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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?
Open Car Bar
What do you think?
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Takk commented on this article
at 11:47 am on 02 June 2009
Is it green? : )
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samwise commented on this article
at 11:58 am on 02 June 2009
No, its black, silly.
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Mikeado commented on this article
at 12:23 pm on 02 June 2009
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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Mikeado commented on this article
at 12:32 pm on 02 June 2009
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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Wotski commented on this article
at 12:57 pm on 02 June 2009
One for the "tasteless-insecure-gangster-rapper" market.
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