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The Range Rover is a British icon and has been since its introduction in 1969/70.

One of its biggest customers were the UK police who saw it as the ideal motorway patrol car, to be used in all weathers, to carry extra emergency equipment and to assist in towing or pushing damaged vehicles out of the carriageway.

Just about every police force in the country has used Range Rovers at some point and their role has evolved with time to include use as arv’s, bomb disposal, specially converted armoured units, some were ordered as range rover vans, whilst some used the 6-wheel carmichael conversions for use as fire trucks with their air support units.

The original cars were 3.5 litre V8s, then came the 3.9 efi, the 4.0i, some 4.6i, followed by the diesel versions. Range Rovers have always been expensive but by the early 2000s competition from the likes of the cheaper BMW X5 meant the end of the police Range Rover, except for the special escort group within the Metropolitan Police who continue to use the car today.

The Range Rover, in all its variants has to rate as one of the all time great police cars.

The Model of this actual car.

M751 CVC started life in 1994 as an early production P38 Vogue SE and  became one of six police demonstrator models tested by various forces throughout the UK.