I've never seen a Fiat Panda Police car in the UK, they have minimum rear passenger sizes for all but special duty cars and I don't think the Panda would meet the regs.

I read on a Wired blog today that there are about a hundred personnel involved in getting and keeping one of these things in the air.

The sand does look amazing, like powder snow.

@Matt Kartozian: Good to know.

@Matt Kartozian: So they're competition cars?

@JalopJeff: I don't think he'd dig Porsche or Ferrari in their current states.

@Maxx Cracker — sponsored by Peniston Oils:

The possibly fictional* Local Motors Rally Fighter.

A Raptor with an invalid warranty because of all the off roading it does.

@stöke never shifts into reverse without a backup plan:

@AMGkiller: See when you said "They have acquired sole operating rights, and at substantial expense, to a completely unique piece of property", I think you missed the point that the local Government are subsidising it significantly and are effectively protecting one commercial organisation from market forces while…

Are those the stock wheels?

@Batshitbox: I have to say though, when I was walking the streets in 1987, already a Jalop-in-training, I didn't see half of the interesting motors I saw in that video.

@Batshitbox: Someone posted down below that there's an explanatory note on another site dedicated to the film saying that the chopper was out for maintenance.

@Batshitbox: Yeah, it was a Mini Moke.

@Garland137: Does it lock into reverse?

I love the paint finish but the very idea of buying even a mint Interceptor scares me.

@Frank Grimes: I was just going to post that.

@PHIL: I thought it was some other model that looked like a Crown Vic, like a Marauder or something.

@long_live_the_E36: In Ronin, it's a Peugeot 406 that he chases the E34 in.