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Police vehicles are a popular trend today as replica vehicles.  Many diecast manufacturer's make the police vehicles offered by departments and even offer unmarked white versions where you can add your own police decals and department colors.  For Chevrolet the Tahoe has been the go-to police vehicle ever since the Caprice ended production back in 1996.  It took a while for officers to adapt to them but eventually the Tahoe started to become better merged with officers than the first release of the package in 1996.  Here's the latest from Welly in 1:24 scale adorned in the Chevrolet Police department deco. The Tahoe shown here was introduced in 2006 and was a big change over the previous-generation.  The prior-generation offered rear coil springs and a new fleet of LS1 V8 motors from the Silverado.  This time the Tahoe, and relatives Suburban, GMC Yukon and Yukon XL, and Cadillac Escalade, were introduced before the pickups instead...

Here are two Matchbox cars of the early 1990's that define the American luxury car segment in the Matchbox line.  They may not be the best, but each car has a character of its own. Cadillac Allante Cadillac was one of the last automakers to sell a convertible before succeeding to government regulations in 1976.  Since then the market has flooded back with convertible revivals in the 1980's and Cadillac wanted to cash back in by going after the Mercedes-Benz SL convertible.  The body was designed and made by Pininfarina in Turin, Italy then shipped to Detroit for final assembly with the mechanical components of the car.  This was an expensive ordeal to ship Italy-made bodies to America but since the Fisher body plant closed down it was Cadillac's only option.  Unlike the rear-wheel drive competitors it uses a 4.1L V8 motor that produces 295 horsepower through a 4-speed automatic transmission to the front wheels.  A better 4.6L Nor...