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Originally Posted by biggbn
Always felt the big six pot Vauxhalls handled tidier than t5 850 but by Christ those old 850s boogied!!
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I loved my 24v Senator on traffic and the car felt like it was hewn out of granite.
That said, when we got the 850 T5's they were a a different beast.
Brutal in it's power delivery compared to the Senator but a better patrol car?
Each had it's virtues.
My last shift on Traffic was a night shift and at about 3.30am in the morning we got called to a burglary in progress.
Travelling north on the A1M between J61 and J62 it runs steeply downhill with a slight right hand kink in the bottom before climbing again.
In an 850 T5 with well over 130k on the clock we went through the dip at 147 mph on the vascar. It never budged.
Happy days
