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When a Hummer won't do
The Star ^ | August 25, 2006 | TONY WONG

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)


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armet; carporn; d; gurkha; whatyousay
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To: hotshu

No, the Maybach is over-compensating. The Bentley is just an expensive toy.


41 posted on 08/26/2006 9:56:07 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: pbrown

http://www.aavi.com/


42 posted on 08/26/2006 9:59:43 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: Para-Ord.45
This is great for when that Lincoln Navigator just isn't menacing enough to the pedestrians in the parking lot. Or maybe when you have to drive over a few potholes on the way to the chirrruns' soccer game.
43 posted on 08/26/2006 10:01:54 PM PDT by MichiganConservative (Government IS the problem.)
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To: durasell

I think the chick would want it just to tailgate smaller cars. It makes those Suburbans and Hummers look mild.


44 posted on 08/26/2006 10:05:17 PM PDT by MichiganConservative (Government IS the problem.)
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To: Westlander

My first impression was, u-g-l-y. But, the more I look at it.....


45 posted on 08/26/2006 10:05:33 PM PDT by processing please hold (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: tomzz
That's what I'm thinking. Forget AK-47s and IEDs. I could stop it with a few gallons of water. 8600+ kg!!! Set a trap, stick it up to it bumpers in mud, then flamethrower the silly occupants.

Or maybe just take all the gas stations in the neighborhood hostage, wait for it to run out of fuel, then go collect the occupants. Sheesh.

Isn't there an old saying about taking a good idea too far?

46 posted on 08/26/2006 10:09:51 PM PDT by CodeMasterPhilzar
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To: durasell

"It's a car that screams -- "Look at me, I'm an idiot! A really, really rich idiot!" and it only costs a little more than 2006 Bentley Continental Flying Spur List Price: $164,990"

Having a little Gurhka envy, huh?


47 posted on 08/26/2006 10:33:03 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: shadowcat
Gurkha, Gurkha, Muhammad Jihad
Sherpa Sherpa Bak Allah...
48 posted on 08/26/2006 11:32:14 PM PDT by StarfireIV (John Galt was an optimist)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Sing the lyrics?


49 posted on 08/26/2006 11:33:45 PM PDT by ladyinred (Leftists, the enemy within.)
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To: Para-Ord.45
It would be no match for the Herkimer Battle Jitney.


50 posted on 08/26/2006 11:45:12 PM PDT by Tarantulas ( Illegal immigration - the trojan horse that's treated like a sacred cow)
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To: AndrewB

Damn, I hate menopause. I used to get a new Hummer about once a month.


51 posted on 08/26/2006 11:46:40 PM PDT by tdscpa
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To: hsalaw
Just think how great that would look rumbling up my quiet residential street.

Seems like the kind of thing a rapper needs for "cruisin through the hood".

52 posted on 08/27/2006 12:09:25 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: tdscpa

"When a Hummer won't do"

When you're dead?


53 posted on 08/27/2006 12:11:16 AM PDT by tdscpa
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To: shadowcat

I gotta get me one of those things!


"Gurkha"


Very appropriate.


54 posted on 08/27/2006 12:13:58 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. ~~ Will Rogers)
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To: Para-Ord.45; All
Remember these?

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/landmaster/pics/5.jpg

Source: http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/landmaster/

55 posted on 08/27/2006 1:15:30 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: CodeMasterPhilzar
It's not that bad an idea for its clearly intended purpose, i.e. letting Americans drive around on roads where people try to bomb them.

Another possible idea: simply force everybody in the country to move around in a big circle to some place twenty miles down the road so that nobody will know where the stash of dynamite and bomb-making **** is in his neighborhood any longer.....

56 posted on 08/27/2006 3:08:48 AM PDT by tomzz
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To: pbrown

At 19,000 pounds, it's a compact APC, not even in the same category as a Hummer.


57 posted on 08/27/2006 7:44:16 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: Para-Ord.45
shrug off a roadside bomb

How can any vehicle with tires shrug off a bomb?

58 posted on 08/27/2006 9:21:43 AM PDT by MosesKnows
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To: glorgau
Seems like the kind of thing a rapper needs for "cruisin through the hood".

Yeah! I'm not a rapper, but I need it for "cruisin through my hood" - quiet, tree-lined, middle-aged, the sidewalks roll up at 9pm - hehehe.

59 posted on 08/27/2006 10:40:35 AM PDT by hsalaw
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