My fortress

More than 15 million rubles. above the starting price "simply» Audi A8. Add to this all-wheel drive (a new word in the history of representation of armored cars) - and get the A8 Security. Car-fort is not afraid of a sniper rifle or the "Kalashnikov", nor a fragmentation grenade. Buy it not to go, but because they want to live Preventive meryAtaki terrorists better to avoid than to restrain. Rare sedan will go on anti-personnel mines, because the designers wanted to hide Audi filling the armored car from prying eyes. By car there are no price labels such as «Security», «booked," or "Do not shoot - in the president!". The first person should be discreet and not draw attention to themselves. Naturally, so far as it can form "normal» Audi A8 W12 and a pair of SUVs with an escort, "flashing lights" ... Another thing, when a convoy traveling from A8 three black opaque glass. In some of them are protected entity can only guess. With 33 percent probability ... A8 Security Glass Polycarbonate treated with a special coating that is destroyed by contact with a dubbing film. That is why, to protect the interior from prying eyes, toning is carried out directly at the factory in Germany, simultaneously with the bronirovaniya.Audi A8 Security is being protected class B6/B7 - this is the highest degree of reservation on European Union standards. This means that any of the glass will withstand the onslaught of bullets line 7.62, and ballistic steel shells of the same caliber, but with a more rigid steel core can only be scratched. Four wheel drive does not stop, even if the tires will break to pieces: the A8 will continue to move at a speed of 80 km / h in the absence of pressure in the tires! Thought it! Even if attackers are able to introduce a smoke grenade into the cabin in the A8 Security provides fire extinguishing system and oxygen delivery. But if the fortress was taken, and the protected person has decided to retire from the car, the driver enough to remove the fuse from the system for emergency evacuation: is now a special cutter will help "shoot" any of the four doors - just pull the handle out. View sperediMir on which you watch from behind the wheel armored car, is not the same as before. On the one hand, the image breaks the burden of responsibility for the vehicle, measured nearly two dozen million rubles. Second, a special glass used A8, which, although reduced image distortion at time of reservation, but not completely. Throughout the test ride I did not leave feeling as if looking out the window through someone else's glasses ... And yet, the drivers of these vehicles were lucky: the Audi care for them. Apparently, because engaged in manufacturing of armored vehicles since 1928, even while sitting behind the wheel of a 3.5-ton "safe", it is difficult to calculate the filling: steering wheel rotates easily and concisely inform the traction, the body is relatively easy (after all, class car !) and surely must be recessed behind the accelerator pedal is moved out of the series in a number of energetic and not on weight rapidly. However, the latter not surprising, because under the hood of an armored hidden 6.0-liter naturally aspirated 450-hp W12. with. Because of its design, by the way (in particular, because of lack of pressurization systems), and Audi engineers managed to introduce all-wheel drive sedan in the scheme transmissii.A here to the brakes to get used to. Stop the heavy A8 Security is designed two pairs of impressive ventilated discs with a powerful piston calipers, but the rate of deceleration is still far from that of conventional urban cars ... no joke - with a driver, passenger and mass dopoborudovaniem sedan approaching 4 tons! View szadiKogda sitting in place of the very first person, for whom, and built a whole structure, you feel really calm. And not only because it sits behind the wheel is now responsible for nearly 20 million cars. And because you realize that by 80 years of experience engineers in the creation of world-class Audi armored cars surrounded by the latest technologies and providing a huge materialami.Sidyaschemu behind a set of options and tools. But today I have time to hardly appreciate the soft skin Valcona, watch a DVD on color displays in the front headrests, talk on the internal telephone, send a fax, a drink from the bar beforehand ostuzhennoe in the fridge, give a command vehicle tracking system for internal communication .. . Broneboks bronevikaObsluzhivanie for armored vehicles carried out in a specially designed closed bronebokse, entrance to which is carried out in strict admission regime. Under constant surveillance video provided by the owner of the car serviced at his first request. In a special lift bronetsehe which can withstand the weight of 5 tons TsenyV basic kit from 18,376,800 rubles (equivalent to 520 000 euros at the current rate of Central Bank)