Designed from the ground up by the Secret Service, President Barack Obama’s $1.5 million “Cadillac One,” aka “The Beast,” is a moving fortress impenetrable by bullets and bombs. The president has 12 identical limos in rotation and, when not in use, they’re parked in the basement of the Secret Service’s headquarters and are under 24-hour surveillance.
At least two cars travel with the president wherever he goes, and they get a humble 3.7 miles to the gallon. The president’s motorcade is surrounded with up to 45 other armed vehicles, including an identical decoy, local police, a mobile communications center, more armed vehicles, and an ambulance.
The cars are manufactured by General Motors in Detroit and have a gasoline V8 engine. The top speed and weight of each car is classified, as is the bulletproof technology used in the windows.
Russian President Vladimir Putin as a true patriot, will soon ride on Russian cars ZIL-4112R. Especially for the president of the factory “ZIL” and with “Depo-ZIL” collected the first Russian limousine ZIL-4112R, which will help to change seats Putin, and later the first persons of the Russian government in the domestic high-end cars.
Currently, Putin moved to the luxurious Mercedes-Benz S-Guard Pullman, while Barack Obama patriotic rides on a specially assembled for his limousine Cadillac. Especially for the president of the factory “ZIL” and with “Depo-ZIL” collected the first Russian limousine ZIL-4112R, which will help to change seats Putin, and later the first persons of the Russian government in the domestic high-end cars.
Currently, Putin moved to the luxurious Mercedes-Benz S-Guard Pullman, while Barack Obama patriotic rides on a specially assembled for his limousine Cadillac. The first is not yet armored car concept will be presented in the near future and will definitely look like a cross between a limousine type Pullman, “limousines” ZIL, which moved Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, as well as Maybach and Rolls Royce.
The new car will be fuel-injected engine with a capacity of up to 400 hp and a five-speed automatic transmission US producer Allison. “Russian limousine” can accelerate to 200 km / h.
