On the road with the Ford Kuga

Earlier this week it was announced that the police will receive new basic vehicles, namely the Ford Kuga and BMW X1. We already got to see the Kuga in ‘police suit’, now BMW also shares a photo of the X1 with stripes.
The BMW X1 and Ford Kuga are given the clean task of succeeding the Mercedes-Benz B-class as basic police vehicle (BPV). The police announced this on Monday. A year and a half of preparation and testing preceded it and in the end those two came out. The deal is not yet completely done, incidentally; “After approval, trial models will be deployed for a user period in different base teams in 2024. Only if this phase with the trial models is passed will the agreements be signed,” the police said.
In any case, the provisional award is good news for Ford and BMW, because together they will supply approximately 1,100 cars to the police. For the occasion, BMW has already, just like Ford earlier this week, put someone to photoshop to present the X1 as a Dutch police car. We will just ignore the fact that it has a German license plate and still has the old thinner police stripes.
In 2025 you can encounter the police X1 in large numbers on the road. The first deliveries are expected in mid-2025 and BMW and Ford will support maintenance until December 2032 at the latest. Will the police continue to drive only fuel cars for so long? No, the police report that from the end of 2025, about 500 of the current BPV cars (about 30 percent of the total) will be replaced by fully electric cars. Which manufacturer will receive the tender will be determined from next autumn.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl