Outdated Xennial habit #137 that still happens because we are who we are:

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SailNW@reddit

I wanna know why people buy this car and then get mad when you slow down in front of them? You’re tailgating me? Sir. That’s a cop car.

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cbih@reddit

I just know I've always wanted one of the spotlight things

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PurplePenguinCat@reddit

I had a friend in high school in the 90s who randomly put a spotlight on his car. It wasn't an ex cop car. He just wanted the light. 😄

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Probably 20+ years ago now, our local police switched over to Impalas (which had very distinct lights). Anyway, a friend bought one and it was probably 50/50 people immediately getting out of the way vs people dropping to 5 below the limit

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SailNW@reddit

I don’t get it! Why would you buy a cop car lol!

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0peRightBehindYa@reddit

355hp 6.0 liter V8 with a practically unlimited aftermarket, 6 speed auto, rear wheel drive, battle scars, an interior I don't have to worry about, and a beefy electrical system for an amp and subs. What's not to love?

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Edgarmustavas@reddit

Ignore the mileage when you buy it and look at the engine hours. They never turn them off so it can run computers, radios, etc and that means it has basically sat in stop and go traffic (equivalent) it while life, which is hard on an engine.

Might be fun to throw some parts at and try and max out hps, but I wouldn't want one as a daily driver.

Especially a Chevrolet, cause their transmissions kinda suck ass.

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0peRightBehindYa@reddit

Honestly? I've owned 3 different cop cars and it hasn't made a difference. All three had between 50k-100k and around 5000 idle hours, and all three were rock solid. The first one died when my daughter's dumbass boyfriend wrecked it in the snow. The 2nd one died due to transmission failure (gasp! A 4R75 failing? The hell you say!). And the third one's given me 30,000 trouble free miles so far. The 6L80 is a pretty solid transmission as long as its maintained, and there are plenty of people out there running 550+rwhp on a stock trans.

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xrelaht@reddit

Where were they using those as cop cars??

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FoofaFighters@reddit

I'm working on wearing my wife down enough to let me pick up an SS. Looks similar to that, and may be the same thing but I'm not sure. Such a beautiful machine.

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0peRightBehindYa@reddit

The SS is muuuuuuuch nicer than mine. Also comes with extra power.

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jramsi20@reddit

Got my first speeding ticket driving my dads ss, it felt and sounded exactly the same at 100 as it did at 45

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0peRightBehindYa@reddit

The Caprice ain't much different. I can easily be touching triple digits at the end of most on-ramps.

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_Xee@reddit

Gas mileage?

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0peRightBehindYa@reddit

21mpg with mixed rural and around town on 89, but that drops to around 15mpg with E85.

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_Xee@reddit

Nice, gotta love that.

If you're selling gas, that is ;)

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0peRightBehindYa@reddit

I'm sure it can do better, but I like the giggly feeling I get in my tummy when I accelerate hard from a stop.

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

Awr. I miss my '09 Pontiac G8 so much 😢

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AaronfromKY@reddit

I mean the Blues Brothers did it first

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EddieIsNotMyRealName@reddit

It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks.

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Gold-Perspective5340@reddit

And it runs good on regular gas

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LangdonAlg3r@reddit

And that nifty spotlight. My buddy that had one like 30 years ago added a CB radio and a loudspeaker to his to get all the antennas and to mess with people with the loudspeaker.

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Scuba_Steve_500@reddit

Mt. Prospect police auction

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djhyland@reddit

They were practically giving them away!

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truffles76@reddit

Fix the cigarette lighter

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wutthafugOP@reddit

They were on a mission from Gahd.

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gingerbeard1321@reddit

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SoupIsNotAMeal@reddit

Hit it

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AM_710@reddit

It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas.

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lolsalmon@reddit

They have stab-proof seats

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Moist_Rule9623@reddit

The Crown Victoria is already one of the most reliable cars ever made in America, and then the P71 police package is upgraded and reinforced over and above that. (Why yes I am kind of a fanboy for these cars, thanks for asking!)

