The Glade 4.0

Here are my suggestions for the police if they really, REALLY want to trick people with their "undercover cars."

- Mix it up with foreign-made vehicles. If I see a white Honda on the side of the road, I know I'm safe. I've never seen an official police vehicle in anything that wasn't built in America. I'm sure there are political reasons behind this, and I am sure some higher-ups used words like "safety" and "foreign soil" at some point. But, it would certainly change up the game a little.

- Slap some stickers on that thing! Every undercover car I've ever seen is super clean. If I saw a car with some bumper stickers or those little stick figure families, to quote Badger from Breaking Bad "There's no way I'm thinking there's a cop in there." I'd recommend magnetic stickers, or ones that can be re-applied easily. Just to keep people on their toes.

- One word: Minivans. Maybe for use as the scouting vehicle while a chaser-vehicle can do the pulling-over. If minivans were on the table as potential cop cars, nobody would feel safe (to speed).

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

My brother has been known to declare exuberantly, "Nobody suspects the minivan!"

Mostly when he was hooning around in the family minivan at the time, but I think it applies here, too.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

The main reason vehicles are so standardized is that they need certain nonstandard features - most notably a significantly beefed-up electrical system - which means normally only those that come in the necessary package are purchased. Significantly increasing the variety of vehicles used would make things much more expensive because you'd have to build police variants of those vehicles, and those variants would all be used in smaller numbers. Also, safety is a major consideration, and heavy sedans are the safest vehicles to use in pursuit driving because they combine good pavement-holding qualities with low centers of gravity. Doing night pursuit training, I once took a 90 degree turn at almost 60 mph in a Charger. It was really too fast; I could feel it barely holding onto the road, and if I'd been in a Tahoe I'd have flipped it for sure.

I don't really care much for undercover traffic enforcement vehicles and I wouldn't like ones that were harder to detect. Once you decide to engage someone, you need to be visible and identifiable to everyone else on the road.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Ok.

Then....

Slap some stickers on those things! Getting pulled over by a cop with a trollface sticker? Humiliatingly awesome.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!