After numerous false starts, we finally know exactly when we’ll see President Donald Trump’s new set of wheels. Known as the Beast 2.0, Cadillac One and, simply, the presidential limo, the vehicle will officially enter service in late summer this year.
Fox News reported on Thursday that Cadillac has handed over the new limo to the United States Secret Service for “post-production requirements.”
Cadillac President Johan de Nysschen told the outlet, “The public can expect to see the new vehicles put into operational use late summer of this year.”
Cadillac One was originally thought to debut at President Trump’s inauguration, but the program has been delayed since. Obviously, we’ll never know the finer details about the president’s ride of choice, but we do know it will sit on General Motors’ medium-duty truck platform. The Beast 2.0 will wear a design similar to the Cadillac Escalade and CT6 sedan and is actually nearly as long as an Escalade itself.
We know the current presidential limo features a host of safety precautions to keep the commander in chief protected at all times. Reinforced doors, extra thick and bulletproof windows, technology to prevent the effects of an EMP blast and an air filtration system in the event of a biological attack are all present in the current limo.
de Nysschen added that it was Cadillac’s honor to once again design and build the latest limousine and said, “It’s always been part of our heritage and tradition, we have transported presidents over time, and we hope to be able to do so in the future, as well.”
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Will it be electric? Or Hybrid?
trump limo; It probably rolls coal and puts ketchup on its steak.
From the spy photos, the new car will be a massive improvement design-wise over the current car which dates back to 2009 and looks overly fortified, truckish, and from many angles, awkward. I’m certain the new car will be every bit as secure and able to withstand various forms of attack but it apparently now does so with a decidedly more elegant stance. The prototypes are very promising.
This car is hugely important to Cadillac whether most folks realize it or not. It will be operated around the world in parades where millions will anxiously await sight of it and much like Air Force One, “Cadillac One”, as it is sometimes referred to, is a symbol for the nation. It s the ultimate Cadillac too. Forget about a V-Series. It’s the true flagship of the fleet; a specially commissioned one-off Cadillac to transport the President of the United States. Given the car’s importance, I hope that the people at GM have worked long and hard to create a masterpiece design that provides critical protection to the president but camouflages all its armory with grace. It looks like they’ve worked much harder this time on that front.
As good as the new car hopefully is, they missed the moment when the car could’ve given Cadillac the biggest PR boost. By recent tradition, new Cadillac presidential limousines have appeared on inauguration day in a very special way. In 2009, when Barack Obama assumed the reins from George Bush, the two of them, #43 and #44, rode together from The White House to the Capitol in Bush’s 2005 Cadillac DTS limousine. After Obama’s swearing in, and Bush’s ceremonial departure aboard Marine One, a brand new car appeared for the brand new president. The car symbolized the changing of the guard. In this case, it was the 2009 Cadillac Presidential Limousine. Barack and Michelle Obama got into the new car and begin a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. The nation and the world were transfixed on the events unfolding in Washington DC and all eyes were on the purpose-built Caddy at center stage. Similarly, in 2001 as Bill Clinton exited the stage, his 1993 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Presidential Limousine was replaced by a trimmer-looking 2000 Cadillac Deville Presidential Limousine that would serve George W. Bush for four years. In 2006, when Bush took the oath a second time, he emerges from the Capitol to find a new limousine awaiting. The new car premiered new styling for Cadillac that would later appear on production cars as the Deville transitioned to the DTS. His new car was officially known as the Cadillac DTS Presidential State Car.
When Donald and Melania Trump stepped down from the Capitol, a new car should’ve been awaiting. Everyone expected it to be there. Media reports suggested it would be and tradition dictated that it would be. Why it wasn’t has never been explained. Why it will now debut with little fanfare is perhaps classified but Cadillac, if it is there fault, missed an opportunity. As cameras rolled, commentators would’ve been commenting on that brand new Cadillac and hopefully about how nice looking it was. That’s publicity that’s hard to come by.
Sean Spicer really took you for a ride…
“The nation and the world were transfixed on the events unfolding in Washington DC and all eyes were on …”
So, you definitely listened to the words coming out of Spicer’s mouth, but you should have looked at the pictures he was showing. Obama had the mall overflowing past Lincoln. Both times. I was there, I know. Trump’s little cult of followers couldn’t even fill out the 4th-7thsts square.
