BMW 2002 Chased by Cop Car on Autocross Course

[marjangulic]

I've got 2002, and it rely stiks on the road like glue. Very god preformance for 70"

[Percival892]

I've had my 1976 2002 since 1976 and wouldn't drive anything else. But I do keep my fingers crossed that some bone head in a 4,000 pound SUV doesn't slam it on our idiot, crazy driver freeways here in southern California. I saw one that got sandwiched between two semi trailers on the freeway. Fortunately, the girl driving it made it through alive.

[mellilore]

"....eeeehm... car no. 45 here... please send a fukkin helicopter!!!!!"

[Wrightcomputing]

That's great. Its good to see the cops supporting autocross, keep racing legal and all that

[luedriver]

someone should make a series of short professional videos with old bmw's like this one...

[martin8r]

You know, I think I took that video. Yes. Yes I did. Cool!

I'm glad to see it made its way onto YouTube.

Martinator

[martin8r]

Hey! I actually took that video! It was a PITA converting tape to digital.

Glad to see it made its way onto YouTube.

[SuperHellboy007]

I love this video. The crown vic did keep up ish. You do have to take into account that had this been a built street car that was actually trying to get away the crown vic wouldn't stand a chance in hell. Yeah the 2002 has a much better power to weight ratio and what not, which in my opinion is why law enforcement needs to rethink the cars that they use.

[rilowig]

Everyone knows that a stock crown vic will waste a 2002 0-60, but put them in some corners and the BMW will show it true colors! I have a '72 and love the thing so much, takes corners like its on rails!

M POWER

[TKDJimi]

Go 2002!

I miss my British Racing Green 72'

A bone stock 2002 will outrun a Crown Vic Interceptor all day long on an AutoX course.

[sugarisgoodness]

OMG this is the rockingham mall! I didn't know they're were autocrosses there! I'm going!

[quillbro]

hahaha thats awesome i love 2002's... that thing must be pretty worked. Still an m10?

[JoseMencos]

bueno bueno bueno, Divertido so funny...

[nasonguy]

Gotta give that big crown vic some props, for a car that weighs almost 4000 pounds, it kept up pretty good with that little flyweigh beemer.

[dalesd]

Well, the 2002 slows down at least once to let the cop catch up. The course loops back on itself, and the cop was falling back enough that there could have been a collision if the 2002 didn't slow like he did.

Props to the 2002 driver for having the presence of mind to realize that while negotiation the course.

[drewdude320i]

yeah, if you're familiar with 2002's you can see there's a few places where he's not really giving it the beans.

[nasonguy]

I'm not familiar with 2002's, never driven one, and there aren't really a ton of them around where I live, but it's obvious it's a very light car, with a better power to weight ratio and far better handling than that bulky loaded down crown victoria, yet he still managed to keep up just a bit, even with the 2002 driver slowing down some, it's still an impressive feat for such a big car. It'd be comparable to me racing my pops in his (non CVPI) crown vic in my souped up saturn...

[YooTubeStillSux]

Do not drive in Salem after 11pm, too many fascists with nothin' to do !

[54spiritedwill54]

I Love 2002s! <3

My Brother and I would drift in his when it was raining, amazing!!

[protocall1957]

Ray Korman "Uncle Ray" of Greensburg's spartan berb built a race prepped 2002 with a 483 rear and 323 camshaft and smoke the race circuit. There's a dentist who retired with a mental illness in Charlottesville Va that has a huge barn full of these cars that he collect earlier in life. He's probaly a spiritualist in the company of little bimmers.

reconninc

[protocall1957]

I know you're not going to believe this. Those 1600-2002's were farm vehicles. They leave them in the barn under a stack of hey. No straw boss intended. That little car is equalent to the Atomic four similar to the british 105e. And get this, there's no job it can't do. I've seen Cart driver jump double trrain cattle cars where the b;lack top got laid correctly. You can tell. The recovery is no cattlecatcher kaboose prize. The nose dive bends the front towing hooks. The Tii works underwater. 999

[protocall1957]

That's a turkis green tii, I believe - a 74. Probably rebuilt engine with 165hp, heavy sway bars lowered gumball tires etc. It appears to have the stock 3:64 rear end. If he swapped it out to the hard to get 4:11 he would such the doors off a police car on that kind of track...the race-prepped 2002 will outcorner a Ferrarri - w/600lb coil-over spring suspension...

