This is the new Camaro. Not the car, the stories. Some of you know what I’m talking about.

Woahh, i didnt realize the rump looked just like the Impala. That sucks.

Boy I’ll say. if you look quick you would swear this was a pic of the current Impala

I’m glad they changed the body work on this to a more generic appearance. This will help ensure that the G8 will remain a classic!

Why do these pigs need so much luxury?

i dont know about the whole touch screen replacing their laptops….. that I will have see to believe it will work……

plus, where the hell is the rack for all the police radios, lights, and other crap? or is that built in too?

i didn’t translate from G8 to cop car as well as i expected, as A4 and Denver mentioned, it kinda looks too much like the impala, i don’t think it is scary, it lacks personality, plus the name… i mean don’t get me wrong caprice is a name with a history and everything but come on! why that name, why not something else more badass? something cool like the “Chevy Phoenix”… it would sound badass and it is also quite reasonable… you know the G8 died and came back, like a phoenix… because i dunno but caprice, i don’t like that name… i was expecting to see larger front, air dams, you know make it look more badass…

*it (first word)

Oh well here goes the RWD Impala replacement everyone wanted. Good job GM on not actually giving it a public chance!

So, let’s kill the G8 with intentions of keeping it on as a Chevy, but hot darn, we’re gonna import a handful as cop cars. For the love of all that’s good, just make it the new Impala / Caprice and justify the importing. The Impala needs a major redesign anyway.

That should’ve been “no intentions”, sorry.

This is pretty interesting. But if GM utilized the G*’s interior in the current Impala, then they could have something on their hands. I like the combination. But I don’t like the fact that they (cops) will have more techno gadgets than Best Buy does and that they will have automatic license plate readers. Just another reason for people to hate driving.

in that icon, the front looks like a bastardized version of a mercedes C-class
and heated seats? really?

Where’s Robocop with his souped up Taurus when you need him? I thought that was the future of cop cars?

I’m taking a serious look at a G8 this week (I don’t kid when I’m seriously looking). I find it hard to feel bad about this model being cancelled when there is a ton of new G8’s around St. Louis. One dealer who isn’t a big volume dealer has about 15 on it’s lot right now, so it’s not like these are setting the sales books on fire. If you want one, buy one.

Rear end of an Impala, front end of an Aura. This is what we’ve been waiting for???

Automatic license plate readers? KarLoveBoy is exactly right about that giving us more reasons to hate driving… They already check our plates enough without any cause. Right after I got my first sportbike I had gone to buy something from a grocery store, I parked quite legally. I came out to find a cop waiting for me by my bike who proceeded to interrogate me as to why my bike didn’t come up as registered in my state (Brand new, DUH).

I don’t know if he was trolling the lot checking everyone or just picking on a sportbike owner hoping I had run from a state trooper or something…

Jake66,

I expect ROBOCOP will be driving a Carbon Motors E7 though that is slated to start sales in 2012, I think.

The future of cop cars is at Carbon Motors… check it out.

http://www.carbonmotors.com/

It needs a meaner front end. Even the Impala in cop guise has a certain ‘don’t f*ck with me look’. This is about as intimidating as a Mazda 3.

OK, having looked at those pics, there are two people who didn’t do their jobs. In the right-most interior pic there is a loose-hanging trim piece on the right side of the center console. So the preparer forgot to fix that before the shoot, OR the photographer forgot to edit that out, or at least point it out. And if someone OK’d the pics after they were taken, a THIRD person didn’t do their job. Big miss guys.

This is what happens when the federal government and a car manufacturer get together under government ownership. Now Ford has to compete with the government. Who do you think will have the best price? Municipalities buy on price first and ammenities 2nd.

Great news: the cop giving you a ticket will be driving a fugly car, not a good looking G8!

GM needs to bring back this vehicle and get rid of the FWD Impala. They are stupid to have two full-size FWD sedans in Chevy’s lineup, especially when Malibu is so nice.

RaineMan, Malibu is not up to FWD Impala standard. It is more modern in looks, but get behind the wheel and they are world apart, with Malibu being a looser.

OH WAIT GUYS IT HAS A FENDER VENT! IT’S SAVED!

Maybe we should be happy GM DIDN’T produce a civilian version of this! They saved themselves the hardship of getting rid of a sedan that looks fugly and a platform that still hasn’t set the world on fire when it’s a 100% more attractive G8.

Did they run out of “Chevrolet” steering wheel badges?

Perhaps I should have read the article before looking at the pictures. I got too excited and went straight for them.

lol

Whoaa…. nice rear end design…. (roll eyes up). But then again, its for the cops, not for public. So, no worries about seeing 200,000 caprice’s ugly rear end on the roads…..

A4, the Impala was inspred by this.

-iluvamcars

IMO this was a good move by Chevy since this car already existed in the Middle-East. While not the most exciting name, the name Caprice has been a long time friend of the police. With the elimination of 4 brands GM needs to get numbers where they can and this is one area that they have neglected for a long time. If this program is successful it will significantly increase the odds of a future RWD consumer car.