Reality is real.
OT,
This isn’t a political discussion. I mentioned four presidents and made no reference to their political viewpoints or which ones I support. That really isn’t germane to the issue of Cadillac and the Presidential State Car. The vehicle is a symbol of the nation and of the presidency, not of a specific temporary occupant of that office. In much the same way, The White House and Air Force One are enduring symbols used for generations by presidents both from the left and the right.
Having said that and to respond directly to your accusation, my statement which you cited above that “the nation and the world were transfixed on the events unfolding in Washington DC and all eyes were on…” was specifically referencing the day Obama took office on January 20, 2009. Sean Spicer wasn’t even on the scene then.
One final thought, and putting aside politics and simply stating facts. Washington DC is about 90/10 in its ratio of Democrats to Republicans living in the city.
When Trump and Melania stepped down from the Capitol, a new car WAS waiting, for Stormy Daniels, paid for by a lawyer called Cohen, who is just hours away from taking the 5th in federal court…
You’re just jealous she’d never put an old trombone in her mouth and blow.
If it’s so important for the Prez to have a spanking new car, why do you give Boeing a free pass for giving him a plane that’s a half-century old design? Where’s your triggered huff/puffing for the Prez’s boudoir-equipped “Dreamliner”?
“around the world in parades where millions will anxiously await sight of it” — what brings you to such outlandish ideas?
POTUS parading? NO! A POTUS fears people as a thief fears being seen — so the streets have to be cleared of people, gullies and other man hole covers in the streets have to be welded shut, people confined to their houses without the right to get out of the front door — that is the condition of streets where a POTUS is being driven thru.
There are certainly some people who would like to get a glance of the POTUS tank running by — but no chance. The POTUS sees regular human beings all over this planet as enemies. And he fears his enemies.
I remember one POTUS visit in the Rhein-Main area around Frankfurt; the POTUS was staying in a hotel in the eastern part of the area and was about to travel by car to either the airport or to Wiesbaden in the West, so the main East-West high way, the A3 was completely shut for public circulation in both directions for several hours. This POTUS trip was the cause of a major trafic jam in a perimeter of several dozen kilometers around.
No no, nobody really likes the POTUS to come to one’s area — that is like a military or locust invasion.
BTW, this special stretch limo is not a one-off, they build about a dozen of those beasts, since they have to be moved around by air from one location to another so that the beast is already waiting at the airport where the POTUS is expected to land, after another copy of that vehicle has transported him to the airport where he started. The POTUS travels always in a cavalcade of a dozen Jumbo Jets.
Secret Service post production requirements:
1. Installation of 3 TV screens.
2. Fabrication of McDonalds drive-thru input ‘chute directed at face-level.
3. Plastic upholstery…
4. Gold Roof.
5. Rear-Wheel steering for instant reverse-direction.
6. Pit-to-car telemetry and remote control, with Cyrillic and Cantonese buttons.
7. Loudspeaker with recorded insults for war-widows on a push button menu.
They should install a plow for the snowflakes.
Why? You reveal yourselves immediately when your obese supreme leader is even slightly mocked.
No need to round you and your fellows up when you so predictably take the bait.
Who’s is hiding?
I love the secrecy of this “Secret Service” whose agents drive around in their secret cars with “Secret Service” painted in big letters on them. Maximum secrecy!
Not sure if they are precluded from doing this but It would be nice to see them do a ad with the entire line up in front of the Limo. Also including the race cars.
Put print to it that says.
“All our customers performance. safety and comfort are important to us no matter what you do for a living.”
Why do people feel the need being politics into a topic about a new car for the president?
As for the car (what a concept talking about the car which is the topic) I am just glad it’s a Cadillac! Safety will be paramount, exterior should be sharp and presidential, my question is I wonder what it will ride like? A normal limousine rides very soft and comfy but with this limousine being built on a truck frame should ride very harsh I would think!
So many folks want their safe-space bubbles, including the Prez himself, firing anyone who doesn’t believe his mouth magic. If the Trumpet had left birth-certificates out of politics, maybe I’d leave cars out. If he’d left judges ancestry out of politics, if he’d left jenital size out of politics, if he’d left a bunch of stuff out of politics, maybe we would too.
