#2019 Dodge Durango Police Pursuit

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2019 Dodge Pursuit, Interior, Price, Review

2019 Dodge Pursuit, Interior, Price, Review

2019 Dodge Pursuit, Interior, Price, Review – When we can easily trust all recent surveys, it would appear that the business can provide some changes intended for 2019 Dodge Pursuit. This crossover offers endured for pretty much 20 yrs, and we have formerly seen 3 decades of it for that reason much. The first design times again once more to be able to 1998, as the existing design offers endured…

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This police-spec Dodge Durango has been kitted out with a 797-hp 'Redeye' V8 This year’s 2019 Tire Rack One Lap of America Presented by Grassroots Motorsports Magazine kicks off May 4 in South Bend, Ind., and Dodge//SRT is defending the Dodge Durango SRT’s 2018 One Lap truck/SUV class title, upping its game with a new Durango SRT Pursuit concept called “Speed Trap.” Dodge Dodge early May took the wraps off of a 797-horsepower Durango SRT, complete with a police-car livery, built to compete in the famous One Lap of America. The law-enforcement-spec SUV is a bit of cheeky fun from FCA, as evidenced by its nickname, Speed Trap. The vehicle will be driven in the event by David Carr, an SRT engineer, and David Hakim, a photographer, who also competed in 2018. Speed Trap is based on a Dodge Durango SRT Pursuit of the kind usually sold only to police fleets, but more than a few modifications have been done to it. The largest one is obviously the heart transplant: a 797-horsepower supercharged V8 borrowed from the Challenger Hellcat Redeye sits underhood, now, offering a serious bump up from the 475 horsepower the truck comes with standard. The high-flow cat-back exhaust is brand-new, and the truck sits 0.6-inches lower on 20-inch wheels to improve handling. Meaty 305-section Pirelli tires help put the power down, or create a big smoke-show, if desired. One Lap of America, for those that don't know, is exactly what it sounds like: one lap around the United States, made up of visits to several race tracks and interesting events along the way. Think

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2019 Dodge Durango Pursuit: Testing Dodge’s V-8 Police SUV

2019 Dodge Durango Pursuit: Testing Dodge’s V-8 Police SUV

Let’s cut to the chase: No, people around you don’t automatically slow down and drive like saints when you’re driving a cop car. You’d be forgiven for thinking so, because let’s be honest: Every one of us does exactly that when we see a cop. But seeing them is the key, and most people don’t.

You can certainly argue the 2019 Dodge DurangoPursuit demonstration vehicle I was driving is subtle for a…

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2019 Dodge Durango Pursuit: Testing Dodge’s V-8 Police SUV

Let’s cut to the chase: No, people around you don’t automatically slow down and drive like saints when you’re driving a cop car. You’d be forgiven for thinking so, because let’s be honest: Every one of us does exactly that when we see a cop. But seeing them is the key, and most people don’t.

You can certainly argue the 2019 Dodge Durango Pursuit demonstration vehicle I was driving is subtle for a police car, and it doesn’t actually say “police” anywhere on it. But don’t take it from me; take it from a California Highway Patrol officer.

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“No,” he said with a laugh when I asked if he thought the then-new Ford Explorer–based Police Interceptors CHP had just bought would allow him to catch more speeders. “I can park on the side of I-5 in broad daylight in one of our old Crown Vics with the big, giant globe lights on the roof, and people will blow right by me at 90 mph without seeing me.”

Dodge only lent us the Durango Pursuit for a week, but it was more than enough time to drive his point home. I saw it all: People running stop signs right in front of me, people speeding and weaving dangerously through traffic, people on their phones wandering within their lanes like drunks, even a woman reading an iPad as she drove in stop-and-go traffic directly behind me.

My favorites were the two speeding BMWs, about 10 minutes apart. I always sort of assumed, or maybe “hoped” is a better word, that people who weave through traffic on the freeway at 90 mph are paying extra close attention so they don’t kill someone or end up in prison. Wrong. I was already cruising above the speed limit on I-10, and both came flying up on me fast. The first was in another lane, but the second flew up on my bumper, tailgated me with extreme prejudice, then cranked it over two lanes and floored it. Both realized it was a cop car just as they were passing me, and both slammed on the brakes and tried to hide by changing lanes and getting behind other vehicles. Sorry guys, but if I had been a real cop, it was way too late to disappear.

