Wednesday 11th August 2004

Diesel Rapid Response Car

Wiltshire police select Accord CTDi

---

Wiltshire Police has become Britain’s first police force to select the Honda Accord Tourer i-CTDi diesel as a rapid response car.

Several of the new estates are now in use with the West Country Force as part of a 10 car order. They join a fleet which also includes Civics, CR-Vs, Civic IMAs, Streams, Jazz and HR-V models – as well as a ST1100 and ST1300 Honda motorcycles operated by Wiltshire Police.

A previous Accord 2.0 litre petrol covered over 200,000 miles on front line response tasks.

Wiltshire Police currently purchases between 40-50 Honda cars per year.

[RB Will]

I 've seen these about but i dont like them being silver, I have also seen dark blue police cars somewhere but I can't remember whaere that was, I thought unless they were unmarked they had to be white?

[thub]

No, that was just 'traditional' (and cheap). They're choosing silver now because of the easier resale at the end of its working life.

[dinkel]

Looks pretty good

[xxplod]

Hantspol have had diesel response car since about 1994. Started with the 4 dr BMW 325tds manual. They were quite good, if not very roomy. Then we had the God-awful 325 tds estate autos, which were so slow it was almost dangerous. Very embarassing when the panda car is faster around town!

Now we've got the new 330d estate autos, which are a pretty decent bit of kit and fairly rapid too.

[agent006]

Honda must be giving some fairly hefty discounts to police. they seem to be selected by an awful lot of forces.

[xxplod]

All approved maufacturers give a big discount to the Police. We pay about £16K for a Volvo T5 estate. It is a huge advert for a car company if the BiB are punting around in their cars.

[dinkel]

agent006 said:

Honda must be giving some fairly hefty discounts to police. they seem to be selected by an awful lot of forces.

OK, they all do. But Honda is reliable, fast, economical, easy to live with, forgiving, spacious . . .