new presidential limo
 

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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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?:D

Fake right, swerve left.

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

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.

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

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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