When Was the last you Rode in Limousine Cars?

Perhaps the better question is “have you ever taken a ride in one.” We all know that the rich and famous are often seen in stretched limousine cars. They include your Hollywood celebrities and government dignitaries, royalties and aristocrats, not to mention mafia overlords. Who can forget images of President Kennedy being shot while riding in one?

Stretched limos are specially-built cars often modified from existing luxury road cars. Few car makers actually build stretched variants of their luxury models. Today, you have only the Maybach 62S from Mercedes Benz that was already discontinued as of last year.

Then there’s the humongous Bentley State Limousine specially built for Her Royal Majesty, the Queen of England. And lest we forget, the now BMW-owned Rolls-Royce has been building limousines for the British Royalties for decades culminating in the Phantom series that often land in the hands of oil-rich Arabs.

Those presidential limousines we see on TV taking Presidents from the time of Eisenhower to the present are one-off automobiles. They are often your standard Cadillac and Mercedes Benz flagship sedans stretched by cutting the car in half and inserting a middle section and strengthening the axles with the body modified to be bullet-proof using reinforced Kevlar and thicker shatter-proof windows. The newer ones from Nixon onwards are said to be bomb-proof as well.

A new car-making industry is behind commercial limousine cars for sale and they can custom-build one based on the owner’s specification. What normally happens is a rich owner brings his regular Benz or Caddy to a special shop that does nothing but modify automobiles, vans and buses to make them luxury vehicles. Or, a prospective buyer simple browses through a catalogue of stretched limos that the shop has in its inventory. Most car rental companies have them at the top of their service offering while luxury 5 star hotels deploy a feet of stretched limousines as part of their services transporting select guest to and from the airport.

A new breed of limousines has taken over the conventional stretched cars. These are your stretched SUVs that can house better creature comforts and electronic wizardry inside its roomier cabins. Check out the internet if you’re interested in renting one for a special occasion or have plans of acquiring one. Limousine cars for sale online offer the widest array of models than you can find in brick-and-mortar car showrooms which rarely carry one.