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ThatGhoulAva@reddit

I had a boyfriend at the time do this. I was SO MAD this is what he came back with: a 2002 Crown Vic Des Plaines K9 car with no back seat. It still had the spot light too. God, it was an electrical nightmare when there was a taillight short but for $500 it was a steal.

I won't lie - this thing had balls to spare, and we got everywhere early bc everyone would slow down and get out of our way. But I couldn't admit that to him. To this day, my story is that I'm still mad.

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Disastrous_Bother173@reddit

It was a tank! My parents allowed me to go drive alone as a teen because of that car.

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Illustrious_You_6210@reddit

Reason 1: they can be pretty cheap at auction

Reason 2: they were usually maintained pretty well while in use

Reason 3: they've got a cop engine, cop tires, cop suspension. And if it was an interceptor, they drive like a bat out of hell.

Reason 4(the most important reason): you want to watch random people slow down/move when you're driving.

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MajorMiners469@reddit

It's the interceptor V8 engine. Just a long life beast of a machine.

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Bulky_Pop_8104@reddit

He definitely thought it was a really fun idea until he didn’t. The novelty wore off super fast

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JPhrog@reddit

I bought one for $200 from a police auction some years ago. Took it to the car wash to wash and vacuum. Found $700 inside one of the hidden driver seat compartment in the front of the seat! I had the Crown Vic for a couple months before I got tired of it and sold it to some teen for $1700! 😂 It was a fun and fast novelty but short lived interest.

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avalonfaith@reddit

That's what's up! Police auctions, whether their own cars or the perp cars can be full of wonderful lucrative surprises.

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JPhrog@reddit

Glad it was money (probably drug money) instead of drugs lol. I pretty much got paid to buy the car and then some when I sold it later!

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avalonfaith@reddit

Making it rain!

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sarabridge78@reddit

Lol, that's like back in the early 2000's a roommate of mine used his older sister who has downs syndrome as an excuse to get an easy cell phone number. It didn't matter to him that his sister actually had a fear of phones and would never, NEVER have called him. He ended up getting (XXX)655-5555. He only had it for a few months before he went back in and got a new number. The amount of butt dials he got(back then on cell phones you didn't have to put in the area code) and little kids calling and babbling away on the line after picking up their home landlines and pushing numbers was too much. The rest of us thought it was pure justice, and hilarious. I will say, it was an easy number to remember.

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Bulky_Pop_8104@reddit

lol going off the rails a bit here, but by “dumb luck” around that same time I got what I thought was an incredibly awesome new number - (xxx) 233-7733 - super easy right?

It previously belonged to a recently closed pizza place….

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ryguymcsly@reddit

They're really cheap at auction. They all have 300k miles on them but they're typically well-maintained except the interiors which are shot to hell. They suck on fuel economy but you can drive them like you stole them pretty much all the time and they'll handle it just fine until they break catastrophically and the repair bill is more than you spent on the auction cop car. Then you go buy another auction cop car.

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Hillbillygeek1981@reddit

It's a perfect combination of "selling cheap at auction" and "performance engine with no governor." My wife's F150 has an old police Crown Vic engine in it for a reason, lol.

Mind you, anything resembling the stereotypical law enforcement vibe will have people slowing down or pulling over. My daily is a black 2009 Suburban and I get the same nonsense on the interstate, and I'm relatively certain I've had troopers ignore me blowing past them at an easy 20 over the speed limit before under the assumption it's an unmarked, nevermind that the only agencies buying Chevy for like two decades have been limited numbers of FBI, DEA and other feds.

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avalonfaith@reddit

I was gonna say, a suburban??? Haha! I love it though. When I had a fusion, it was right when they just came out. They were marketing to all the big companies and coppers, gvmt, etc., so in my area I had the same reactions. And mine was a dark blue company car. Fresh off the boat, then train to me with 3 miles on it. Now I'm getting rambling and nostalgic....k

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sick_of-it-all@reddit

Cop cars come with special cop car 'packages". Like beefed up engine, brakes, suspension. All kinds of cool shit. So if you can get one cheap, hell yeah.

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BobSki778@reddit

I mean, by the time you get it, it’s probably been beat to hell by the officers driving it, and those brakes, suspension, and such probably need to be replaced or have significant service, but yeah, it was definitely “top of the line” when new.

