Zombie cop cars? Police apparently forced to un-retire Crown Vics due to chip shortage
The beloved Panther-platform cruiser "rises from the dead" for this Louisiana police department
A Louisiana police force will apparently be forced to un-retire some of its older cop cars since the chip shortage is keeping new cruisers from being added to its fleet.
The force’s Facebook post blames the new cruisers’ delayed delivery on the ongoing microchip shortage, which General Motors CEO Mary Barra recently said she doesn’t expect the industry to see relief from until late 2022.
Which all makes it sound like, yeah, these zombie cop cars might actually be a thing. The Panther-platformed cruisers, which at the end of the model’s life span in 2011 were built in St. Thomas Ontario, were beloved by many patrol units across North America, so we expect at least a few officers in Slidell won’t complain about getting behind the wheel of the familiar Crown Vics again.