Michigan test archive

2026 Michigan State Police Patrol Vehicle Test

The Mustang Mach-E returns as a GT, equals the 2022 car’s 4.03 seconds to 60, and has the shortest projected stop by a car since the twenty-stop braking procedure began in the 2012 book.

The police vehicles

Gold row: 122.45 feet — the shortest projected 60-to-0 stop by a four-wheeled vehicle under the twenty-stop procedure, 0.35 feet shorter than the 2023 Mach-E’s 122.8; its shortest single stop on the sheet was 116.75 feet. And 4.03 seconds to 60, the quickest car here, and a tenth behind the 2023 Mach-E’s 3.93, the quickest car in these books; only motorcycles have gone faster. Where it trails is installation: its communications score, which rates how difficult the radios and warning equipment are to fit, is 5.33, the lowest on the page by more than three points, the same score, sub-score for sub-score, as the 2022, 2023 and 2024 Mach-Es, and its 6.30 ergonomics total is last as well.

The two electric vehicles bracket the field in a way worth noticing. Among the cars, between them they hold the two quickest 0–60 times, the two quickest 0–100 times and the shortest stopping distance — and they finish joint eleventh and last of thirteen on communications. The book notes that the electric vehicles were charged for about forty minutes between runs at Grattan.

The muted row is the Ram 2500, the first Ram in these tests and the first heavy-duty pickup in them since the 2007 F-250. It topped out at 103 mph, needed 170.13 feet to stop — the longest braking distance since the twenty-stop procedure began — and averaged 1:52.17 a lap at Grattan over three drivers’ series (the book left the fourth out of the rating for a driver’s procedural error), eleven seconds off the next slowest vehicle and the slowest car lap average here since the AM General Hummer of 2003.

Against the purchasing criteria the book repeats on printed page 4 — 60 mph within 9.0 seconds, 80 within 14.9 and 100 within 24.6; 110 mph within 0.92 mile and 120 within 1.70 miles; an average of 25.79 ft/s² across twenty 60-to-0 stops; all 32 Grattan laps without major component failure — the Ram falls short of the braking average, at 22.76 ft/s², and never reached the 110 or 120 mph marks. The two Silverado PPVs, at 114 mph, never reached 120 either (their specification pages print a 114 mph limit; GM’s comparison sheet prints 112). The book names no vehicle as failing. Every other car clears every criterion for which the book prints a figure; the distance to 110 mph is not printed.

Among the conventional vehicles the EcoBoost Utility keeps the two headline columns: 148 mph and the best lap average of the test, 1:35.95; it has had the best car lap average in every book held here since 2021.

See the original pages in the 2026 book: lap times, acceleration and ergonomics

The motorcycles

Gold row: the automatic-shift BMW is 0.77 seconds quicker to 60 mph and 0.66 seconds quicker to 100 than the manual Dynamic-package machine. The book does not attribute the difference, and the two ran at different times, 12:53 p.m. and 10:49 a.m. It recalls the 1989 test, where a Mustang automatic out-lapped its own five-speed for the first time.

On braking the order changes. The manual Dynamic-package BMW stopped shortest, in a projected 132.97 feet at 29.12 ft/s²; the automatic-shift machine, quickest of all to 60, needed 140.11. The Road Glide needed 157.94, more than twenty-four feet further than the best BMW. None of the five comes near the 118.9 feet this archive gives the 2017 Can-Am Spyder F3P, computed from its rate on the 2017 page (the 2017 book is not held).

The Honda NT1100P is the first Honda police motorcycle in these books, and it announces itself well: quicker to 60 than two of the three BMWs at 4.16 seconds, from 1,084 cc and 566 lb — the lightest machine in the test by more than fifty pounds.

Fuel economy and range

See the original page in the 2026 book: fuel economy

The manufacturer’s own printed ceiling

Every vehicle on this page had a speed limiter fitted, unless the book notes otherwise. Printed page 3 states it for the whole field: “All vehicles listed in this report were equipped with electronic speed limiters unless otherwise noted.”

And this year every single specification page prints the manufacturer’s own ceiling as a field — Manufacturer Limited Top Speed, in the powertrain block. What appeared on seven of eleven cars in 2025 is now on all sixteen specification pages.

Eleven of the eighteen stopped exactly on their printed limit — including every Tahoe, both Silverados, the Ram, the Mach-E, the Blazer and all three Police Interceptor Utilities. For those eleven the top-speed column records where the limiter is set, and the two agree to the mile per hour.

The seven exceptions are worth naming. The F-150 recorded 121 against a limit of 120, as it did in 2025; the book does not comment. The 3.6-litre Durango fell two short of 130, and the three BMW packages all fell well short of the model’s 145: 141, 136 and 135. The Road Glide and the Honda each ran 119 against 120.

The Blazer’s range fell from 297 miles in 2025 to 286 — the first year-on-year change in an electric car’s range in the books held here. The 2018 book was the first held to print an electric range, for the Zero motorcycle. The Mach-E’s 90 MPGe combined equals the 2024 Mach-E’s as the highest combined figure in the books held here; the 2024 car’s 96 MPGe city is higher than this one’s 95.