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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
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No. The Caprice was still just a regular Holden sedan that Chevy sold as a police car.
The thing that I was curious about was going to be designed from the ground to be a police car & nothing else. Pretty sure this was the first (and only) car the company had tried to build. I forget all the features it was supposed to have but I think it was to be diesel with AWD. The rear seats were to be moulded to seat a cuffed suspect while the front seats had space around the hip/waist area to give room for the officers radio, gun, and other things on their belt. I think the fenders were re-inforced for performing PIT manoeuvres. Might have been an integrated rack heavy weapons in the trunk. There were a ton of things it was supposed to have that were allegedly based on officers complaints about typical police cruisers.
Basically, the entire thing was intended to be delivered from the factory with 0 retrofitting for police duty while incorporating things that would be difficult/impossible for a converted civilian sedan to have but pretty straight forward to do if the car was only ever going to be for police duty.