[PseudoScienceb20]

No fair. Try this with the ZO6 highway patrol car.

[trogodo]

it will spin and spin and spin out.... thats why they only use it in highway....

[vansoth]

That's a publicity stunt.

[tj7723]

haha thats great, i have tried to get the cops to chase me on the autocross but they wont do it any ways 5 starts

[skinnyirishman]

one more to say the bmw2002 is lite as a feather to the interceptor, power to waight ratio is not a joke i.e drag racing any racing. you should show respect that that big car could even be laging close to that pony car. ps i wanna slap the woman laughing in this video . lol thanks for posting your vid.

[skinnyirishman]

just dont get it do you . heres a case where the cvpi might win when the beemer goes on a dirt road or off the road for that matter. beemer might get caught . not knockin the bmw it a bad m.f. fun clip thanks

[TheSofaFox]

No shit it was staged, you really think if the cop was truly after him he wouldn't just cut across the whole track and pit him? You're a genius.

[vansoth]

They don't just pit at the drop of a hat you know. Also the cop probably wouldn't be able to keep up with a race prepped 2002 in any situation really.

[limitedslip]

ahah funny shit !!

[speedboat]

A friend and I street raced on Maui, his 2002 and my Karmann Ghia. I caught him on the turns, he left me pulling away.

[Chronic2112]

Lol cool video

[JPacheco91]

see waht do you need a V8...the bmw olny was a 4 in line engine....ahahahahaah

[jacobcharnock]

"ya, just one question. How can it be a 2002 bmw when the video says its in 1999? next time make sure you get your shit straight" haha what a prick

[bustawhitey86]

what a wanker jacob the car 2002 is the model of the car .and what a car it is ......i bet you feel like a right knob now

[theman1393]

ya, just one question. How can it be a 2002 bmw when the video says its in 1999? next time make sure you get your shit straight

[dalesd]

2002 is the model, not the year. IIRC this is a '73. Now who needs to get their shit straight?

[343Typhoon]

HAHAH WHATTA DUMBASS!!! 2002 is a MODEL not a year! It's a legendary car (after the e30 M3;))

[KinetiKat]

Is this a joke?

[Eatinbritches]

@theman1393 - LOL, massive fail.

[2trips]

@theman1393 way to go detective

[hardcoreairsofter6]

@theman1393 because its the model bmw your moron, get your shit straight

[ShahyadG]

Awesome vid, I got a real good laugh out of it.

As for some of you posters, chill out! Who cares what's a better car? It's not a dick measuring contest, and nobody cares about your personal opinions or preferences. I'm sure the person who posted this video intended for it to be enjoyed, not for it to turn into a child like argument! Grow up, especially rik747.

[rik747]

That's because it is a Clown Vic chasing. It would be a different game w/ a Caprice. Still my father had a few 2002s and I admit they were nice.

[capridrifter]

Dude the Vic's handle much better then the caprice, the only thing the caprice has on the Vic is power,THATS IT.

[rik747]

Well Drifter dude I've driven them all since before you were born and owned more of each model than you've ever seen. So I do know something about them. Biggest difference is a Vic is basically shot at 80K while I've seen fleets of Caprices go 300K+!

[capridrifter]

My cousins 89 crown Vic has WELL over 500+K on it And every last one of those miles was extremely hard on it. I would like to see an identical vid like this of that bloated potato on wheels Chevy called a car;)

[swissBMW02]

The diffrence between german cars and american metal...

[DinosaursandMusic]

I Love 2002s! <3

My Brother and I would drift in his when it was raining, amazing!!

[pouyanch]

I love 2002s, great machines!

[taospec]

That was funny. Nice driving!

[cruz2dena]

BMW FTMFW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[drivebymaster]

Ha makes me love my 72' BMW

[MFactor164]

BMW RULES!!! =)

[jogga123]

The 2002 is a BMW pure and simple.

[xtacized]

just hope you guys know its a BMW2002 not year 2002.

[spiceoflife2000]

NICE

O==00==O

[ELVISDAKING]

Totally amazing! kudos to the officer for doing as well as he did in that low bid soon to be taxi!

