Richard Hammond On Why Dutch Police Cars Are So Great 🚓
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If you could choose a sports car to drive for work, what would you pick?
I love the people who post these shorts continue
Mazda 787B, for I am not a sane man
Lambo Aventador (my dream car sadly) 🥲
Tesla Model S Plaid.
Alfa Romeo 4C
Sounds like my arguments when I'm persuading my friends and teachers
I was gonna say that it sounds like what students try to tell to convince me, especially to cancel a test.
Fun fact: It never ever works
@@TheZaherell well this time… it was different
If your argument worked even a third as well as theirs, then your probably the damn headmaster of the school, dating the hot math teacher and gotten some swag level glasses
@@TheZaherell As a former child, I hate you
10k likes...damn
That is the equivalent of " yes mom, I need the 4090ti for my homeworks!"
Well if you're using an Adobe product...
The only difference is they actually pulled it off!
@@drunkenhobo5039 nowadays it doesn't matter how good your pc is Adobe is gonna take all your resources like if you are offering a goat as sacrifice to a god, even if it isn't open
@@raulponce9012 😂😂😂
And you need a fire extinguisher for your casual gaming after you do your homework. And suggest your parents to finde a good paying job so they can pay your electric bill.
Dutch emergency number is actually 112 still pretty funny joke
At that time, it was 0611.
@@winteronice actually... It then still probably was 0011
They knew that, bro.
It's a joke
@@harleyb7880 he knew that, bro.
That's why he said "still pretty funny joke".
True but in most places if you dial any emergency number it will route you to the closest one, would be kinda weird for them to advertise our emergency number instead of theirs tho lmao
I once had a French brother-in-law, who didn't want to believe the National Police, drove around in a Porsche, he laughed at us, until he came across a police Porsche on the highway, you should have seen the look on his face 😄
Your profile pic reminds me of a fun German party
@@hughjaenus2235 The Wednesday Adams kind of fun.
One time I went to France to find out police ride inline-skates. Now I know what my dream job is...
@@hughjaenus2235 its a trash metal band.
D.R.I.
Me telling why I need a gaming computer for studying:
What i did was show them the equivalent not gaming computer
**Graphic design**
@@soheil5710 nononono ***Blender3D***
Know someone who got a gaming computer for video and audio editing/processing.
That's exactly what they bought and used it for.
You're all amateurs. A gaming laptop during the pandemic to handle the video requirements for all the zoom sessions.
To add to the introduction story: yes the Dutch police in Holland like everywhere also used local produced cars for the police, they used the Volvo 343 a lot which is the last car designed by DAF (as DAF 77) before the takeover from Volvo, and manufactured in Eindhoven. The Porches were exclusively for highway patrol.
The volvo 300 series including the 343 where produced in Born ,Limburg at Nedcar and not in Eindhoven.
Only difference was that the police versions came with the 2.0 liter engine from the volvo 360.
Porsche*
Eindhoven isn't in Holland, it's in Noord-Brabant. Holland (Noord en Zuid) is two of twelve provinces of the Netherlands.
@@caitthenerd7470 Holland is one of the ways people say the Netherlands abroad. In Spain people say Holanda, not Paises Bajos. Just like you say Engeland instead of Groot Brittannië, and just like you say Amerika instead of Verenigde Staten (in common speech). Don't get your pants wet, Holland just means hollow (low) lands, just like Netherlands.
@@mdkooter Just because people say things, doesn't make them correct. And no, I'd say Verenigd Koninkrijk actually (well, if I was a fluent Dutch speaker) unless specifically referring to England. I'm Welsh, and people referring to the UK as England is very irritating for us (and likewise for the Scottish and Northern Irish).
I remember having toy police cars as a child, which were indeed Porsches. It never occurred to me until now that it is indeed a bit unusual.
They use exotics in dubi
@@johnskinner737 in Dubai its just the promotion fleet for high tier policemen. You will Never get chased by a police bugatti there.
