Spied: The President's new limo

[Chris_Doane]

http://www.leftlanenews.com/cadillac-limo.html

I imagine I'll be in Gitmo by the end of the day...

[vonVeezelsnider]

I wonder if it hints at the styling of the next DTS like the last Prez limo did?

[Drew Dowdell]

Obama's fly new ride.

[Intrepidation]

Obama's fly new ride.

It would have to be a 300C limo then.

[carman21]

Obama's fly new ride.

Whatever makes you happy, .

McCain would be happy with the latest Packard. :rotflmao:

[vonVeezelsnider]

McCain would be happy with the latest Packard.

:rotflmao:

[Drew Dowdell]

McCain would be happy with the latest Packard. :rotflmao:

Really? He seemed fairly impressed with that new fangled Stanley Steamer.

[CSpec]

Still ugly. Why do they bother trying to make it look like a Cadillac?

[Robert Hall]

I'm surprised Bush didn't upgrade to a Hummer based limo a few years back..would have been appropriate for the 'War President', and put sponsor decals on it like a NASCAR--decals for Halliburton, Blackwater, Exxon, etc. .

Edited July 21, 2008 by moltar

[siegen]

If Al Gore had ever become president we could have looked forward to this:

[RichW5]

Actually - Obama would have a ZIL 41047 for the state limo.

[Chris_Doane]

OK can we just cut all bull$h! and get back to the car.

[ZL-1]

OK can we just cut all bull$h! and get back to the car.

OK: It's fugly!!! Couldn't they make something functional yet elegant for a President's limo? Presidents deserve style too

[gm4life]

Pretty cool.

[Intrepidation]

OK: It's fugly!!! Couldn't they make something functional yet elegant for a President's limo? Presidents deserve style too

Some do anyway.

[Bimmer325]

They slapped an Escalade front and the tired STS rear on it? This thing is pathetic.

[Camino LS6]

OK: It's fugly!!! Couldn't they make something functional yet elegant for a President's limo? Presidents deserve style too

Agreed.

If I was stuck with that job, I'd want an armored version of the Sixteen.

[Sixty8panther]

Still ugly. Why do they bother trying to make it look like a Cadillac?

Exactly, the damn A-pillar is as thick as a medium sugar maple tree.

Just throw the armor on a H2, it will look less awkward.

Better yet just give him a freekin APC with an Escalade

grille, a 5-foot wide Cadillac-style LED CHiMSL, 22 inch

rims & call it a day!

The story of how Lincoln got the Whit House contract

for a few decades by default as a result of the Truman

Dewey debacle is an interesting one. I, for one, am

happy the commander in Chielf has a Caddy, not some

tarted up Fordproduct... if only on paper.

[Sixty8panther]

Agreed.

If I was stuck with that job, I'd want an armored version of the Sixteen.

F*** yeah! ....but still a true pillarless hardtop.

Now that would be funny... seeing interlocking glass

that's 5" thick and designed to gell & catch armored

piercing rounds and yet its got to also seal in terms

of weather sealing & also dropp down into the doors!

Hell yesh!

[vonVeezelsnider]

Say what you will 68 but I still think this would make a bitchin' Presidential Limo

In fact I'd buy one too because I'm in love with the looks of the 1961-64 Continental (it's my favorite design) and would kill for anything styled to evoke it. Unfortunately all I get to satisfy me is the front end of the MKX Crossover ()

[Camino LS6]

Lincoln really should have built that car.

[LeoC2]

Did any of you notice that that limo has a trailer hitch?

[Chris_Doane]

Did any of you notice that that limo has a trailer hitch?

It's common to see hitches on test cars.

[vonVeezelsnider]

Especially ones with big bulky truck frames :wink:

[Blake Noble]

A DTS with Escalade headlamps. Who cares?

[tmp]

I like the new look.

[Sixty8panther]

Oh the '61-64 Continentals are among my favorite FoMoCo cars

and def. my favorite post-WWII Lincolns. That concept was just

a little too soft but still very nice overall, too bad Lincoln will

never actually build anyhing worth buying. The Town Car, even

last year was still a relevant and nice product but it should have

cost about $12,000 less than what Ford was tryting to get for

them.... for krissake the damn car has barelly had an update in

10+ years and the chassis makes the W-body look "new-ish" by

comparison, which is scary.

If someone, Ford OR GM made the investment to design a BOF

car ground up with todays technology as far as hydroforming,

crumple zones, side impact & rollover protection they could

REALLY have something special. Now that gas is $4/gallon even

that 1.5% chance that GM would bring back the B-body is dead.

[BatmanGTO]

I would just drive a tank.... less conspicuous.....

[C.H.U.D.]

The rear quarter looks like a first gen J-body. What a homogenized piece of crap!

[gm4life]

So is this the new DTS/DT7 same way how were previewed the '06 DTS in early '05 when Bush road in it.

[ZL-1]

I hope not...

[Intrepidation]

I would just drive a tank.... less conspicuous.....

+1

[Justin Bimmer]

i have to say, seeing the car on TV today it looked great. It was very substantial and had a nice wide stance to it. It looked like a truck disguised as a car, exactly what it is, which I think is cool.