Just out of curiosity whats your opinion about police cars with ram bars.

For me it depends on the car and what kind of a look I'm going for.

I just love rambars and especially the ones with the Go Rhino versions..!!!

Depends, but my favorite is generally a Go Rhino not-wraparound pushbar.

Depends what I am driving. I'm not a hardcore roleplay by any means but I do tend to pick what car I drive for what I am doing.

If I am gonna patrol the main Highways and do traffic enforcement. (speeding tickets cars unsuitable for the road dangrous driving etc etc) Then I pick something like the VW tourag at the moment. Any pursuit I just follow and keep eyes on and leave ramming and stuff to local pursuit cars with rambars.

But other times for more general work I like a car with a rambar so I can get medievil on their butts.

I like the regular "Go Rhino" rambar mostly.

Of course there also is the debate of the safety side of things. cars these days are made so that the bonnet / hood lifts the pedestrian when at a collision of 30mph. The kinetic energy is then absorbed as much as possible by the curve of the bonnet / hood.

A rambar hitting a ped nearly always smashes their legs into a thousand pieces. Of course that might be outweighed by the lives saved by using the rambar to end the purssuit but I know in the UK I am unlikely to see rambars on regular cop cars because of the hazzard to peds.

Edited December 13, 201114 yr by Molten

As far as I can tell, rambars are mostly used to push disabled cars and protect the car in minor crashes (and are actually called pushbars or brush guards). Wraparounds may be designed for PIT, but most agencies don't seem to use them. Ramming (as opposed to PIT, which is a carefully controlled contact between the sides of cars) is often considered lethal force.