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new presidential limo
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I hope thats not the 195 hp 6.5L That was used in the 93-99 Heavy duty GM Trucks.
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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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PETROL tank, diesel engine? 60MPH does seem slow. 160 seems more reasonable.
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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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0-60 in 15 seconds? Thats crap...
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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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I bet it'll go faster than 60 but why tell the terrorists?
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8 inches of steel in the doors? I don't know what the density of steel is. How much does a dang door weigh?
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If its for President Obama does it swerve to the left all the time?
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Fake right, swerve left.
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The article on the American Presidential limo is in "British"?
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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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he needs a diesel chip like a bully dog or something to make that thing haul ass
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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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