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

If it wasn't immediately sold to a 2nd tier cab company - that's what happened to the bulk of the Vic'cys

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rootoo@reddit

Priced accordingly. Ngl I’ve considered it, it’s got a certain swag to it.

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RW_McRae@reddit

I went to a few police auctions when I was younger. You could get them for super cheap. Like, $200 cheap

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larryb78@reddit

High performance engines at rock bottom prices. This is the OG baller on a budget

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nvmls@reddit

I hear they are pretty resistant to being shot at so depending on your life choices that could be a plus.

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D34N2@reddit

All the police vehicles where I live are Ford Explorers. They look pretty cool with the cage in the back.

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flamingknifepenis@reddit

A buddy of mine got a Charger as a rental car a couple months after our police switched to Chargers.

Same experience. People either got out of his way or went below the speed limit, and it drove him crazy.

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ashurbanipal420@reddit

I got an old unmarked Impala years back. Still had the red and blue lights in the headlamps, just disconnected. People in front of me would start slowing down.

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funkympc@reddit

I got the same treatment in my square body Caprice.

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Azuras_Star8@reddit

30 years or so years ago, my granddad had one specifically so people would get scared and slow down around him.

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Waldus792@reddit

Same things happen to me in my Explorer. 🤣

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pixienightingale@reddit

Ours have Explorers and troopers have... Challengers, I think?

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Bulky_Pop_8104@reddit

Nowadays ours is mostly the FPIU (modified explorer) along with a smaller number of the FPIS (modified Taurus)

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pixienightingale@reddit

Oh yeah, modfied Tauruses are super common in most places.

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

Those are the same people who get off on pretending to be authority.

You can't reason with them because they arrived at the place they are without reason.

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weedtrek@reddit

Some of us just want a Blues-mobile. Not that i have one.

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Doom_Balloon@reddit

They’re called squirrels, because they’re fucking nuts.

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Late-External3249@reddit

There's a guy with an old police Crown Vic that I see on the highway now and again. Gets me every time.

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YoreGawd@reddit

I would do a lot more traveling.

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_ism_@reddit

this pic even bristled my hairs

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Platt_Mallar@reddit

I had the shape of Crown Vic headlights memorized. Now I have Chargers, but there are a lot more civilian ones. And cops use SUVs from all 3 domestic, so I'm not even trying to memorize that.

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Decent-Unit-5303@reddit

I still have a visceral reaction to old Crown Vics 😅

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

Pro-tip: they're all required to have reflective paint accents now, so that's generally the better giveaway.

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Possible-Tangelo9344@reddit

From the rear you can generally identify them cuz they've got lights right next to the tag that aren't factory.

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40yoADHDnoob@reddit

Close together, like a pig's nose

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Mdriver127@reddit

I thought I was onto something for a while while no patrol cars used models with HID lights, but that time has passed as well.

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

Did anyone tap the roof of your car, as you went through a yellow light?

But yeah, still do that to this day.

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Superb_Sprinkles5942@reddit

I still do that from time to time. Was driving with my 19yo co-worker once and did this - he was so puzzled and confused. 😂

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

Seen the post title of outdated Xennial habits, got me thinking. Wondered if it was a Michigan thing…I mean, we have a few unique idiosyncrasies up here in the mitten.

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avalonfaith@reddit

California and I have never heard of this practice. I'm having trying to picture it.

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

You be driving. And the light would change to yellow. And you’d coast through the intersection…because we were terrible teen drivers.

As you’d coast through, you’d basically fist bump the interior headliner (learned a word today) of the car. Like an acknowledgment of almost running a red light…and a “good luck” you’d make it through.

It literally sounds like the dumbest thing, now that I explain it 😂

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avalonfaith@reddit

OK! Thank you, that makes so much more sense than what I was imagining. I was thinking it involved pinching someone's else's car and just couldn't see how that could possibly happen. 🙈

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

Well, when you imagine a bunch of Highschool aged, raging ass clowns, driving recklessly in suburban Mid-Michigan,…“punching someone else’s car”, doesn’t seem too far-fetched. And quite frankly, I’m a bit upset that we didn’t think of that activity as well.

