Any vehicle can serve the police, no matter how deluxe or impractical. One example of this would be Dubai, UAE, where supercars routinely patrol the streets, but the U.S. state of California is not far behind the trends, either.
The local police department has unleashed a Chevrolet C7 Corvette Z06 on the roads, giving it an appropriate patrol car livery and extra lights in and around the radiator grille, windshield, front fender vents, side sills and rear air intakes.
Taxpayers’ money had nothing to do with the acquisition: the car was impounded from a crime suspect. Apparently, confiscating property of suspects ahead of any court rulings is a legal practice in the States, and the police often resorts to it.
Packing a 6.2-liter V8 boosted to deliver 659 PS (650 hp / 485 kW) and 881 Nm (650 lb-ft) of torque to the wheels, the ‘Vette is guaranteed to ramp up the mean horsepower count in the California police fleet considerably.
