These photos were originally by Lorenzo Kikisch for Type 7 magazine
The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car
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#32Not as beautiful, but the French Gendarmerie National have 22 Alpine A110. Some pictures there : https://www.largus.fr/actualite-automobile/alpine-a110-genda... . In 4 four years, they managed to total 4 of them (from the 26 brought in 2021).
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#33The police of Amsterdam also used to have Porsche police cars https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/for-more-th... Any other police departments that did this or just those two?
UK police have had various types of Jaguar over the years; there was a period where the original Mark 2 Jag could outrun the police, so they had to buy some as well. The Mark 2 became ubiquitous in police procedural TV shows, usually driven by criminals, but also Inspector Morse.
For the present day: https://www.selectcarleasing.co.uk/news/article/most-powerfu... (fun use of FOIA)
https://policepathfinder.com/what-car-do-british-police-use/
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's what happens to things when they become status symbols. They're chased for status. Not the case for Porsche but sometimes that object ends up losing all the core value, pushing away the original fans, and rides the status wave until there's nothing left to offer.
>Not the case for Porsche I'd argue it is, at least once they started making more SUV's than 911's.
The Porsche SUVs deeply offend me aesthetically. The proportions are just wrong and the curve doesn't adapt across the body, so it looks like a monster truck. Far more so than things built to be that size (Land Rover and imitators).
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#35Re: The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car
#36Not as beautiful, but the French Gendarmerie National have 22 Alpine A110. Some pictures there : https://www.largus.fr/actualite-automobile/alpine-a110-genda... . In 4 four years, they managed to total 4 of them (from the 26 brought in 2021).
Alpine is (was ?) a Renault brand, which is a French company, so it is a little less exotic than a Japanese police force buying a German car (Japan being such a massive car exporter themselves).
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#37The police of Amsterdam also used to have Porsche police cars https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/for-more-th... Any other police departments that did this or just those two?
The police of the Netherlands had them, Amsterdam is only a city in the Netherlands.
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#38The police of Amsterdam also used to have Porsche police cars https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/for-more-th... Any other police departments that did this or just those two?
Yeah, Swedish police had 20-something Porsches over the years, here's some pics from an article about one of them being up for sale https://carup.se/legendarisk-polis-porsche-saljs-pa-auktion/
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#39The police of Amsterdam also used to have Porsche police cars https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/for-more-th... Any other police departments that did this or just those two?
Highway patrol back when the regular police drove Beetles.
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#40Steering wheel on the wrong side!
1/3 of the planets population drives on the left mate. (Incidentally, if a country drives on the left then as a general rule of thumb, they also play cricket. I've no idea why this might be the case.)
British influence?
I'm not sure the correlation holds up in Japan's case though