Cadillac The Beast - POTUS POWER

Cadillac The Beast - POTUS POWER
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Price $1.5 million

Thickness of windows: 5 inches

The most powerful man in the world rides it. Specially commissioned from Cadillac for President Barack Obama.

Maker: General Motors in Detroit

Mileage: 3.7 miles to the gallon (petrol)

In service: 12

Length: 18 feet

Weight: 15,000 pounds

Seats: seven

Special night-vision cameras and monitors with camera mounted inside the grille is being experimented.

Armour: So thick that each eight inches of armour-plated door weighs the same as a Boeing 747 cabin door (Obama can’t open it by himself). Military-grade consisting of steel, aluminium, titanium and ceramic, surrounded by removable fiberglass sheets on doors and fenders.

Separate oxygen supply under the President’s seat and emergency medical equipment, including bottles of the President’s blood type in case the ambulance is destroyed.

Special locking mechanisms, communications and fire-suppression systems. Special Kevlar-reinforced Goodyear run-flats.

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