Future
The Carbon Motors Corporation has released details of the E7 prototype police car in late 2008 for planned production in 2012. However, on March 22, 2010 in announcing a deal with BMW for provision of diesel engines, Carbon indicated that production is now anticipated for 2013 due to delays in securing U.S. government funding on the Department of Energy's 2009 Advanced Vehicle initiative. The vehicle, which was designed from the ground up for police duties after extensive research with US police departments, is planned to be the first purpose built police car ever. The vehicle has received considerable publicity.
Even though Ford will cease production of the ubiquitous Crown Victoria in 2011, it has confirmed that a purpose-built police vehicle is currently under development. On March 12, 2010, a prototype Ford Police Interceptor based on the Taurus platform was demonstrated at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Ford assured law enforcement agencies that it will be in production when the last Crown Victorias are built in September 2011. The car will also be prominently displayed to fleet managers from Canada and the United States at the National Association of Fleet Administrators (NAFA) exposition in Detroit in April.
Another viable contender, based on the Holden Caprice and badged as a Chevrolet Caprice, was displayed in October 2009 to North American law enforcement agencies, who have been advised that orders will be taken in 2010 for delivery in 2011.
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Famous quotes containing the word future:
“To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“The difference between Pound and Whitman is not between the democrat who in deep distress could look hopefully toward the future and the fascist madly in love with the past. It is that between the woodsman and the woodcarver. It is that between the mystic harking back to his vision and the artist whose first allegiance is to his craft, and so to the reality it presents.”
—Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)
“Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)