GM cant even make a good looking cop car. This thing is generic screaming of the putrid air that is impala. Toyota should make a cop car and it would dominate every cop car alive. GM can never get anything right on, no wonder they went bankrupt.
Be American. Buy Toyota. A Global Phenomena.

does anyone else see a problem with having, “fingerprint and facial recognition capability” in the dashboad/front seat interface…? Last time I checked, police issue shotguns were kept in the front seat too.. :/ I can see it now: “I’m gonna need to scan your fingerprints now.. oh, and dont mind my shotgun mounted next to the interface..”

Built in Australia???????

This looks like a pretty good car. Same basic thing as the G8 but with more understated Chevrolet bagding and paneling. V6 and V8 options in RWD. WHY again, aren’t they selling this as a standard Chevy? If they offered it again with a 6-speed manual I’d certainly take a look at one. GM is missing a very obvious market here considering that they’ve already decided to sell it as a fleet vehicle.

yes Mausome….

…and I don’t buy it that it is, for some reason, “not good enough” for the general population. Maybe they think it’s TOO good for the general population and I don’t buy that either because it isn’t. It is a good car though and there is NO reason why Chevrolet shouldn’t sell a regular Caprice lineup. Fuel economy not good enough? They already have a 2.0 direct injection turbo engine they could update and use in this car and improve those economy numbers. For the love of God, it’s been long enough that you haven’t been able to go into a Chevrolet or Buick showroom for a sub-luxury RWD sedan. They have the car and they have the physical manufacturing and legal power to move production from Australia to the U.S.

Law enforcement get a practical and solid modern RWD sedan while the rest of us are told that FWD Impalas, Malibus, Lucernes, etc. are worth the money they’re asking for them– even if they quality is up to par now.

C Class front lights, then it’s so generic it only needs the roof light removed to be an undercover one.

Don’t you people realize this is a decontented Holden Statesman, built in Australia?

oh fun. More boring impala rear ends. Why cant they desig … zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

“It’s got a cop motor, a four forty cubic inch plant. It’s got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It’s a model made before the catalytic converter so it’ll run good on regular gas.”

“Why do these pigs need so much luxury?”

It’s their work vehicle. Try driving all day in a car, and you will see that it needs to be comfortable.

@Rafa LL, this is based on the Holden Caprice., which was released a few years before the C-Class.

Apparently only a few of us get the fact that this is not a new design right down to the rear end that is reminiscent of the Impala. This car has been sold as the Chevrolet Caprice in other markets already.
The last paragraph in the article tells you that.

I am glad that they’ll be getting this and not the G8 body style.

I still think that killing off the G8 before the end of its life cycle was a mistake but can’t complain as I wouldn’t have bought one just like most of the people posting here. If they were selling like hotcakes they’d still be around.

““Why do these pigs need so much luxury?”

It’s their work vehicle. Try driving all day in a car, and you will see that it needs to be comfortable.”"

They should’ve studied a little harder in high school and been something else other then a pig. Pigs are pretty much just bullies in high school that wanted to continue to fulfill their lifelong dream of being a bully.

I know lots of “pigs”, and only a few of them are like that. Most of the ones I know are college graduates, speak many languages, and still choose to be a “pig” so they can feel like they make a difference. Also, most of the ones I know are rather pleasant to deal with, and are very respectful.

But if you don’t break the law, you don’t have to worry about “pigs” bullying you.

I small pork

toyota cars R 2 weeak 2 b cop cars.
da criminals would ceer if pis got toyotas

Everyone listen up!!! This is a rebadged Holden Statesman. The Stateman has been on sale since 2005. This INSPIRED the Impala, not the other way around. THIS IS NOT A NEW DESIGN AND ITS NOT REBADGED COMMODORE. IT’S A REBADGED STATESMAN. Cop cars need long wheelbases. Everyone thinks that they were bringing a G8 here with Chevy logos. They are not. This car is awesome! Everyone who is hating and does not know anything about it needs to shut up!

-iluvamcars

P.S., this is just a prototype! For the real model go to an earlier report!

I have to agree with another poster. the future of cop cars is Carbon Motors.

Best design I’ve seen for a police car yet.

Except, of course, for John Candy’s flame-throwing Plymouth Fury sporting a 440 under the hood.

They obviously made a good decision to use a platform that is in production, is large enough to please the intended customer (police departments not Joe Average) and make a few extra bucks when not too many people on the street are buying cars. Holden obviously makes cars that are similiar to American tastes, the journalist have gushed about the G8 and GTO before it, except for styling. If they are fairly easily federalized, and take an American powertrain how could they not be an improvement over the Ford dinosours? The mpg complaints are a joke, in Mayberry the cops dont need to be driving fire breathing engines but I wouln’t want to be in Chicago, L.A., Miami, etc. with a car who’s major purpose is to save mpg’s and not move like stink when I needed it to. The Charger is hardly an engineering masterpiece, it started its life on a dated platform. While it may have been better than other Chrysler offerings at the time, the current G.M. rear wheel drive platforms have gotten much praise, ranging from the Zeta to the Pontiacs based on the Holdens.

beatusmongous: thanks for the level-headed comment. Indeed, there are many good cops serving their community, but there’s always a few rotten apples in them. That goes for pretty much every industry out there.