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avalonfaith@reddit

Kids those days...😆

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S_A_R_K@reddit

Thumbs up over a cattle guard

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snuffy_smith_@reddit

Okay I’m a country kid all grown up. Grew up raising cattle, I’ve driven over thousands of cattle guards. I am lost on this one.

Please explain further for this uneducated bumpkin

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CrowWarrior@reddit

We punched the roof when we saw a car with a headlight out and yelled "beer me".

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

Nice! Sounds similar to our “Slugbug!” when a VW Beetle would pass by…but that’s pretty much internationally accepted reaction…right?

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

I usually just give it the middle finger and say "meh, it was still pink"

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Pezhead82@reddit

We did a kiss the fist and punch the headliner type deal.

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

Yeah, I meant headliner. Interior roof. (?) I’m not a car person.

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Possible-Tangelo9344@reddit

I haven't gotten a speeding ticket since I became a cop. Crazy.

But that's mostly cuz I know most highway cops aren't stopping for less have 15 over where I'm at so I see cruise to 13 over.

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Stunning-Risk-7194@reddit

I ate food about fifteen minutes ago, better not even step foot in water or I will drown

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rengregory@reddit

We're on a mission from Gad.

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Face88888888@reddit

It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas.

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jonnovich@reddit

Fix the lighter.

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

"It's a hundred an six miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack a' cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."

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LemonSkye@reddit

Hit it!

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Eshin242@reddit

This mall has everything!

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

Outdated Xennial habit #74745048: quoting the Blues Brothers and no one gets it anymore

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rengregory@reddit

To which I counter with separate movie quote, "Inconceivable!"

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captwombat33@reddit

I wonder if it is fitted with SCMODS?

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micholob@reddit

What kind of music do you usually have here?

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

Oh, we got both! Country and Western!

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LemonSkye@reddit

We have both kinds, country and western!

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

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DouglasBubletrousers@reddit

Ow! You fat penguin!

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

GOAT movie scene for real 😂

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DouglasBubletrousers@reddit

Top 5 all time movie for me!

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spaceporter@reddit

Grand Marquises, too, but they have become much less common.

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Opening-Restaurant83@reddit

Fun fact, that would probably be the blues Brothers’s car today if they remade the movie

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no_no_nora@reddit

I remember going to Axis in Boston, one Friday night, with a friend. And riding home in one of these. It was an old statie car, and still painted - but the logos and seals we blacked out. 😂

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Relative-Gas-1721@reddit

Slamming on the brakes

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justfirfunsies@reddit

Everytime I smoked our generations shitty ass pot, every white car magically became one of these in my mind driving to Taco Bell.

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killit@reddit

That's why you shouldn't smoke ass pot.

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snuffy_smith_@reddit

Sometimes ass pot is all you got!

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forever_erratic@reddit

Now they're all suvs, blerg

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kermitcooper@reddit

It’s any black ford with dark windows. Escort on up.

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

Funny part is the Crown Vic still has more space in the trunk....

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Spare-Good-5372@reddit

Rides better, lasts longer, handles better, accelerates faster... Crown Vic was an awesome platform. My dad used to have one and put just why of half a million miles on it before it finally died.

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

Guaranteed hard miles too. They're still out there as the occasional taxi and airport courtesy car. The inspiration for this post was literally because it happened to me on the interstate on my commute home today.

Oh, but your comment also reminds me...

Outdated Xennial habit #38.. griping intensely about new cars despite the fact we had some real shit-boxes in our time.

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JHerbY2K@reddit

Remember the Rabbit? Those little pieces of shit were neigh indestructible but man the steering wheel wasn’t even directly in front of the driver seat! What a piece of (apparently high quality) garbage

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nvmls@reddit

My friend had a Rabbit with a completely rusted out bottom so it looked like the fucking Flinstones car.

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OutOfEffs@reddit

My first car was a 78 Subaru wagon with rusted out holes in the floorboards that I named the Flintstone Mobile for that exact reason.

