Victoria, Australia, police are in for some new wheels, courtesy of Holden. The brand announced it will supply 290 new police vans based on the Colorado pickup.
The purpose-built police vans feature a custom rear pod for perps, which includes a camera for 360-degree monitoring. Holden was kind enough to also include air conditioning in the rear pod. The vans sport increased ground clearance to improve visibility as well. The brand will supply 250 of the vans in 4×2 configuration.
Additionally, Holden will supply another 40 vans based on Colorado 4×4 models. These units boast bull-bars and winches that will be deployed to regional Victoria to provide off-road driving capability.
Holden anticipates Victoria police will begin to deploy the new Colorado vans this month with a full roll-out in mid-2018.
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Hope these don’t have the same roll over problem like the VU Utes did, quite a few years ago the entire VU fleet had their pursuit rating pulled after a van rolled loosing both officers, the VE with it’s better rear suspension and lower pod height more suited to light loads passed testing.
Quite sure it was the VS that had that issue, judging by an old YouTube news video Fromm 2000. The police officers died when the VS rolled. The old divvy vans used to be very top heavy.
With Holden having no manufacturing facility, who is building these vans?
The Colorados are built at the GM Thailand plant while the rear pod should are manufactured in a factory in a suburb in Melbourne’s outer east called Kilsyth.
I think GM should maximize the Colorado chassis and make a SUV and a Van. They do it with the Silverado chassis so why not the Colorado. That way they could make a proper Blazer.
The do have an SUV, Google Holden Trailblazer.
We need that in the US. Why is it that we are always last to get the good stuff ? Some times we never get the good stuff that other country’s get,stuff lik the Trailblazer and TT Colorado.