Presidential Limos

Here's one from my shelves.

and they keep getting larger....

here is the Bush era DTS,

and here is the same limo next to the Obama era Parade Car,

and then the New Era Parade Car, as it is known, first used by the previous administration,

almost as long as a FDNY Rescue vehicle, and the agent is six feet tall.

Until President Reagan, Lincoln had been the preferred marque of the White House garage/mews. Can anybody tell me why the change to Cadillac?  

For some good information on the changing Lincoln/ Cadillac limos, see Wikipedia at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_state_car_(United_States)

Two comments here...

First, there is no "preferred" marque within the government...bids go out, bids come back.

Second, that wiki article referred to above is factually incorrect on many points and just wrong on many others.

@lloyd-mecca Do you know which was called, "The Beast" and who gave it that nickname?

Mark, here's an article with some explanations. 

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a23397702/donald-trump-presidential-cadillac-limo-beast/

Here are two more 1:43 Presidential limousines, both by MINICHAMPS:

@mark-lampariello

Yes, the Obama version was first given that name by the individuals who were doing driver training with (where they do that sort of thing) it because it was soooo much larger all around than all the previous Parade Cars and tougher to handle. Of course, someone in the media heard that term and thought they had a scoop (not).

No new PC hits the street before everyone has trained on it for obvious reasons.