Barack Obama's car, nicknamed 'the beast', gets stuck

Barack Obama's car, nicknamed 'the beast', gets stuck

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Viper_Larry

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4,351 posts

269 months

Monday 23rd May 2011
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How embarrassing!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13507728

Looks like it weighs a few tonnes - they'll have fun with that over here with all our speed bumps!

Papa Hotel

12,760 posts

195 months

Monday 23rd May 2011
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Gimme an "R"!

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2,732 posts

249 months

Monday 23rd May 2011
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Thats pretty funny.

Dazanator

222 posts

217 months

Monday 23rd May 2011
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Looked like the front suspension gave way to me. It dropped pretty quickly - fwe red faces thee I bet!

davepoth

29,395 posts

212 months

Monday 23rd May 2011
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Dazanator said:
Looked like the front suspension gave way to me. It dropped pretty quickly - fwe red faces thee I bet!
It beached. The armoured 7 series had a bit of a scrape just beforehand. I'm amazed they haven't put airbags in the suspension on that thing, it would be quite useful to have extra ground clearance if needed.

kieranjholland

3,572 posts

183 months

Monday 23rd May 2011
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Beast Fail

petrolveins

1,781 posts

186 months

Monday 23rd May 2011
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Various twitter discussions have led some of us to believe that the car can drop on its suspension and hunker down if attacked. Look the the footage, the wheels fly up into the arches in a way that beaching it wouldn't. Possible suggestions are it could do it to prevent anything getting under the car, or be part of some anti-flip mechanism.

marshalla

15,902 posts

214 months

Monday 23rd May 2011
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Papa Hotel said:
Gimme an "R"!
E P O S T

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