What if you started with a blank sheet of paper and designed a police car specifically for police? What you would get is something like the E7 police car from Carbon Motors:

Cops help dream up high-tech police car

The E7 has dozens of new features never before seen in a police cruiser, all inspired by suggestions from front-line police officers:

The features include:
- front seating to accommodate a cop wearing a gun and other equipment on his/her belt.
- Sophisticated computer system with touch screen integrated in the dash
- Convenient gun storage and mounts
- Easy-access rear seats
- Sealed rear area that is easily hosed out
- Seating for rear-seat passengers that accompdates arms hand-cuffed behind the back
- High efficiency 300 HP diesel engine, with 0 to 60 in 6.5 seconds
- Flashing lights on all sides
- Flashing lights integrated into the roof line for good aerodynamics
- “instant license plate recognition”
- Etc.

Funny quote from the article:

“You don’t have an engineer sitting at one of the other automakers who says, ‘Y’know, I think what we need to do is we need to take this car, and we need to run into a curb at 50 miles an hour and see how many times it takes before the wheels and the suspension fails on it.”

See also: Rating the new cop cars