Hi...

here are some links to spy videos on Youtube.
Filming the new A-Team movie (2010) in Vancouver.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2KJn3fr48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkBgpCO9oac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_ZtJUTHctg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3XvQt1lUuQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH5BxLSpnTk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkBgpCO9oac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v706sNCQU-Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34M8dCtRtYQ

Have fun,
Wasserspeier

Thanks Wasserspeier

I know there was a Brabus CLS that was mocked up as a police car, but is the CLS actually used by any police force in Germany?

No, definetley not. It would become a big public scandal over here , if tax-payer-money would be spend for such cars as police-cars.

Sometimes in the past some car-companies gave some unusual models, modified for the police, for free to the authorities, for PR for example, but these were single examples.

Except a few S-Klasse in special use, for example as armoured escort-cars for the Bundesbank (Federal Reserve Bank)-value-trucks, the biggest Mercedes in German police-use are E-Klasses, used by the Autobahn-patrol. As I know, not as regular police-cars in town.

My brother-in-law, who is a policeman close to Berlin, had to hear bad comments from citizens, when they got some C-Klasse as police-cars. In the peoples opinion it's not acceptable to buy Mercedes for the police. But the fact was, that there Mercedes Benz indeed had made the best offer for a few dozen new police-cars, cheaper than VW or Opel.
Before he got the C-Klasse, they had many different cars, so Opel Frontera, VW Passat, Opel Vectra ad so.


P.S. But sometimes the German police has decent cars, obviously in basic version, but with tuned up engines inside.
In 1992 I saw a police-Passat Variant in a VW Garage. From outside it was a total basic car (steel-wheels, only the "Passat"-badge without any addition, orange front indicators, plastic-seats, no extra luxoury options) - but with a G60-turbo-engine inside.

Of course our German policemen drive big Mercedes, BMW and Porsche cars. You can see it in our weekly documentary serie Alarm fuer Cobra-11 - Die Autobahnpolizei

The few Porsche, the German police has today- mainly in the area of Stuttgart- are given by the Porsche-company.

Decades ago, there were indeed some Porsche officially in use. So 356 -even a few convertibles- had been in the German police-fleet, also several early 911 (for the Autobahn-police, too).
Once I've seen a big photo, hanging in the police-headquarter of Dortmund. It was a 924 in full police-trim (and with an MES-plate, so an early one from the mid-70ies). On my question "Wow, you are driving Porsche!" I got the -pinched- answer: "This was a long time ago. Porsche was getting too expensive. Now we are proud Opel-users."

Sometimes, you just have to admire the Italians...

Hmmm, a bit different than the car of the "Polizia Municipale", I took a photo of in September 1989 in Roma - a Fiat 500

I read about the Gallardo, it was donated. Never seen the Diablo before, it has some east Asian script on it. Korean maybe?

Actually, don't police in Moscow drive whatever they want?

Yes it is Hangul writing, so Korean police I guess.

I'm afraid the Gallardo is no longer in commission:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cac_1259621891

Wasn't it repairable? It does not seem so much damaged