@@MikeP01111 they do the same here with seized hellcats and corvettes
It’s usually just a promo
Here in Czechia I saw some traffic cops get dodge chargers in certain cities
@@johnskinner737in California the CHP did actually use Foxbody Mustangs for pursuit and interception duty in the 80s
I was privileged to actually drive such a 911 from 1975 until 1996. That was the year that the 911 said goodbye to the Motorway Police in the Netherlands. For over 30 years we were King of the road. And I'm proud of that! 👍👍👍👍❤❤❤
If I got pulled over by a Porsche I don’t think i could even be angry 😂
My dad who served in the highway patrol in the 60's and 70's and had a lot of fun and action driving that Porsche, even got married in one.
idk why it never occurred to me before that one could get married in a car but it's fun to think about.
That makes no sense since every cop that worked on the porsche unit had to be 25 years of age, be already married and have kids.
@@jarumboy1 Not true. He entered at age 21, became an instructor at age 25. Still got the photo's and paperwork.
@@rvanheukelum "De agenten moeten niet alleen rijervaring en een goede fysieke gesteldheid hebben, ze moeten ook over een groot verantwoordelijkheidsgevoel beschikken. Ze zijn minimaal 25 jaar, getrouwd en hebben bij voorkeur kinderen." aldus de NOS /artikel/2115972-de-politie-porsche-van-werkpaard-tot-museumstuk
True, I got stopped by one for speeding in my truck in the 80's, my excuse was that I was trying to get to the ferry on time, he let me go! The Dutch are brilliant!
My dad was a truck driver and he told me that they drove beside you waved a hand (through the open roof) to slow down and drive away...
But within 10min a other one would sneak up to check if you did. And then you would really be in trouble if you were still speeding
A lot of European countries should probably use Porsches. The French could use them for efficiently backing up during retreats. In Poland, Porsche's history speaks for itself. I mean back in the 30s Porsches raced through the entire country in days; the criminals would have no chance.
Edit: Mr. Nice pointed out that spell check betrayed me. I have since edited this.
We in Sweden did to but later they got replaced when the volvo 240 and saab 900 turbo became faster
They'd be good for locking furries up, for being absolute degenerates.
Sry I hate to point this out but it's Porsche not Porche.
@@antonsamuelsson1317 That whole joke just went over your head didn’t it? Or you regularly respond with a serious comment to a joke?
@@MrNice-zm9qk Goddamn you spellcheck. You have crossed me for what is definitely not the last time!
👏👏👏👏👏👏
I can't stress thus enough,best argument ever
Mandarin Oochie-ha is that you?
I think qatary police is a lot much smarter...
American here. The Michigan State Police had a Camaro in the early 90s. Some departments down south have some amazing cars, but this story is brilliant! BBQ-flavored salute to the people that made that happen!
That's like when you were persuading your dad as a kid to buy you something (like a game or a computer etc.) . "Dad you can do homework faster and more efficiently, it also boosts your confidence."
Hammond is lucky to be alive, but I think WE are even more lucky he's still around.
Though I am Dutch, I am to young to have experienced the glorious days of the Dutch porsche police, I'm lamenting this dearly
They really need to bring this format of the show back
I agree the specials are great but I miss this and there is too much time between them
Which episode is this?
@@henrylangsford8845Covid had caused issues so they were unable to have an audience that is why they did specials
@@Thebridgeplayer yeah I know but they should bring it back at some point
Imagine driving in the Netherlands and having a Porsche police car go past you, it'd be weird, but awesome at the same time.
yes it would because if you imagine your driving in the Netherlands it would mean your not standing still in a traffic jam and that would be very weird and awesome on Dutch roads.
A few years ago I spoke to an 90-year old lady who used to work at the ministry of traffic and waterstate, She told me how the Dutch alcohol in traffic law was made. "The limit of alcohol you could have had and still be able to react safely was not known in those days, so we had to figure that out for ourselves. So a few collegues volounteered to do the drinking. But we didn't have any alcohol at our office. So the whole team went down to the neighbourhood pub nearby the Ministry on a friday afternoon to investigate how much alcohol one could drink at maximum in order to still be able to safely drive. And through this experiment it was concluded that the limitwas 0,8 promille. The amount of two bottles of beer." This happened somewhere during the sixties...
I was in Amsterdam many years ago, late 80’s. About six of us were enjoying a drink on a pavement outside a bar. We heard the unmistakeable sound of a European siren and a car came to a halt just across the road from where we were sitting and a white 911 with Politie written on the side.
