Talk:Official state car

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BetacommandBot 19:32, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Colombia needs to be rewritten, bad.
I'd do it myself but I hate wikipedia for deleting so much useful information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.227.196.57 (talk) 03:07, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Rewrote it for you, good sir. --DiRF —Preceding unsigned comment added by DiRF (talk • contribs) 02:54, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

More countries
France: Usually a big Citroën, currently a C6, Jacques Chirac received the first as far as I remember. See also Staatskarosse.

Russia: Some ZIL, apparently there's a new one in the making.

DDR: was a Volvo or Citroën.

84.115.129.76 (talk) 12:51, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Seems that little ole Sri Lanka has the most expensive stae cars in the world: The government (of Sri Lanka) yesterday informed parliament that some 31 new bulletproof vehicles were purchased for VIP use.

Replying an oral query raised by UNP legislator Ravi Karunanayake, Chief Government Whip, Dinesh Gunewardena said 31 new bullet proof vehicles were imported after the 13th parliament was elected.

He said 12 vehicles were imported at US$ 1.8 million, 15 others at US$ 3.7 million and four others at US$ 13.23 million.

Gunewardena said the vehicles were imported from a range of countries including the United Kingdom, India, Germany and Czech Republic.

FOUR cars for $13.23 Million, thats a real bargain 86.140.75.108 (talk) 20:42, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Norway
This sentence doesn't quite make sense. "The vehicle does not have a sunroof, due to the hats the royals often wear."Davehoekst (talk) 18:42, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

It does makes sense as a sunroof reduces headroom. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.103.113.0 (talk) 15:47, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Official State car of Canada
Hey Can we get some pictures of the official state car of Canada. Canada is an important country. We should have some pics for it too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.7.14.105 (talk) 21:03, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Speaking of Canada, can someone please stop claiming the PM drives around in an STS. He is driven in a long wheelbase DTS, and watching any YouTube video of his motorcade will confirm this. -Mralexofcanada

Proposed merge with Motorcade
Both articles are similar and Official State Car does Motorcades job anyway ie. describes the size and complexities of motorcades in different countries--Gargabookofayr (talk) 09:14, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Australia section
I have removed most of the sources as the sources don't supported on what is stated in the section, I have used on source as it as a photo of the PM's car. I have also removed the bit about the former PM's since it was more about what they get and nothing to do with "official state car(s)". Bidgee (talk) 11:03, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I've removed the claim about streets sometimes being blocked off for the PM as this was uncited and rather unlikely. Nick-D (talk) 22:41, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

The paragraph added on 29 November 2014 makes allegations of impropriety in the new vehicle tender process. This seems to be 'original research'. Is there a reliable source to back up this conclusion? LPS (talk) 17:04, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Chile
The State Car of Chile | was a gift] of Queen Elizabeth II during a state visit to Santiago in 1966. Rakela (talk) 18:26, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Personal names
If a car is used by, say, the president of a country and is not necessarily changed on a change of leader, it is best not to give the leader's name. It adds nothing to the article ("Vlad Dracul," adds nothing to "the president of Transylvania"), and potentially goes out of date after every election. There's no point in being too dogmatic about this, as cars are also changed frequently, and we're not going to keep this article up to date. Pol098 (talk) 13:22, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Grammar (multiple issues)
Multiple issues with the grammar and vocabulary have been found in this article. They mostly reside in the articles for Latin American, Asian, European and African countries. Fastguy397 (talk) 20:37, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Hong Kong should be separately presented in this article, not under China
I hope I am making myself clear. Hong Kong, as her unique status, is not just "a city with special status", Hong Kong is a city with Sub-sovereignty, which was granted by the constitutional document the Basic Law. For example, Hong Kong is a separate member in many international organisations, such as WTO etc. Hong Kong is always represented and viewed separately from China, as a fact and custom. However, if you insist only sovereign state should be allowed to be presented individually, this will fall to the definition of sovereign state. A sovereign state is a state that is recognised by other independent sovereign states and is a member of the United Nations. In these circumstances, Taiwan is not. Taiwan is not widely recognised as an independent sovereign state and is not a member of the UN. However, practically we all understand Taiwan is a state and is different from China, therefore in most Wikipedia articles Taiwan is presented separately from the PRC, and so it should also apply to Hong Kong. Although in terms of sovereignty, Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China, due to historical reason and the Basic Law, Hong Kong enjoys Sub-sovereignty and is widely presented internationally separately from China. Therefore, in this article, I see no reason why Hong Kong should not have it own.

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Switzerland
The part of Switzerland is complete rubbish. No fleetwood macs, and the Chancellor of Switzerland is not head of state. The federal councillers use a selection of Mercedes S as well as one Tesla Model S. Also no Motorcades in Switzerland. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.215.51.89 (talk) 16:08, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

UK--Daimler?
It's my understanding that the House of Windsor used exclusively Daimlers, extending at least part way into ER's reign. Possibly a family connection? Don't have a cite right now, but will do some digging when I get to my desktop. D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 14:40, 19 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I think they started using Royces post WW2; R-R aimed the Phantom IV exclusively at Heads of State. Is it very wrong of me to wish that the official transport of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man was a Bond Bug?  Three revolving legs and a very short tail… Mr Larrington (talk) 19:18, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

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