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Old Aug 9, 2006 | 08:28 AM
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Old Aug 16, 2006 | 08:37 PM
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is it just me or is that a gto badge
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is it just me or is that a gto badge
Yep, it says GTO down on the ground effect. The Holden Monaro had a model called the GTO (similar to the Pontiac Firebird and its Trans Am model)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the location of the GTO badge on the Pontiac GTO is a signal light on the Holden Monaro.
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Old Aug 23, 2006 | 11:27 PM
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I got a question...Why would a police dept make a cruiser yellow it just stands out more...
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Old Aug 24, 2006 | 04:05 AM
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i like the rims on her that police department got style yo
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Old Aug 24, 2006 | 03:02 PM
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I Like The Ground Effects It Has
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Old Aug 24, 2006 | 11:27 PM
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I got a question...Why would a police dept make a cruiser yellow it just stands out more...
in case of emergency you can flag it down
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its to let the bad guys know their bout to be in for some trouble
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Old Aug 27, 2006 | 08:04 PM
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It's an HSV GTO. Holden Special Vehicles are like SVT in a sense. They took the Monaro and made a GTO and a GTS version of the cars. Essentially Monaro's on steroids. The moniker has nothing to do with the Pontiac that we get stateside though. That car actually has a LOT of street cred in Australia. And all the marked cars down there apparently have crazy bright coloring.

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Old Aug 28, 2006 | 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by LFNDUST
I got a question...Why would a police dept make a cruiser yellow it just stands out more...
They tend to do that so they stand out , your not going to misbehave if you see a cop car and if you missed one of those things you shouldn’t be behind the wheel of a car because you’re blind . They do have unmarked cars as well and the regular white cop cars .
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Old Aug 28, 2006 | 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Holden LS1 Tonner
They tend to do that so they stand out , your not going to misbehave if you see a cop car and if you missed one of those things you shouldn’t be behind the wheel of a car because you’re blind . They do have unmarked cars as well and the regular white cop cars .

Tell me about it but at least we in the West over here don't get them in V8's they are all 6's it's called money saving so anyone can get away from them until the chopper catches up with you and then you are busted
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Looks more like a taxi than a police car.
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Originally Posted by Holden LS1 Tonner
They tend to do that so they stand out , your not going to misbehave if you see a cop car and if you missed one of those things you shouldn’t be behind the wheel of a car because you’re blind . They do have unmarked cars as well and the regular white cop cars .
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Tell me about it but at least we in the West over here don't get them in V8's they are all 6's it's called money saving so anyone can get away from them until the chopper catches up with you and then you are busted
Thanks fellas for the firsthand clarifications.
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for some reason, it reminds me of the movie mad max
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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 01:23 AM
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Originally Posted by LFNDUST
I got a question...Why would a police dept make a cruiser yellow it just stands out more...
hey guys

we have unmarked, marked and hiway patrol cars here in australia, yellow cop cars are the hiway patrol cars, mainly used on the hiway with hi speed chase's

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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 10:14 PM
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it seems Australia would rather be proactive and stand out so dumbasses dont try dumbass things, where the USA on ther other hand, would rather be reactive hide and wait for you to do dumb **** and just give you a ticket, i need to move...
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Originally Posted by 2000SLPZ28
for some reason, it reminds me of the movie mad max
I was thinking the same thing, crazy aussies. For some reason that car looks a hell of a lot better than our GTO. The spoiler and wheels are sweet. If that was the judge pontiac may have sold more cars.
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