The All New 2017 Presidential limousine, aka The Beast, a 2017 Cadillac is just about ready to make its first public appearance. This will be President-elect of the United States Donald J. Trump new presidential vehicle.
Construction contracts for the next model of the 2017 Trump presidential state car were farmed out in 2013. According to Fox News Channel, 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. Fox News reported that each state car will cost $1–1.5 million, and that as of January 2016, GM had been paid $15,800,765 for its work on the new model. Fox News and the Daily Mail expect the new version of the executive limousine to debut at the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017.
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The United States presidential state car (nicknamed "The Beast", "Cadillac One", "First Car" code named "Stagecoach") is the official state car of the President of the United States.
The current model of presidential state car is a unique Cadillac built upon a medium-duty truck platform. The car is equipped with many life-saving, offensive, and defensive measures, and is built to the United States Secret Service's standards. When riding in the state car, the president is cut off from the outside world, but has extensive 21st-century communications gear at hand. In a recent change, the vehicle bears standard Washington, D.C. license plates. The next generation of presidential state car is currently under development.
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. 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.
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The current Obama presidential state car went into service on January 20, 2009 and drove President Obama the 2 miles (3.2 km) down Pennsylvania Avenue from his inauguration to the inaugural parade. It is speculated that the White House maintains approximately twelve copies of the current state car. A Cadillac, the presidential state car is not based on any single model of car, though it has the "dual-textured grille and the dinner plate-sized Cadillac coat-of-arms badge" that are emblematic of the Cadillac CTS and the Cadillac Escalade. The headlights and taillights are identical to those used on other Cadillac production models. Anton Goodwin of CNET's ROAD/SHOW blog noted that speculation was that the presidential state car was based on the GMC Topkick platform. If that is to be the case, then Goodwin assumed the car would feature either a gasoline-powered Vortec 8.1-litre (490 cu in) V8 engine or a diesel-powered Duramax 6.6-litre (400 cu in) turbo V8 engine. Autoweek magazine asserts that the car runs on
a gasoline-fueled engine. Though unknown, the current presidential state car is speculated to be much heavier than its predecessor as it is equipped with Goodyear Regional RHS tires that are usually reserved for medium- and heavy-duty trucks; speculated weights range from 15,000 to 20,000 pounds (6,800 to 9,100 kg). Due to the excess weight, the car can only reach about 60 mph (97 km/h) and only achieves 3.7 to 8 miles per US gallon (64 to 29 L/100 km; 4.4 to 9.6 mpg-imp). The current model of limousine costs between US$300,000 and $1.5 million. The presidential state car is maintained by the United States Secret Service.
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