BMW "Hidden" Web sites - New 3 series & amored vehicles

[Kirby]

The first is a page for the NEW 3 series. This page is not linked to, as far as I could tell, on the main BMW website. It appears to be "hidden".

http://www.bmw.com/generic/com/en/products/highlights/3series/sedan/phase_1/index_popup.htm


Armored vehicles - want a bullet proof 330? This one is linked on the BMW site, but is not high profile.

http://www.bmw-ids.com/

 

[jrt67ss350]

The 3er page with the car under the cover used to be linked from their international page.

 

[tool fan]

I gotta get me that X5...so if I cruise through the "hood" and some idiot tries to car jack me, I can flip him the finger and laugh whilst he tries to shoot my "Bullet Resitant" windows. The ulimate U-GOT-PUNKED mobile.

 

[theBMWenthusiast]

anyone heard of the 760Li High Security model, saw it on the history channel and wow...it detects pathogens in the air and then will close the windows and make the air conditioning stystem a closed system and just all this stuff...it was called on the show as a "bomb shelter on wheels" it was crazy

 

[MrElussive]

I gotta get me that X5...so if I cruise through the "hood" and some idiot tries to car jack me, I can flip him the finger and laugh whilst he tries to shoot my "Bullet Resitant" windows. The ulimate U-GOT-PUNKED mobile.

Lol, yeah but if you try to dip, all that extra armor on the X5 just slows it down like crazy.

enthusiast, I do know about that 760 High Security. Mercedes also offered an "S500 Guard" car that was heavily armored. Just so you know how heavily armored it was, the regular S500 does 0-60 in 6 seconds, whereas the S500 Guard does it in 7.1.

 

[tool fan]

Lol, yeah but if you try to dip, all that extra armor on the X5 just slows it down like crazy.

enthusiast, I do know about that 760 High Security. Mercedes also offered an "S500 Guard" car that was heavily armored. Just so you know how heavily armored it was, the regular S500 does 0-60 in 6 seconds, whereas the S500 Guard does it in 7.1.

The 1st Armored Division Commander here in Wiesbaden has the s500 Guard. I was just checking it out last Thursday night. It is classy as all hell. I bet the brakes get smoked quick though. Especially on the Autobahn, all that extra weight.

 

[theBMWenthusiast]

The 1st Armored Division Commander here in Wiesbaden has the s500 Guard. I was just checking it out last Thursday night. It is classy as all hell. I bet the brakes get smoked quick though. Especially on the Autobahn, all that extra weight.

probably, but BMW is adding larger brakes next year for some of the models

 

[MrElussive]

The 1st Armored Division Commander here in Wiesbaden has the s500 Guard. I was just checking it out last Thursday night. It is classy as all hell. I bet the brakes get smoked quick though. Especially on the Autobahn, all that extra weight.

I think the brakes do fine, actually. I can't speak for the S500 Guard, but my parents' S500s both came with cross-drilled and vented rotors up front, and vented rotors in the rear. All four rotors are quite large and the brakes pedal feel is very progressive and they do a great job of bringing the "beast" to a halt.

 

[HornyHornet]

I wonder what the passing specs are for the armored glass. I once saw in Discovery HD that they shot a M-16, an AK-47, and a high powered rifle in three shot triangles about 3in apart. All nine shots were on the same glass, each set about 6in apart. Can you believe that darn thing didnt break. Gotta have a lot of layers some tough stuff to put up to that.

 

[adamsonem]

"Emergency exit through the front windscreen.
In an emergency situation the front windscreen can be released in its entirety from its mounting and pushed outwards."

I want that.

 

[Chesty Bonds]

I think the brakes do fine, actually. I can't speak for the S500 Guard, but my parents' S500s both came with cross-drilled and vented rotors up front, and vented rotors in the rear. All four rotors are quite large and the brakes pedal feel is very progressive and they do a great job of bringing the "beast" to a halt.

Maybe not repeatedly though. I reckon they would probably fade pretty quickly - even the E46 M3 suffers from that affliction.

 

[MrElussive]

Yeah, but that is on the track with heavy heavy braking. Normal breaking (even with auto trannies) on the road doesn't even come close to the "abuse" that your brakes will take on the track. MB is German....they know what they're doing.

You can just change the brake pads on the M3 to track pads and it will make a world of difference (on the track), but that will sacrifice drivability on the street.