I Go Cars is an independent automotive publication. The site has been online since at least 2006, under the same ownership throughout, and has covered automotive subjects for all of that time; its heaviest news publishing ran from 2006 to 2013. In 2026 it was rebuilt as a reference on police and government vehicles: the vehicles agencies drive, the public sales through which retired, surplus and seized vehicles leave government hands, and the technology and law of traffic speed enforcement.
The history of the site
The original I Go Cars was a news site. It ran on a standard blogging platform and reported the automotive industry as it happened: model launches, manufacturer announcements and press releases. That kind of coverage dates quickly. By the mid-2010s, publishing had slowed, and much of the archive described vehicles and events that had long since moved on.
Some of the old articles kept their readers, however, and they had something in common. Among the pages other sites continued to cite were articles on the 2007 police Tahoe, on radar detector legislation and on seized car auctions. People still want to know what a police vehicle actually is, how a government sale works and what the law in their state says, and those questions are answered most reliably from documents that can be cited and checked.
Why the 2026 rebuild narrowed the subject
The 2026 rebuild followed that evidence. Instead of general automotive news, the site now covers three connected subjects: police vehicles and how they differ from civilian models; the sales through which retired, surplus, impounded and seized vehicles reach the public; and the technology and law of speed enforcement. A narrower subject allows each page to be researched thoroughly and kept current, rather than written once and left behind. Old addresses whose articles other sites still cite now lead to the closest new page on the same subject.
Who writes it, and what that means
I Go Cars is an automotive publication. Its editors are not police officers, fleet managers or lawyers, and nothing on this site should be read as if they were. The site's authority does not come from personal experience of patrol work, fleet procurement or legal practice. It comes from the documents those fields produce: the Michigan State Police and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department vehicle test books, federal reports and regulations, NHTSA speed-measurement training manuals and specifications, state statutes, agency fleet audits and manufacturer specification guides. Where those documents speak, the site reports what they say and names them. Where they are silent, the site is silent too.
How this site is researched and maintained
Every page begins as a research file assembled from primary documents before any prose is written. For a vehicle profile, that means the relevant state police test books, the manufacturer's police specification guide, NHTSA recall and investigation records and any agency fleet documents that discuss the model. For a buying guide, it means the sale terms published by the selling agency and the statute that governs the sale. For a speed-enforcement page, it means NHTSA's operator training manuals, federal reports and the text of each state's law.
Each figure on the site is traced to a named document. A test result carries the agency, the program and the model year of the test. A statutory rule carries its code section. A figure from an agency audit is presented as that agency's figure for that year, never as a general or current fact. Manufacturer statements are labeled as manufacturer claims.
When sources disagree, the conflict is printed with both sources side by side rather than settled quietly in favor of one. When a claim cannot be verified, such as a widely repeated date or a figure found only on a forum, it is either left out or flagged in the sentence as unconfirmed. The research files keep a separate list of these unverified items so that they are not carried into the text by accident.
Before publication, each page is reviewed against its sources: figures, dates, quotations and the production-status verdict on each vehicle profile are checked back to the documents cited. The date shown on a page changes only when its content changes; a page is not redated to look fresh. Corrections are welcome. A reader who finds an error, or who knows of a primary document the site has missed, can send it through the contact page, and corrections are checked against the source before the page is updated.
Independence
I Go Cars is independent. It is not affiliated with any police department, sheriff's office, government agency, vehicle manufacturer, upfitter or auction platform. It sells nothing, takes no commissions and accepts no payment for coverage. It does not rate, rank or recommend vehicles, auction companies, dealers, radar detectors or any other product; where a page names an auction platform, it does so only because an agency's own documents name it as that agency's vendor.
I Go Cars is not a government website. It cannot locate, value, title or sell any vehicle, and it does not give legal advice. Pages on radar detector and laser jammer laws describe what the statutes say and cite them, and readers should check the current text with their state or an attorney before relying on it.