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When a Hummer won't do
The Star ^
| August 25, 2006
| TONY WONG
Posted on 08/26/2006 8:54:50 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
It can stop a bullet from an AK-47, shrug off a roadside bomb, and it makes a Hummer look like a chick car.
The $200,000 (U.S.) Gurkha is coming to a road near you — thanks to a King City-based company that is finding itself in demand because of the global war on terror.
"They are pretty awesome machines," says William Whyte, owner of Armet Armored Vehicles Inc., the company that builds the Gurkha. "We've been stopped on roads with people taking pictures and wanting to know what they are."
The Gurkha can go more than 150 kilometres per hour — plenty fast for a military vehicle — and is the highest level of protection you can get next to sitting in a tank, Whyte says. It certainly looks fierce enough.
The squat 8,620 kilogram vehicle looks every bit the ticked-off hedgehog, bristling with testosterone and armour plating.(exerpt)
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armet; carporn; d; gurkha; whatyousay
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To: Para-Ord.45
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posted on
08/26/2006 8:56:57 PM PDT
by
shadowcat
To: Para-Ord.45
*Snickering at that title*
3
posted on
08/26/2006 8:57:24 PM PDT
by
demkicker
(democrats and terrorists are intimate bedfellows)
To: Para-Ord.45
Oooh, there's a picture at the link. I WANT one. Just think how great that would look rumbling up my quiet residential street. BWAHAHAHA!
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posted on
08/26/2006 8:57:32 PM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: Para-Ord.45
How many gallons to the mile?
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posted on
08/26/2006 8:57:33 PM PDT
by
tryon1ja
To: shadowcat
Yeah, but what's the MPG? ;-)
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posted on
08/26/2006 8:57:45 PM PDT
by
RedCell
("...thou shalt kill thine enemy before he killeth you by any means available" - Dick Marcinko)
To: Para-Ord.45
It says "buy me". I like. Beer budget, champagne tastes.
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posted on
08/26/2006 8:58:39 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I looked in my rearview mirror.)
To: demkicker
If you need something like that where you live, it's time to move.
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posted on
08/26/2006 8:59:08 PM PDT
by
durasell
(!)
To: Para-Ord.45
With all that armor and four tires, it likely cannot go offroad more than the littlest bit.
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posted on
08/26/2006 8:59:42 PM PDT
by
tomzz
To: BipolarBob
There's even room for a turret to mount the goodies.
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posted on
08/26/2006 8:59:56 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I looked in my rearview mirror.)
To: demkicker
11
posted on
08/26/2006 9:01:27 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(This kid knows how to wallop a baseball!!!!!!)
To: shadowcat
OMG, I want one! What's the cost on one of those babies?
12
posted on
08/26/2006 9:02:10 PM PDT
by
ABG(anybody but Gore)
("By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again" - Jack Bauer)
To: durasell
I live in Houston and there are times when I'd really like to be driving a Gurkha! ;-)
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posted on
08/26/2006 9:03:20 PM PDT
by
demkicker
(democrats and terrorists are intimate bedfellows)
To: demkicker
I've found that a hummer usually does the trick.
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posted on
08/26/2006 9:03:47 PM PDT
by
AndrewB
To: ABG(anybody but Gore)
What's the cost on one of those babies? About what it would cost to fill it up.
To: Para-Ord.45
When a Hummer won't do In my experience there are very, very, very few times when a hummer won't if not solve ones problems make it so you seriously don't give a fig about them.
L
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posted on
08/26/2006 9:05:45 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(If you want peace, prepare for war.)
To: Para-Ord.45
$200,000 (U.S.) Gurkha is coming to a road near you That must be some fancy cigar.
17
posted on
08/26/2006 9:06:26 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: demkicker
It's a car that screams -- "Look at me, I'm an idiot! A really, really rich idiot!" and it only costs a little more than 2006 Bentley Continental Flying Spur List Price: $164,990
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posted on
08/26/2006 9:06:39 PM PDT
by
durasell
(!)
To: hsalaw
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posted on
08/26/2006 9:08:48 PM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)
To: durasell
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posted on
08/26/2006 9:09:02 PM PDT
by
demkicker
(democrats and terrorists are intimate bedfellows)
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