Fascinated by bulletproof cars
(Chinanews.cn)
Updated: 2006-06-29 13:49
"I spent 700 thousand yuan to refit my Toyota Land Cruiser into a bulletproof
vehicle. It's excellent!" A boss from Shanghai said. He was a real estate
manager who had assets of RMB hundreds of millions. He had just signed a
contract with Chongqing Jinguan Vehicle Manufacture Co. to refit his brand-new
Toyota hatchback into a commercial bulletproof automobile.
A bulletproof BMW sedan in an auto exhibition, the
model is quite powerful against deliberate attacks.
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It is reported that such bulletproof automobile is quite powerful against
deliberate attacks. Its windows cannot be broken to pieces by half-an-hour hits
of iron hammers. It can still run 50 kilometers an hour when its tires are
broken by bullets. More dramatically, it can be normal when a small-scale
explosion occurs under its chassis. Pistols, rifles and man-made explosives can
do no harm to it. Why are bosses fascinated by it? Because they fear sudden
attacks like kidnapping.
Pu Shiquan, a manager of Chongqing Jinguan Vehicle Manufacture Co., said the
whole process of refitting was unique. The vehicle had to keep its original
state after its conversion into a bulletproof one. He indicated that most bosses
hoped their reequipped bulletproof automobile could not be recognized by others
as a special one.
Now to refit a common vehicle into a bulletproof one is very expensive. To
refit a cross-country vehicle will cost 600-700 thousand yuan
(US$75,000-87,500). One has to spend more if his vehicle is a luxury limousine
like Benz, BMW or Audi A8.
More bosses from Chongqing intend to refit their limousines into bulletproof
ones. However, main consumers of reequipped bulletproof automobiles in China are
real estate managers or coal mine bosses. Usually they can offer a much higher
price to reequip their own automobiles.
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