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  • When a Hummer won't do

    08/26/2006 8:54:50 PM PDT · by Para-Ord.45 · 58 replies · 2,487+ views
    The Star ^ | August 25, 2006 | TONY WONG
    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...