Test archive
Every police car Michigan has tested
Every vehicle Michigan has tested since 1978, with the figures as the books printed them.
This is the whole archive as one table. Sort any column, filter by make or body type, or search for a model. Every row links to the year page it came from, where the figures sit in context with their caveats.
Blank cells mean this table holds no figure for that vehicle. Usually the book did not print one; sometimes it printed it in another form, or once for a whole model rather than for each version (most ergonomics scores and some fuel figures), and then the figure is on the year page but not in this row. Every 60–0 figure is the stop from exactly 60 mph at the vehicle’s average deceleration rate. For the books before 1991, which print only measured stops and the rate, it is worked out here with the books’ own formula and the row carries the computed flag; for several later years the year pages also work it out from the printed rate, as their captions say, and those rows are not flagged. The combined figure for the 2022 BMW R 1250 RT-P is the World Motorcycle Test Cycle’s, not the EPA’s. Nothing is estimated or interpolated.
One warning about the top-speed column. Michigan began identifying individual vehicles as governed in 1992 and as fitted with electronic limiters in 1994, in that book’s preface; the 1992 governors are footnoted in that book’s tables, and the first table footnote naming a speed limiter is in 1995, and by 2002 every vehicle in the test carried the footnote. From the 2003 book it stops marking them one by one and states it for the whole field instead. So a top speed from the later years is often the fastest a vehicle was permitted to go rather than the fastest it could, and sorting this column across eras compares two different kinds of number. The whole paper trail is here.
| Year | Vehicle | Body | 0–60 s | 0–100 s | Top mph | 60–0 ft | Decel ft/s² | Lap s | City mpg / MPGe | Comb. mpg / MPGe | Ergo pts | Missed minimum |
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computed the figure was worked out here, not printed in the book · limiter the source marks or names this vehicle as fitted with a governor or electronic limiter · DQ the test book names the vehicle as eliminated or disqualified · Missed minimum: yes means the vehicle fell short of a minimum standard printed in its book, whether or not the book says so, in the cases checked against the books held here; a dash means not flagged, not that every minimum was met. Hover over yes for the figures, and see the vehicles that failed
Read the braking column carefully. Michigan changed its braking procedure in the 2012 book, from twelve stops to twenty, and before the 1999 book it scored two measured stops rather than twelve. Figures either side of those lines are not directly comparable, and the archive treats pre-2012 and post-2012 braking as separate records.
And top speed stopped meaning much from the 1990s: the 1992 book marks two vehicles as governed, the 1994 book’s preface names five with electronic limiters, and the first vehicle equipped with speed limiter footnote appears in 1995. Rows carrying the limiter flag may report a setting rather than a capability — the full story is here.
Sharing a view. Filter or sort the table however you like, then copy the address from your browser. That link opens on exactly the view you were looking at — useful for sending someone a single manufacturer, a decade, or the answer to an argument.
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