There have been plenty of iconic police cars in the more than 100 years since law enforcement first hopped onto four wheels. The CHP’s Fox Mustangs, the 1970s Dodge Monaco 440, the once ubiquitous Ford Crown Victoria, and the list goes on.
The Las Vegas Metro Police Department has just expanded its fleet by 10. But this cruiser from the future is less Robocop and more Max Max. But not Max’s Interceptor. We’re talking about the yellow XB Falcons the cops drive at the beginning. These LVPD Tesla Cybertrucks are like when Horatio Caine rolled up to a crime scene for the first time in a Hummer H2. (That was Miami! -Ed.)
Cybertrucks Need Big Upgrades For Police Use
“They will be at every area command…the trucks are high performance and built tough to handle everything from Fremont Street to Redrock Canyon,” Sheriff Kevin McMahill said at the reveal of the new trucks.
The 10 new Tesla Cybertrucks were transformed to police duty by Up.Fit, a division of longtime Tesla modifier Unplugged Performance. Up.Fit says that it made them duty-ready, adding the usual electronics like lights and sirens as well as prisoner partitions and push bars. It also added rock sliders to the trucks, and Up.Fit claims that it has upgraded the brakes and suspension to “pursuit-grade,” along with making durability modifications.
Up.Fit doesn’t elaborate on those upgrades, though we can see that the trucks are still using their factory 20-inch tires. It instead says the cop truck “outperforms legacy trucks in handling, stopping power, and high-stress reliability.” Those legacy trucks include pursuit-ready versions of the Chevrolet Silverado and Ford F-150. The Tesla should at least have a higher top speed than the Ford, which maxes out at 120 mph to the 130 mph of the Cybertruck…