No one ever desires to be chased by a fleet of cop cars, but when you found yourself in that position, which vehicle would you least desire to have in pursuit It’s an age-old question (one we asked last year in our cop car shootout): Which law enforcement vehicle is healthier in terms of chasing down bad guys To determine, Hot Rod’s David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan buy a couple of retired Ford Crown Victoria and Chevy Caprice full-size sedans and do what they do best in this week’s Roadkill.

For the needs of this episode, the Roadkill crew bought two examples of what they call the suitable used cop cars currently available on the market: the 1994-1996 Chevy Caprice 9C1, and 2003-2011 Ford Crown Victoria P71. The Chevy is rated at 260 hp (though Freiburger believes it makes more) from its 350-CID LT1 V-8, while the Crown Vic’s 4.6-liter V-8 is rated at 250 hp. To begin things off, the team takes both former squad cars to a massive automobile parking space in Arcadia, Calif. for some very unscientific testing. The tests include drag racing, pulling Rockfords, plowing through a pyramid of trash cans, and drifting until someone blows a tire.

They head out to the desert to satisfy Finnegan’s lifelong dream of creating a dust track on his parents’ undeveloped, middle-of-nowhere property. The 2 hosts eventually find the two.4-acre plot of land and drive the cop cars around to carve out the track. Both vehicles finally end up getting stuck within the process, but eventually the course is able to host an American full-size sedan throw-down. Watch the whole episode below to determine which cop car comes out on top.