No it did not. Watch the video again. It got over the bump, but only with a pretty loud noise.
With chrome spinners and a horn that plays La Cucaracha.
That is no problem at all compared to getting stuck.
And fuzzy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror!!
If the wheels weren’t touching the ground, what good would flooring it do?
The reports I saw said the president wasn’t in that particular car.
And the most kick-ass stereo sub-woofer the world has ever seen!
In fact, there’s another possible solution right there – a sound system so awesomely powerful it can shatter nearby obstacles.
It seems to me that something broke, and it wasn’t an issue of ground clearance. Look at this angle instead. That’s not a scrape sound, and the front end suddenly drops to rest on the tires.
Cue Gerry Rafferty’s Stuck in the Middle…
Bonus points that Rafferty was Scottish.
They should get Citroen to build the next Presmobile.
Saved General de Gaulle rather famously.
Note the battletank fitted with it 
It sure does. Not sure what type of suspension it has, but yeah it looks like it broke.
Perhaps the car did have hydraulics to handle the bump, but they broke at just the wrong moment.
Granted, any moment would have been bad, but since it happened right there it creates threads like this all over the internet.
you could hear the shorter car ahead of it scrape first as well as the crowd reacting to it. You can see the high point in road. It clearly scraped and was hung up on the drive shaft. After that the car can be seen rocking back and forth on the pivot point.
That is such a strange thing. The motor before (in a different video) just barely scraped over that incline, but that one just seems to collapse and gets stuck. Ah well, another entry in the “Big Book of Things to Do” for the Secret Service. The President’s detail looked much more worried when he and Michelle went away glad handing and hugging people in the little town his ancestor came from.
Does Cadillac have a single torsion bar suspension in front because it drops down evenly in both videos.
Not even sure if the question is relevant – they add thousands of pounds of armor and special gear, and a bigger engine, so they have to make major changes to the suspension to handle it all. I don’t think Cadillac does this – I think it is an after-market specialized company.
OK, after watching both videos repeatedly I have to believe this is an all wheel drive set up. There is no way the car was going to clear the high point considering the shorter car didn’t make it. The reason I think it’s all wheel drive is because the front wheels actually react to the event and retract force-ably upwards. It just doesn’t collapse, you can see the passenger wheel pull up with the noise. I’m guessing that the drive shaft struck and the sudden violent stopping action was transmitted to the front drive section.
Agreed. The car is Cadillac in name only. Between the 6.5L diesel and the armor it certainly is going to require a complete rework of every moving part.
Every moving part? It’s a car, not the space shuttle. They’ll have it in the shop for a day, bit of welding, good as new.
It’s not a Volkswagon Bug or a farmer’s pickup truck. It has massive amounts of custom tech and armor on board and it just proved that it can fail. An accident like that is similar to an airplane that does a gear up landing. The damage may not look that bad but it can still cost in the 7 figures to fix once the repairs are made and everyone that needs to approve it is done.
Nope, that is going to have to wait for the first chicano president …