At $12,995, Is This 2011 Ford Expedition a Deal?

Whereas conventional police-spec vans have usually been referred to as “Paddy Wagons,” right now’s Nice Price or No Dice Expedition XLT is extra of a cell tactical command middle. Let’s see how a lot moolah it can rightfully command.

To say that final Friday’s 1986 Pontiac Fiero with an Artero body kit generated antipathy is an understatement. Extra correct could be to say it generated animosity. Or possibly outright anger. The coup de grâce for the automotive was its $11,500 asking worth. That engendered a good angrier 98 % No Cube loss.

Over time there have been numerous attention-grabbing automobiles which have been pressed into police service. We’re all little question acquainted with Dubai’s well-known Lamborghini cop automobiles, that are clearly meant to make being a cop in hotter-n-hell Dubai a not completely terrible expertise. In France, the agricultural police pressure is known as the Gendarmerie nationale and final yr it purchased 26 Alpine A110 sports cars for patrol and pursuit duties.

Right here in America, no producer is maybe extra intently affiliated with regulation enforcement than the Ford Motor Company. That’s not stunning when you think about that the corporate launched its first Police-package automobile again in 1950, making it the primary carmaker to particularly serve the civil service market. The official Interceptor title got here to be only a yr later in 1951, anointing the specially-tuned flathead V8 obtainable within the automobiles.

Today, Ford continues that tradition, offering a slew of law enforcement trucks, utilities, and “prisoner transport” vans. Conspicuous by their absence, however, Ford no longer offers any sort of police “car.”

Remarkably, the company does offer a Police Interceptor package on the massive Expedition SUV, and today we get to look at a 2011 Ford Expedition XLT 4X4 that carries the bundle, in addition to having a couple of extra tips up its sleeve.

Externally, this 155,000-mile Expedition actually does look the cop automotive half in the best way that solely plain-wrap automobiles can. It sports activities a bull bar up in entrance, painted metal wheels throughout, and plenty of brilliant LED lights sprinkled in locations the place they’d be most helpful.

Inside, the Police bundle modifications are much more noticeable. These embody a column shift for the transmission, a middle column delete, and an put in radio and light-weight present management panel between the seats. Switches and mics on that activate the aforementioned 300-watt PA and siren system. The large wagon additionally comes with a 110-volt energy inverter, distant management roof-top highlight, and a lockable storage unit within the again with a slide-out drawer, amongst different goodies.

Below the hood lies a 310 horsepower Triton 5.4 liter 24V V8 which is paired with an electronically-controlled six-speed computerized and Management Trac full-time four-wheel drive. That provides the Expedition a towing capability of over 9,000 kilos. New tires guarantee that all these kilos get loads of traction.

The vendor describes the truck’s situation as “good” within the advert. It’s famous that the Ford comes with a clear title as properly. General, it seems to be in respectable form, with no apparent bodywork points and exhibiting anticipated ranges of wear and tear and tear (though no precise tears) on the inside.

This can be a distinctive automobile that trades some utility (switching the third row for the lock field) for lots of attention-grabbing if pointless options. For somebody, that might be a match made in heaven. For the remainder of us, it’s a $12,995 truck and we now have to get our pondering caps on and determine if this former civil servant is civilly priced at that quantity.

What do you say, is that this Police Interceptor Expedition value that $12,995 asking because it sits? Or, for that a lot, may it not even get arrested on this city?

You determine!

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