The Durango Pursuit has an intimidating presence. Part of that is the more aggressive front fascia on 2019 models, guarded by tusk-like push bars. If we’re honest, it oversells the vehicle’s performance a tad. See, modern police vehicles don’t typically get special engines (the Ford Police Interceptor—nee Explorer—being the notable exception). Under the hood of this angry-looking Durango, the 5.7-liter pushrod V-8 develops the same 360 hp and 390 lb-ft of torque as a civilian Durango. With more and more departments actively discouraging high-speed pursuits due to the risk involved to the officers, public, and suspect, it’s more than enough.

Armed with an eight-speed automatic and standard all-wheel drive (with an honest-to-goodness two-speed transfer case), the Pursuit hits 60 mph from its hiding spot behind the billboard in 6.5 seconds and runs a 14.9-second quarter mile at 93.2 mph.

For context, that’s almost identical to the performance of a civilian 2018 Durango 4 R/T AWD V-8 we tested (this one trapped traveling 0.2 mph quicker). For more context, a 2018 Toyota Camry V-6 hits 60 mph in 5.8 seconds and will do a 14.3-second quarter mile at 99.6 mph. Before you consider running from the cops, however, you should keep in mind that no matter how fast your car is, you can’t outrun the cops’ radio. We strongly recommend against testing that axiom.

The Pursuit’s performance is actually impressive in a way, because it’s been outfitted with all those lights and sirens and whatnot. Despite that, this Pursuit weighed in at 5,351 pounds, about 80 pounds lighter than that civilian Durango we tested. Because the Pursuit starts life as a base trim level, it’s got cloth seats, the smallest infotainment screen available, and a very short list of options, all of which save weight. On top of that, Dodge removes the third-row seat and uses the hole it leaves to mount all the electronic hardware for the lights, siren, two-way radio, etc. Of course, this demonstration vehicle is not fully kitted out. There’s no laptop or two-way radio installed, no radar, no gun rack, no rear seat partition, and none of the loose gear cops carry in their cars like flares and such. A fully dressed vehicle with a fully dressed officer aboard is likely to come in a bit heavier than the civilian model, which may affect performance depending on how much heavier it actually ends up being.

Even factoring in equipment weight, you won’t need to worry about the braking. Although modern cop cars don’t really get “cop engines” anymore, they do still get “cop brakes” and “cop suspension.” Even with tires that aren’t anything special (and only speed-rated to 118 mph, officers), the Durango Pursuit stopped from 60 mph in 122 feet, 12 feet better than Dodge advertises and 5 feet better than the civilian model. More important, it’ll do it over and over thanks to Pursuit-only heavy-duty brakes and new cooling ducts integrated into the 2019 fascia. Our instrumented testing is not kind to brakes, especially not those on 5,000-plus-pound vehicles; and although the Pursuit’s got quite stinky, they never faded.

“Cop suspension” in this case means load-leveling Nivomat shocks and a “performance-tuned” suspension setup. In actuality, it handles exactly the same as the civilian model. In numbers, the Pursuit pulls 0.79 average g on a skidpad and runs a 27.5-second lap on our figure eight at 0.63 average g. The civilian Durango managed 0.80 g on the skidpad and a 27.4-second lap at 0.64 g, statistically equal.

In terms of driving dynamics, you won’t notice the difference. There hasn’t been enough weight added or the weight balance hasn’t been affected enough to make the Pursuit drive any differently than a fresh-off-the-lot consumer model. It defaults to rear-drive to save gas and is already among the best-driving vehicles in its class, with good body control and a pleasant ride. Throw it into corners like you’re filming a chase scene, and the rear end will rotate just a little before the stability control, which can be muted but not defeated, steps in. Then it’s just midcorner understeer followed by decent corner exit as the front axle starts pulling its weight. At the end of the day, it’s still a 5,000-plus-pound SUV—“performance-tuned” suspension be damned—but it’ll also drive circles around the Chevy Tahoe Police Pursuit Vehicle your department bought.

I mentioned saving gas, and for the fleet managers in the audience, I’ll bring it up again. The V-8 Durango Pursuit is rated at all of 14/22 mpg city/highway, so check your department’s budget and make sure it’s well funded. If you can live with “only” 293 hp and 260 lb-ft, the also all-wheel-drive 3.6-liter V-6 is rated at a city-council-budget-committee-friendlier 18/25 mpg city/highway. The six-cylinder Durango Pursuit starts at $36,476, with our V-8 loaner coming in at $39,142.

There’s really only one other area in which the Durango Pursuit needs improvement, and that’s the cupholders. The drop-in plastic unit this steel center console comes with just doesn’t cut it, good only for holding fast-food to-go cups.

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This is an affront to the law enforcement community. I’m starting a hashtag campaign. #getcopsbettercupholders

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2019 Dodge Police Interior, Engine, Review

2019 Dodge Police Interior, Engine, Review

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