The manufacturer
Chevrolet police vehicles
One hundred and fifty-four entries across thirty-seven Michigan tests. The only manufacturer besides Ford to turn up every single year — and the one that kept walking away from its own best cars.
Chevrolet has never missed a Michigan evaluation in this archive. It has also twice built the fastest police sedan in America and then stopped making it.
The Caprice was killed in 1996 because the plant was wanted for trucks, brought back from Australia in 2011, and dropped again in 2017. The Camaro B4C recorded 160 mph in 2000 — the fastest figure in this entire archive — and was gone two years later. What Chevrolet still sells to police is a Tahoe.
The fastest Chevrolet in every test
Shaded rows are the years the fastest Chevrolet was a two-door; gold rows are the years it was a sport utility. Everything else is a sedan. All 203 entries are in the filtered table.
| Year | Vehicle | Type | 0–60 s | Top mph | 60–0 ft | Chevrolets tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Chevrolet Impala | Sedan | – | 115.4 | – | 1 |
| 1980 | Chevrolet Malibu | Sedan | 12.81 | 113.4 | – | 5 |
| 1981 | Chevrolet Impala | Sedan | 11.93 | 113.8 | – | 4 |
| 1982 | Chevrolet Malibu | Sedan | 13.29 | 110.1 | – | 6 |
| 1983 | Chevrolet Malibu | Sedan | 11.71 | 116.3 | – | 10 |
| 1987 | Chevrolet Caprice | Sedan | 10.32 | 118 | – | 5 |
| 1988 | Chevrolet Caprice | Sedan | 10.59 | 116 | – | 3 |
| 1989 | Chevrolet Caprice | Sedan | 9.82 | 122 | – | 2 |
| 1993 | Chevrolet Camaro (automatic) | Two-door | 6.18 | 154 | – | 8 |
| 1995 | Chevrolet Camaro (automatic) | Two-door | 6.45 | 155 | – | 6 |
| 1996 | Chevrolet Camaro (automatic) | Two-door | 6.51 | 159 | 137.8 | 9 |
| 1997 | Chevrolet Camaro (6-speed) | Two-door | 6.51 | 157 | – | 5 |
| 1998 | Chevrolet Camaro (6-speed) | Two-door | 5.93 | 150 | – | 5 |
| 1999 | Chevrolet Camaro (6-speed) | Two-door | 6.12 | 159 | – | 6 |
| 2000 | Chevrolet Camaro (automatic) | Two-door | 5.8 | 160 | 135.7 | 4 |
| 2001 | Chevrolet Camaro (6-speed) limiter | Two-door | 5.77 | 159 | – | 6 |
| 2002 | Chevrolet Camaro (automatic) limiter | Two-door | 5.69 | 159 | 140.8 | 4 |
| 2003 | Chevrolet Impala | Sedan | 9.25 | 126 | 133 | 3 |
| 2004 | Chevrolet Impala | Sedan | 9 | 123 | 134.2 | 3 |
| 2005 | Chevrolet Tahoe PPV 2WD (E85) | SUV | 8.19 | 125 | – | 6 |
| 2006 | Chevrolet Impala 9C1 3.9L | Sedan | 8.83 | 142 | 142.4 | 5 |
| 2007 | Chevrolet Impala 9C1 3.9L | Sedan | 8.82 | 139 | 140.5 | 5 |
| 2008 | Chevrolet Impala 9C1 3.9L | Sedan | 8.24 | 142 | 143.2 | 8 |
| 2009 | Chevrolet Impala 9C1 3.9L (E85) | Sedan | 8.59 | 140 | 144.2 | 6 |
| 2010 | Chevrolet Impala 9C1 3.9L | Sedan | 8.53 | 139 | 143.9 | 6 |
| 2011 | Chevrolet Caprice 9C1 6.0L | Sedan | 6.18 | 148 | 128.3 | 9 |
| 2012 | Chevrolet Caprice 9C1 6.0L | Sedan | 5.91 | 154 | 125.8 | 11 |
| 2013 | Chevrolet Caprice 9C1 6.0L | Sedan | 6.03 | 154 | 128.3 | 5 |
| 2014 | Chevrolet Caprice 6.0L | Sedan | 6.01 | 155 | 127.6 | 5 |
| 2015 | Chevrolet Impala 3.6L | Sedan | 7.7 | 150 | 134.8 | 7 |
