Wednesday, June 17th, 2009...7:57 pm

The President’s Cadillac Ride

limo-3This might be old hat for the majority of you limo lovers out there, but it is news to me, though goodness knows why I did not happen to notice it earlier.

See that hot, sophisticated looking ride there on the right?  As you might conclude from the background and the very patriotic hood ornaments, that is President Elect Barack Obama’s limousine.

To be perfectly specific, it is the Cadillac One, which is not based on what you are probably thinking it is based on, considering the fact that it looks quite a lot like a DTS that has been stretched a whole lot. Au contraire, news has it that it is actually based on the rather enormous Topkick truck from GMC — but that is neither here nor there.

More importantly is that President Obama is carrying on something of a long standing tradition. Many former Presidents before him have turned to Cadillac to provide all their limousine needs, such as Woodrow Wilson, Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.

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