RX-7, GT-R, NSX... You really can’t afford to offend Japanese police cars

Police cars are different in every corner of the world, and each country has its own characteristics. For example, in the United States, there is no shortage of police muscle cars like the Dodge Charger.

As for our neighboring country Japan, the main force of police cars are also relatively popular models, such as Toyota Crown, MarkX, Suzuki Kaisei, Subaru Legacy, etc. However, on the basis of these common models, the Japanese police have also prepared many high-performance police cars for emergencies, including many coveted JDM classic models!

The police in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, owns a GT-R R34 police car. With 280 horsepower and a 6-speed manual transmission, the GT-R R34 has performance that exceeds that of most civilian cars. This is why the Tochigi Prefecture police in Japan use it as a high-speed chase car.

The bubble economy of the 1990s made street racing a common phenomenon in Japan. However, the Japanese police did not have enough high-performance police cars to stop this behavior. Therefore, Honda donated an NSX sports car to the Tochigi Prefectural Police in the early 1990s for chasing modified racing cars on the streets. By analogy, this is like the police in a certain region of Germany receiving an Audi R8 as a gift.

For car fans, the RX-7 as a police car should be a very exciting thing. But for the Japanese police or ordinary taxpayers, the RX-7 is a nightmare as a police car. As the mileage and age increase, the maintenance cost of the RX-7's rotary engine also increases.

This is also true. Although the current batch of RX-7 has not been retired from the police stations of Hiroshima, Kyoto, Niigata and Tochigi, their main mission has changed from high-speed patrol to public display.

Although there are few non-paved roads in Japan, thanks to the full-time four-wheel drive system, the Impreza WRX STi still has strong hunting capabilities on paved roads.

In the history of GT-R, R33 is considered a relatively failed generation. But for the Japanese police, the R33 police car is indeed extremely practical. First of all, the Japanese police's R33 adopts a four-door design, which makes it more convenient to escort criminals. At the same time, this R33 police car has also been specially tuned by Autech, a Japanese modification. Although the specific horsepower is still unknown, Autech's main business is to tune Nismo engines for Super GT racing cars. This shows that this police car is not easy to mess with!

Because the highway police team in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, is located in a big city, the police cars they use are much younger than the "old guys" mentioned above. The 370Z Nismo equipped with a VQ37 engine can produce a maximum horsepower of 355 horses. Arresting people on "Capital High" shouldn't be too easy. However, the more embarrassing question is, how do criminals get into the back seat?

Although GT-R has always been called Japan's national treasure sports car, you may not know that Mitsubishi's 3000GT also has powerful performance. Four-wheel drive, four-wheel steering, twin-turbocharged V6 engine, just hearing these words can make criminals tremble!

Many readers must not know what model Gallant is. It's okay, don't panic. In fact, Gallant is the ancestor of EVO, and it was also the model built by Mitsubishi to compete in the WRC rally.

The Gallant VR4 of the Japanese police is the eighth generation product of the Gallant series. The 6A13TT engine has 280 horsepower, and the four-door structure makes it easier to escort prisoners. Compared with the R33 mentioned above, Gallant seems to be a more cost-effective alternative.

After seeing the cars used by the Japanese police, everyone must be disappointed with the domestic police vehicles. Indeed, the Japanese police have great advantages in vehicles, whether it is an ordinary Crown (2.5 V6 or 3.5 V6) or a high-performance police car, they are more intimidating than those domestic small-displacement police cars.

However, at present, domestically produced cars are gradually having high-performance players, so we might as well make such a conjecture.

The high-speed patrol department can use the Lynk & Co 03 with better performance. The 5.9-second 0-100 time is enough to kill a number of illegal vehicles; while the Weipai VV7 is more suitable as an interceptor due to its extraordinary weight. As for the BYD Tang DM, its 4.5-second 0-100 sprint time and plug-in hybrid power make it the most suitable choice for ordinary police cars! How do you think domestic police cars should be assembled to form the strongest lineup?