and its diesel powered.. sweeet

I hope thats not the 195 hp 6.5L That was used in the 93-99 Heavy duty GM Trucks.

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91 350SD
14 F150 Eco
19 Fusion Hybrid
11 GT500

A diesel presidential limo? WOW! Top speed 60mph? That can't be right. Those motorcades have to FLY if something happens.

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

PETROL tank, diesel engine? 60MPH does seem slow. 160 seems more reasonable.

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No merc at the moment

That thing has sooooo much armour on it that 60 mph has to be downhill with a tail wind. Much like the 240d.

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79 240D (no name yet) 203K Miles Maple Yellow
98 2500 4x4 HD Dodge 24 Valve Cummins TD
83 Chevy Van (Dead-Trans. shot)

0-60 in 15 seconds? Thats crap...

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-Justin

91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

and the driver's window can go down so that he can "pay a toll"?
Somehow I don't think anyone in that motorcade is going to be paying any tolls.

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Jason Priest
1999 E430
1995 E420 - retired
1986 420SEL - retired

I bet it'll go faster than 60 but why tell the terrorists?

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

8 inches of steel in the doors? I don't know what the density of steel is. How much does a dang door weigh?

If its for President Obama does it swerve to the left all the time?

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

Fake right, swerve left.

The article on the American Presidential limo is in "British"?

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

A lot of false info in that article. For starters no way it cost only $300k pounds, add a zero to that.

The armour is also way to thick to be pratical, 5in plate on the bottom? That car would weigh as much as a tank.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

he needs a diesel chip like a bully dog or something to make that thing haul ass

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2003 GX470
1998 E300 3.0TD
2002 Dodge 2500 4x4 cummins
1998 Dodge 3500 5 speed Cummins

It probably does weigh as much as a tank, but after reading a few sites, I gotta think a lot of that information is wrong - especially the use of the 6.5 engine. On one site, I read:

"While GM's trying to make it look like a Cadillac DTS, it's based on the company's line of heavy-duty 2500 trucks. For a fast getaway, it must have a giant engine under the hood. Because the presidential motorcade typically uses up to six decoy vehicles, there must be a mini-fleet of these behemoths on their way to the White House before too long."

From http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/01/obamas-presiden.html (the video is fairly cool), check out the door on the thing:

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1989 500SEL Euro
1966 250SE Cabriolet
1958 BMW Isetta 600