Charger fitted for NYPD uniform
You may remember a post awhile back on the NYPD agreeing to buy a fleet of 15 Chargers, five V6 models and ten with the HEMI V8, for a pilot program set to commence this summer. Well here are snaps of the first one outfitted for duty mere moments after the decals were applied.
Autoblog reader Max sent us a link to a forum titled NYPD Rant where a few photos of the car are being hosted. The forum’s audience is made up entirely of boys in blue, so it’s great fun to read their reactions to what may become the newest member of the force.
The real cops of NYC apparently don’t expect to see any Chargers on the street until their bosses are done driving them around town between photo-ops, and they worry about back-seat room in the Charger, as well as that sunroof under the light bar. Most officers, however, would forego the Charger if it meant an annual salary that’s larger than the cost of their cruiser.
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Finished.Law.School 1:48PM (3/31/2006)
What?! No brush guard?!
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Chris 2:24PM (3/31/2006)
Why the hell does it have a sunroof?
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required 2:25PM (3/31/2006)
oh boo frickin hoo.. NYPD cops make way more than the cost of a Charger.. and thats the honest ones, not only the crooked ones that take kickbacks.
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Raj 2:27PM (3/31/2006)
This is one American car I love and it looks truly cool in NYPD uniform. If I didn't have to think about family and finances I would've bought one of these in instant instead recently I had to go with Mazda5 purely because of its family use and mileage (and price too). Same thing happned in the past when I really wanted Ford Mustang, circumstances made me buy Toyota Corolla. I hope one day I have extra money that I can spend (for these cool toys) without affecting overall family situation.
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Brett Crawford 2:48PM (3/31/2006)
I think the Auburn Hills MI (Home of Chrysler) Magnum squad cars look better. Check it out at this site.
http://www.allpar.com/squads/current.html
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RickDom 2:49PM (3/31/2006)
That doesn't look like one with the police package. Wrong wheels, it has the door protectors on the front doors and the police ones don't have the chrome grill either, IIRC. I'm guessing Chrysler either gave them that one or they baught it for publicity.
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Peter 2:54PM (3/31/2006)
"NYPD cops make way more than the cost of a Charger"
Go a little farther east to Nassau County, and some cops earn more than the cost of an S-class or Quattroporte.
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max 3:13PM (3/31/2006)
"3. oh boo frickin hoo.. NYPD cops make way more than the cost of a Charger.. and thats the honest ones, not only the crooked ones that take kickbacks.
Posted at 2:25PM on Mar 31st 2006 by required 0 stars"
Uh the NYPD starts cops at $24k a year. ....you do the math.
As for kickbacks-you'll find someone on the job in New York to be the most paranoid person you've ever met.
Rent for a studio in Jamaica......$1100 a month.........
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max 3:22PM (3/31/2006)
Oh-this might be the first one. Having "3100" on a car means it's special, "Spring 3100" is the old phone number for the NYPD's Mulbery Street HQ. That was about 100 years ago-however these photos-which I didn't take-are from inside a Fleet Services facility in Queens. This might be the only car with alloys and a sunroof.
It still blows my mind that people think a cop in NY make more than the cost of a Charger. The NYPD still has Caprice Classics and trucks from the 1980s in it's fleet-but for some reason people think that it's awash with cash.
The only place where overtime is prevalent..... Internal Affairs-so if you're a cop in NY you need to drink the kool-aide to get rich.
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Dodge Charger 5:38PM (3/31/2006)
That's pretty cool! One of the better looking cop cars since they retired the Mustangs.
For those interested in all things Charger, check out http://www.chargerforums.com
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Dennis 8:51PM (3/31/2006)
7. "NYPD cops make way more than the cost of a Charger"
Go a little farther east to Nassau County, and some cops earn more than the cost of an S-class or Quattroporte.
^^ He speaks the truth.
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not_from_NYC 12:06AM (4/01/2006)
IMO, NYC cop cars have really corny, cheap-looking colors. A cop charger done up in traditional black and white would be quite intimidating.
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Glenn Laycock 1:11AM (4/01/2006)
The cost thing make no sense to me. They have to have cars and the Charger cost the same of less then the Ford's -- and I bet Chrysler gave them a sweet deal on these in order to get a big order down the road.
Sunroof .. what is the deal with that. Probably safer without one -- unless they want to use it like a gun turrent as in The Matrix movies.
Plymouth Fury ... great name. I pondered at one point if Chrysler could have "called" the Police Edition a Plymouth, and then used the Fury name. They would have had to change the grill for the police cars, but that might have been cool.
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Dalton D Paisley 8:28AM (4/02/2006)
There are a lot of erroneous comments about the pay of NYPD officers. Yes, suburban officers tend to make more than NYPD, but look up what a NYPD officer with five and one-half years experience makes. How valuable is an inexperienced officer?
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Jim Penney 1:20PM (4/02/2006)
We build police cars for a living and last week we released our first charger(with the hemi)..... niceeee car, cost was less than the crown vic , there was more rear seat leg room than in the intrepid(not hard to do) and the impala. About the same as the crown. There is a lot less room in the front, the people in blue will not like the front seat room or the trunk space PS keep the traction control ON this animal will get away from you in a heart beat...
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Paulie Walnutz 5:28PM (4/09/2006)
The city doesn't have the $$$ to pay it's cops a living wage, but they'll purchase these???
Yeesh!
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Jay Rock 11:13PM (4/09/2006)
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"There are a lot of erroneous comments about the pay of NYPD officers. Yes, suburban officers tend to make more than NYPD, but look up what a NYPD officer with five and one-half years experience makes. How valuable is an inexperienced officer?"
Wow, you actually think that 1) the top pay of a NYPD officer is somehow high, and that 2) the lack of experience of a new officer, one who gets shot at, garbage of an indescribeable nature thrown at, and wrestles with the scum of the earth (scum that wouldn't hesitate to injure you and steal ipod you enjoy so much) just like an experienced officer, doesn't deserve a living wage. Here's an idea, take your arrogant, flippant ass and stand on a street corner in the Bronx, Harlem, or Brooklyn in a city where you cannot even afford to move out of your parent's basement, let alone provide for your family's basic needs. And I'm talking about housing and food, let alone shoes and clothes. Without these officers, we'll see how long the streets of this city are even walkable by decent citizens (of which I assume you think you are one), when you are clamoring for police protection. Enjoy the sheltered existance that people like police officers provide for you. Lord knows you don't appreciate it.
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Mike 6:34PM (4/22/2006)
"oh boo frickin hoo.. NYPD cops make way more than the cost of a Charger.. and thats the honest ones, not only the crooked ones that take kickbacks."
You're clearly an idiot.....
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Robby D 4:29AM (5/17/2006)
These poor cops are getting shot at and have to deal with the most vile scum in this country, and you dare talk crap about these guys that make less than a bus driver?? YOU SHOULD BE SHOT!!! If you only knew the politics these guys have to deal with and the scumbags superiors...you're no one unless you're a sarge on the job...and the conditions and precincts they throw their rookies in...You are clearly living a well sheltered life and dont know how much protection these poor guys provide for you...By the way jackass, its almost impossible to receive "kickbacks" like you said, as a cop. Too many crackdowns and investigations by Internal Affairs
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john 8:27PM (8/04/2006)
that charger was a rental car that nypd got from enterprise rent a car, a suggestion was made to ray kelly (police commissioner) to purchase some chargers, so he asked to see one on the same day, so fleet services went to enterprise and rented one, threw decals on it and a roof rack without screwing it in and showed the commissioner....he stated buy 15 and they took all the decals off and brought it back to enterprise...hence the sunroof
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