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Re: Cop Car Top Speed?



<x90ballast@wmich.edu> wrote:
> Was watching real-stories of the highway patrol and they showed this
> big old caprice keeping up with a motorcycle... Sheesh.

Bikes don't typically have unusual top speeds (by car standards.)  Any
big block cop engine ought to give a cop a similar top speed to that
of a performance bike.  (140? 150?  Shit, my 1.8L car can do 140...)

Where a motorcycle blows away practically any car is acceleration.  I
imagine your typical cop car can do 0-60 in about 6 seconds or so.
Maybe less.  Many sportbikes can do 0-*100* in that same period of
time.  That sort of acceleration is untouchable... provided you get
off the highway and don't give the cops a chance to get up to speed.

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