VIDEO: German armor company blows the crap out of a Rolls-Royce
Why on earth would you deliberately shoot a Rolls-Royce and try your darnedest to blow it off the road? Well, because it looks like fun, that's why. But at a third of a million dollars, you should have a better reason than an appetite for destruction and a wad of cash burning a hole in your pocket like so many rounds from an assault rifle.
Fortunately, Mutec has such a reason. The German firm armors up luxury sedans and vehicles of all kinds for customers around the world. In this case, they've worked an undisclosed amount of bulletproofing and bomb-resistant armor into an extended-wheelbase Phantom, and then went to work on it with more fire power than Donald Trump commanding a marine batallion. And since we're not likely to do the same in this lifetime, we might as well enjoy the video after the jump, with our thanks to Patrick and Julio for sending in the tip.
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fmwso 8:07PM (10/20/2009)
Poor Rolls Royce.
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Big Mola 8:17PM (10/20/2009)
And before you know it, Germany invades Poland.
Matt (that likes ford) 8:27PM (10/20/2009)
Whoa dude.... Harsh.
XGM 8:40PM (10/20/2009)
It'll buff out
Venom 8:12PM (10/20/2009)
Not too shabby even though it was a shame they had to do that.
I would have been more impressed if they started up the Rolls at the end and drove off.
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rombick 8:47PM (10/20/2009)
i think it's still drivable even after last two explosions. if an explosion this size could destroy this car it wouldn't really worth it.
Remember long time ago, Georgian (not sure) president (don't remember the name) had Mercedes s-class armored by this company, got hit by missile from rpg7 and still got away.
rombick 8:51PM (10/20/2009)
It was Eduard Shevardnadze, and i was wrong; Mercedes s600 was armored by Mercedes-Benz guard division. but it doesn't really make much difference.
http://www.cartoday.com/content/news/singlepage.asp?in=9579
Venom 8:51PM (10/20/2009)
Rombick,
I remember that guy.
They did their best to try to kill that guy.
They shot at him and blew up his cars a billion times.
His armored car company earned their money.
Brandon 9:46AM (10/21/2009)
For some reason, RR with bunch of bullet holes and explosion scars are sexier than regular RR.... I'll look like Bond in it.
ckm 1:51PM (10/21/2009)
My father was a diplomat and we had several different armored cars over the years. Most of them had run-flat tires, could withstand RPGs (the chairman of BMW survived an RPG fired at point blank range...), some shaped charge weapons and even IEDs. It was not uncommon for assailants to dig up roads to put hundreds of kilos of explosive under the road. The problem was not surviving the blast, but the subsequent landing.
One judge in Spain had 500kg of explosives put in a sewer in front of the church he attended. The car survived the explosion fine, but flew clear over the church and landed in the next street, killing everyone inside on impact.
One funny thing was incidents that happened when an armored car was parked on the street... I remember someone trying to break into the car (apparently with a sledge hammer) when it was parked on the street overnight. Came back to find a 1/2 dozen little powdered triangles on the side windows... Another time, it had been parked illegally and the police tried to tow it with a crane truck. I was in a cafe across the street, almost died laughing as the truck almost tipped over....
iijohn88ii 8:17PM (10/20/2009)
My god!!!!!!
what else is there to say?
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Dean 8:22PM (10/20/2009)
As sad as it is to see any expensive car destroyed, if I (or whoever) were to buy a car like this, and have it armoured, I'd like to know that it would survive whatever threats were thrown its way. It is a shame the car was destroyed.
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Digitalrailroader 7:52PM (10/21/2009)
sure its a crying shame, but things have to be destroyed In The Name of Science and Technology. and as a lot of people have said on here, I would have been impressed if Mutec had started the Rolls and drove it away to prove that their armor also protects the vehicle's running gear for a quick getaway.
orion 8:43PM (10/20/2009)
So why don't they show opening the door up afterwards? I want to see if some dummies on the inside survived.
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Randy915 10:28PM (10/20/2009)
I was hoping they demo their bullet proof run flats in a moving vehicle.
PauloBecker 8:52PM (10/20/2009)
Doesn't mean much if they don't show the car actually DRIVING away after all that beating. After all, the thugs can always cripple it and wait until you have to come out of it before starving to death.
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Paul P. 8:57PM (10/20/2009)
I would love to own one of these armored vehicles. I have no reason for it, but I still think it would be a lot of fun. Like having your own tank that you can still drive on public roads.
My choice would probably be an armored Suburban/Tahoe though. A Rolls Royce or Bentley would stick out too much for my taste.
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vespid82 9:02PM (10/20/2009)
They can make this thing stand up to a mini World War III... yet our own government is too cheap to make a Humvee able to even limp away from IEDs... Just sayin. :-X
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mroverlord 9:29PM (10/20/2009)
You sir, obviously have no idea how big those IEDs are. It appears the explosives they used on the RR were a set of hand grenades...that is nothing compared to an anti-tank mine that has been converted to a roadside bomb. A dear friend had his 56,000 pound HMMTT wrecker blown clean off the road from an IED. He survived only because they detonated late and the explosion was underneath the tool bed and rear axles....the heaviest part of the "Hemmitt". That explosion would have thrown that RR into the next zip code.
The issue with the HUMVEE isn't one of design, but rather application. It was never designed nor intended for combat. It was suppose to be a multi-purpose utility vehicle. There were never ANY design elements for it to be a combat vehicles. That is why it's made of sheet aluminum and fiberglass.
FThorn 9:42PM (10/20/2009)
frakkin idiotic (original) post.