{"id":418562,"date":"2010-03-11T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/11\/detnews-new-ford-police-interceptor-to-be-taurus-based\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T21:56:00","slug":"detnews-new-ford-police-interceptor-to-be-taurus-based","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/418562","title":{"rendered":"DetNews: New Ford Police Interceptor to be Taurus-based"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Concept Cars<\/a>, Sedan<\/a>, Work<\/a>, Ford<\/a>, Specialty<\/a><\/p>\n

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Will the new Police Interceptor be a toughened Taurus SHO? – click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

\nJust a quick note: The Detroit News<\/em> is reporting that the next Ford Police Interceptor<\/a> will be based on the same platform as the Taurus<\/a>. For you platform geeks out there, that’s the Ford D3 chassis<\/a> that underpins everything from the the Lincoln MKS<\/a> to the Volvo XC90<\/a> to the Ford Flex<\/a> (though the Flex and the Lincoln MKT<\/a> ride on a lengthened version called D4<\/a>). Yesterday, we explained that a new Police Interceptor is showing up tomorrow<\/a> (Friday, March 12) in Las Vegas and that it probably won’t be riding on the Panther platform. Regardless, the concept will be unveiled at the Vegas Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n

There’s still no official word from Ford<\/a> on the matter, however. However, if the new Interceptor is in fact Taurus-based, that means no rear-wheel drive Falcon in the United States. Which is a definite bummer. Also, while there are all-wheel drive variants of the D3 platform – and we think it’s safe to assume that if the new Police Interceptor is D3-based it will be AWD – it lacks frame rails. Has Ford figured out a way to make a unibody car tough enough for police work? We shall see. And if the new PI is a Taurus, will it be based on a modified 365-horsepower SHO<\/a>? We’d wager yes. Let’s just hope they fit some bigger brakes for cop duty, eh?<\/p>\n

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Gallery: Review: 2010 Ford Taurus SHO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n[Source: The Detroit News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

DetNews: New Ford Police Interceptor to be Taurus-based<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Sedan, Work, Ford, Specialty Will the new Police Interceptor be a toughened Taurus SHO? – click above for high-res image gallery Just a quick note: The Detroit News is reporting that the next Ford Police Interceptor will be based on the same platform as the Taurus. For you platform geeks out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}