| 2015 | Chevrolet Caprice 6.0L § | Sedan | 6.17 | 156 | 126.8 | 7 |
| 2016 | Chevrolet Caprice 6.0L RWD | Sedan | 6.26 | 155 | 129.9 | 7 |
| 2017 | Chevrolet Caprice 6.0L RWD | Sedan | 6.11 | 155 | 127.1 | 6 |
| 2018 | Chevrolet Tahoe 5.3L RWD | SUV | 7.73 | 134 | 146.2 | 3 |
| 2019 | Chevrolet Tahoe 5.3L RWD | SUV | 7.75 | 134 | 145.7 | 2 |
| 2020 | Chevrolet Tahoe 5.3L RWD | SUV | 7.81 | 134 | 142.5 | 3 |
| 2025 | Chevrolet Blazer EV AWD (electric) | SUV | 5.08 | 130 | 128.2 | 7 |
| 2026 | Chevrolet Blazer EV PPV AWD (electric) | SUV | 5.14 | 130 | 131.7 | 7 |
Ten years when the fastest Chevrolet was a two-door
From 1993 to 2002 the quickest thing Chevrolet brought to Michigan was a Camaro, every single year. Not once in that decade did a Chevrolet sedan top its own manufacturer’s entry.
That is longer than Ford’s equivalent Mustang run, and it covers exactly the years the Caprice was absent. When Chevrolet had no fast sedan to offer, it had a two-door instead — and the two-door was faster than anything else in the test, full stop.
The fastest police vehicle ever recorded by Michigan is a Chevrolet. It has two doors, no room for a cage, and nobody counts it.
Two deaths and a resurrection
| Period | |
|---|---|
| 1987–1996 | Rear-drive, American-built. Leaves at 139 mph, the fastest police sedan in the country |
| 1997–2010 | Nothing. Not a gap in the archive — the car did not exist |
| 2011–2017 | Built in Elizabeth, South Australia. Records 156 mph on retest in 2015 and a 125.8 ft stop in 2012 |
| 2018– | Gone again. Nothing replaces it |
Both times Chevrolet stopped building it, the car was the fastest police sedan Michigan had tested. That is an unusual way to leave a market.
Three disqualifications
| Year | Vehicle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Impala | failed minimum standards, in the same year both GM entries went out |
| 1996 | Geo Tracker | a special service entry, never a patrol vehicle |
| 2008 | Tahoe 5.3L (4WD) |
One of the three is a four-wheel-drive Tahoe, in 2008. The two-wheel-drive Tahoe has never been disqualified.
Where Chevrolet sits in the record
| Figure | Vehicle | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 160 mph — the fastest figure in this archive, by any vehicle | Camaro (automatic) | 2000 |
| 5.08 s — quickest to 60 | Blazer EV AWD (electric) | 2025 |
| 125.8 ft and 30.77 ft/s² | Caprice 9C1 6.0L | 2012 |
| 156 mph — fastest police sedan in the archive § | Caprice 6.0L | 2015 |
Nine Chevrolet entries carry the source’s own limiter footnote. The clearest are the Tahoes of 2002, held at 98 mph, where Michigan marked the figure as a setting rather than a capability.
What Chevrolet sells now
A Tahoe, a Silverado, and since 2025 an electric Blazer. No sedan, no two-door, and nothing built in America that will do 150 mph with a badge on it.
The company that recorded the fastest figure in the history of this test now competes on room, durability and running cost. So does everybody else — which is what the comparison table shows.