UK police replace Imprezas with Lexus IS-F cruisers

UK police replace Imprezas with Lexus IS-F cruisers

Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Etc., Japan, Lexus, UK

Lexus IS-Force - Click above for a high-res image gallery

Objects you do not want to see in your rear-view mirror: Hungry dinosaurs, pissed-off exes holding rifles, mushroom clouds and this guy. Indeed, you're looking at a Lexus IS-Force, an IS-F that's been converted to a cruiser for police duty in the English county of Humberside, which includes the notoriously criminally minded port city of Hull. For the past few years, Humberside bobbies have been chasing baddies in Subaru Imprezas, but the AWD cars just weren't up to the task at hand. What to replace 'em with? Here's what the cops were thinking, according to Sergeant Mike Peck:

"The Lexus was tested during a 12 month period along with similar vehicles and proved itself to be ideally suited in providing a dynamically safe high performance chassis along with an electronically stable platform for the computer equipment. In the past this equipment has placed huge demands on vehicles but the Lexus IS-F easily met with our requirements. The final product provides a most formidable package and is undoubtedly one of the most advanced police vehicles in the world which in turn enables my officers to deal with the criminals who use the roads for serious and organized crime."

We're actually a little weak-kneed at the very thought of the IS-Force's existence. 416 horsepower 5.0-liter V8s with the power to yank your license tend to have that effect. Even on crooks.


Gallery: Lexus IS-F Cop Car


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they look mighty sweet

i want to be UK cop

lol, that's cool I guess, they should keep that siren inside the car not on top of it.

woa. i dont know what ill fear more: a charger cruiser or and IS-F cruiser.

so that the police men inside get deafened by the siren going off right next to their ears? i think you mean the lights...the lights should be inside the car. siren outside. otherwise they'd have to roll down their windows for anyone to hear their sirens going off.

hahaha, good catch.

The light bar doesn't look that intrusive outside. At least it's a thin LED bar instead of the thick old school ones. And besides, it's not an undercover vehicle. It's a police cruiser which is supposed to have a light bar outside.

Point Taken,

Lol

i would like to go jail just to ride in the IS-F

LOL. Not me. Maybe in one of those lambos. Apparently, lambo DONATED some of their cars to popos over there while they had to pay FULL PRICE and some for those is-fs

i've driven one of these for a day. one word.
DAAAAAMMMMMMNNNNNN!!!!

thats even better i got shot gun in the front seat for doing something bad.

Colorado Highway Patrol loaded 2000ish SS Camaro. <-- worst nightmare.