Out stepped a cop who would not have looked out of place on a motorcycle.
He approached the car and spoke to the driver and issued a citation.
It was a bizarre sight but memorable.
That cop is the main character no doubt
Mmmmm strange , the Rijkspolitie were only on the motorways and small towns that didn't have their own police.🤣
Love all these stories in these comments
@@martinvanveldhoven8328Well, I took a picture with a 35mm film camera. In case anyone might ever doubt my story.
i think crime would've taken a real flight if we would've used DAF's
Well, if they played the reversing card, the DAF would be an interesting choice because it could reverse just as fast (or slow) as driving forward thanks to the type of CVT it used.
They could have used Spyker's as well
@@vixter_ Well, since they stopped using 911s before the modern Spykers were a thing, they then would have had to drive with a 1920's Spyker C4. Or with the 'Gouden Koets', the horse-drawn carriage of our King, which was also build by Spyker... Now that would have made for some interesting police pursuits!
@@merlijnwiersma7801 nooit geweten dat de gouden koets door spyker is gemaakt haha gaaf
@@vixter_ would be nice.
As a Dutchman i can confirm that the police here actually had Porsche cars.
These days it's mostly Volkswagen and Mercedes. And Hammond's right, if they describe the car they want they'll say it can be any car, as long as it has some very specific things. Like when they said it could be any car as long as it had a DSG gearbox...
Government procurement shenanigans 😂😂😂
You don't need to confirm anything. No-one was doubting the story..
@@Its_Me_Romano you don't have to reply you know...
Its a bit of a shame that you didnt mention that for what the porsche 911 was back in the day(highway police for example) we now use audi a6s which imo look just as great😉
Highway police did. In my birthplace they usually chased me on my Kreidler, using a Volkswagen T1 or a Fiat 600. I loved the outfit the highway police wore though: white leather jacket and matching helmet.
This Actually Makes Perfect Sense...
Never Try to Argue with Someone Who's Dutch Otherwise You'll Lose and probably End up Thanking them by the Time you're Done as you forget you were Trying to Argue at All 😅
I Love the Dutch,
Masters of Conversation They Are 💕
The reverse thing is partly true too. Look up the old Dutch reverse racing. It's mind blowing.
In 1990, I as US soldier stationed in Germany, my support unit was in Netherlands, and I remember driving there seeing 911's Dutch interceptors
Last point was the best selling point hahaha
No because our number is 112
@@dotonthehorizon96200611 the last 6 years, nothing the first 30.
This makes more sense to me now. As a kid I remember seeing remote control porsche police cars. I also remembered think " Yeah right. That would never happen."
I guess my fellow dutchies commenting here with "112 is our emergency number" are the younger generation as back in that time it was 0611 and only from 1990, before that we didnt have one at all if i recall correctly
There is me curious if 0611 still gets them
Yeah, when Jeremy made that joke i said to myself "It's 112, but still, it could've worked... well, at that time it was probably 0611".
Seeing here all the people saying it's 112, they either forgot, or didn't live through that period.
But then i started thinking, these Porsche's drove around from the 70s into the 90s, so there was a period up to 1990 where we didn't even have a centralized number like you said, which is pretty weird to think about.
I can't really find on Wiki what we used to do before that, probably asking the operator for the police??
Kinda crazy how much has changed in the years.
You are forgetting the ANWB-praatpaal that was placed every 2km along the highways.
In a phonebooth the number of local police was written down
And at home people probably had a note with the number next to the telephone (which was connected with a line to the "network")
If you had a telephone that wasn't connected to a socket..... You were filthy rich
Before 06-11 it used to be 00-11
I remember seeing them, The guy was parked, roof off, and he was wearing a leather coat, crash helmet and goggles.
When they had those Porsche, the emergency number in The Netherlands was 06-11
Don’t hate the player, hate the game. Glad to see some jurisdictions figured that out!
Porsche 911 targa classic...
Belgium also used to have porshes and vw gold gt but that before they made the federal police
Belgium had 5 Porsches 911.
Holland had 500 Porsches in 38 years.
Germany drove also some 911,s on the highway, but not that many and for a short time.
