Knight XV – the Hummer-crusher

The Knight XV is big. Very big. Giant. Gargantuan. Colossal. Supersized. Mammoth. Take a look at the Knight XV alongside the Hummer H2. The Hummer H2 is not a small car. The Hummer H2 is a very large car, in fact. But it looks tiny, miniscule, laughably petite next to the Knight XV. The Knight XV is big.

So what the hell is it? It’s a luxury armoured vehicle (honest) from Canadian-based firm Conquest Vehicles. Inspired by the Gurkha military truck and based on the underpinnings of a Ford F-350 truck, it measures just over six metres in length and tips the scales at five-and-a-half tonnes. The Knight XV is big.

Part of the reason for that weight is that the Knight XV is built to withstand, well, just about anything. Constructed of ballistic hardened steel, ballistic fibreglass and six centimetre thick armoured glass, it’ll withstand fire from Kalashnikovs, Dragunovs and Kasporovs. OK, we made the last one up. He’s a chess player.

The Knight XV is powered by a Ford-sourced 6.8-litre V10 putting out 298kW and 677Nm of torque. It’ll run on E85 ethanol, so it’s er, green. Sort of. Conquest boasts that it will ‘comfortably seat six professional basketball players’ which, if you were in any doubt about the size of the thing, puts it in the ‘really very enormous’ category. Oh, and one more indicator of scale. See those wheels? Well, the alloys in the middle are 20-inchers. Getting a flavour for the bigness yet?

The car is built manually, a single model requiring 1500 hours for being finished. Conquest VX Knight is inspired after the Gurcka military cars, and is based on a modified Ford super-duty chassis as to meet the … military requirements. Bullets and grenades aren’t a problem for this car, having a body made of strength steel, spoilers made of fiber glass and 64 mm thick bullet-proof windows. It weights 4,5 tons and the special run-flat Michey Thompson tires won’t make any problems to the car if perforated.

What about the luxury, you may ask. Well, in the interior you will find Andrew Muirhead leather, Wilton Wool carpets, electrically adjustable armchairs and multiple facilities like the Apline multimedia system, bluetooth and TV monitors for all seats, “Night Vision” system and even a Playstation 3 system. What could you wish more?

This hummer vehicle was ranked as the world most expensive SUV ever. it was priced about US$ 295.000, it was said that there’s only about 100 Knight XV SUV vehicle around the world. This luxurious vehicle was modified by Conquest Vehicles Inc, this company was famous for their skill in car modification for a luxurious and safety vehicle. before this we also got another great car which is also known as one of the most expensive cars, that was tramontana car.

This Knight XV Hummer has a great safety features. the first is the bulletproof glass and the bulletproof car body,. the car body of Knight XV Hummer was made from a high quality steel. not only that this Knight XV Hummer also equipped with an ASC Run Flat System. with this system This car still can glide as far as 48 km with a speed of 50 km / h even though the four tires were deflated due to shot.

Besides safety, it is also very luxurious car is equipped with comfortable seats, sunroof, where laptops, LED lamps for lighting in the cabin, TV, night vision cameras for vision at night, Play Station 3 (PS3) and many more. So could you afford this Most Expensive and the safest SUV ever? If you love a SUV car so you have to buy this Hummer Knight XV SUV for $350.000.

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source: topgear, nextconceptcars, worldmustbecrazy

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