Posted on 08/26/2006 8:54:50 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
It can stop a bullet from an AK-47, shrug off a roadside bomb, and it makes a Hummer look like a chick car.
The $200,000 (U.S.) Gurkha is coming to a road near you — thanks to a King City-based company that is finding itself in demand because of the global war on terror.
"They are pretty awesome machines," says William Whyte, owner of Armet Armored Vehicles Inc., the company that builds the Gurkha. "We've been stopped on roads with people taking pictures and wanting to know what they are."
The Gurkha can go more than 150 kilometres per hour — plenty fast for a military vehicle — and is the highest level of protection you can get next to sitting in a tank, Whyte says. It certainly looks fierce enough.
The squat 8,620 kilogram vehicle looks every bit the ticked-off hedgehog, bristling with testosterone and armour plating.(exerpt)
A chick sees a car like that and she thinks, there's a guy who is into:
razor wire
buying ammunition in belts
dehydrated food
JFK conspiracy theories
his mom
On the other hand, if she sees the Bentley, she thinks, "I wonder if he has a matching Hawker?"
The 997 could be greatly improved upon.
"What's the cost on one of those babies?"
probably $20 tops around 47th and 10th... i mean, that's what somebody "told" me.... : )
Is that the one where they take their teeth out?
The "Balkan" is nice, but I think I like the "Gurhka" better. Don't know why, but it reminds me of "Bakalakadaka Street" in the Team America movie.
no silly, now your talking about "gummers"...
"I live in Houston and there are times when I'd really like to be driving a Gurkha!"
What you need in Houston is a Wasp. 50 cal turret in the front and another in the back, sandbagged for cover. Gives an entirely new meaning to "drive-by shooting."
It's the hummer ambulance variant.
It gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!...
After a day with a bunch of wild kids, I could sure use one right about now though ...
(a cigar darn it!)
Head bloody and bowed, I leave you in possession of the field.
'CDMV'
Caucasian Detroit Motor Vehicle
Actually, if she sees the Bentley, she wonders if he needs a hummer...
I thought for sure this was a Bill Clinton thread...
She probably thinks the same in both cases: Sure he's got a huge bankroll, I wonder if he's overcompensating?
Tomorrow's suburban grocery getter?
Okay, so if Muslims buy this for their women, they would be burkhas in gurkhas??
Just realized that "Burkhas in Gurkhas" sounds like a rock band! ;-)
That's an APC.
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