Test archive

The records

The fastest, quickest and shortest figures in Michigan State Police testing since 1978 — with the two discontinuities that make half the internet’s version wrong.

Every figure below is transcribed from the book that printed it, and every one links to the year page carrying its conditions. Nothing is estimated.

Before you quote any of it, read the next two paragraphs. They are the reason most published police car records are not comparing what they think they are.

Three things that break comparison

Braking changed in the 2012 book. Michigan went from twelve stops to twenty: every car brake sheet from 2012 onward reads “Ten 60-0 mph full ABS maximum deceleration stops” in each of two phases. A 2011 figure and a 2013 figure are answers to different questions, so braking records here are split either side of that line and should never be merged into one list. Braking had changed once before, in the 1999 book, from two measured stops to twelve, so the lists before 2012 are split at 1999 as well.

The course changed in 2001. The dynamics test moved to Grattan Raceway. Lap times before and after are from different circuits and are also listed separately. A pre-2001 lap is not a faster lap; it is a shorter one.

And top speed stopped meaning capability

From the 1992 book onward, some entries are marked as governed or electronically limited. Those figures may report a limiter’s setting rather than what the car could do. Any record below carrying a limiter tag was recorded with a limiter fitted, and that story is here.

Highest top speed, any vehicle

A police Camaro, in a category most people arguing about police car top speeds have never looked at.

Transcribed from the Michigan State Police evaluation for that year. Click the year for the full results and conditions. 159 mph was also recorded by Camaros in 1996, 1999 (both versions), 2000 (the 6-speed), 2001 and 2002, the 2001 and 2002 figures with a limiter mark.
Figure	Year	Vehicle
160 mph	2000	Chevrolet Camaro (automatic)
159 mph	1996	Chevrolet Camaro (automatic)
159 mph	1999	Chevrolet Camaro (6-speed)

Highest top speed, sedan

All four are Caprices. The first American police sedans in these books past the 1994 Caprice’s 141.2 were the 2006 Charger, at 150, and Impala, at 142; the 2000 Volvo S-70 T5 sedan had already run 153.

Transcribed from the Michigan State Police evaluation for that year. Click the year for the full results and conditions.
Figure	Year	Vehicle
156 mph §	2015	Chevrolet Caprice 6.0L
155 mph	2014	Chevrolet Caprice 6.0L
155 mph	2016	Chevrolet Caprice 6.0L RWD
155 mph	2017	Chevrolet Caprice 6.0L RWD

§ The 2015 Caprice 6.0L’s 156 mph is from its retest of 7 October 2014, printed on its data sheet. It was first submitted with an incorrect speed-limiting calibration and ran 147, the figure the 2015 book’s summary table and chart print (printed pages 3, 44, 49 and 52).

Quickest 0–60, any vehicle

Every one is a motorcycle. The quickest car, the 2023 Mach-E at 3.93, is 0.15 seconds behind the third of them.

Transcribed from the Michigan State Police evaluation for that year. Click the year for the full results and conditions.
Figure	Year	Vehicle
3.61 s	2026	BMW R 1300 RT-P Dynamic Pkg. with automatic shift
3.67 s	2020	Yamaha FJR1300P-AB
3.78 s	2019	Yamaha FJR1300P-AB

Quickest 0–60, car

The quickest cars in the books held here are all electric, and all Mustang Mach-Es. The 2023 car is a tenth quicker than the 2022 car and the 2026 GT.

Transcribed from the Michigan State Police evaluation for that year. Click the year for the full results and conditions.
Figure	Year	Vehicle
3.93 s	2023	Ford Mustang Mach-E AWD (electric)
4.03 s	2022	2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E AWD (electric)
4.03 s	2026	Ford Mustang Mach-E GT eAWD (electric)

Quickest 0–100, car

All three electric, two of them from the 2024 book.

Transcribed from the Michigan State Police evaluation for that year. Click the year for the full results and conditions.
Figure	Year	Vehicle
10.63 s	2026	Ford Mustang Mach-E GT eAWD (electric)
10.87 s	2024	Ford Mustang Mach-E AWD (electric)
11.08 s	2024	Chevrolet Blazer EV AWD (electric)

Shortest 60–0, 2012 onward

Twenty stops. Not comparable with anything before the 2012 book — see the note above.

