Locals may begin to see very different South Australian police vehicles in the near future after the department took delivery of Kia Sorento cruisers, News.com.au reported on Monday. It’s the first South Australian police vehicle revealed since Holden ceased manufacturing cars locally.
The Sorento scored well with the department and was among the top-rated vehicles in safety ratings and tests. Last year, the Sorento was named a finalist after it bested a number of other vehicles to become the Holden Commodore’s potential replacement. With the delivery of these new Sorento police vehicles, tests will begin in South Australia to evaluate the vehicle more closely.
Holden won’t keep out of the police vehicle segment, however. It plans to offer the German-built ZB Commodore in police trimmings for departments. The report said the Commodore police cruisers won’t be available until March or April of 2018.
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Tina Arena – Sorrento Moon
Aussie drivers can sing that song while the Police arrest them for driving 101kmh in a 100 zone.
Read Journalist Michael Taylor’s description of Aussie Police in Motor Mag Oct 2012
Read Journalist Paul Cockburn’s description of Aussie Police in Motor Mag Nov 2012
Highlights: Aussie Police set up roadblocks in extreme low-population areas and then abuse whoever drives into them – no matter what. Taylor’s story is incredible – a team of car journo’s accused of speeding decided to back their knowledge of the law and attempted to get an eyes-on reading of the Police radar. Police officers threatened to arrest them as one of them moved towards the police car to get the reading which citizens are by-law-entitled-to. Because Taylor knew what to do and literally ran to the police car, he was able to see the radar wasn’t even turned on. Cockburn’s story is similar to mine – kids don’t buy cars nowadays because interacting with road cops is so ridiculously similar to encountering militia roadblocks in Syria or Libya…