Originally Posted By: GMguy84
Originally Posted By: ls1mike
The Caprice is fleet only here. Strange things are like rubber floors, no center console per say, front seats cloth, rear seat vinyl. Larger front seats to accommodate the gear police wear.
It is basically a L76 (Pontiac G8 GT) but called a L77 because it is tuned to run on E85. GM 6.0/6L80E. Hour meter in the instrument display. Limited to 155mph. It has bigger brakes than the civilian version in Australia(It has CTS brakes) and a factory installed oil cooler. It also has two trunk mounted batteries, larger alternator, different shocks, struts and springs.
It is about 150 lbs heavier than the G8 GT. It is also 4 inches longer as it is actually a Caprice in Australia and the Middle east. It is a Buick Park Avenue in China. In all those places it is a luxury car. Not in Police PPV form
. I love mine, great highway cruiser and the go pedal helps it move out nicely.
The Black one is mine, never in police service. The white one is a guy I met at Lowe's by accident. His was never in service either and he got it at the same dealership. Mine is a 2014 his is a 2011. Notice we both picked up Holden grills from Australia. I also picked up illuminated side repeaters, his still has the plain black ones. The 2011 shares the G8 interior. The 2014 shares the Chevy SS interior. They share many different components, too many to list.
[censored] those pics are tempting !!! It's between the caprice or a Police hemi Charger as my next "police toy" lol
Back in my HS days, I had a LT1 '95 9C1 caprice that was retired early for a Tahoe. Boy I LOVED that car !!!! I remember on a 500 mile trip to Austin, I got 26 MPG HWY in that thing !!!
It was a SAD DAY when I had to sell it to get a S10 2.2 4cyl for my job
Dave
I love the Mopar stuff and it is a good car, but go LS, so cheap and easy to modify and the 6L80E is great! Plus the Holden stuff de-polices it easy. No one knows it was going to be a cop car.