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What are the main cars Guards Drive?

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    #32
    craichoe
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    They have a number of rental cars down south too, i believe it started out with the opel vectras giving them so many problems.


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    #33
    beerbaron
    Registered Users Posts: 518 ✭✭✭beerbaron


    WHITE_P wrote: »
    They have quite a few Subaru Foresters, got close to one recently at a set of traffic lights.

    Gold colour, 06-D plate, tiny little camera mounted beside the rear high level brake light,

    Saw this one on Pearse st. Does is have the ANPR facility ?


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    #34
    WHITE_P
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭WHITE_P


    beerbaron wrote: »
    Saw this one on Pearse st. Does is have the ANPR facility ?

    Could do, it had sat nav and another device mounted on the dash.


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    #35
    Wossack
    Registered Users Posts: 7,015 ✭✭✭Wossack


    Unmarked SAAB 9-3 floatin bout too. Very surprised to see it light up and pull a guy in, as I had been following it through very slow moving traffic for quite a while completely unawares.


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    #36
    sk8board
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    Wossack wrote: »
    Unmarked SAAB 9-3 floatin bout too. Very surprised to see it light up and pull a guy in, as I had been following it through very slow moving traffic for quite a while completely unawares.

    There are a few Saab 9-3's and S40's (full markings) around Dublin. The Saabs have been around for a few years now


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    #37
    ninty9er
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    Ferris wrote: »
    New shape Lexus GS300 in black with no aerials, only blue strobes in the front and rear windows.
    That would be ministerial.


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    #38
    biggus
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    [IMG]file:///C:/Users[/img]


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    #39
    -Chris-
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    Ferris wrote: »
    New shape Lexus GS300 in black with no aerials, only blue strobes in the front and rear windows.
    ninty9er wrote: »
    That would be ministerial.

    I've seen that car (or an identical one) pulling into a school that's near me. I always presumed it was a diplomatic car that was dropping "the ambassador's kids" off to school...

    Could be the minister's kids too though!


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    #40
    sk8board
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    some of the ministers swapped the Merc's for the greener (?) Lexus hybrids a few years ago


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    #41
    CharlieCroker
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    AudiChris wrote: »
    I've seen that car (or an identical one) pulling into a school that's near me. I always presumed it was a diplomatic car that was dropping "the ambassador's kids" off to school...

    Could be the minister's kids too though!

    That Lexus is the hybrid version belonging to John Gormless...sorry, Gormley! Leader of the tree huggers and Minister for the envirinment.


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    #42
    Rowley Birkin QC
    Registered Users Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


    Saw an unmarked 3 series on tax-collecting duties in Laois lately and I know the guards at home wrote off an Alfa 156 a few years back.

    Unmarked Forrester is a regular enough sight outside Cork. Heard rumours of an Evo patrolling too but never seen it.

    Saw an A6 Avant and Ssangyong Rexton outside the Four Courts lately too, definitely two that I would not spot.

    Never seen the Saabs though, wouldn't cross my mind to look at a 9-3 twice.


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    #43
    S.I.R
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    sk8board wrote: »
    There are a few Saab 9-3's and S40's (full markings) around Dublin. The Saabs have been around for a few years now




    ahhh nothing like getting chased through the pheno by a saab 900 or bubble astra..... those where the days ;)


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    #44
    DJ Hafez
    Registered Users Posts: 948 ✭✭✭DJ Hafez


    bigkev49 wrote: »
    Heard rumours of an Evo patrolling too but never seen it.

    I was told the Evo was bought for the Fermoy bypass and they had one to test with 9 more on order for around the country. But the clutch kept going on it and they decided it wasn't practical so the order was cancelled and the tested one sent back.


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    #45
    gman2k
    Registered Users Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭gman2k


    Saw a navy estate 5 series (think it was a 530d) with blacked out windows in the Phoenix Park yesterday, driving on the wrong side of the road outside a traffic jam with sirens and flashers on.


