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The driver of a small Nissan pickup truck has some explaining to do after getting stuck... in a tree. Most versatile off-road trucks are found stuck in deep mud or snow, but this utilitarian beast was found stuck in an evergreen grove. Police responded to reports of the tree-climbing truck ...

Don't bring a knife to a gun fight, and don't bring a Volkswagen to a Lamborghini chase - such was the logic of the Dubai Police Department prior to ordering their brand-new Aventador pursuit vehicle. Given the plethora of fast exotics that bruise the Arabian roadscape, we can't blame the police ...

"Desperate times call for desperate measures," so the old adage goes. Knowing the type of death and destruction frequently caused by drunk drivers, a group of Windsor area motorists took the law into their own hands in a sort of automotive citizen's arrest. Windsor police first learned of the ...

Carbon Motors couldn't have picked a better time to get into the police car business with the departure of the Ford Crown Victoria leaving the market wide open, but with its purpose-built E7 police sedan still a few more years away from production, the Indiana-based company decided to launch ...

The British crime thriller, The Sweeney, was centered around two cops tooling around in an unmarked, blacked-out, five-door, Ford Focus ST. It's only logical, then, that Ford serve pent-up demand for a true police-spec Focus ST. Reporting for official duty is the Ford Focus ST estate, ...

The Ford Crown Victoria relinquished its crown as the top police car when it went out of production last year, but Ford is claiming it still produces the dominant police vehicles on the market. This, following the most recent cop car comparison test held by the Michigan State Police. While we're ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into complaints involving steering column shafts that can separate on Police Interceptor versions of the Ford Crown Victoria. An official recall has not been issued yet, but a separated steering column could be dangerous in that it ...

Ford has revealed that it is updating the base powerplant on its 2013 Police Interceptor sedan. Ford's 3.7-litre Ti-VCT V6 engine will replace the naturally aspirated 3.5-litre V6 engine in its Taurus cop car, and the new engine will slot under the optional twin-turbo 3.5-litre EcoBoost V6. The ...

With the Ford Crown Victoria out of the picture, automakers are in a fight for police car domination, and Dodge just upped the ante by adding an optional all-wheel drive system on the Charger Pursuit for 2014. Previously, the Charger Pursuit was only available with rear-wheel drive, but adding ...