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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Why do our police vehicles have to be produced in North America?
If the Japanese can do it better/cheaper I'm not interested in paying higher property taxes to make sure the police cars get built in Michigan instead.
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The almighty $, and supply. Same reason British police don't use cars made here but can afford BMW's. Only way to really market a vehicle toward large scale
fleet sales is domestic production, that's why the Ford Tranist manages to be popular in Europe.
For a small police force sure, they could get in touch with a dealer network and ask for 25 cars and slowly get them over the next year or two. For a place like Calgary that has almost 1200 vehicles the answer has to be bulk sales