Cars that get you all hot and bothered

[Jake]

Interesting timing... I pass by a house where some cop from Harrisonburg PD lives. He's got a Crown Vic marked car, and an unmarked Taurus (still has strobes on the parcel shelf).

Driving home tonight, I'm thinking to myself... why in the world do U.S. police departments standardize on large, boats of cars? The Crown Vics aren't way fast, they don't corner overly well, they seem to be kinda like a Mustang in that they do nothing really well.

Why not have specialized cars for different areas - like highway patrol vs. city cops? I get the fact that the Crown Vics are durable, but come on...