American company Carbon Motors, together with the famous sports car manufacturer Lotus has developed a police car called E7, has signed an agreement with BMW to use their cars diesel engines of the German brand. In accordance with the agreement, BMW will supply 240 thousand Americans engines. It is reported by The New York Times.
In rear-wheel drive police vehicles Carbon E7 will be used liter six-cylinder turbodiesel power of 245 hp (540 Nm), working in pairs with six-speed automatic transmission. According to the manufacturer, with a new power plant, whose weight exceeds 1,800 pounds, can accelerate from zero to 96 kilometers per hour in 6.5 seconds. A quarter of a mile the car will travel for 14.5 seconds, and its speed at the finish line of 157 kilometers per hour. Speed E7 - 240 kilometers per hour.
Development of a police car was launched company Carbon Motors in 2003. The machine has a reinforced body, armored front door, LED flashing beacons on the roof and the front bumper, a system of "circular" video surveillance system of automatic recognition of license plates the car in front, remote engine start, as well as all the necessary communications and computer equipment.
It is expected that the production of sedans E7 with aggregates BMW will begin three years after the U.S. government approved the release of "Carbon" credit of $ 310 million. Request for credit was filed in August 2009.
At this point in the U.S. police are mainly used cars Ford Crown Victoria, whose production will be completed next year. In mid-March, Ford presented the replacement of this model. Novelty is based on the sedan Taurus, is proposed in atmospheric and turbocharged petrol engines, V6, as well as versions with front or all-wheel drive. When sedan Carbon E7 will be released on the market it will have to compete not only with the police "Taurus", but similar versions of the Chevrolet Caprice and the Dodge Charger.
Note that the police U.S. buys about 75 thousand specialized vehicles. Thus 85 per cent of them are in the Ford Crown Victoria
