02 June 2009 - 10:00
Meet the Hummer-crusher
Giant. Gargantuan. Colossal. Supersized. Mammoth.
Whichever way you say it, the Knight XV is big. Very big.
Take a look at the Knight XV alongside the Hummer H2. The Hummer H2 is not a
small car. The Hummer H2 is a very large car, in fact. But it looks tiny,
miniscule, laughably petite next to the Knight XV. The Knight XV is big.
So what the hell is it? It’s a luxury armoured vehicle (honest) from
Canadian-based firm Conquest Vehicles. Inspired by the Gurkha military truck and based on the underpinnings of a Ford F-350 truck, it measures just over six
metres in length and tips the scales at five-and-a-half tonnes. The Knight XV
is big.
Part of the reason for that weight is that the Knight XV is built to withstand,
well, just about anything. Constructed of ballistic hardened steel, ballistic
fibreglass and six centimetre thick armoured glass, it’ll withstand fire from
Kalashnikovs, Dragunovs and Kasporovs. OK, we made the last one up. He’s a
chess player.
The Knight XV is powered by a Ford-sourced 6.8-litre V10 putting out 298kW and 677Nm of torque. It'll run on E85 ethanol, so it's er, green. Sort of.
Conquest boasts that it will ‘comfortably seat six
professional basketball players’ which, if you were in any doubt about the size
of the thing, puts it in the ‘really very enormous' category.
Oh, and one final indicator of scale. See those wheels? Well, the alloys in the
middle are 20-inchers. Getting a flavour for the bigness yet?
Want to comment on this?
The Knight XV is big. And according to their website, www.conquestvehicles.com, its $310,000 US!!!!! Oh, and it has FLIR night vision cameras mounted front and rear, on individual screens. So yeeeeeeeeeeeeaaah it is a druglord car.
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The perfect shopping car for mum
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if you drive that around in a shanty town the people that live there will think your the president or something
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so its basically an f250 with armor, who cares, And what does this have to do with hummer. Stop the smear campaign TG, hummer has better 4wd capability than most other Aussie offerings.
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at 02:35 am on 03 June 2009
The ultimate DRUGLORD car!
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