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A Quick Look at the Technology Behind the President’s Armored Limo Nicknamed ‘The Beast’

Jan. 21, 2013 3:21pm

How is the first family making their way safely around the nation’s capital on this Inauguration Day with temps in the brisk mid-30s? Enter “The Beast.”

A Look at the Specs of Obamas Armored Limo The Beast

US President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Sasha(2nd-R) and Malia arrive at St. John’s Church in The Beast on January 21. (Photo: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

The Obama’s limo is a gadget-filled Cadillac covered in 8-inch thick armor that adds up to a hefty eight tons. In a feature about the car in 2010, Discovery TV pointed out that it has a gas tank that won’t explode even upon a direct hit; it has night vision gear; and is so controlled an environment it can keep out a biochemical attack. There are even bottles containing blood matching that of the president’s type in the trunk.

A Look at the Specs of Obamas Armored Limo The Beast

A couple years ago the Daily Mail created this handy infographic showing “The Beast’s” features. (Image: Daily Mail)

Watch the slightly more than two minute animation detailing the Caddy’s features:

The Car Connection reported The Beast only getting eight miles per gallon. It also noted that among the unverified features of the vehicle (for safety reasons not all the specs of the car have been divulged) is its ability to shoot infrared smoke grenades and a system that would allow the driver to get around in blackout or whiteout conditions.

A Look at the Specs of Obamas Armored Limo The Beast

Obama walking to his limo in t Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport April 18, 2012. (Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

What’s new about the limo through this inauguration are its plates. Last week the limo was outfitted with the District’s protest plates that state “Taxation Without Representation.”

A Look at the Specs of Obamas Armored Limo The Beast

One of Obama’s fleet with new DC “Taxation Without Representation” license plates. (Photo: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

The district plate design, created in 2000, calls attention to the fact the city has no voting member In Congress. President Bill Clinton also put the tags on his limousine, but his successors had declined to do so.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

(H/T: Business Insider)

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Comments (53)

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  • AZgirl9000
    Posted on January 22, 2013 at 4:44am

    Wow, the CAFE standards for cars are apparently a lot looser than I thought.

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  • msjoe43
    Posted on January 22, 2013 at 12:37am

    Since Democrats are into the Toyota Prius a full hybrid electric mid-size hatchback, formerly a compact sedan developed and manufactured by the Toyota Motor Corporation. The EPA and California Air Resources Board (CARB) rate the Prius as among the cleanest vehicles sold in the United States based on smog-forming emissions. The President should set an example and chose this vehicle to get Toyota Prius made into a stretch limo for his use in his social environmental awareness issue.

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  • FightingBear
    Posted on January 22, 2013 at 12:04am

    Eight miles per gallon and he wants us all to drive a Chevy Volt!

    Th same old BS “do as I say ….not as I do.”

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  • bhosux
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:19pm

    Just an observation… The ” infographic ” fails to display a few other accessories on the Beast. They are as follows: the pink furry dice on the rear view mirror, map of KFC outlets, shine box in trunk, hanging bead divider and gold tooth pick box. I guess they were omitted to save weight.

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    • msjoe43
      Posted on January 22, 2013 at 12:28am

      Forgottens items left off THE BEAST

      1. Extremely large gold color 100 spoke wire rims size: 24 inch or 26 inch
      2. 4 Classic Wide Whitewall Tires + 1 Spare tire with Classic Wide Whitewall
      3. Wire Curb Feeler or Wire Curb Finders are springs or wires installed on a vehicle which act as “whiskers” to warn drivers that they are too close to the curb or other obstruction.

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  • Motorsports-X
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:29pm

    its not immune to heat… douse it with kerosene and watch it burn…

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  • Netsurfer2
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:55pm

    And I thought the “Beast” was about when Mouschell sits down at the dinning room table to eat!

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  • tothepoint
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:03pm

    Wait a minute…This is the same President who wants to disarm the rest of us yet he has this vehicle and armed men to keep him and his family safe.
    Hypocrite.

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    • neverwaiver
      Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:30pm

      Yah, but once Barry bans all the weapons he can go back to driving that Chevy Volt he thinks is so great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Frederick_Douglass_Republican
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 6:39pm

    The engine has nitrous oxide system for emergent egress as well

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  • Anadara
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 6:32pm

    BHO needs that vehicle to keep his pathetic carcass safe from the other half of America.

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  • Southernsoul
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 6:17pm

    That’s an assault vehicle. No one needs a vehicle like that for their protection, Just wear kevlar. Have you ever seen anyone hunting in a vehicle like that? It holds too many people. We have to limit it to no more than 4.

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  • Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:58pm

    “A Quick Look at the Technology Behind the President’s Armored Limo Nicknamed ‘The Beast’”

    Ever get slapped in the face by God?

    * Kenyan born, illegal alien, White House Occupier
    * anti-American, marxist, islamist
    * election, tax, & rights thief
    * seditionist, 5th-columnist, enemy combatant
    .. and you can do NOTHING about it!

