Posted on 11/09/2016 11:13:33 AM PST by TigerClaws
Although its existence hasn’t been officially confirmed, General Motors has been spotted testing what appears to be the presidential limousine that will replace the “Beast” that protects President Obama.
Spy photographers stalking GM’s proving grounds over the summer snapped a few shots of a camouflaged vehicle that looks like a modified version of the current Cadillac-branded state car. Related Image beast 2 Expand / Contract
Its profile is nearly identical, but it features Cadillac’s latest style, including vertical LED headlights and a CT6-like grille with the company’s new wreathless crest in the center.
Details about the Beast are kept secret for reasons of national security, but while it looks like a sedan, it’s understood to be a medium-duty truck in disguise. Obama once revealed to Jerry Seinfeld that it’s “a Caddy, basically on a tank frame.”
The 15,000- to 20,000-pound luxury car needs it to haul around an armored passenger compartment that can reportedly take a hit from an IED or RPG and carries its own air supply to allow it to drive through chemical weapons attacks.
The U.S. Secret Service maintains a fleet of around a dozen similar vehicles, each with a price tag believed to be in the neighborhood of $1.5 million. General Motors has not commented on the vehicle, but it does currently hold contracts worth nearly $16 million that run through 2017 for work on the “next generation parade limousine.”
That year is significant. It’s when Trump takes office, and the original Beast was revealed just a week before Obama was sworn in on Inauguration Day, 2009.
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I was going to comment on that. You really want to bet your life on a Government Motors product?
He’s got the ching, I’d buy my own from Ford.
First thing you do with the GM product is rip out the computers and check for bombs.
And cigarette burns, beer stains, BO smells, the semen stains and the stench of hatred from him and his wookie.
Exactly. Ford . And only if Ford gets its ass together by bringing manufacturing home.
We are a never GM never Dodge/Chrysler family.
I remember the bailouts.
What a day and evening. Yesterday I had pushed my 12 yr. old son all afternoon to complete his writing assignment on St. Aquinas for his history project. He delayed all day writers block and here he was in the middle of the election trying to write that thing! I was getting very exasperated with him wanting to focus on the TV. At one point he admitted he was scared and I realized how he was also astutely aware of how serious it was. I consoled him and luckily the path for him began to light up-we were soon joyfully together on the couch and the paper abandoned....WOW! still in shock.
What *is* it about that dog? 50 years later, and he still makes me feel good inside ...
Trump will need a new Air Force One
Man, those were good days.
Great idea, but that was a Lincoln.
America...on the road to be great again, and thank goodness!
Cheers,
Jim
I am precisEly the same and for the same reasons
That top one looks like it’s related to Elvis’ old Stutz.
How long before the first assassination attempt on Trump?
My understanding is the Churchill’s bust is currently in the hands of British Ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald. Contacts should be made to arrange for the Fed-Ex (with appropriate insurance) of the bust, to arrive at the White House on the morning of January 20.
FedEx truck should arrive during the inauguration, so that it is there for Trump in the afternoon when he gets “home”, and the White House for the first time in 8 years has a President, instead of a resident.
Only private sector real job he ever had, I kid you not!
So what happens to Obamao’s limo?
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