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    #46
    E92
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    CharlieCroker wrote: »
    That Lexus is the hybrid version belonging to John Gormless...sorry, Gormley! Leader of the tree huggers and Minister for the envirinment.
    Minister Gormless has a Prius, as does Minister Éamon Ryan;)!

    One of the other ministers has a Lexus GS, but it's not a hybrid model!

    All future ministerial/state cars will run on diesel, or alternatively hybrid power.


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    #47
    alfresco
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭alfresco


    Black 08 D Audi A6 often on the M4, blacked out windows, strobes.


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    #48
    Graham_B18C
    Registered Users Posts: 8,620 ✭✭✭Graham_B18C


    I was chattin to a fella at a party, friend of a friend, who's a guard, and he was sayin at one stage they had an evo 8 on loan, i couldn't belive it, swore it was true tho!


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    #49
    Rowley Birkin QC
    Registered Users Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


    Grahamo999 wrote: »
    I was chattin to a fella at a party, friend of a friend, who's a guard, and he was sayin at one stage they had an evo 8 on loan, i couldn't belive it, swore it was true tho!

    See above. It would appear to have been stationed in or around Cork.


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    #50
    Turner
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,934 Mod ✭✭✭✭Turner


    gman2k wrote: »
    Saw a navy estate 5 series (think it was a 530d) with blacked out windows in the Phoenix Park yesterday, driving on the wrong side of the road outside a traffic jam with sirens and flashers on.

    They were the ERU.

    The ERU and any other specialised units have a host of false plates (not D reg obviously) and false tax/insurance discs which they change regulary.


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    #51
    Tipsy Mac
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    Chief--- wrote: »
    They were the ERU.

    The ERU and any other specialised units have a host of false plates (not D reg obviously) and false tax/insurance discs which they change regulary.

    Handy if they ever need to break the law :D


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    #52
    Graham_B18C
    Registered Users Posts: 8,620 ✭✭✭Graham_B18C


    bigkev49 wrote: »
    See above. It would appear to have been stationed in or around Cork.

    Maybe it was but he told me some fella in a 911 was eyein it up on the naas road in dublin, apparently! Wherever it was...wudn want it after me, never be able to outrun the thing!


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    #53
    TheDriver
    Registered Users Posts: 12,514 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    Cops near me have a 00 Rover 400 saloon, grey with no aerials or blue light etc. Only reason can spot its the cops is the nieghbour told me it is (his a detective!)


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    #54
    deaglan169
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    in monaghan the traffic corp have a skoda octavia vrs with blacked out windows no aerials must use mobile phones or handheld radio it manily patrols the n2 from carrickmacross to monaghan on the bypass's in particular


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    #55
    Tipsy Mac
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    Cops near me have a blue Ford Cortina with grey leather interior.


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    #56
    colm_mcm
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    Tipsy Mac wrote: »
    Cops near me have a blue Ford Cortina with grey leather interior.

    Really? any idea why they have something like that?


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    #57
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,319 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Really? any idea why they have something like that?
    They thought it was undercover!

    Not your ornery onager



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    #58
    Tipsy Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭Tipsy Mac


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Really? any idea why they have something like that?

    Sorry just taking the pi55 like most of the other posts here :D


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    #59
    miju
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,486 ✭✭✭miju


    Grahamo999 wrote: »
    I was chattin to a fella at a party, friend of a friend, who's a guard, and he was sayin at one stage they had an evo 8 on loan, i couldn't belive it, swore it was true tho!

    i'd be fairly certain he was taking the piss out of ya there :D:D:D:D


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    #60
    TheDriver
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    Tipsy Mac wrote: »
    Sorry just taking the pi55 like most of the other posts here :D

    I'm deadly serious about the rover 400. Theres some gas stuff hanging around the back of the station that they use for surveillance if you are near a main station. Theres even a 1989 corolla van that they still use!


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    #61
    miju
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,486 ✭✭✭miju


    wheres that Corolla outta curiosity?


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