Cadillac Presidential Limousine 2009 is the Presidential State Car for Barack Obama as the 44th president of USA. The car with price of 450,000 U.S. dollars transports Barack Obama down Pennsylvania Avenue last Tuesday as part of the 56th Presidential inaugural parade after he is sworn in at the Capitol. Cadillac Presidential is claimed to be a mix of trucks, cars, and M1 Abrahams tank.
In fact Barack wanted to use electric and hybrid vehicles, replacing the extravagant car fuel since the beginning of the occupation in January 2009. But Obama hopes to use the car as a hybrid vehicle offices not realized because of safety considerations. During the campaign period and waited his inaugural, Obama use the Ford Escape Hybrid.
Presidential car for Obama called Cadillac One is made with General Motors based GM Suburban 2500. Protection technology is designed in accordance with the standard maximum security U.S. President. GM to install glass windows 5 inches more than twice the thick of the standard presidential car Ronald Reagan, George Bush Senior and Bill Clinton.
In comparison, a car windshield that has a size of 0.5 inches it has the ability to withstand bullet shot from large caliber Magnum pistol 44. Car glass with thickness between 1.25 to 1.5 inches capable of holding missile gun.
The body's car used dual hardness steel technology, aluminum, titanium, and ceramics. Body also specifically designed for resistance against the attack of rocket launchers. The engine uses diesel 6500 cc spends a 1 liter of fuel for the 5 kms.
Baggage car equipped with a special interior coating to anticipate dangerous chemical gas attacks and sophisticated electronic equipment. However, GM does not forget the comfort, complete with a variety of Cadillac One, including an entertainment device eith10 CD disc to play obama’s music favorites, the Stevie Wonder and Bob Dylan.
Unlike previous U.S. President, Barack Obama’s car can not be put on in the private museum. This is because, since February 2004, the U.S. government issued a special provision that does not have a car must be destroyed secret service.
Bill Clinton is the last U.S. president who can put the presidential car Cadillac Fleetwood made in 1993 in the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. However, only the secret agencies are able to open the car cabin. Even to clean the interior affairs officers should contact the U.S. secret agencies.
Year 2009 coincides with the celebration a century White House use thISe vehicle. Initially, the car agencies do not have a U.S. president special specifications. President of the U.S. car is the first official William Howard Taft the White steam car model M, Pierce Arrow, and Baker Electric in 1909.
The policy began to make a special car is applied in the year 1939. This effort followed the murder of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. White House order the car that made Ford Lincoln V12 convertible.
Ronald Reagan end the domination Ford in January 1983 by selecting the Cadillac Fleetwoods.