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They’re used here in Ireland for some police vehicles, as are BMWs for traffic patrols on motorways in particular.

It’s often a BMW 5 Series or a Volvo XC70 and it’s successors.
They use a version of the Audi Q7 or BMW X5 for some other duties.

Most of their fleet are rather more boring Ford, Hyundai, Toyota, Opel and so on.

No idea how they’d compete. We’ve a very much less armed environment here. Other than a very defined “armed response unit” uniformed police here don’t carry firearms, tasers, or even pepper spray or batons in normal circumstances.
 
Audi equivalent to ford interceptor

I'm sure they could call it the Audi crimefighter series using the a8 sedan with the aforementioned equipment as stated above, along with a suspect cage in the back of the car to take criminals to jail. It would also be perfect for high-speed chases and traffic stops. Let's not forget about bulletproof glass and pit bumpers to ram felons and thugs off the road.
What am I missing?
 
Audi and others

could compete in the law enforcement segment if they wanted to. After all, how do we know that the big 3 could exit the emergency services segment? If the government had enough knowhow to work on and maintain these cars, it could happen. Never mind the politics. I could've gotten deeper in the dirty laundry segment.
The point I'm trying to make is that Audi could make the law enforcement segment competitive. Think about all the high-tech gadgets in the a8 that could compete with Crown Victoria, Charger, Caprice, etc. These screens could be used to pull up everything from speeding tickets given, to information on wanted suspects.
I did see a video of an a6 responding to a stabbing on youtube. They could do the same thing with the a8. I'd love to see them compete in the US.

 
I've never been much of an Audi fan. Especially the older ones were very boring cars. A German car magazine was the same opinion, they called a 1979 Audi a "Beamtenkutsche" which means something like a carriage for government workers.

This is a Dutch police car, it's an Audi A6 C7 Avant 3.0 TDI quattro with 272 HP.

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Australian police cars were almost exclusively Holden Commodores and Ford Falcons, apart from a few special purpose vehicles. They liked the 6 cylinder engines and rear wheel drive.

When car manufacture ceased in Australia in about 2017 (?) it was a big question - what will the cops drive now? Lots of articles suggest the Kia Stinger would be a top contender.

Well they are all different State by State, but in my State the common choices have been lots of BMWs for highway pursuit cars; lots of VW Passat wagons  for general police cars; a smaller number of Toyota, Hyundai and other SUVs. Our local policeman drives a Holden Colorado I believe.

 

the article below might be of interest.

 

The term "divvy van" is old Aussie slang for a police van with a separate prisoner area at the rear. ("Divisional Van" - rear prisoner area is divided off from the front cabin. )

https://www.caradvice.com.au/952415...rado-on-victoria-police-general-duties-fleet/
 
American Made

Of course that definition is hard to nail down. There is higher percentage of American labor in some Honda motorcycles than in "American Made" Harley's

But indeed I don't see Audi or any other foreign automaker getting any law enforcement vehicle contracts in the US
 
What Yogi said:

Maybe in some European countries you might see an Audi. Here in the US, or at least in my part of the world. You will never see an Audi, or any other import as a governmental usage vehicle.

One reason, is Audi has a terrible reputation for reliability and cost of repairs. Second Our purchasing contracts state that any product has to have at least 75% American produced and assembled content.

We had Chrysler K cars for a short time in the 80s as police cars. That was rather funny honestly. Then followed by a few years of the Ford Fox body LTDs with a v-6. The Ford Crown Vics dominated Police usage for years, now we are seeing either SUVs or Dodge Chargers as the police cruisers of choice.
 
foraloysius

Those are used as meter maids.
I also stated "in my part of the world". Mid-West, Buy American, and I work for the county. We are not allowed to purchase foreign sourced vehicles, or products for that matter if a USA built or sourced product is available.

Plus, the SMART cars are not imported any longer. Our meter maids use golf carts here.
 
punishment

If a cop gives the superiors any grief, they might get assigned to the Smart cars for revenge. "Any more from you and you'll be driving the half-a-car for a week!"

 

When I was in primary school (a long time ago), a couple of policemen came to our school to talk to the kids. One of the boys asked it it was fun driving the police cars fast. The coppers laughed and said "we only get the base models with the smallest engines. They wouldn't pull the skin off a rice custard."

The expression has always stayed with me as a way of describing an underpowered car.
 
"It sure would be nice to see foreign competitors who know automobiles to build law enforcement fleet vehicles. "

 

Australia started making a police special for the US market, based on our Holden Commodore. It was an updated car based on the same platform as the Pontiac G8, the Holden Commodore. I understand the US police forces were enthused to have a more modern replacement for the Crown Vic, and Holden were prepared to tailor the car to each police force's requirements. Then GM decided to close Holden altogether.
 
Sure Gizmo!

Our force still has some Holden badged Chevy Caprices, and some have been auctioned off to citizens.
Newer ones are mostly Ford Explorers, and easy to spot an unmarked because interceptor models have no roof racks. They have a 3 litre 60 degre banked twin turbo ecoboost nano V-6. My Edge ST has the 2.7 litrte version. It's no slouch!
F 150 Sports have the same 2.7 litre. The police have a few, but those are V8's.
 
Weren't Ford Crown Vics made in Canada?  And the last Chevy Caprice Police model was built in Australia.    Around here several counties have Dodge Chargers for sheriff patrol cars...they are made in Canada. 

The city of New Orleans French Quarter police patrol used to have Smart cars riding around.
 
Greg,

Yes, the Crown Vic's and Grand Marquis were built in St. Thomas Ontario near London. The final Town Cars also after Wixom assembly closed. I thoughthe Chevy version of the Holden Caprice came out of Oshawa though. It makes more sense for domestic fleet sales than sending the V8 engines from St. Catherines Ontario to Elizabeth S.A. then shipping the cars back here. They shared the same Zeta platfrom as Camaro, which were built at Oshawa. Oshawa had both front/rear and all wheel drive capacity.
Had Oshawa remained open, they may have gotten the Buick Regal/Crosstour versions of the Opel Insignia. Those were also the final Holden Commodores. PSA (Peugot/Citroen) has kept the Opel Russelsheim plant open.
 
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