Obamas Car

[uclabiker06]

Any ideas on what this could have been?


http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110523/ts_yblog_theticket/obama-hits-car-trouble-in-ireland

[Monster Dave]

Cadillac.

[uclabiker06]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaang, wonder what the PSi is on those tires 

[Monster Dave]

That was stupid though....the Secret Service should have checked that. He could have been the perfect sitting target for some radical.

[uclabiker06]

They're only human, but yeah.  You say "that" like you know what it was.

[Monster Dave]

They're only human, but yeah.  You say "that" like you know what it was.

It's pretty obvious geometry. The Limo was too long and too low to make it over the ramp. The SS isn't doing their job if they miss an obvious thing like "that".

[DucofWestwood]

how embarassing!  the article suspects that the car's "low underbelly" got caught on part of the exit ramp.  i would tend to disagree ... i think that car is quite high - as in SUV tall - and i would think with all the innovative technology it has, they wouldn't have overlooked something so pedestrian as a low underbelly that could bottom-out!

[desmodoktor]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaang, wonder what the PSi is on those tires 

[Monster Dave]

I don't think it sits all that high:




From Wiki:

'Most details of the car are classified for security reasons; however, it is known that it is fitted with military grade armor at least five inches thick, and the wheels are fitted with run flat tires that makes the vehicle drivable for a certain period of time. The doors weigh as much as a Boeing 757 airplane cabin door. The engine is equipped with a Eaton Twin Vortices Series 1900 supercharger system. The vehicle's fuel tank is leak-proof and is invulnerable to explosions. Due to the thickness of the glass, much natural light is excluded, so a fluorescent halo lighting system in the headliner is essential. The outside crowd is only heard through internal speakers. The car is perfectly sealed against biochemical attacks and has its own oxygen supply and firefighting system built into the trunk. Unseen at a glance are two holes hidden inside the lower part of the vehicle's front bumper, which are able to emit tear gas. The vehicle can also fire a salvo of multi-spectrum infrared smoke grenades as a countermeasure to an Rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) or Anti-tank missile (ATGM) attack and to act as a visual obscurant to operator guided missiles.'

[duccarlos]

That is an RPG waiting to happen. Switch that thing out to the Escalade.

[DucofWestwood]

hmmm ... maybe you're right monsterdave.  i assumed since it was so tall, it probably sat high too.

[Monster Dave]

Wow - look how thick those doors are though!

[uclabiker06]

Makes the Rolls-Royce Phantom look like, well, eh nothing special.  Man, look at the size of that thing.  No wonder why its called The Beast!  I'm guessing the windows don't roll down on that thing 

[cokey]

That's a big blower,  wonder what it runs...?  Prob too damn heavy thgh..

[DucofWestwood]

ahhh ... jalopnik claims it was one of the older presidential limos, not the current Beast ...

http://jalopnik.com/5804587/watch-obamas-limo-get-stuck-in-dublin