German automotive club and road safety firm ADAC has commissioned a new show car in form of an Audi R8 police car. Wrapped in a custom Gotham City police livery, garnished with various badges and mottos, kitted-out and equipped by mbDESIGN with a set of KV1 wheels, this show car certainly serves its purpose.

The fictional Gotham City wrap on this particular car aside, it is debatable whether an Audi R8 police car would look better in the green livery of German Polizei, the blue colors of the Carabinieri, or this black and white American cop uniform. The latter is certainly the most aggressive, and that is kind of the point of a police livery. It has to be intimidating so as to be noticed. A nice and cuddly police livery with calming colors is going to be the laughing stock of criminals everywhere and nobody would give way to it on the road.

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