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No, definetley not. It would become a big public scandal over here , if tax-payer-money would be spend for such cars as police-cars.
Sometimes in the past some car-companies gave some unusual models, modified for the police, for free to the authorities, for PR for example, but these were single examples.
Except a few S-Klasse in special use, for example as armoured escort-cars for the Bundesbank (Federal Reserve Bank)-value-trucks, the biggest Mercedes in German police-use are E-Klasses, used by the Autobahn-patrol. As I know, not as regular police-cars in town.
My brother-in-law, who is a policeman close to Berlin, had to hear bad comments from citizens, when they got some C-Klasse as police-cars. In the peoples opinion it's not acceptable to buy Mercedes for the police. But the fact was, that there Mercedes Benz indeed had made the best offer for a few dozen new police-cars, cheaper than VW or Opel.
Before he got the C-Klasse, they had many different cars, so Opel Frontera, VW Passat, Opel Vectra ad so.
P.S. But sometimes the German police has decent cars, obviously in basic version, but with tuned up engines inside.
In 1992 I saw a police-Passat Variant in a VW Garage. From outside it was a total basic car (steel-wheels, only the "Passat"-badge without any addition, orange front indicators, plastic-seats, no extra luxoury options) - but with a G60-turbo-engine inside.
Sometimes in the past some car-companies gave some unusual models, modified for the police, for free to the authorities, for PR for example, but these were single examples.
Except a few S-Klasse in special use, for example as armoured escort-cars for the Bundesbank (Federal Reserve Bank)-value-trucks, the biggest Mercedes in German police-use are E-Klasses, used by the Autobahn-patrol. As I know, not as regular police-cars in town.
My brother-in-law, who is a policeman close to Berlin, had to hear bad comments from citizens, when they got some C-Klasse as police-cars. In the peoples opinion it's not acceptable to buy Mercedes for the police. But the fact was, that there Mercedes Benz indeed had made the best offer for a few dozen new police-cars, cheaper than VW or Opel.
Before he got the C-Klasse, they had many different cars, so Opel Frontera, VW Passat, Opel Vectra ad so.
P.S. But sometimes the German police has decent cars, obviously in basic version, but with tuned up engines inside.
In 1992 I saw a police-Passat Variant in a VW Garage. From outside it was a total basic car (steel-wheels, only the "Passat"-badge without any addition, orange front indicators, plastic-seats, no extra luxoury options) - but with a G60-turbo-engine inside.