Thursday, December 1, 2016

New Volvo – the best police car ever – Aftonbladet

Old V70 and the XC70 is the classic bumper cars.

And it seems that Volvo continues to be a favorite within the police force.

"the Assessment is that it is difficult to find flaws at all", writes the police in a evaluation.

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the Requirement of a police car is higher than on a normal passenger car.

It is simply not possible to take any car and believe that it will keep for police work. But when the V70 and XC70 retired in the spring – there was a hole in the Volvo "polisproduktion".

Impressive skilled

despite the fact that Volvo made the journey into the premiumland, so you have not forgotten the rank and file and the new V90 has also been developed, as a police car.

Now police tested the car and of the protocol to judge is they are impressed. Not enough with that the car gets high score in all the branches – it gets the highest overall score ever.

– This feels fantastic for us. To achieve such a high score on such a tough evaluation that the Swedish police have implemented is a recognition that we deliver a competitive car, ” says Stephan Green, marketing director at Volvo Car Special Products, in a press release.

"We beat ourselves."

V90:n received an average user rating of 9.2 out of 10. In the sample included extensive work with evasive maneuvers, and simulated utryckskörning. In the protocol, wrote the test

"The overall assessment is that it is difficult to find flaws at all. Chassis, steering, suspension, traction control system and powertrain to behave in an exemplary way. Hasty lane assistance, at very high speeds almost feels unreal simple, the car does as it’s told and just "shrugs" sidokrafterna but to protest the very least. The test can together not other than result in the maximum utdelningspoäng."

– We listen carefully to the requirement that the police place on us. Already in 1929 Volvo started delivering police cars to the Swedish police and since then there have been a great number of variants of police cars, often based on station wagons. Earlier were the Volvo XC70, the Swedish police favoritbil. It had a cut score of nine, which was the highest. But now we ourselves – and all others, ” says Stephan Green.

Take a week to convert

Volvo V90 in polisbilsutförande is specially developed for the police authority’s needs. The chassis is sturdy, the brakes are enhanced and the car is equipped with all the equipment that the police must have. The work to convert a standard V90 to a police car takes a little over a week and the cars are built at a separate factory in Torslanda.

In the end of the first quarter of next year, the first V90 isn to be ready to roll out on the Swedish roads. There is also ongoing work to introduce Volvo V90 car in several other countries. The police in Norway, the Uk and the Netherlands are some of the countries that already have Swedish volvo cars in its fleet.

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