Texas law enforcement issued 700 HP Hummer
As if we needed another reason not to wind up on the wrong side of the law in Texas, this 700-horsepower Hummer H2 with 28-inch rims clinches it. An unnamed Texas sheriff commissioned GeigerCars based in Europe to build the black-and-white beast. It's powered by a 7.0L supercharged V8 making the aforementioned Texas-sized allotment of 700 horses. You can see that the suspension's been lowered and tightened up to handle the extra power and larger eight-pot stoppers have been installed. The bigger brakes will be put to the test trying to arrest the motion of those one-piece chrome 28-inch rims after they've reached the H2's terminal velocity of 155 electronically-limited miles per hour.
[Source: AmericanCarFans]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 10)
endGame 4:06AM (5/11/2006)
can that POS even make it past two highway exits without going to a gas station to refill?
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Steve 4:16AM (5/11/2006)
Um, how does an employee of a county afford such a thing? And if the county is paying for it, how is nobody upset at such excessiveness?
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Tom W 4:21AM (5/11/2006)
What problem does this thing solve?
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Jake 4:21AM (5/11/2006)
I doubt it.
Perhaps it is a green car that can be charged at one of the many windmills that have replaced oil rigs in the Texas praries?
In Oregon there talking about Prius Police Cars and in Texas there making Hummer Poiice vehicles.
Is it just me, or does anyone else suspect that Texas may perhaps be just too close to the border?
Jake.
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David 4:22AM (5/11/2006)
WTF? There's no county listed anywhere on there...
This is stupid...The police department in my home town has an old old impala and an old mustang for promotional purposes...for the kiddos, and I can understand that. But burning this kind of money is unforgiveable.
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Jimbo 4:26AM (5/11/2006)
I think it's Texas Bullshit... I meant manure powered.
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JT 4:42AM (5/11/2006)
the taxpayer is going to be delighted to see his dollars put to good use...
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v8 4:56AM (5/11/2006)
LOL. Typical TexASSholes.
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Sgt. Hulka 5:21AM (5/11/2006)
April Fools!
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HardwareLust 5:23AM (5/11/2006)
I can't possibly imagine the tax payers of that county are pleased with an expenditure like this. I won't even mention the complete and utter uselessness of this vehicle, which is basically a gussied up GM pickup modifed to drink even more gas?
Is there anyone anywhere that still thinks H2 and H3 Hummers are remotely cool? I doubt it.
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Corruptionist 5:36AM (5/11/2006)
Maybe the sheriff paid for it with the money he ripped from mexicans he helped cross the border. Or he has investments in the oil business...
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Johannes Vinke 6:03AM (5/11/2006)
Oh yes, veeerry macho (NOT!!!)
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Donald H 6:07AM (5/11/2006)
Does "Hummer" tranlate to "Lobster" in German? Looking at the link (which is Google translated) everywhere they have a picture of a Hummer the caption contains the word "Lobster"
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Hummer Tester 6:14AM (5/11/2006)
I can only hope this not paid with tax money. What a waste of resources. If a rap star does this, well, you wouldn't expect anything else. But you could at least expect some environmental awareness from a police officer.
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faultier 6:20AM (5/11/2006)
indeed, the german meaning of 'hummer' is lobster. and I have to say the 'lobster' is one fugly piece of a car...
here in austria everyone laughs at the few who actually are stupid enough to buy one. but then again, maybe we just don't get the 'american way of driving' ;D
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faultier 6:29AM (5/11/2006)
one more thing, I think our highway police's new car kicks the hummers ass:
plus: it's free! given to them by porsche for promotional purposes ;D
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faultier 6:30AM (5/11/2006)
http://static2.orf.at/vietnam2/images/site/oesterreich/200619/porsche_polizei300x226.jpg
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Bob 6:35AM (5/11/2006)
The GeigerCars.de high-performance brake system with 380-millimeter perforated and vented discs and eight-piston fixed calipers on the front axle delivers enormous fade-free stopping power.
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jrhmobile 6:44AM (5/11/2006)
I smell bogus here ... as in bogus polizei ... like the phony police Bentley that just ran in the Gumball 3000 phony. The good news is that the 'tard that drives that will NEVER be busted for impersonating a police officer.
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Ashton 6:57AM (5/11/2006)
You guys have been PUNK'D
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