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Originally Posted by Arragonis
That combined with the fact they do about 130 flat out and the standard UK motorway police traffic car was a Volvo T-5 or a T5R with a top speed of 150+ made us giggle more.
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There are some great videos of European Police Volvo T5 station wagons effortlessly keeping up with Porsches and Ferraris at 230 kph on YouTube. The T5s police wagons can reach over 155 mph. Ordinary production T5s are governed to a measly 140 mph. It's little known, but in the late 90's the Volvo T5 5-cylinder wagon was the fastest production car in the world. This is the same grocery-getter that soccer-moms got better than 30 mpg with.