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avalonfaith@reddit

Oooohhh shit, forgot about the rabbit. Have 100% bad memories associated, but that thing fucking went like the energizer bunny commercials.

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seppukucoconuts@reddit

Most of the cars from our generation were terrible. Most of the engines had head gasket issues. Everything ford made had front end issues, and the red paint peeled within a few years. GM couldn’t build an interior to save their lives. Even the good engines like the jeep 4l had known problems-rear main seal leaks.

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avalonfaith@reddit

But that '95 Honda Civic man, probably still out there in some teens hands.

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

My first car was a '94 Pontiac Grand Prix. Still saw those old tubs on the road occasionally up until about 10 years ago.

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Spare-Good-5372@reddit

That's some real shit right there. Pissed to high heaven that I can't change the radio in my new car because some fuck nut decided I need a goddamned iPad in my dash.

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

Bitches at me because my seatbelt isn't buckled when I put it in drive to go thirty yards in a parking lot.

Bitches at me when anyone in the car hasn't buckled their seatbelt before I leave the driveway.

Bitches at me when I get a little close to a lane line on the highway.

Bitches at me when I change lanes without a turn signal when there's no one in sight at 2am.

Bitches at me when I put on a signal in preparation for getting over behind someone who's actively passing me.

Bitches at me when it thinks I'm coming up on someone too fast but I'm already prepared for it.

Bitches at me when it thinks I'm about to hit something but it's just normal traffic coming around a curve.

Bitches at me when I go to use the "smart cruise" and it doesn't like where my hands or eyes are at.

Don't even get me started about the seat vibrators.

In the flying world we call it "alarm fatigue." You just stop caring when it bitches to you about every goddamn thing.

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Spare-Good-5372@reddit

Fuck me, dude, I think we drive the same car lol

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

That's basically all the rental cars I get nowadays.

As for me? My daily driver is a dark blue Pontiac Vibe from '04 that has nothing special about it but still runs like a Swiss watch. I've owned a dozen different cars before I bought it used about eight years ago and it's probably my overall favorite.

I will drive that little rad machine until the wheels fall off. And when they do, mark my words I'm going to give it a Viking funeral to end all Viking funerals.

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gurnard@reddit

Sounds like hell.

My car is from 2010, and I think that might be peak for cars in general. All the modernity is in the materials and manufacturing - solid car but light enough that a 4-cyl slams you back in your seat like an old v8. Keeps on trucking with minimal maintenance, much of which can be done at home.

But old enough that the car doesn't have opinions. All its computing power goes to the fuel injection and ignition timings so I can throw whatever fuel in it and it'll drive just the same.

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Hillbillygeek1981@reddit

We're old enough to remember what it was like keeping a shitbox older than we were running on little more than speaker wire, starting fluid and enough duct tape and stolen road signs to keep the body together though, lol.

Kids these days are screwed when it comes to cobbling together a first car when a marketplace beater is $8000 and requires a $300 alternator, $700 ECM and a dealership reprogramming session to even get it pulled onto a rollback.

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Worldly-Fishing-880@reddit

Both movies Crime 101 and Rebel Ridge have fun dialogue where cop #1 makes fun of cop #2 for still having a crown Vic.

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cbih@reddit

Some departments have Mustang or Charger intercept vehicles

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Hillbillygeek1981@reddit

Shitty SUV bodies on even shittier Taurus chassis. The police Explorer might as well be a minivan at this point. When our county PD first started buying them it seemed like every week another deputy had damaged or destroyed one doing backroad county mounty shit that the old Crown Vics or a real Explorer would've handled with ease.

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lopingwolf@reddit

I was out of the country on a foreign exchange trip when my town went from Crown Vics to Impalas. When I got home all my friends were like, "welcome back, also the cops bought Impalas".

It was by far the most important "thing I missed" that they all thought to fill me in on in 1998 lolol

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_AncientAlien_@reddit

Oh I definitely slow down for any white, gray, or black Ford Explorer

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mtron32@reddit

I was looking at explorer ST but I never pulled the trigger because they’re all cop cars out here

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Pezhead82@reddit

And I hate the people who drive that cop Ford SUC cuz I always think it is the fuzz!

