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Originally Posted by JPFS1
How often do they use the PITT? manoeuvre and is it viable to engineer the car to be able to handle it if those manoeuvre's are not very frequent?
As I said, Ford are saying to certain groups that they will use Taurus. If PITT is important to them (but I suspect general durability is more important) then they can increase rigidity and strength in certain areas to achieve this.
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They cynic in me suggests that the yanks use it every 5 seconds, along with shooting people's tyres out (not tires), but I would suggest that PITT is only used on an authorisation-only basis and that mechanical and physical durability is much more important, as you suggested.
Whether the Toreass based car with its transverse powertrain can handle other more common aspects of HD police work, such as mounting kerbs and median strips at speed, idling for hours on end after a thrashing in stinking heat, and driving on grassed/unsealed/rough highway medians at 60mph, is another question entirely.
EDIT: I've just had a thought. If this LWB variant is what I think it is, then this is effectively a cancellation for one of the proposed GRWD variants and another nail in the post-2015 Falcon's RWD coffin.
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