The best country in the world to get caught by the Rozzers is Dubai!
Thinking of breaking the speed limit? Planning a bank heist? Or perhaps pick-pocketing tourists is more your thing? Dubai is the place to get nabbed by the police if crime is your thing*. When they pull you over, you're in for a ride... and when I say 'ride' I mean a proper ride.
Dubai Police have commissioned four units of the Lexus RC F to add to their illustrious line up of automotive exotica. The only change from the stock Lexus RC F is the palm green and white livery, seen here in the form of go-faster stripes starting from the snout to the tail, as well as dashing stripes on the side. The overall effect looks more like a track car than police vehicle! Underneath, the Lexus RC F retains the savage 5.0-litre V8 engine that produces 467 bhp, good enough to clock the Century Sprint in 4.4 seconds, while the top speed is electronically-limited to 168 mph.
Video after the jump:
Curiously enough, the Lexus RC F isn't the Dubai Police's first Lexus. Four years before, in 2012, they took delivery of a Lexus GS 350:
Evidently, being a police officer in Dubai is about as close as you can get to living the life of a Sultan. The vigil security force have access to an impressive fleet of supercars that already includes a Bugatti Veyron, Aston Martin One-77, Lamborghini Aventador, Bentley Continental GT, BMW i8, Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, Ferrari FF, Audi R8, Nissan GT-R and the McLaren MP4-12C (the list doesn't even end there; there's more but I got too envious typing it all down). I don't think many royal families can boast having a car collection like that.
What's not so evident is the answer to the other question: Do they really need supercars in that part of town? We've never heard of high-speed chases between the baddies and cops; in fact Dubai boasts quite a low rate of crime as the hands of law comes down fast and hard (was about to type fast and furious there) onto wayward citizens.
Why the need for supercars?
Dubai Police themselves admit these cars won't ever be used in hot pursuit but only as urban patrol vehicles - and even that - not in all parts of the city. But you'll see them poaching the areas of the Burj Kalifa, Dubai Mall and Burj al Arab as these are the tourist magnets in Dubai. These supercars are just one part of Dubai's brand identity, alongside the World' Tallest Building. And what better way to display their financial strength than a fleet of exoticars? Makes for a pretty picture, don't you think?
And the crowds that swoon over the Lexus RC F shows they've got the idea right, as this video shows:
When Dubai has run out of oil reserves, there has to be some other way to attract tourism and investment. Sand dunes alone can't create beautiful mirages. That job goes to what's known as glitterati; the way a city continues to dazzle even in the midst of an economic depression or job loss. Ladies and Gentlemen, the age of supercar police vehicles have arrived.
Cheers!
All Lexus
* Crime doesn't pay. Unless you make it. ;-)
Thinking of breaking the speed limit? Planning a bank heist? Or perhaps pick-pocketing tourists is more your thing? Dubai is the place to get nabbed by the police if crime is your thing*. When they pull you over, you're in for a ride... and when I say 'ride' I mean a proper ride.
Dubai Police have commissioned four units of the Lexus RC F to add to their illustrious line up of automotive exotica. The only change from the stock Lexus RC F is the palm green and white livery, seen here in the form of go-faster stripes starting from the snout to the tail, as well as dashing stripes on the side. The overall effect looks more like a track car than police vehicle! Underneath, the Lexus RC F retains the savage 5.0-litre V8 engine that produces 467 bhp, good enough to clock the Century Sprint in 4.4 seconds, while the top speed is electronically-limited to 168 mph.
Video after the jump:
Curiously enough, the Lexus RC F isn't the Dubai Police's first Lexus. Four years before, in 2012, they took delivery of a Lexus GS 350:
Evidently, being a police officer in Dubai is about as close as you can get to living the life of a Sultan. The vigil security force have access to an impressive fleet of supercars that already includes a Bugatti Veyron, Aston Martin One-77, Lamborghini Aventador, Bentley Continental GT, BMW i8, Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, Ferrari FF, Audi R8, Nissan GT-R and the McLaren MP4-12C (the list doesn't even end there; there's more but I got too envious typing it all down). I don't think many royal families can boast having a car collection like that.
Why the need for supercars?
Dubai Police themselves admit these cars won't ever be used in hot pursuit but only as urban patrol vehicles - and even that - not in all parts of the city. But you'll see them poaching the areas of the Burj Kalifa, Dubai Mall and Burj al Arab as these are the tourist magnets in Dubai. These supercars are just one part of Dubai's brand identity, alongside the World' Tallest Building. And what better way to display their financial strength than a fleet of exoticars? Makes for a pretty picture, don't you think?
And the crowds that swoon over the Lexus RC F shows they've got the idea right, as this video shows:
When Dubai has run out of oil reserves, there has to be some other way to attract tourism and investment. Sand dunes alone can't create beautiful mirages. That job goes to what's known as glitterati; the way a city continues to dazzle even in the midst of an economic depression or job loss. Ladies and Gentlemen, the age of supercar police vehicles have arrived.
Cheers!
All Lexus
* Crime doesn't pay. Unless you make it. ;-)
I like! Wish our KL polis have this car. Bt Proton only, sad.
ReplyDeleteAs they say, gotta cut your coat according to your cloth ;-) Maybe we can look forward to a Lotus Police Car one day... what do you say, PDRM?
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