Holden Caprices as US Cop Cruisers

[Fairlane]

http://www.carsales.com.au/news/2009...-caprice-16924

Deal sounds done and dusted. Here is some of the article

Holden is on the brink of announcing its biggest-ever customer order. Long rumoured, the deal to sell Holden-built Chev badged cars to US police forces is essentially a done deal. In fact, it's so close to done that Holden chief Alan Batey was in Denver today to press the flesh with the boys in blue. In an effort to secure its share of the US police car market, the Aussie carmaker and its Chairman trekked to Denver and the world's biggest police exhibition IAPC (International Association of Police Chiefs Conference) to unveil a special edition of its Gulf States WM-based Caprice sedan -- complete with gun rack and prisoner barrier. And while Holden execs in Australia are playing their cards close to their chests (there will be a waterdown announcement tomorrow) we can exclusively report that the deal is done. Holden-built police cars will be on the beat Stateside by early 2011. As noted above, the new car will be sold in North America as a Chevrolet with the aim of taking a large slice of the 70,000 police sedan sales each year. Indeed, if the car proves popular with forces across the USA, Holden could end up selling more sedans to North America as police cars than it sells sedans in total in Australia.

And good on them more Aussie cars is only a good thing, and perhaps FoMoCo will see the error of their ways and give GRWD back to the boys at Broadmeadows.

Here is some more linkage
http://www.themotorreport.com.au/440...cle-confirmed/