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Obama's 'Beast' of a car revealed
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I like it. Looks cool to me.
As someone who has flown the battle wagon folks, you have no idea.
Nice pic.
What, no molecularly bonded shell? No turbo boost feature?
Also, it stores a bottle of the President's blood? You can do that??
Also, it stores a bottle of the President's blood? You can do that??
15 seconds to 60mph is also quick for a vehicle of that size.
The problem with making it a hybrid is that it's too heavy for current technology to produce something more efficient than a diesel engine - just imagine the battery pack a 20,000 pound hybrid would require! It would probably add a couple tons to the weight of the vehicle, and all that weight would destroy any economy gains from the hybrid drivetrain.
Maybe we could put road wheels on a diesel-electric locomotive.
The problem with making it a hybrid is that it's too heavy for current technology to produce something more efficient than a diesel engine - just imagine the battery pack a 20,000 pound hybrid would require! It would probably add a couple tons to the weight of the vehicle, and all that weight would destroy any economy gains from the hybrid drivetrain.
Maybe we could put road wheels on a diesel-electric locomotive.
There goes Obama's desire to use hybrid cars eh ?.
Oh, it's certainly a hybrid...of a sort.
Almost all of the largest vehicles on Earth are hybrids
Diesel locomotives are hybrids. The diesel engines turn generators that drive electric motors via batteries. Atomic submarines are the same except they use stream turbines which turn the electric generators which power the electric engines. Those multi story tall dump trucks used in open pit coal mines are hybrid too. Diesel-hydraulic With diesel engine powering a hydraulic pump and then there is a hydrulic motor inside each wheel.
That said you are exactly correct. The battery packs in trains and submarines are huge, to large enough to crush the wheels of any car.
There goes Obama's desire to use hybrid cars eh ?.
Oh, it's certainly a hybrid...of a sort.
Half car, half beast!
There are many reasons to make a hybrid as well - the subs use them to reduce noise signature, Locomotives need the torque.
Years ago, American battleships made use of a "turbo-electric" hybrid propulsion system with electric motors for increased efficiency. Just like with today's hybrid cars, the biggest obstacle was the weight of the motors and batteries.
Maybe we could power the president's limo using Strom Thurmond's spinning coffin.
Years ago, American battleships made use of a "turbo-electric" hybrid propulsion system with electric motors for increased efficiency. Just like with today's hybrid cars, the biggest obstacle was the weight of the motors and batteries.
Maybe we could power the president's limo using Strom Thurmond's spinning coffin.
15 seconds to 60mph is also quick for a vehicle of that size.
The problem with making it a hybrid is that it's too heavy for current technology to produce something more efficient than a diesel engine - just imagine the battery pack a 20,000 pound hybrid would require! It would probably add a couple tons to the weight of the vehicle, and all that weight would destroy any economy gains from the hybrid drivetrain.
Maybe we could put road wheels on a diesel-electric locomotive.
Introducing the iCar, the revolutionary vehicle with patented battery technology by Apple...
Complete with missles plus sharks with lasers.
Thats one car Jeremy Clarkson isn't going to get his hands on!!
I can so see Top Gear bashing the hell out of the car
I can so see Top Gear bashing the hell out of the car
We may have found the second indestructible car after the Toyota, Top Gear went to find out....
That would be an awesome episode!!
I'd love to see the patent description...
Dead redneck senator (a) is placed into coffin (b) attached to shaft (c). The presence of an African American president (d) causes a powerful rotation of the coffin (b), spinning shaft (c) connected to gearbox (e). The system has the added benefit of being unworkable so long as the president is not present in the vehicle.
If you take away the Cadillac grille, it's not too bad-looking. It's the grille that really unbalances the whole front design.
And it seems to me it's smaller (shorter) than some of the rolling cruiseliners his predecessors have been driven in.
And it seems to me it's smaller (shorter) than some of the rolling cruiseliners his predecessors have been driven in.
And it goes a lot faster than 60 mph. Ever seen a presidential motorcade traveling down the interstate? 90+ all the way. The ambulance that's about 20 vehicles back is struggling to keep up.
As far as it being called the Beast, the Secret Service calls all presidential limos are called the beast.