Think of me like Trumpet’s hero Pepe, a character I learned about from you right wing folk. Pepe does what he wants, when he wants, WHERE he wants. If you want safe spaces, ask Trump to make one for you.
Before 2016:
The left should stop PC ! The left should stop PC !
After 2016:
The left should be more PC ! The left should be more PC !
Remember that “I made Mitt get on his knees and…” wink wink? On 24H news cycle for 3 day’s? How many 4th graders asked their parents what that meant?
But now: “This is a car website, dang it!”
Dude you need to chill out and lay off the Liberal Kool-Aid!
Many other Democrats, and politicians in general have said things far worse than that. You are doing nothing on this article but bitching about the current president solely because he is (doing a good job IMO) not doing what YOU want and of an opposing political party.
I had to live through 8 years of Osam….. Obama, and even though I hated his guts, He still had my support.
Now, grow a pair of balls, man the f*ck up and get over it. Trump IS YOUR president.
“Before 2016:
The left should stop PC ! The left should stop PC !
After 2016:
The left should be more PC ! The left should be more PC !”
Nailed it. The think-skinned morons on the right had no clue they were the primary beneficiaries of “PC” culture.
Nothing to see here just another brain dead lefty incapable of critical thinking. Keep believing everything the MSM says about your beloved leftist political parties and enjoy the implosion of your economy and theft of civil liberties.
Other than appearances, what are the major differences between this one and the old one? Obviously, many of the changes are classified, but does anyone have an idea?
GM was near death when they were building that last limo which looks like it belonged in a cartoon and looked like an Escalade and a STS had a baby. This looks so much better and looks like a actual car instead of a monstrosity. Even the front and rear look to be better proportioned.
Agreed. I’ve always wondered if GM’s financial peril at the time had something to do with the seeming lack of effort to make such an important car look good.
I also wonder if perhaps the reason the new car was delayed and wasn’t ready on January 20, 2017 was that Johann dy Nycsshen sent it back to the design studios and made them re-do it. The car obviously needs to be a fortress on wheels but given that it is essentially a parade car, it needs to look very good too. For less ceremonial occasions, the president is usually transported in an armored nondescript Tahoe.
Well look at the 2009 DTS at the time and that played a big part of it.
It was an abomination and they just up scaled it for the limo on a truck frame
I don’t believe the lack of money had anything to do with styling. Just he full size Cadillac was no better looking that they tried to mimic.
Actually Scott I think its more that they had no new full size sedan to base it off of. The DTS was already done and introduced for Bush’s second term. When Obama came into office GM had no new full size Caddy to base it off of do to its dire financial condition at the time and the XTS was still 4 years away. I could be wrong but that would be why they had to put together the last limo with parts and pieces from other Cadillacs of the time
The DTS was still in production when Obama came to office. They just cloned what 5gey could to fit their needs.
The fact is to do what they did to base it in a truck with all new hand fabricated one off body was more costly than basing it off an existing model.
The real issue was they moved to a one ton truck frame to base a car off of. They could not take any production parts to bodybtge cars not just because of security but because nothing would fit.
The Escalade grill and head lamps were the only thing of scale that would fit.
You must keep in mind this was a program worth millions and the goverment did not get any incentives.
GM made money on this and still built the car to spec.
I am sure they learned much doing the first truck based car and applied it to the next model.
Scott3,
The 2009 car, which is still in use today, used STS taillamps in addition to an Escalade grille and headlamps.
I expect the upcoming car to again be a complete one-off car using current Cadillac styling themes but not based entirely on any current model.
Will see.
The last car was a total new direction and I feel they learned much from it.
To be honest the last time they could have taken the easy way out and just did a Escalade limo but the stuck to the car ether due to their plans or governments request.
God help us if the CAR doesn’t meet Brian’s expectations for presidential.
This website is getting increasingly political. Remember when it was about GM vehicles? Now it seems like a “safe space” bubble for bitter, old, liberal cry babies. Hiding behind a keyboard. Blowing their own horns. Seriously, let’s just talk about cars.
Can’t wait to see this on eBay.
“Barely used. Owner only used it for three months.”