{"id":459016,"date":"2010-03-22T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/22\/carbon-motors-E7-to-use-bmw-diesel-in-new-police-car\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:30:00","slug":"carbon-motors-to-use-bmw-diesel-in-new-e7-police-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/459016","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Motors to use BMW diesel in new E7 police car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Sedan<\/a>, Government\/Legal<\/a>, BMW<\/a>, Police\/Emergency<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nCarbon Motors E7<\/small><\/strong><\/em> – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\n\"\"Back in 2007<\/a> when Carbon Motors announced it would build the first purpose-designed police vehicle, the spec sheet called for a twin-turbocharged inline-six cylinder diesel engine. As any existing automaker will tell you, certifying a diesel engine to meet current U.S. emissions regulations is no trivial matter, so Carbon Motors would likely have to find a supplier with an engine already certified. But the number of companies currently selling passenger car diesels in the U.S. can be counted on one hand with some fingers to spare. <\/p>\n

At a press conference in Washington D.C. on Monday morning, BMW<\/a> and Carbon Motors announced that the German automaker would supply its highly regarded 3.0-liter inline-six cylinder diesel for these new police vehicles. Carbon has placed an order for 240,000 units of the same diesel engine used in the BMW X5 35d<\/a> and 335d<\/a>. In current U.S. emissions legal form, the diesel produces 265 horsepower and 425 pound-feet of torque. <\/p>\n

Powered by the BMW diesel, the Carbon E7 is expected to achieve up to a 40-percent reduction in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions compared to current police vehicles. While this diesel-powered E7 will certainly be fuel efficient, it will also be substantially more expensive to buy than current police cruisers. Performance, however, should not be a problem and 0-60 miles per hour in the mid-six-second range should be easily achievable with all that torque. Based on our experience with the 335d, combined mileage in the upper 20-mpg range and highway mileage in the 30s should be easily achievable, making this a potentially very thrift highway patrol vehicle.<\/p>\n

Between this, the new EcoBoost-powered Ford Police Interceptor<\/a>, the Zeta-based Chevrolet Caprice<\/a> and current Dodge Charger police offering, the cop car market is going to get very interesting in the next few years.<\/p>\n

Check out our comparison chart of the upcoming police vehicle offerings here<\/a>. We’ll add the Carbon Motors E7 once we know a few more of its specs.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: Carbon Motors E7<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Filed under: Sedan, Government\/Legal, BMW, Police\/Emergency Carbon Motors E7 – Click above for high-res image gallery Back in 2007 when Carbon Motors announced it would build the first purpose-designed police vehicle, the spec sheet called for a twin-turbocharged inline-six cylinder diesel engine. As any existing automaker will tell you, certifying a diesel engine to meet […]<\/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-459016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459016","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=459016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}