If you have it one day in the rear view mirror, all sirens howling, it will be a very bad sign. In Salon-de-Provence, the gendarmes of the motorway peloton have just acquired a legendary car. A state-of-the-art Alpine. The model : A110 Pure. It comes to support the two Mégane RS, aging (600,000 kilometers on the clock between them).
This Alpine of 250 horsepower will now come out of the garage to chase speeders driving at very high speeds. “It’s when you exceed 180 km/hindicates Frédérique Camilleri, police chief of Bouches-du-Rhône, who adds: This vehicle will also be useful in judicial police cases, during go-fast, for example.”
To drive it, three of 39 servicemen of the Salon-de-Provence motorway platoon were formed. With the Alpine de Salon, the gendarmes of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region have two other vehicles of the same type: in Orange and Nice.