In Australia, law enforcement is a bit better at policing than their Danish colleagues. The plainclothes police are trying to hide a new BMW M3.
Police in Australia have adopted a new strategy to maintain law and order: they hide in plainclothes police cars that are anything but discreet. One of the most notable models in the law enforcement fleet is the latest bottling of the BMW M3.
Previously, Australian police forces primarily used the Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon. But when Australia shut down its car industry, the police had to source foreign alternatives.
Today, police forces use a wide range of corvettes from different brands, including Toyota, Hyundai, Kia, VW, Skoda and Subaru. There are also a significant number of BMWs in service – including the potent M3.
As early as 2019, the first images appeared of a BMW M3 used for undercover police work in the capital, Canberra.
That car was a moke blue F80 M3 and when the new generation G80 was launched it was quickly added to police fleets across the country.
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Blue. was a BMW M3 Competition briefly used by the Victoria Police Highway Patrol – i.e. the traffic police. Now several photos and videos have surfaced of G80 M3s being used by plainclothes police.
One of these undercover G80 models caused a stir during the Chinese Premier's visit to Canberra.
The short one goes unnoticed with a gray paintwork, ordinary number plates and no visible signs of police affiliation. That is, until the hidden root and blue blin, hidden behind the grill, were turned on. Discretion is apparently an important part of the strategy when it comes to these police cars.
The same understated M3 was also spotted earlier this year stopping a Mazda RX-3. As a true undercover police car, its anonymous appearance probably took the RX-3 owner completely to bed.
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) police are not the only ones using the G80 M3. Law enforcement in Victoria has at its disposal no less than 5 plainclothes M cars. At least one G80 M3 is also used as a civilian police vehicle in the state of New South Wales. It's no ordinary M3 either, as it has Akrapovic exhaust with carbon fiber tailpipes.
However, BMW's presence in Australian police fleets does not stop at the M3. Various non-M models, including several 5 Series, are in use across the country.
