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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * Canada: A Luxury Tank for the street
* Canada - Armoured vehicle maker combines bling with bang
(Video by Mike Supercars TopSpeed - Jun 1, 2015: KNIGHT XV the world's most luxurious armored vehicle $629,000 - The Knight XV is CV’s luxury interpretation of the civilian version of company AAVI’s Gurkha F5)
-- A black tank-like truck cruises downtown Toronto, prompting stunned pedestrians to whip out their smartphones to provide proof of what they’ve seen... What they’ve seen is the Conquest Knight XV. It is a rare beast. There are only 17 in the world, sold to the likes of the prince of the United Arab Emirates and a basketball star Dwight Howard... The vehicle starts at $629,000, but often sells for several hundred thousand dollars more. It weighs twice as a much as a GMC Hummer and it can stop a bullet from an AK-47... And it’s made in Toronto. By hand... It takes about six months to build a Knight XV, and Conquest Vehicles actually machine their own parts out of stainless steel and aluminum...
Toronto, ONT, CAN - The Canadian Manufacturing/Canadian Press, by Liam Casey - July 27, 2015
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