Indiana has new Mustangs cop cars..

I have to agree with this . Do we really need unmarked cars chasing people 125 m.p.h. ? One of these Mustangs regularly patrols I-64 around the 85 mile marker . At the 92 mile marker a 12 mile one lane construction zone starts . Lately there have been one or two full growns sitting at the beginning of the construction zone where flashing lights indicate a 45 m.p.h. zone .
Also with the Mustangs it necessitates the need of another patrol car if an arrest is made .

 

Indiana doesn't have any hills big enough to get my truck to break the speed limit. But that's good information.

 

I have been noticing them more often. I saw one today on I-165? the bypass loop through new albany to jeffersonville, all black. I believe that crawford county in Indiana is still the poorest county in Indiana. You will be hard pressed to find anything there. There are a few hills on I-64 just east of Perry County that would get a truck moving fast enough to break the speed limit, but a few of those are under construction right now. I go through there every two weeks are so, visiting family, grew up in that area.

 

Personally, I think they should put those devices on them that lets them "taser" a cars electrical system.

People who force cops to chase them, need to have their cars taken and auctioned anyway. They could pay for the new mustangs that way.

 

The gas usage is a good point . Every state trooper you see going down the highway is going at least 10 m.p.h. over the speed limit , using excessive gas for no good reason .
But assumptions on fuel mileage can be wrong . Who would think a Hemi Charger gets better fuel mileage than a Ford Crown Vic 4.6 ? Here are the 2008 Michigan State Police test results . http://www.michigan.gov/documents/msp/FuelEconomy-MSP_VehicleEval08_Web_221475_7.pdf

 

Our stock '05 Mustang GT will do 140+ as it is. I've personally had it at 140 where the speedometer stops and was still accelerating (dumb, I know, but JEEZ that was fun!!). I wouldn't go beebopping down the highway for long periods with it stock like it is, but it's not like I did any damage to the car running the dogsnot out of it just as it came off the assembly line. I don't know about the governor at 120 - I don't think that's the case...

We have the Diablosport Tuner and have done some tweaking on it since that time to improve efficiency and economy, but that wasn't until recently and I had the needle buried long before that. Maybe I'm incorrect, on paper, but sure wasn't, in practice.

On average, I'll do between 65-80 on the way to work (depending on traffic flow and if weather is good condition). I get 21MPG with it going 75-80 avg. If I'd do the speed limit all the time, I might do the 28 it's supposed to do...

 

AGREED! They don't need a "cool" car to do it. The fact is, though, these things are the new "belly button car" and since they're everywhere, they blend in and give cops the advantage of surprise. All I know is that I hope one doesn't ever pull up next to me and try to race. Most Mustang drivers don't challenge each other, though... they seem to be out to challenge everything else, instead. I bet Indiana nails a few of the new Camaros when they finally come out... if they can catch them, that is. LOL