Posted on 11/23/2008 12:12:37 PM PST by tobyhill
On the campaign trail, Barack Obama promised to get a million plug-in hybrid cars on the road by 2015. His own new presidential limousine will be far from green, however.
The Obamobile being prepared for the president-elect is said to be a monster gas-guzzler made by General Motors, the troubled car giant. It will look like a black Cadillac but is built like a tank. A spy photographer who tracks down future car models for magazines snatched pictures of the heavily disguised first-car-in-waiting when it was being road-tested last summer.
The armour-plated car, which has a raised roof, windows up to 5in thick, extra-strength tyres and a body made of steel, aluminium, titanium and ceramics, is thought to be based on a GMC 2500 truck that gets less than 10 miles to the gallon. Three cars are believed to be in production so that two can serve as decoys.
While security is paramount - the car is built to survive roadside bombs as well as gunfire - there are hybrid four-wheel drives on the market, such as Ford’s Mercury Mariner, which some critics believe could have been adapted for the president.
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Pator David Manning has already declared Obama to be the nation’s Mack Daddy. His sermon is on You Tube..
But you see he, being the One, needs it. Funny, I don’t remember there being any ROADSIDE BOMBS in the last 7 years under Bush. Will the O-mobile do double duty as a fallout shelter?
We have to read this from a foreign newspaper because MSM is lobamatized.
Like Pelosi & her private govt-owned airplane, obama’s gotta have his own mode of transportation at govt expense of course.
Well I can see him wanting to take any improvements in technology. Why not just update the Bush vehicle? Maybe he wants to help the ailing auto industries with his upgrade? Now if they start remodeling the White House at our expense...
“The Obamarado. Can you dig it?”
LOL!!
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