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"The Beast" - Obama's car.

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    Feeky Magee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Feeky Magee


    new_Presidential_limo.jpg


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    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,762 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Topspeed 60mph :rolleyes:


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    woody33
    Registered Users Posts: 491 ✭✭woody33


    8 mpg (US) isn't too bad, considering.


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    Anan1
    Registered Users Posts: 22,818 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    I'd be very surprised if that only costs £300,000.


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    Drummerboy08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,102 ✭✭✭✭Drummerboy08


    Thats what I was thinking too Anan.

    Right, a game. Lets play "Spot the weakest possible area for attack with an RPG"


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    kasper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭kasper


    Anan1 wrote: »
    I'd be very surprised if that only costs £300,000.
    plus delivery and related charges


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    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    woody33 wrote: »
    8 mpg (US) isn't too bad, considering.


    Yet he pushes the "carbon reduction" agenda.
    You'd think he'd have a hybrid :rolleyes:


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    hi5
    Registered Users Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭hi5


    Its a Diesel! 6.5 as in the Humvee I'd say.


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    lee_
    Registered Users Posts: 120 ✭✭lee_


    Drummerboy08 wrote: »
    Thats what I was thinking too Anan.

    Right, a game. Lets play "Spot the weakest possible area for attack with an RPG"

    Hope the CIA dont take me out for this one, It has to be that three inches of open window when Obamas driver is collecting his McNugget happy meal at the drive through. :D


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    Alanstrainor
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 23,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Drummerboy08 wrote: »
    Right, a game. Lets play "Spot the weakest possible area for attack with an RPG"

    Screw the RPG just use one of these
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfEMnx-Nz-w


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    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Anan1 wrote: »
    I'd be very surprised if that only costs £300,000.
    It's a bargain! I'll take two.


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    Martron
    Registered Users Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭Martron


    the drivers window opens judt in case he has to pay a toll................ thats when you spring your rpg attack...

    this is rubbish. for security i doubt they have to pay tolls!!!!

    in fairness i doubt they will have to guess whos car it was


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    Dothehustle
    Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Dothehustle


    hang on the keep his blood in the car just in case wtf


    Right, a game. Lets play "Spot the weakest possible area for attack with an RPG"

    eh wait till he gets out
    / game


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    lee_
    Registered Users Posts: 120 ✭✭lee_


    Martron wrote: »
    the drivers window opens judt in case he has to pay a toll................ thats when you spring your rpg attack...

    this is rubbish. for security i doubt they have to pay tolls!!!!

    in fairness i doubt they will have to guess whos car it was

    That was a misprint, the window is to collect his MacDonalds


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    Berty
    Registered Users Posts: 26,149 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    Drummerboy08 wrote: »
    Right, a game. Lets play "Spot the weakest possible area for attack with an RPG"

    He has to open the door at some stage.

    Patience is a virtue. :D


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    Volvoboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Volvoboy


    6.5 Diesel?? If is a Cummins Diesel, it would the biggest faux paux considering his recent trip to Copenhagen.



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    ScouseMouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭ScouseMouse


    unkel wrote: »
    Topspeed 60mph :rolleyes:

    Thats only because the secret service agents that accompany him cannot run any faster


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    Stevie Dakota
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Stevie Dakota


    Why is Bertie driving it?


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    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,762 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Drummerboy08 wrote: »
    Right, a game. Lets play "Spot the weakest possible area for attack with an RPG"

    That's not much of a game, I'm afraid. The best protected area are the doors and they are only about 200mm thick. I launched a standard NATO 66mm LAW into a WWII tank in the early 90s. And that was old stock being replaced at the time (hence why I was allowed to fire one :D). That old LAW could penetrate 300mm of steel. Launch any RPG at the armoured doors of that car and anybody inside will be perforated by a million pieces of shrapnel. It will protect fine against heavy machine gun fire though :)


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    Damien360
    Registered Users Posts: 6,249 ✭✭✭Damien360


    unkel wrote: »
    That's not much of a game, I'm afraid. The best protected area are the doors and they are only about 200mm thick. I launched a standard NATO 66mm LAW into a WWII tank in the early 90s. And that was old stock being replaced at the time (hence why I was allowed to fire one :D). That old LAW could penetrate 300mm of steel. Launch any RPG at the armoured doors of that car and anybody inside will be perforated by a million pieces of shrapnel. It will protect fine against heavy machine gun fire though :)


    I think you just made it on to the CIA watch list. Expect many questions at the airport !!!!


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    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    Fugly.


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    El Guapo!
    Registered Users Posts: 12,427 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Drummerboy08 wrote: »
    Thats what I was thinking too Anan.

    Right, a game. Lets play "Spot the weakest possible area for attack with an RPG"

    Just try get the job as the mechanic who services it and replace the A/C with cyanide gas. Job done! ;)


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    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    Standard steering wheel, but dashboard contains communications centre

    Yep, I got bluetooth on my stereo too.


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    Shires
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭Shires


    Heroditas wrote: »
    Yet he pushes the "carbon reduction" agenda.
    You'd think he'd have a hybrid :rolleyes:

    You must be new around here.. Here's the score: do as I say and not as I do!


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    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    hi5 wrote: »
    Its a Diesel! 6.5 as in the Humvee I'd say.

    ...with a petrol tank!:D


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    G Luxel
    Registered Users Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


    Its actually a GMC Topkick Commercial truck chassis with the front and rear panels of the Cadillac DTS and the headlights of the Cadillac Escalade to resemble a range-topping Cadillac(which will be dropped in 2011, currently the largest Cadillac passenger car in the range) and its the first Presidential limousine not to have a model name.
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Obama_Cadillac_limousine_in_2009_inaugural_parade.jpg/800px-Obama_Cadillac_limousine_in_2009_inaugural_parade.jpg
    In 1976 the White House was running a Cadillac Fleetwood parade car on 8.2 litre engine. The ClintonYears had a Fleetwood also built on a truck chassis with a 7.5 litre petrol engine, considering that the largest engine fitted in a Cadillac (Fleetwood Brougham) at the time was the ZR1 corvette 5.7 litre engine.


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    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    Ha ha!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKym-Zi3mOQ


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    trad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭trad


    Deserves a thread of it's own, preferably AH


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    pajo1981
    Registered Users Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭pajo1981


    The rims are lost in those arches, where's the veeetec...etc


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    Matt Simis
    Registered Users Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    Better video of it getting stuck here:
    http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2011/0523/media-2963651.html#

    Note the 7series clearing the gate with ease beforehand.


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