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I lived in a neighborhood like that. It has the standard two entrances to the main street, plus a "back" entrance to the adjacent neighborhood (which also had regular...

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well, it finally happened... 3792
Michael G. Koerner I agree its a good idea to keep un-necessary through traffic out...

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Yes.

Diesel Pbuttat estates-wagons are the ISO standard cop car here in North Germany:

But that's different from region to region -- most federal states seem to prefer cars made by companies from that state (although I don't think there are that many police VW Phaetons in Dresden ;-). BMWs, Mercedeses, and Audis are quite common in their respective states though, as well as in states that don't have any car makers of their own. E-clbutt, anyone? 5-series? A6?

Police SUVs I've only seen pulling police horse trailers so far. Most of those were Opel Fronteras (which is a rebadged Isuzu I think):

More usually, if a Pbuttat-sized wagon is too small, they use VW Eurovans:

Older vehicles are rather rare, but they do exist. For instance, last year I saw a police VW Golf A2 (which was last built in 1991 or so):

Such small cars are rather atypical even for German police though. But I think that's changing slowly now. Berlin police use quite a lot of these Opel Corsa econoboxen:

Which are still quite roomy compared to this:

But at least the latter aren't used as regular patrol cars. Yet.

Yours, Erik. -- ACROBAT: Afraid Crashing's Really Our Best Avenue Today




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