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Limousines – luxury cars?

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

What you should know when ordering a limousine?

Limousines can be safely described as an international vehicle. For the first time they appeared at the beginning of last century in the United States, the title received from the French words, but their mass production began in the USSR (Leningrad-1 or L-1, VMS-101). Cars honorably stood the test of time. Year after year, to acquire all the new features and improved. As in 20 of the last century, when they were made exclusively for individual orders, and now, limousines underscore the high status of their respective owners in the community. They are popular and in demand by influential people: politicians and film stars showbusiness ….

Their value for the comfort and reliability. In a car, you can even forget about where you are, and feel relaxed and comfortable as at home? The spacious cabin, soft leather chairs, (and filling the car depends on the tastes and preferences of the owner: air conditioning, bar, TV …) – all had to do carelessly.

Certainly, the feeling of passengers depend not only on external appearance and internal decoration of the machine, but in many ways and skills of the driver. To manage this magnificent giant, must be present ACOM, experience, skill and open the bus category of «D» (limousines for more than 100 inches). Because the size of the streets are sometimes not calculated under the edges of the car. The length of a limousine can be up to ten meters!

The army of admirers Limo grows every year. This is, perhaps, the world’s only form of the machine, which inspires the experiments as independent inventors, and the major world producers. In the history of known examples where the limousines turned into real masterpieces avtoiskusstva. So the biggest limo in the world, converted from the Boeing-727, weighs six tons and can accelerate to 200 kilometers per hour. A limousine robot, invented by Chinese breeders, can move without a driver with a maximum speed of 150 kilometers per hour!

When there are limousines on the roads, it has become the law of the limelight. They admire! And, as always – outside of competition. In world the most popular limousines such world famous manufacturers, like Lincoln, Cadillac, Hummer, Ford, Mercedes Benz, Chrysler, Chevrolet.

The procedure for the manufacture of a limousine

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

Limousine – this is the result of changes to the car.
Roughly it looks like this: starting a car cut in half, longer than do, insert additional details of the design. Re-plan salon, change the technical part of the car, taking into account the increased load – and is the limousine.
Front and rear of the limo future remain unchanged. But destroying the old frame: no spots, just set a new frame. Its length depends on the length of the mortgaged limousine. In America, distributed three groups of size – length of limousines around 7,5, 8,5-9 and 10 m
Collected and painted the body of a limousine filled with video and audio, bar and leather sofas, set at the request of the customer various options for the cabin lights.
Limousine can be done based on any machine. However, preferably, that initially the car has some characteristics that allow minimal costs to implement such a scrape.
It is best suited for such purposes Lincoln and Cadillac. Therefore, long limousines on the basis of these cars – the most common. But there are limousines based on the Hummer, Infiniti, Dodge, Mercedes – Benz and other brands.
Typically, when a limousine manufacturing to order, we take into account the wishes of the future owner. Therefore, even the same certificate limousines may vary cabin layout, the number of seats, the number of monitors and other things.