[SuperSaxDude101]

thats awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HotChocolatePrep80]

thats awesome, dude in the cop car was on it even drifting a lil in the vic..2002tii aren't to be under estimated...esp if it has a m20, s50...or hell a s38 could fit under the hood too :-P

[onlocash]

notice the superior handling on ti vs the crown vic

[capridrifter]

Well yeah the victoria is like twice the size of that 2002, of course it would handle better. You should look up autocrossing wagon and see what you find:)

[hansy555]

BMW4Ever

[525i]

*Drool. 2k2 Tii! My dad used to own a 73 2k2 and a 76 2k2. Amazing little cars. But yours can really boogie.

[powwerranger]

is that a 74 or a 73?

[earlyapexprod]

73 tii. :)

[powwerranger]

nice tii

[ffairlane57]

This is staged...otherwise the cop wouldn't have gone through so much trouble to stay within the cones. Hilarious just the same though!

[CeruleanDragon]

Of course it's staged. Duh. Entertaining though. Interesting way to run auto-cross, looks like fun to me.

[hoopsiouzip]

Is this a tii? If so who owns it and how much?

[Kmancanada]

Wow! What a great find to come across this. I was there that day and it brought back fond memories. Fred Beck's '02 was one fast mo' fo', often competing for Fastest Time of the Day with E36 M3's and 350hp Eclipses.

Fun times. (It also reminds me that I haven't autocrosses since -- and my '92 GS-R of the day is still sitting, undriven in years, in my driveway)

[BMW2002MAN]

My friends dad is a cop and he saw this video, he said " I could catch him." i offered to him to try this with my 71 O2' but he turned me down.

[Scronyman]

Damn, that would be awesome to try!

[Brickx3]

its an auto-cross, proabily with the cops promoting racing at organized events, (like auto X's) and not on the public streets

[kpcasey]

That vid was taken at a Boston BMW Auto-x sometime around '99/'00. Yes, it is Rockingham Park in Salem NH. I'm even briefly in the video standing watching. :) This isn't the only time thay did this either. Good 'drivers training' and community relations if you ask me.

They don't auto-x at rockingham anymore. :(

[kpcasey]

That vid was taken at a Boston BMW Auto-x sometime around '99/'00. Yes, it is Rockingham Park in Salem NH. I'm even briefly in the video standing watching. :) This isn't the only time thay did this either. Good 'drivers training' and community relations if you ask me.

They don't auto-x at rockingham anymore. :(

[legerdemain]

Awesome.

[soundlanguage]

This lil' bimmer rips! Love it. Says a lot about American engineering too since these cars are 30 years apart in age. That's assuming they weren't holding back ... this is all for fun of course, but i'd bet the same result it it weren't. Thanks for the film, more please!

[salinad]

Lighten up. The cop is following in the path of the cones. It is obviously a stunt.

[kwjeff9]

tape says july 11th 1999

[SLIDEBABYSLIDE]

it's just a stunt, tards. it's an auto x .

[Evildancergirl]

They are laughing at the Cops' Lack of skill

[salinad]

It's not the cops lack of skill, but the fact that the Ford Crown Vic is a pig as far as handling goes. It doesn't even do well at high speeds, and starts to feel "floaty" above 95mph. Bimmer will always leave the Ford in the dust both for handling and top speed. But then again, you can't outrun a radio.

[soundlanguage]

Of course, these were rally & racing cars not get-about-town granny mobiles! I'd be shocked if it couldn't outrun that sluggish heap. In europe they use small sporties for cop cars to assure they aren't out run as seen above.

[soundlanguage]

Uh, and probably how outrageously perfect this '02 handles compared to that pig beast on wheels. It was designed with a low profile to do just that, tight turns, no lag or shimmy on the long stretches. Holds it's own even compared to today's cars, that's why it's a top classic. Humble & beautiful too, either you get it or you don't.

[androidtv]

People cheering people breaking the law? What is so funny?

[dalesd]

Thanks for the confirmation on the location. There haven't been any autocrosses there in a few years AFAIK.

[RichSPK]

That's the Rockingham Park lot in Salem, NH! Do they still autox there? Is that a Salem police car?  I can't quite make out the door lettering.