The United States Presidential Car – What Can The Beast Do?
The president of the United States, no matter which one we are discussing, is one of the most powerful people in the world.
So of course the president can only travel in style and safety.
This is why the United States presidential state car can only be something amazing. President Barack Obama used to travel in the Beast.
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Nicknamed “The Beast”, “Cadillac One”, “Limousine One”, “First Car”; code named “Stagecoach” this car is truly a beauty.
The model for the presidential state car is a unique Cadillac which was built on a medium-duty truck platform.
It has a lot of life-saving measures, both defensive and offensive measures and just about anything that the Secret Service thinks should be on the president’s car.
According to billionairesweb.com, United States presidents embraced automotive technology in the early 20th-century with President William Howard Taft’s purchase of four cars and the conversion of the White House stables into a garage.
Presidents rode in stock, unmodified cars until President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration bought the Sunshine Special, the first presidential state car to be built to Secret Service standards.
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Until the assassination of John F. Kennedy, presidential state cars frequently allowed the president to ride uncovered and exposed to the public.
After President Kennedy’s assassination began a progression of increasingly armored and sealed cars until the current state car which is hermetically sealed with its own environmental system on board.
Modern presidential state cars are dismantled and destroyed with the assistance of the Secret Service to prevent their secrets from being known to outside parties.
Late 20th-century and 21st-century presidential motorcades have consisted of 24–45 vehicles other than the presidential state car, including vehicles for security, healthcare, the press, and route-clearing, among others.
Construction contracts for the next model of presidential state car were farmed out in 2013. Public records show that General Motors (GM) was awarded three contracts for the new limousine.
Photographs of the 2017 model show that the vehicle has the same grille and headlamp design as contemporary Cadillac models.
Each state car is expected to cost $1–1.5 million, and as of January 2016, GM had been paid $15,800,765 for its work on the new model.
The new version of the executive limousine was expected to debut at the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017.
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