Presidential car

Presidential car is a car that is used by the president or leader of a country.Every leader of a country generally have vehicles which are used to keperluannya well for a formal, welcoming guests to your country or its activities. Vehicles used generally meet the technical standards as a reliable, robust, and safe and feasible (in terms of comfort), although its levels differ from one another depend-ability of a country.
Vehicles which are usually used are the type that has been equipped Mercedes Benz additional technical standards required as bulletproof glass, communications systems and others. In addition to Mercedes Benz, often using other brands used and commonly used brand that can be produced in the country itself as well as spur the auto industry in a country such as Volvo, Toyota, Jaguar, and Lincoln, even locally made, such as Tata (India) and Proton (Malaysia).
Along the way, these cars also have value in their respective country's history. Like a flatbed car carrying Limousine John F. Kennedy was shot at Le Harvey Oswald who killed him.
In Indonesia, a car valued at the current history is stored in the Museum Building 31 Joang 45 Menteng, Jakarta. Among them are-8 Buick and DeSoto as the first official vehicles Indonesian President and First Vice President Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta
  
Buick-8


Buick is a car made by the Presidency of the Republic of Indonesia, which first used in the period after the proclamation of Indonesian independence. Service vehicles used as the first President Soekarno, especially in the struggle to maintain the independence of Indonesia between 1945 to 1949.
The story of this car into the presidential car is quite interesting. This car was discovered in 1945 in the back office of the Ministry of Transportation of the Japanese Occupation Period (now the office of Directorate General of Sea Transportation, Jalan Merdeka Timur, Jakarta) by Sudiro, chairman of the Barisan Banteng. He himself understands that Buick-8 was not just any car, it is said that car is best car in Jakarta at the time. People of Indonesian independence fighters are then approached the driver and persuaded him to go home to his village in Kebumen, asking for key and present it to President Sukarno, as the vehicle they were deemed worthy of his service as President with a number-one Rep police.
This car, the model still looked dignified and impressive though decades old. There is a sheet of glass that separates the passenger with a driver that can be opened with a lever that rotated. This car is a car type Limited-8, major car Buick issued in 1939 with a capacity of 5247 cc or 320 ci. Not ordinary Buick issued in 1931.
In addition to Buick-8, Mobil offices of President Sukarno, among others, 75 Cadillac, Mercedes-Benz 600, GAZ 13, ZIL 111, Lincoln Cosmopolitan (Cabrio limousines) and the Chrysler Imperial. Imperial Type 38, the police numbered B 9105, which also used the president Sukarno, a gift from the King of Saudi Arabia is terdapa defect in the left fender of the car and rear glass, which was retained as historical evidence, when President Sukarno to pick up her children who attended the University Cikini , this car survived the grenade blast, known as Event Cikini, and one of its passengers later became president of Indonesia, Megawati Sukarnoputri.

1942 DeSoto
DeSoto automobile output in 1942 was used Vice President of Indonesia, Mohammad Hatta. Unlike the Buick-8 which is the result of the findings in the road, the car was a gift from Djohor Djohan businessman, successful businessmen in Jakarta that time in order to help mobilize the struggle to avoid confiscation of the party besides the Japanese Occupation in Indonesia. This is a used car Mohammad Hatta in performing his job as Vice President, both in Jakarta and Yogyakarta. This car had changed hands and the owner used as public transport (oplet). But subsequently repurchased by Mohammad Hatta, and restored again with the help of businessman Hashim Ning. That's why the police numbered car-2 Rep, which has been using an automatic transmission conditions are not as good as the Buick-8-1 Rep that. On this car, like the Buick-8, there is a glass partition separating the driver with his passengers. Unlike the Buick-8 that can still be used, DeSoto car is unusable.

Now
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is often seen using a Mercedes-Benz S600 steel output in 1994 is dikelir anti-bullet, which had been used since 1995 by Alm. President Suharto. Under certain conditions, such as examples of out of town or a flood, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is often seen using his personal car, the BMW X5 berarmor. Since the beginning of 2009, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has used Mercedes-Benz S600 output in 2008, and the old Mercedes supernumerary.