The Chevy Caprice PPV is up for a few changes and updates for the 2017 model year.
Starting with the exterior, the Hugo Blue and Mystic Green exterior colors are deleted from the 2017 Chevrolet Caprice PPV, leaving the full-size, Zeta-based police car with four exterior hues:
- Silver Ice Metallic
- Red Hot
- Phantom Black Metallic
- Heron White
Two other features are also on the deleted list:
- Front bucket cloth seats with cloth rear bench seat, making the front bucket cloth seats with vinyl rear bench, carpeted floor covering and seatback security panel as the standard seating option
- Optional frontal, side-impact and knee, airbags for the driver and front passenger, as well as the head curtain side-impact airbags for the front and rear outboard seating positions
The 2017 Chevy Caprice changes are rounded out with the following three items:
- Heavy-duty vinyl floor covering becomes a free flow option
- 18″ full-size spare wheel and tire now standard
- Limited slip differential now standard with both engines (V6 and V8)
Following are GM’s official RPO-level changes to the 2017 Chevy Caprice PPV:
Deletions
- (GYW) Hugo Blue exterior color
- (GZ7) Mystic Green exterior color
- (AYG) Optional air bags [Air bags, dual-stage frontal, pelvic-thorax side-impact and knee, driver and front passenger, and head curtain side-impact, front and rear outboard seating positions]
- (H1T) Front bucket cloth seats with cloth rear bench seat
Changes
- (HCQ) Front bucket cloth seats with vinyl rear bench and carpeted floor covering is now standard
- (6A3) Heavy-duty vinyl flooring covering is now a free flow option
- (SG8) 18″ full-size spare wheel and tire now standard
- (G80) Limited slip differential is now standard with both engines (V6 and V8)
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Comments
My understanding is that 2017 Caprice PPVs still have knee airbags. It sounds like you lose those with AYG, but that’s just how the RPO is written. If you look at AYG in the 2016 spec, the only airbags it really adds is the rear passenger side window airbag.
http://www.gmfleet.com/content/dam/gmfleet/global/master/nscwebsite/en/Home/Vehicle_Search/Specialty_Vehicles/Specialty%20vehicles/02_pdf/Caprice%209C1%20Specification%20Guide%202016.pdf
(Search for AYG and a graphic will show up).
My assumption is that AYG was a very low volume order seeing as 90% of the time nobody is in the backseat of a police car.
I still, still don’t know why GM abandoned the PPV in 1996. I travel across the country, small towns and big ones like LA and NYC. . . All of them had Chevrolet Caprice Patrol vehicles. The only exception was NYSP who ran Chevrolet Camaro Z28 interception cars. If my memory serves me, California State police used Ford fox bodied V8 as their interception cars. I wonder how GM was run by such idiots.
I agree. Yes the larger great American sedan seems to be going the way of the square wheel and 8 track but it’s not gone yet even if it’s slightly smaller than the long departed CHEVROLET CAPRICE and recently departed FORD CROWN VICTORIA.
I have no problem with the TAURUS, IMPALA, and CHARGER but my heart is still with the CROWN VICTORIA and it’s twin MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS( my car ’04).
It’s does fly in the face of common sense that GM never offered a civilian version of the CAPRICE since we there is such a large dealership network in place. BUICK dealers could have had a version as well for those that want a bigger car than the LaCROSSE and available V8 power.
In the case of the CROWN VICTORIA, it’s almost a given that if they were still building it, the V8 would likely have been dropped in favor of the 3.5L ECOBOOST V6 being that FORD is obsessed with that engine line and the 3.7L V6 as a lower power lower cost option. Who knows, maybe they would have had a hybrid version for cabs too.
As for police sedans, the IMPALA will likely be the only option in GM’s line.
Can’t argue with the market but we can still question it.