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Hilarious. The 2001 BMW 7 series comes with a bullet-proof windows option!

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Old 03-23-2001, 11:14 AM
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Default Hilarious. The 2001 BMW 7 series comes with a bullet-proof windows option!

750il-p. "p" for protection. Check 'em out yourself!
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Default A lot of diplomats buy them...

That's also one of the "target" groups for the A8L (pun intended). 8^)
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correction: bullet "resistant" i think i can find a bullet or 2 around here that could work
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Default No it is impressive

They have been making them for at least a couple years now.

The impressive part is that they are only .1 sec slower on 0-60 times and they are a few miles an hour slower on the slalom. all that with Kevlar, run-flat tires and other heavy parts.

The idea is to avoid the situation by not being there (as in fast get away) is the best protection.
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Yup, they beef up the engine to offset the weight. Very cool.
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Default yeah, Mercedes does it too. When I was car-shopping in Maryland with my parents a few months back...

we were at the BMW dealer (my dad's looking at either a 5-series or an E-class), and the salesman showed us this decked out 7 series that was outfitted with the protection package. Bulletproof windows, bomb proof underside, and a bunch of other features he mentioned. It was being delivered to some embassy official (some Eastern European country if I remember correctly).
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Actually you can get a factory A6 or A8 from Audi with that & more.
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Not to be too "down" but I suppose it's more sad than hilarious!
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what exactly are you doing in that lab?
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Default In Brazil you can get any car armoured..

I've seen jeeps, Golfs and just about any other car you can imagine.

I was working In Venezuela and was driven around in an armoured mini-van/chevy cavalier many times.

Not to good for the suspension or gas mileage though.


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