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 400bhp and
500lb ft 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?
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No, its black, silly.
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Those rims are the same size as those filling the arches of a GT-R, yet they look pathetic here. This thing is tremendous! You could sit in there and just watch the apocalypse happen. The Conquest Knight XV is big. And has an epic name! Yes it's really quite ugly, but name a sexy military car. Well, I say car...
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If anyone's curious as to price, there will initially only be 100, and they'll cost US$310,000, or £188,688 and 25p. I wonder what options you can add to that. Missile Defence System, perhaps?
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One for the "tasteless-insecure-gangster-rapper" market.
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The smaller T-98 Kombat should be, uh, more economical. And it can (allegedly) take a shot from an RPG-7.
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I WANT 1 HOW MUCH AND WHERE TO GO TO GET IT LOL
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Come the inevitable zombie holocaust, this thing will be invaluable.
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astons4eva, America, $310k. Like I said.
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Add green callipers. Much greener you know. Or just paint entire .... that thing.
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Just you wait. It won't be long before a rapping gangster buys one, gives it shiny rims, lime green paint, a bodykit that reaches down to the ground, and a HUGE spoiler on the back. Porsche Cayenne will lose its "world's ugliest 4x4" title instantly. :P
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i know what im going to steal when the Zombie apocalypse comes
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I'll give £100 to anyone that can legally park that in their local Sainsbury's Car Park...
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If it all goes badly wrong I'll have dibs on the drivers seat. This thing looks even more indestructable than the Toyota Hilux. A test for the TV team perhaps?
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I forgot about the zombies, I'd better order one today. A green one of course. : )
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As big as it is, it'll never beat the Talon riot van that Hammond tested on TV.
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that looks well cool i want one
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Less painful than penis enlargement surgery I guess.
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looks like it would be good if you lived in a war zone where you could potentially be shot at by terrorists or pirates.
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nice, looks better than a Ford F-350, a hummer H2 and any sort of Porsche cayenne
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That Is Mad! Looks Pretty Beefy, Wouldn't Mind Driving That About :) x
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YES! I'd like to drive around in this while watching all the eco-idiots scream curses at me! The H2 looks tiny compared to this!
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I think some people have houses smaller than this...but in fairness you get a lotta metal (lots and lots of it) for the money!
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bill oddies perfect garage will be like this: that car above and koengisegg ccxr. because they are sort of green i think... maybe... or not...
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now thats wat i call big
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apart from the range is probably nil, where do i buy one, does it have a locking diff? Will Obama turn it into a Presidential Limo? Will it replace the ageing humvees? Lets hope so........ it needs a gunner turret on top for "Recreational hunting"
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Take out the back seats put in a bed, stove, toilet and you have the equivalent of a caravan!!! Now the road wont be cloged up with ugly fiberglass boxes but black military "cars"!!!!!!! Who agrees? Copy and paste if you agree!
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i want mine with the optional side disengaging machine gun, top mounted rocket launchers and 24 inch steel-bladed-wheels please.
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maybe obama should have waited and got this instead of the beast. mind you the beast is pretty bloody cool
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i dont think it looks like it SHOULD look it looks to big it looks like it will do rubbish of road it will probably fall through the earth at that weight and if you're on a perfectly normal road in THAT and its a sixty mile per hour speed limit i dought it will reach it do you know what my advize will be by a Range Rover sport hst you wont regret it!! P.S i bet the knight XV isnt green or luxury!!!! its realy NOTHING compared to a range rover!.
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Just 2 words...HOLY SHIIIIIIIT!!!
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it should be in de new transformer...
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Umm... I think we have those things in the real world already. Its called a TANK, just without the guns...
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all thats missing is a long barrel and some 20 inch shells
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Why do people think to base a car on a pick up truck is a good idea?!? Mind you, at least these chumps limited the production which means it is unlikely that you will ever see one (except you live in LA where probably 99 of the 100 of these things will go to).
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I LOVE IT! But could have made it look better
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Takk commented on this article
02 June 2009
Is it green? : )
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