Well, get a Bugatti Veyron and your still good!

Awesome! Lucky cops!

@ Sector_15504 ,at speeds over 200km’h the GT-R becomes quite sluggish, you’re pretty safe with any supercar.

That’s just dumb.
What do they pay the officers if they are waisting money like that on 1 car?

0-60, i dont think anyone in the the UAE cares about 85 grand… texas has a viper, european contries have Gallardo’s, germany has an MB brabus CLS and 911, holland a Spyker… Dubai just wanted to join the club

@scratchy the GTR will pull hard well past 130Mph…. haha also, if your going down a strait line BFD you’ll never out run some cop in a city in a straight line and there is no way in hell you’ll see any super car bearing road tires take any city country corner at over 130mph bearing road tires not to mention with out inspecting the corner first… you’d be playin with fire.
Its not the car its the driver. and last time i checked the GTR came with sequential Paddle shifters… It Can’t be tohard to rip through gears appropriately said my grandma.. GL with that.

@ hfry , 0-300 km/h in the GT-R ~53 seconds , 0-300 km/h in a 997.1 turbo ~40 seconds and i bet those guys in UAE have a lot of cars more powerful that the turbo.

Oh, please.

That’s nothing compared to the Italian Police where they have two Lamborghini Gallardo’s in service.

Although, to be honest, they only use the Lambo’s for emergency uses along Italy’s A3 motorway, and for transporting body parts to be used in body transplants.

Here’s a picture of these Police Lambo’s: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Lamborghini_Polizia.JPG

Never mind pedestrians… what happens if you hit a camel at 300kph?

it all depends on whether those camels have body kits or not.

Johnny, I was going to ask why they needed a 190+ mph car when a camel can only get up to 25 mph max – but then I thought that was going to get angry posts. Well, since you started it….

I would runs from the cops on purpose just to be chased by one of these things.

What do you call a camel with 4 humps? A Saudi Quattro.

@ johnny , i hear it’s good luck to hit a camel with that speed…

Isn’t the average income in the UAE like $50,000? I don’t think there are many camels to worry about… all those Arabs are rich off of oil.

Jake, the answer to your question is “because they CAN!”

As cool as the cop car is, all I can think about is Garfield singing that Abu Dhabi song as he’s packing Odie up to ship him there.

@Scratchy.. Rippin through a 997 t 6 speed manual gear box while flyin through traffic is abit more difficult then pressing or pulling a lever with your finger tips. The probability for error is substantial… Also, your stats you keep referring too are based on track times. Not a sandy ass road with traffic moving around you.. get out and stop playin need for speed. Great Job!

I love the decals. They don’t speak much ‘authority’ to me. If someone pulled up behind me (in all senses of the word) with those decals and paint scheme….lol

I think they could have pimped the car out more with proper graphics and accessories that spoke *WATCH OUT*

Good one Johnny!

maybe it will race with the ferrari security vehicles at Ferrari World theme park!

“In other news, applications to the Abu Dhabi police department have risen over 300%. Is this related to the new GT-R police car? Story at 11!”

well 1 GTR looks reasonable compared to the fleet of Veyrons they originally requested.

That thing is piiimp haha. Cooler paint job than the Italian Lambos IMO. The dual exhaust looks mean

Who cares? The GTR is only good accelerating up to 60mph, then it drops off dramatically when it’s AWD doesn’t benefit it anymore. Then add on the cop equipment (another 500lbs to the already piggy car) and it slows even more affecting its acceleration, braking and handling. So buy a Corvette Z06, F430, Gallardo, Viper, or any other supercar and you sill outrun it. And if you get a Corvette or similar you will get twice the MPG and no way will a GTR be useful in chasing you.

Most wasteful purchase ever. Do it right. Buy a car that is fast all the time and gets good MPG so it is useful in a chase. Corvettes work great, or the other concept one, the Caparo T1.

Corvettes, Veyron, F430, Viper all has room in the back to put in a reckless drunk driver captured after hot pursuit? I don’t think so.

The GT-R’s superior and forgiving handling make it a very good pursuit car in city and strong frame rigidity also keeps the officers safe in case of accident. GT-R also has ground clearace and AWD to help off road excursions if the car ends up off the main road on to the grass or soft ground.

All in all, the richest police made their best choice for pursuit car.

This car is irrelevant, because nobody can outrun a radio. This is another example of a country filled with fools who have more money than they know how to spend.

Big deal LAPD has 12 HELICOPTERS and 8 SWAT squads, rampart Adam 12 that.

@ hfry , you forgot about PDK. also , whatever.

so many people here think this will actually be used as a normal police patrol car.

Personally… I think the kid with the balloon sword is hilarious.

Wow , good to know they have good taste in cars and picked the best super car available right now!

this will make the best cop car for the price and quickness and its all wheel so u can go anywhere with more control and at high speed its 100% rear wheel drive perfect! screw the corvette its crap and its a pain just to get the corvette

Huh? Go back to your Legos, little boy. Come back here in 10 years when you’re grown up.

I guess you cannot handcuff anyone and put them in the back…….

If you have seen some of those videos on the internet about the Arab guys going crazy on the public road with their expandable stock of Japanese cars, you’ll probably understand why a Nissan GT-R is a great choice for the police there. And there are a boat load of fast cars and people who can afford to trash them if there is some run in with the police. So GT-R is a very natural choice. Could use more room in the back, then again, not a lot of super cars have room in the back at all.

@ Soravia , this is just a publicity stunt , they won’t use this car in actual police missions.

Saw my first GT-R in the wild the other day. It was parked outside my nephew’s high school. (god, I hope it wasn’t a student’s!) I must say that I hadn’t been overly impressed with pictures I’d seen but it looked fantastic in real life. Count me duly impressed.

I wonder how many cops will leave the borders with that car.