Joe Bidens car The Beast drives US president Motorcade convoy at the NATO Summit in Brussels

US President's Motorcade arrives at NATO HQ for the extraordinary NATO Summit. What kind of car is The Beast? The Beast is a special project built specifically for the President and, as such, isn’t based on any standard roadgoing model. It’s built by American car maker Cadillac and shares its grille style with the brand’s Escala concept car, while the headlights are similar to those on the previous generation Escalade SUV, but it doesn’t actually share parts with any other model. #USA #JoeBIden #USconvoy #USpresident #POTUS #NATO #NATOSummit How big is The #Beast? Underneath, The Beast is based on a heavy-duty truck chassis and believed to be powered by a truck-derived diesel engine from General Motors. From bumper to bumper it measures a massive 18 feet long and weighs somewhere between 6.5 and eight tonnes. All that weight means the big machine isn’t exactly sprightly, taking a reported 15 seconds to reach 60 miles an hour. And the length can cause problems too, as Barack Obama found