WOW !!!
hey guys,

Any idea how much this baby cost?


Check THIS out !

 

my father has it (s600 b6) but it has been armored not directly by mercedes but by private company..

check my old post.. a lot of problems with it..

 

My father also has a FACTORY ARMORED S600 B6-B7 but his is a model year 1997. The one he has cost over 400,000 new. I dont know how much the new ones are but my fathers fetches about 95,000 in the current market in Mexico.


I wish i could upload a pic.

Charles

 

Wow...some important people on here to get B6-B7 level armor!

US can only get up to B4 or some pansy level like that right?

 

I once visited a car armoring company in Salt Lake City. Let me say that aftermarket armoring is NOT a good idea. Of course the factory version costs a lot more, but you get what you pay for!!

This company didn't armor benzes, but Suburbans and things like that. I would be very, very worried about getting in an accident with one of them, as they damage the structural integrity of the car badly. So, if people are shooting at you, it's OK. Just don't hit anything with it!!

 

are you really sure about that???

 

It's cool and all, but 9,000 lbs is a lot for a car, no?
Eric....

 

Only the mediocre armoring companies damage the structural integrity of the car. The good ones actualy reinforece it. It has to do allot with the quality of the work and the experience. For example www.protectoglass.com has armored over 1000 cars and constantly update their equipment and technique.
Charles

 

Wasn't Rafik Harriri (the lebanese ex-prime minister who was bombed a few years back) S-class Benz armoured too, it didn't seem to help him much if it was so.

 

Yes it was:
"Hariri’s personal vehicle, a black Mercedes S600, was searched inside and out and scanned with a chemical explosive detector. The armoured Mercedes was rated to the maximum B6/B7 protection level, its steel and hi-tech fibre-armoured bodywork and layered polycarbonate windows capable of withstanding military-grade rifle fire with armour-piercing rounds and blasts from hand grenades."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...337665,00.html

 

Well, by way of comparison, in 2001, M-B offered the S500 Guard in the States.

Back then, the S500 cost $78,950. For the B4-grade Kevlar armour around the cabin and other vulnerable spots, S55 AMG/S600 brakes, rear windows that don't open (and no sunroof), run-flat tires, and a tire pressure monitor, you could buy an S500 Guard (now weighing a thousand pound extra) for $153,950, plus delivery. An external intercom could be added for $1,900, and a self-sealing gas tank added another $6,050.

 

why? in case of accident, armored cars aren't safer for passengers than normal cars?

 

Somewhat, I suppose. However, the S-Class is already just about as safe for passengers as one can get. The vehicle in which Princess Diana died was decade-old un-armoured S-Class, and it smashed directly into a concrete pillar at over 100 miles per hour, and yet the front passenger died, and the rear passengers would have survived if they had been properly belted, since the rear cabin was almost unaffected. You can't get much sturdier than that.

A lot of the armouring in the S-Class Guard is very specific to prevent ballistic penetration. For example, the door panels are lined with multi-angle Kevlar segments that serve as "bullet traps", keeping rounds from deflecting between panels. This adds weight, but does next to nothing in an ordinary collision. The armoured polycarbonate glass also won't make a difference; it probably won't shatter, but the regular glass is designed not to be harmful anyway, and the curtain airbags will help keep it away from passengers in any event. In the end then, it's just door armour that would make a difference, and it's not that thick anyway; this stuff is meant to deal with .44 Magnum-class ammunition, not full-scale assault rifle or battle rifle rounds. In the end, you're just not getting that much more protection from an already superbly safe car by armouring it. Maybe it would make more of a difference in a Ford Escort.... Arguably, one might say that it's worse in some ways in normal-people-world, since the extra weight compromises acceleration and handling (this is why they had to use the boosted brake system from the S55/S600), meaning that an accident is harder to avoid.

In the end, and this is just a hunch, I think an accident severe enough to completely compromise the standard S-Class's safety features will overload a Guard model, as well. In any rate, an accident of that force would be carrying extreme g-loadings and the like, such that whiplash and other secondary injuries would be potentially lethal concerns irrespective of cabin integrity.

 

Yeah but he was also killed with 1 Ton of explosives. Nothing was gonna save him.

 

The price bay MB Germany is unless 400.000 Euro, but you get it cheaper bay techmo Carat in germany up to Level B7/B7. Look under www.german-armured.de. The MB Level is only B6/B7.

Nice Greetings

Bertram / buerhauswtal@t-online.de

 

If I am going with armour on my car, I don't want cheaper

 

Good point.

 

Rafic Hariri was killed along with 21 others in an explosion in Beirut. Explosives equivalent to around 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of TNT were detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel.

 

 

WOW. Last time I participated in this thread was over 10 years ago. Anyways. Back to the topic. We’ve had 3 of these cars. They are really well built. But even the most armored tanks can be blown up by 2 tons of tnt. They knew the prime minister rode around in those high level armored s600’s so they prepared bombs that could destroy even one of those cars. They really really wanted him dead. That is definetly clear. Pretty sad too.