Comments on: Zurich Police riding in BMW 5-Series

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:16:47 +0000

I’ve seen cops here in the states cruising on BMW bikes before…but very few.

By: buis

buis — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:48:13 +0000

From the double exhaust I think it is a 530 or maybe 535 and most likely it’s diesel.

By: Raphael

Raphael — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:04:36 +0000

There are some (mostly) undercover Porsche 911 Turbo, patrolling German highways. I think they should start using BMW M5 as well.

By: Mathis

Mathis — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:35:09 +0000

I am often in Lugano – in southern Switzerland. There they have a E91 325i as a police car. At least it was a six-cylinder and did not sound like a diesel. The 5 series they use in the Alps as well in the E61 530xd version. In the UK they have 5 series as well, the best I have seen so far was in Slovakia an Audi RS4 police pursuit car, in black. Obviously no fotos allowed. And in Italy they have a single Lambo Gallardo, used by the police for highway chases.

By: carversation

carversation — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:07:32 +0000

Wow awesome. cops there drive better cars than average Americans here. Where was this, are they hiring lol.

By: car repair new york

car repair new york — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:22:39 +0000

very interesting. looks like i would actually start to “strive” to be a policeman there.

By: Benny

Benny — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:20:13 +0000

I don’t know exactly about the swiss police, but I guess most of them are 525d, at least that is what they are driving in Germany if they are driving the 5-series. There are many 320d around too. Maybe in Switzerland they spend some more money and have 530d as standard. There will be some more powerful petrol-cars too I guess. But since police-cars usually get a lot of kilometres while their daily driving most European police-cars are Diesel-powered.