The fact they also got targas is just amazing
So true! Saw it myself in 1988. They ran them with T tops and the roof open even in winter, and with white leather suits and Italian submachineguns
There are a few for sale atm. But they cost a fortune ofcourse
I found a 911 Turbo for mere 10k usd around here, good condition too
then again russian car scene is extremely cheap in general for some reason, you can buy a ferrari 360 convertible for 85k if I'm not mistaken so 10k for a 911 turbo is d ecent
@@L_ednik tell me you bought it for 10k
@@mushufitzburg2741 nah, i'm broke af lol. I'm currently saving 15 to get the partially restored AE111 and finish it, since those are pretty damn rare and i love the look
@@L_ednik that’s how much you can buy a 360 for in the us
Not just sunglasses, white scarf with a wire inset, leather jacket and leather helmet's too!
my gosh! that's cool
I mean you can't have them put there looking like goons
Fingerless gloves?
True I remember in 1970 we were hitchhiking at the beginning of the motorway outside of Amsterdam when one pulled up and took us back to where we could safely hike
During the years 1965-1973, there were a total of 23 police cars in Sweden of the Porsche brand
They had blue lights on a support above the car. The police wore long leather coats. They were very impossing looking. Can you imagine them driving a Daf.
🤔 Choosing the car by the number...
Then we should use the Abarth a112 now..
911 works in Europe too though
In Italy we have a variety of police cars that are not fiat or alfa romeos 😂
My grandfather rearended one of those back in the day 😅😅😅👍
British Al Pacino is very entertaining and knowledgeable!
The emergency number is actually 112 but Hammond is not in Europe any more 😂
Im pretty sure that the police commissioner just wanted to have a sports car but it cant be out of his pocket so he just asked for it for the entire force.
Probably was buddies with a lot of senators to approve the budget lmao
Sharing is caring :)
*Excuse me government we need Porsches so we can go faster and catch the criminals* 🤣
Those 3 were the top of comedy on BBC in the last years. RIP Top Gear 😢😢😢😢
The Belgian "Rijkswacht" also used porsches and alot of sporty and quite nice cars.
Tell me that the Trash Taste podcast isn't just the weeb version of these three.
While I agree, I didn't expect the comment to be made here.
@@LouisSubearthSame
These three are far out dated and what ever they’re doing here is trying to keep them relevant.
They’re literally old hake drunks. Was a fan for meany years, but not for a long time now. Drinks like these need to find a hole deeply.
@@LouisSubearth same
“I’m going to level with you, I didn’t do well in school” 😂 love you Ben
All things considered, asside from rear passenger space, a porsche is actually a fairly practical car. You don't have to worry about coolant leaks, it holds lots of oil. The engine should be pretty dependable and they're pretty good in a chase. While a ford panther platform was a fantastic american police car as it handles amazingly well for a very large car and a supercharged (when needed) modular ford engine is a beast, there is no real reason a chase car and a car for detainment have to be the same car. There is no reason you can't call a van after the suspects are in cuffs. It may be safer to do a pit maneuver in a crown vic or suv but its not the only way.
Jeremys last statement is GENIUS
Well except it's 112 not 911 but the joke is good
Except the number is wrong
@@gratbatoetoe2275 but 911 works in Europe too these days
It was 0611 when those Porsches were taken off the road in 1996. So, while it was funny, it wasn’t genius,
In belgium we had them too, you can see one at historic car museum Autoworld.
I completely forgot about that. I do aggressively with Hammond, massive respect to the people who pulled this off.
They made "mum, I need this for studying" to another level
They're not 911s, they're 912s, the 4 cylinder version
Still funny
Don’t think you’re right
Yes you are correct
Still cool for a police car.
The Belgian Gendarmerie both had the 2.4 E and the 2.7 Carrera MFI's as interceptors.
What he didn't mention is that they had to wear crash helmets.
We call them race helmets.
@@PrydeWater901 Who are "we"?
@@Otacatapetl my son and I.
@@PrydeWater901 Right, well thanks for letting us all know what you and your son call them. How I've managed all these years without knowing I don't know.
@@Otacatapetl so why did you ask? What started as a fun reply has turned into a dumb argument. Thanks for that.
That Hammond giggle was like a little kid giggle excited about telling their parents something
Absolutely true.! First time one came past me when I was riding my motorcycle... 😂.. top down, shades... they waved and floored it. Made my day.!
