Red BMW police car in London...

Pinter75 · 26 Aug 2006 at 00:44

Apparantly this is driven by S016 (Metropolitan Police Diplomatic Protection Group (DPG)), anyone seen one of these in London? And whats with it using Heavy Oil as fuel?

Manufacturer BMW
Model 530D AUTO
Body type 4 DOOR SALOON
Colour RED
Fuel type HEAVY OIL <-- Eh?
Date manufactured 08 May 2003
Number of previous owners 1
Last owner change 13 July 2006

Berger · 26 Aug 2006 at 00:45

Diesel hence it says 530D

[TW]Fox · 26 Aug 2006 at 00:46

Heavy oil is diesel.

Wow @ That - unusually its a UK spec car, every single police E39 I have seen has been EU spec..

Pinter75 · 26 Aug 2006 at 00:47

I did wonder, Heavy oil is not the kind of stuff that I would expect you could easily pour into your fuel tank.

Pyscho_Si · 26 Aug 2006 at 00:52

Pinter75 said:
Apparantly this is driven by S016 (Metropolitan Police Diplomatic Protection Group (DPG)), anyone seen one of these in London?

Yep, see lots of them in London. Nothing special really.

Pinter75 · 26 Aug 2006 at 00:57

Diesel hence it says 535D

Doh!

The Austrian police are testing these at the mo.

Adz · 26 Aug 2006 at 01:07

I see a lot of E60s in London :cool:

. They really drive them well too!

Pinter75 · 26 Aug 2006 at 01:10

Adz said:
I see a lot of E60s in London . They really drive them well too!

They are kitted out like this in Dubai.

Chris1712 · 26 Aug 2006 at 01:18

Pinter75 said:
They are kitted out like this in Dubai.

wtf is that like a roadsweep aswell...

I used to drive one of these when i worked the beat...

Honest, was just my daily runner while my mercedes project car was at home.

zain · 26 Aug 2006 at 02:11

Ive seen police drive An A8 and M5 think theyre SO19? (armed police)

paradigm · 26 Aug 2006 at 02:24

Berger said:
Diesel hence it says 535D

Not twin-turbo nor is it an E60, hence it ACTUALLY says 530D

Noxis · 26 Aug 2006 at 09:03

Yea see one of these almost daily at london bridge.

TheVoice · 26 Aug 2006 at 10:25

zain said:
Ive seen police drive An A8 and M5 think theyre SO19? (armed police)

Seems unlikely - they wouldn't be able to justify the cost.

Jonny69 · 26 Aug 2006 at 10:51

Pyscho_Si said:
Yep, see lots of them in London. Nothing special really.

Same here.

blueboy2001 · 26 Aug 2006 at 11:00

[TW]Fox said:
Heavy oil is diesel.

Wow @ That - unusually its a UK spec car, every single police E39 I have seen has been EU spec..

Most manufacturers make special police specification vehicles with the nice bits removed.

Dr House · 26 Aug 2006 at 11:01

Average Czech Police cars lol

I out ran one on the motorway a few years ago in a 1.4 mg zr lol

But now they have a few ST220's The secrete police still have very cool cars, S8, E55 and 750’s

thepharcyde · 26 Aug 2006 at 11:29

Paras said:
secrete police still have very cool cars, S8, E55 and 750’s

Don't you mean the mafia?

Scania · 26 Aug 2006 at 22:09

Pinter75 said:
Apparantly this is driven by S016 (Metropolitan Police Diplomatic Protection Group (DPG)), anyone seen one of these in London? And whats with it using Heavy Oil as fuel?

Manufacturer BMW
Model 530D AUTO
Body type 4 DOOR SALOON
Colour RED
Fuel type HEAVY OIL <-- Eh?
Date manufactured 08 May 2003
Number of previous owners 1
Last owner change 13 July 2006

Ahh, good old "Heavy oil"

I've seen that very car whilst trundling around London in my rather big Heavy oil burner.....

Lots of e39 Patrol cars also.

zain · 27 Aug 2006 at 00:37

TheVoice said:
Seems unlikely - they wouldn't be able to justify the cost.

lol unless 4 geezers in each car dressed very differently with a siren were playing a joke, its not a lie m8.

gord · 27 Aug 2006 at 00:45

Chris1712 said:
Honest, was just my daily runner while my mercedes project car was at home.

Twin supercharged?

Red BMW police car in London...

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