Seriously, that?s everything we know for sure: that it’s simply enormous. Just look at these spy photos of the new Cadillac presidential limousine, dwarfing the Chevrolet Suburbans alongside during final tests of the big rig for the bigwigs in the White House. A Suburban is nearly 19 feet long, and the last one we tested weighed more than three tons, but these two look like ordinary hatchbacks next to the president’s new set of wheels.
The existing presidential limousine, known colloquially as the Beast, was used for Donald J. Trump?s inauguration earlier this year; it debuted for the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009. Or, rather, ?they? debuted. We know for sure that there’s more than one because they can appear at both ends of a presidential field trip aboard Air Force One, and we’re pretty sure it can’t outrun an airplane. The feds admit to having ?about a dozen? of the limos in service. We can also assume it has an engine?a big, powerful one that can move several tons of armored fortress at high velocity. Does it burn gasoline" Diesel" Jet fuel" Is it supercharged" All classified information, sorry.
We can see through the camouflage that where the first generation of the Beast, as it’s known, was designed to resemble Cadillac’s DTS and STS sedans of its era, the new one seems to draw inspiration more from today’s CT6 and Escalade, especially on the nose. It’s bulletproof, we’re sure,...