The waffle house has found a new host
It makes the police officer happy to drive. It makes the citizen respect a cop. Probably creates a better police/citizen experience.
Sounds like everybody was already on board before the meeting happened
Love all these guys and their great show.
Same with Australia, but then Holden shut down and ford stopped making falcons, so they used kias, Hyundais and izuzus
When you call 911 and it actually comes.
I really miss those three ..they made me love cars .. unlike those who took their show away from them ..i instantly stopped watching the show after they left ..
I used to have the driver seat from a Dutch police car when these retired. It was fashioned into a chair when I got it
This is equivalent to convincing your parents that you need a computer that can run Cyberpunk 2077 for “homework”.
“And it comes with 911 on the back which is our phone number.”
😂😂😂😂
Americans when they see a 911 😳
It actually was a Targa with the 2.7L engine of the Carrera RS🤩
Back in the early 80's , serving in Germany , my first time on the autobahn I saw a police car sat on the hardshoulder with a massive blower sticking out from the bonnet.
Alot of those cars are still around and there are even more replicas and built ones with the original equipment fitted to it. They have a big club of those cars that go to events. Funny they brought up the sunglasses because part of this cars accesoires are a special long white leather jacket and a matching (to the car) orange helmet and goggles. It's quite the drip when you see it irl, amazing!
You'd think they'd go for the "It's fast enough to chase down the badguys"
I remember those when I was driving through Holland back in 1985.
In the late 1970s, the bus on which I was travelling back to Rotterdam got buzzed by a Dutch police Porsche. English soccer fans had tried to wreck Luxembourg city the night before and the police were checking all coaches without necessarily stopping them.
Truth is stranger than GT ... TG... TV... fiction... love it
"There's no business like show business like no business I know "
Bless x
These are the ways that men convince their wives when they buy a Porsche too 🤣
They had to have something that would be able to catch up with all the bikes
David Tennant needs to play him in a movie.
Also a reason was because porsche has the ignition keyslot on the Left side of the steering wheel, so a police officer can, in a emergency situation step in a car while simultaneously starting the engine. Instead of sitting in the car, put your arm around the wheel and start the car saving some (mili)seconds.
Belgium had a similar version. Not a Targa but still a 911. Amazing on highways!
When I was a kid back in the 90's, Marshalltown, IA had a couple cop cars that were a Lambo Diablo and, a 355, I think it was, that were seized from dealers.
Awesome to see...but not exactly low key in a town that had a median income of about 16k (26-30k now).
Id imagine that it took all of 0.1 seconds to hear about it from everyone in town that those were cops.
I lived about an hour from there and still knew about it.
That's small towns for ya.
That man is Devine at any age
This is straight up the most adhd way to convince someone you need a luxury car
The real title to the video:
"Origins of the California Highway Patrol".
Dutch policemen are fking legendary!
I remember 911 Targas being used for Autobahn police cars. They were open face helmets and light sticks to direct traffic.
During the 80s Aspen PD used SAABs!
Sweden also had Porsche 911's during the period of 1965-1973 and they had a total of 23 of them.
Brilliant. Simply brilliant.
But that's a giveaway. Cops went through a military phase and then a stealth phase.
"Yes, dad, I need a Corvette Z06 because I don't ever want to be late for my studies at the university."
Love I totally need this NVIDIA RTX for work it would help a lot when sending mails lmao
I remember those Porsches back here in The Netherlands,..Whenever they showed up on the highway, everybody started to drive much slower, LOL!
I’m Dutch and I remember the Porches well. White with orange details, like the bonnet. They had huge numbers painted on them too (like 45), so a police helicopter was able to see which car was where. They were highway patrol. We also had a few in dark blue (Koninklijke Marechaussee).
Hammond’s explanation of the reasons to select these cars of course is a load of crap.
The cars were just faster than other cars (handy for pursuits).
Very true, I remember them vividly. Porsche targa and bmw motorbikes user to be the standard for the Dutch police force. The only alternative Dutch car would have been a Daf variomatic in those days ( top speed maybe 100 kmh )
As Admiral General Aladeen would say...
"911 is the best!" 😆
Absolutely brilliant! 😆 👍🏻 love a nice porsche!