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forever_erratic@reddit

Me too!

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Auyan@reddit

Double space after a period

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killit@reddit

I've had this debate with my other half. She insists it is, was, and always has been one space after a period. I was 100% taught to do two, and still do to this day. There's only 2 years between us.

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

Ha! Yeah gonna be honest that one died for me awhile back, but I'll grant it a number. Outdated Xennial Habit #434

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qtjedigrl@reddit

My brother's friend got one of these then got a plate "DONUTS."

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FormerWordsmith@reddit

Ha! Just drove an auctioned-off police SUV from NY to FL and yes, everyone just got out of the way even though was driving relatively slowly

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CaydeTheCat@reddit

It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?

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SlimPickens77Box@reddit

Id be slowing down and hawking to see if there is a for sale sign. Straight up buy that shit

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Deluxe78@reddit

If you think about it is the perfect vehicle and it and has a back seat that can be hosed down for those who leave solids or liquids of all ages

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grunkle_dan78@reddit

I was driving a retired lieutenants car as my daily driver. same 30-40 minute commute 5 days a week. it took MONTHS for the other "regulars" that shared my morning commute to realize that I wasn't a cop. it was hilarious to watch them slow down below the 70mph speed limit while I merged onto the freeway.

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oshaCaller@reddit

Driving a cop car is like walking on a new earth. People are so polite and courteous and a lot of them take the next exit they can find.

I work on cars professionally and sometimes I take cop/highway patrol cars on the highway.

New highway patrol tahoes have GIGANTIC brakes.

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

Yeah but... Speaking for all those who don't drive them:

Fuck you, lol

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VVrayth@reddit

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

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drawredraw@reddit

Using the word broski

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

GTFO here with that Gen Z crap

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avalonfaith@reddit

Ooooohhhh shit 100%. A reflex, didn't even realize I did this still till I read your post.

When they changed to chargers and explorers I tried so so hard to memorize their lights. My ex had a police nearby indicator thingy in his rackey car which was fun. Aaahhhh youth.

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

Lol yeah said it once already but this whole post was inspired by me totally lifting the throttle when I saw one going the other way on my way back home from work this evening

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PlentyPomegranate503@reddit

It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?

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Adventurous_Cloud_20@reddit

Fix the cigarette lighter.

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

Car's got a lot of pickup.

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kermitte777@reddit

Calling any commercial phone number expecting a human to answer.

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Gutter_Snoop@reddit (OP)

Lmao no joke after it kept failing to "understand my request" multiple times I told a customer service phone AI chat-bot somewhat recently: "fuck off, put a fucking human being on the line right fucking now already" and no shit it told me I should calm down and be patient. Fuck you Hal.

You have earned an Outdated Xennial Habit number. Let's call that one #2 because AI is shit.

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BrainFartTheFirst@reddit

Fewer and fewer people slow down for these. I have a Grand Marquis and it used to be really nice in traffic. Everyone would behave. Not so much anymore.

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LongjumpingJaguar308@reddit

See also: why people painted their Chargers yellow or orange

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alwaus@reddit

A: its a crown vic, one if the most comfortable cars to drive.

B: its a ex cop car.

C: the mythical "interceptor" chip for the ECU that doubles the HP over a factory vic.

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TootieSummers@reddit

It’s always people who spent a lot of time in the backseat of one of these that become obsessed with driving one

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Colossus-of-Roads@reddit

I mean, if I see a light blue VP Commodore, absolutely. A Crown Victoria would just invite stares around here.

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01kickassius10@reddit

There’s still at least one highway patrol commodore in Sydney, occasionally see it around Fairfield area

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FoulestWinner@reddit

Some small municipalities still have one or two as reserve vehicles. Those are far and few between at this point. When they do use them it's for public events or all hands on deck type emergencies.

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JamesantheGiantBeach@reddit

FIVE -OHH!!!

Every single time I see a police car. Active or former.

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Stuffleapugus@reddit

I'll drill down into this one. Several different Ford models in one gen or another have had those same headlights. I'm panic braked for all sorts of Fords.

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