Transcribed from the Michigan State Police evaluation for that year. Click the year for the full results and conditions.
Figure	Year	Vehicle
118.9 ft	2017	Can-Am Spyder F3P
122.4 ft	2016	Can-Am Spyder F3
122.45 ft	2026	Ford Mustang Mach-E GT eAWD (electric)
122.8 ft	2023	Ford Mustang Mach-E AWD (electric)
123.2 ft	2017	Dodge Charger 5.7L (2.62 RWD)
124.7 ft	2015	Dodge Charger 3.6L (3.08)
125.0 ft	2016	Dodge Charger 3.6L (2.62 RWD)
125.0 ft	2022	2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E AWD (electric)

Shortest 60–0, 1999 to 2011

Twelve stops, from the 1999 book until the 2012 book. A different procedure from the twenty stops above, and a different question.

Transcribed from the Michigan State Police evaluation for that year. Click the year for the full results and conditions.
Figure	Year	Vehicle
128.3 ft	2011	Chevrolet Caprice 9C1 6.0L
128.3 ft	2006	Dodge Magnum 3.5L
129.5 ft	2000	Volvo V-70 T5 Wagon

Shortest 60–0, before 1999

Two measured stops, from the 1978 book to the 1998 bulletin. Each figure is the stop from 60 mph at the car’s average rate. Not comparable with the twelve-stop figures above.

Transcribed from the Michigan State Police evaluation for that year. Click the year for the full results and conditions.
Figure	Year	Vehicle
127.6 ft	1993	Chevrolet Camaro (automatic)
130.16 ft	1994	Chevrolet Camaro (automatic)
131.0 ft	1995	Chevrolet Camaro (automatic)

Highest deceleration rate

The rate rather than the distance, which is how Michigan scores braking.

Transcribed from the Michigan State Police evaluation for that year. Click the year for the full results and conditions.
Figure	Year	Vehicle
32.57 ft/s²	2017	Can-Am Spyder F3P
31.64 ft/s²	2016	Can-Am Spyder F3
31.62 ft/s²	2026	Ford Mustang Mach-E GT eAWD (electric)

Best lap average, Grattan Raceway

2001 onward. The two-mile road course used today.

Transcribed from the Michigan State Police evaluation for that year. Click the year for the full results and conditions.
Figure	Year	Vehicle
94.39 s	2012	Dodge Charger 5.7L (2.65 axle)
94.75 s	2014	2014.5 Dodge Charger AWD 5.7L (3.06)
94.8 s	2015	Dodge Charger 5.7L (3.08 AWD)
94.98 s	2014	Chevrolet Caprice 6.0L

Best lap average, before 2001

A different course entirely. These times cannot be set against Grattan.

Transcribed from the Michigan State Police evaluation for that year. Click the year for the full results and conditions.
Figure	Year	Vehicle
78.98 s	1998	Chevrolet Camaro (automatic)
79.2 s	1995	Chevrolet Camaro (automatic)
79.21 s	1996	Chevrolet Camaro (automatic)

Longest 60–0 recorded

Worth knowing what the other end of the range looks like. Twenty-stop figures only: the cars from the 2012 book, the motorcycles from 2011.

Transcribed from the Michigan State Police evaluation for that year. Click the year for the full results and conditions.
Figure	Year	Vehicle
170.13 ft	2026	Ram 2500 6.4L 4WD
162.2 ft	2023	Ford F-150 Police Responder EcoBoost 3.5L
160.9 ft	2022	Ford F-150 Police Responder EcoBoost 3.5L

Lowest top speed, car

Three consecutive years of the same vehicle.

Transcribed from the Michigan State Police evaluation for that year. Click the year for the full results and conditions.
Figure	Year	Vehicle
83 mph	2002	AM General Hummer limiter
85 mph	2003	AM General Hummer
88 mph	2001	AM General Hummer limiter

Method. Compiled programmatically from the transcribed year pages rather than assembled by hand, so it cannot drift from what those pages say. Figures marked computed were derived here from the printed phase data rather than printed as a single number; figures marked limiter carry the source’s own governor or limiter footnote. Every test from 1978 to 2026 has a page here; for 1979 only the schedules and method survive, so a record set in 1979 would not appear here. The books for 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2017 are not held here, so those pages could not be checked against them. Some years are held only as a federal bulletin, and 1985 only as a scoring sheet, which print fewer figures than the full books. See how this site is researched and corrections.