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The SD1 came in four- and six-cylinder forms and many British police forces used them for regular policing duties. But it was the 3.5-litrealloy V8 that was fitted to traffic division squad cars. It remains one of the country’s most-loved police cars, its hero status cemented by an event in May 1987:
One day two police Rover SD1 V8s were involved in a race against time to deliver a new liver organ donation from the runway at, North East of London, to a desperately ill patient at a hospital in West London; police helicopters were grounded by discovery of a major engine fault. Travelling down the M11 motorway at speeds of up toand then tearing through a heavily congested London on a Friday lunchtime, the 29-mile journey took just.
Shuttered by GM in 2010, the Hummer nameplate has returned on a GMC electric truck launched in late 2021.A favourite with Greater Manchester Police, one cop, now retired, reminisces: “Thewas ahead of its time as a pursuit vehicle, nothing could lose them. Superb when it was dry, but when it was wet – oh my god! The back end always came round, if you gave it too much gas as you went into a corner. In winter we would frequently take out equipment and put sandbags in to keep the back-end down”.
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