NSW Police unveil the cars you'll love to hate

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Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
22 May 2018
1 min read

Say g’day to the cars you’ll be getting booked by on NSW roads from July this year. The new weapons of choice for the NSW Highway Patrol are the V8 Chrysler 300 SRT Core and turbocharged six-cylinder BMW 530D.

After Ford and Holden announced they would be cancelling production of their much-loved large rear-drive sedans police forces all over Australia went hunting replacement Highway Patrol vehicles. Though they looked at the V8 Ford Mustang coupe and new turbo V6 Kia Stinger, the Highway Patrol’s extra-tough criteria meant only the 350kW 6.4-litre V8 Chrysler and 195kW, 630Nm diesel BMW sedans would be able to handle the stresses of police work.

They’ll take over full duties from July 2018.

Iain Kelly is the revhead behind the Creators Online.

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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