Obama To Get New, Giant Truck-Based Cadillac Presidential Limo [Presidential Limo]

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2008/11/Barack-Obama-LImo-2.jpg" width="494" height="368" style="display:block;float:none;" /With a new president set to take the office, GM is working on a new version of "Cadillac One" for President-Elect Barack Obama mdash; and it's a monster. According to our sources, the new President's state car may look like a stretched Cadillac DTS but is actually based on the a href="http://jalopnik.com/cars/woodward-dream-cruise/when-transformers-attack-290918.php"GMC Topkick/a medium-duty truck platform underpinning a href="http://jalopnik.com/393920/ironhide-spotted-with-can+am-spyder-motorcycle"Ironhide/a from emTransformers/em. But instead of turning into an alien fighting machine, the Cadillac transforms into a portable bunker likely equipped with five-inch thick glass, cellphone-jamming equipment and blast-proof ceramics. Of course, this is all speculation as the Secret Service won't let anyone know the details of the system./p pIt's about time the Secret Service stepped up their game seeing as the current limo had a little bit of a a href="http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/bush-limo-breaks-down-in-rome-bush-walks-267822.php"break-down in Rome/a. Though Obama may want a million a href="http://jalopnik.com/399848/obama-wants-a-million-plug+in-hybrids-on-us-roads-by-2015"plug-in hybrids on the road/a by 2015, the likelihood is this über-heavy Caddy probably downs more fuel than a dozen Prius hybrids combined. What? Did you expect him to drive around in a a href="http://jalopnik.com/cars/retro/happy-presidents-day-k+car-limo-edition-237903.php"K-Car/a? Drive slow, homey./p p[Photo: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images, Source: a href="http://www.boston.com/cars/news/articles/2008/11/06/cadillac_testing_new_obama_limo/?page=full"Boston Globe/a]/ppa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/iZPkOJsac19SkZdDOH-5ZwQohcA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/iZPkOJsac19SkZdDOH-5ZwQohcA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=Cy6O1crk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/jalopnik/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=AEZYG8PT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/jalopnik/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=XCWoV1jR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/jalopnik/full?i=XCWoV1jR" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=Vr2gq2bf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/jalopnik/full?i=Vr2gq2bf" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jalopnik/full/~4/uppir-QPc-c" height="1" width="1"/

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