The Japanese car brand, part of Fuji Heavy Industries, has sped past French rivals to win a key contract for fast intervention cars for the highway police.
“We have a contract to supply 63 cars to the Gendarmerie Nationale for patrols on the roads,” Subaru spokesman Gilles Varmoux said on Thursday. “There was a tender for four-door, four-wheel drive cars that could go faster than 240 km per hour (149 miles per hour) and had a reasonable price,” he added.
The Subaru Impreza WRX cars will replace Peugeot’s 306 S16 and the Renault Megane Coupe.
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I’ve seen one of the cars already in use. It was unmarked, silver or grey, and was zooming along with a blue light and siren on near paris.
That must have been a pretty cool sight :)