Protecting the President is a Dirty Job, but the Cadillac-One is up for the Challenge
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Cadillac-One (C-1) is the infamous vehicle which carries around the president of the United States. From the outside, it appears much like your typical black caddy, but you have to strip away the layers to really begin to appreciate the beauty behind this machine!
Outer Shell of the Cadillac One
The outside of C-1 is fortified by an eight inch body shell layered with a combination of steel, aluminum, titanium, and ceramic. the C-1’s passenger door weighs as much as a Bowing 757’s door!
The windows are designed to withstand a direct hit by an armor piercing bullet and only one of the drivers windows can open three inches, which is just barely enough to pass a Big Mac through. The windows and doors are also sealed against biochemical attacks. The C-1 has its own source of oxygen.
The shell is capable of withstanding a direct hit by a rocket, including special foam padding around the gas tank to keep it from rupturing under extreme duress. Its undercarriage is reinforced with a five inch steel plate to protect from the improbability of a ground mine. The C-1 is designed to take all the above abuse and be left standing.
Performance Characteristics and Features
The Presidents Caddy quite frankly better to be able to take a lot of abuse, as it was certainly not designed to go anywhere quickly. Making a run for it in the C-1 using its 6.5 liter V-8 diesel involves pulling a rather slow zero to sixty in 15-seconds, with a rather dismal top speed of 60 mph. The “treehuggers” won’t be much of a fan of it either in consideration of its dismal 8 mpg EPA rating.
The tires are Kevlar reinforced (shred and puncture resistant) with steel run-flat rims, which will allow the caddy to keep on truckin’ long after all the rubber has been blown away from the rim. And if your wondering about its handling characteristics, don’t bother, as this thing makes a 1977 Oldsmobile Toronado seem as agile as a Mazda MX-5.
The interior is slightly less inspirational, with a standard government issued communication link, GPS, desk, laptop, wi-fi (free, of course), fire suit, tear gas cannons, night vision cameras, shotgun, 10-CD changer, and a few bags of the Presidents blood (for transfusion purposes).
You know you’ve made it big when you drive around town with several pints of your own blood chilling in the glove compartment! Either that, or you are just a few nominations short of being the president of the Howard Hughes Fan Club!
All this and for only $300,000 of the tax payers money. Sounds like a bargain in comparison to the $50,000 government issue toilet seat!