    THAT is your JUDGMENT, America — for a nation of .. [1] pagans, [2] idolatry, [3] liars, [4] Sabbath breakers, [5] rebels, [6] murderers (& abortions), [7] fornicators (& adulterer, sodomites), [8] thieves, [9] perjurers, and [10] envious .. that pretends to hold to GOD.

    The Founders knew that God raises up & brings down nations:
    http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=7&article=1528
    “George Mason, often called “The Father of the Bill of Rights”, stated at the Constitutional Convention: “As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, so they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities” (as quoted in Madison, 1840, 3:1391).”

    6 But if you or your sons at all turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you ..
    7 then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them ..
    8 .. everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’
    9 Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook t

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  • spirited
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:12pm

    Can’t wait to see the specs on the Volt-beast.

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    • Ditto Head
      Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:20pm

      Identical specs, except that it has a range of 40 feet before it requires a recharge.

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  • Gary_K
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:11pm

    Enough about our first gay potus and the beard…..how about this?

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/01/20/21-Jan-13-World-View-Discussion-of-China-s-directive-to-Get-Ready-for-War

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  • freenj
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:06pm

    Any idea what a hellfire or two would do?

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:04pm

    N.C. Police Lieutenant warns of Martial Law in Early 2013
    people, it’s a new WORLD order; this is gonna happen all over the usa, starts in may/june 2013, hell on earth people, bury ur guns if u wanna keep em, away …
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAVGkU7_OQ4 – Cached
    . Play Video

    Has anyone check this out?

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    • Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art
      Posted on January 21, 2013 at 5:09pm

      Thanks for the link. It’s all falling into place … according to plan:

      “Until now, the world we’ve known has been a world divided – a world of barbed wire and concrete block, conflict and cold war. Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. In the words of Winston Churchill, a “world order” in which “the principles of justice and fair play … protect the weak against the strong … A world where the United Nations, freed from cold war stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders. A world in which freedom and respect for human rights find a home among all nations.”
      -President George H.W. Bush, speech to Congress, March 6, 1991

      “NEW WORLD ORDER National ID & Economic System To Be ENFORCED In U.S.A. January 15th 2013″
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFG2Nb2Lj2U
      (Bet you didn’t know you have one already, hmmm?)

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    • ENIGMA28724
      Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:48pm

      If this be true, it is hardly the time to be burying our guns. It is the time that we use them, and bury those foolhardy enough to try to take them.

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    • Ditto Head
      Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:33pm

      You guys ought to ratchet back you tin-foil hats a couple of clicks. The Book’s already been written. Good prevails in the end. What are you freaked out about? There must be something constructive for you to do around the house. Your wives would be grateful if you’d get off your computer and your duff and get it done.

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  • FISH_BONE
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:02pm

    The GPS is pre-programmed to locate the closest five gay batthouses with the shortest route available at all times.

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  • FISH_BONE
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:59pm

    Does it have an exhaust system for the pot smoke to escape?

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:55pm

    The buttie and the beast!!

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  • FISH_BONE
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:54pm

    Check out Moochelle’s dress in the picture. If you put a black net over her head, the outfit is almost sharia compliant. Its getting close my friends.

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:08pm

      Your getting close to a nervous breakdown, give the meth a rest for a little while.

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    • FISH_BONE
      Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:28pm

      Hi SIMPLETON. That was an awesome come back. Thanks for the encouragement. (moron)

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  • neverending
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:51pm

    So since this sorry sob gets a second term I am guessing we will have to pay for an entire new fleet because can’t make him settle for some old used crap. Not only can I not stand him I can’t stand the entire freakin family. That oldest daughter of his puts her snot nose up in the air just like him. We are simply trash under their feet.

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  • spfoam1
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:51pm

    I’m surprised the license number isn’t 666-666, with a skull and crossbones.

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  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:43pm

    This comment has nothing to do with Obama, this car existed in various configurations for many Presidents.

    You have to wonder about the whole myth of “man of the people” though. The Queen routinely walks through London with little more than a small detail. She could easily be mobbed and taken out (remember Prince Charles being mobbed and fruit thrown at them?). The royalty in Sweden many times walk unescorted at all. Yet our “man of the people” myth tells us that kings and queens require protection from the masses because they’re so despised, while our “home grown corn fed favorite son” is a sign of democratic freedom.

    Yeah, that’s why he has to be worried about, apparently, being strafed by A-10′s and travels with no less than 40 cars filled with sub-machine gun wielding men, whenever he goes out for coffee.

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  • KingCanon
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:37pm

    Had to throw a name from the book
    of REVELATION into the picture …eh?

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:33pm

    You mean they weren’t referring to the First Wook? Oops, my bad.

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    • FISH_BONE
      Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:52pm

      The car is the “beast”. He married the “beard”. Close but different.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:23pm

    The ‘beast’ appropriately named considering the occupants.

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