When did you make this video, the police force are driving Skoda's now aren't they?

@Altered Challenge The last time I was in NZ was 2018. An updated version of this video is online now, but it doesn't get many views...

@@thekiwicanuck cool, I'll take a look.

The second V3000 is exactly like a later Australian Mitsubishi Magna.

makes you wonder why they pulled you lol

That’s awesome 😂

I hate the blue ones the white orange and red stand out the blue ones sneak up on you

The cops I have talked to are mainly happy with the Skodas less so with the Camrys which I found strange.

@@nickbenfell4327 That is strange, between those two I know what one I'd rather have. It's definitely not the Skoda...

Sadly .??😂😂

Until the windscreens cracked, and Leyland went bankrupt...

yeh all the rest went to the scrap yard really quickly git there way before Ford Falcons , i still have my 1991 Ford EB falcon wheres the bickies at??? lol

That's pommy cars for you... Heh heh

Captiva was a Opel product.

@@alastairdow4400 you'll find all holdens after the 70's are some other manufacturers car.

@@alastairdow4400 Nope. :) It was a GM South Korea (ie. Daewoo) product, where Daewoo's shitty design team were handicapped even further by being forced to design the Captiva off of the old 2nd generation Saturn Vue. So it was a real actual parts bin special. Even GM knew it was crap from the outset which is why, in the US, it only allowed to be sold to fleet buyers and wasn't available for retail sale through dealers

My sister has a Captiva, and it's actually pretty decent.

They were also manufactured in New Zealand at that time, which probably played a part in their selection as a police car to feed the local economy.

@@Dug6666666 Oh yeah my dad had a work car Sigma because of that I think.

A relative of mine had a Magna & I have to say it just kept going. It was passed along to lots of young family members as cars were upgraded, everyone had a stint in it 😂😂 Finally sold to a friend & was still going until they got rid of it a couple of years ago. The acceleration in that thing was unreal!

Interesting, I was wondering how the Skodas were going...

A lot of the station wagons and base models had speed limiters, but most of the XR6 and XR8 sport models achieved 220-240 kph when tested by automotive journalists. They can do it, but it won't be like driving a Mercedes or BMW at that speed.

If her car has OPT20 stamped on the plate with car info under the bonnent its got a few factory upgrades to make them suit traveling at very high speeds. I had a opt20 police car at one stage. Not many were sold to NZ for use as police cars.

i know the golden snowflake colour

@mateIwrockers0 Fake Account.

I remember reading the original review in "motor" magazine for the Avalanche. I remember they had to use a smaller v8 than the normal full siz HSV unit as they simply could not find a way to fit the 4wd system in with the full size unit. A 4wd HSV. Almost as cool as that special edition 427 they made as a prototype only I think.

The last Black and White that I saw in Police 'use' (as a fully restored MOT Commodore, complete with the big MOT Coat of Arms badge on the doors) was at the Police depot at Ellerslie, next to the Southern motorway, just sth of Greenlane on ramp, c2015.

@@kenwatkins7097 i picked up about 25 of the mot emblem stickers 2 x door ones and the rest are the motorcycle small ones at a garage sales of a guy from the government workshops in Christchurch

Falcon wagon, all the car anyone could ever need. Fits an inflated air mattress or a full-sized fridge in the back, tows a trailer like there's nothing there. RTV lift kit and LSD if you need to go on dirt or hard sand. RIP Falcon 😥

When I was busted in 1990's Christchurch for not giving address I was driven thru the back of cop shop. I saw all the differentials hanging on wall in garage which amazed me. I later found this was due to cold wind outs which destroyed diffs. I think if using Amsoil gear oils it wouldn't had happened.

Is that the pick a part off rose bank road you’re talking about? Never knew that

@@levibeatson3247 No a Ford wrecker that was opposite the Gull by the roundabout. Pick A Part was by the motorway. Probably long gone now.. I left Auckland about 12 years ago

The sigma looked no more like the first magna than it looked like an 80's skyline sedan or pintara. The magna body was bigger, noticeably wider and front wheel drive.

1984 XF Falcon Utility, yet produced until 1993! The old body style utes continued to be manufactured for years after the new EA sedans/wagons were released. The same thing happened with the Holden Ute, it took several years after VT for the VU Ute to replace the VS Ute!

@@thekiwicanuck Thanks for that. I thought they stopped making them prior to the 90's.

Did have a V6 too

@@Alberthoward3right9up our first Magna here in Australia had no V6. But the model afterwards, code named TR, did - 3.0 litre. Next series, dumped the Astron and replaced it with a 2.4 new, more efficient 4 cyl. The 3.0 litre six became so popular, that they then cancelled the four as well. The luxury version, we called a Verada, got a 3.5 V6. Later on this was also offered on the base models. Such a good engine and much more fuel efficient than the commodores and falcons of the time, along with the 5 speed auto. It too was so popular that they got rid of the 3.0 litre and just had the 3.5. This remained until, the Magna finished and they did the 380 as a swan song, modified from the US. 3.8 litre V6 with either 5 speed auto or manual. Very nice, but lost it's fuel advantage. Bigger than commodores 3.6 V6. They also last long. Still many on Australian roads - set a benchmark in Australia for refinement and crash safety and efficiency.

Sorry, did any come with AWD ? We were in NZ in 1988 Absolutely adore NZ and kiwis. I car for the North Island was a Galant - base model - but really good. Much better than the Nissan bluebird ? and the front wheel drive Corona

@@adrianmclean9195 I don't think it did in that model in Australia. And funny you mention it. I have a 94 bluebird and it's an awesome car. Better than there rear wheel drive rust heaps

We have a mix up happening. Lol. I'm talking about the magna later on in the video sorry. The fatter shape. Not the one that was also badged the Holden Apollo sorry. And your probably right with the above longer comment. I was talking about the TR TS model magna in the video.

Now they all use Ford Explorers and other American cars.

Just don't try sitting in the back seat...

@mateIwrockers0 hi ian good to hear from you please excuse my type o's from time to time

My sister has one. It's actually pretty nice.

The Skodas are better cars. Hence why so many other countries also use them as police vehicles. They're great value, and built to a much higher standard than anything from the US or Australia.