Engineered and built by Land Rover’s Special Vehicle Operations team in West Midlands, England, it is not the first bulletproof vehicle Land Rover has made in-house, but it is certainly the toughest. The Sentinel’s release highlights a segment of the automotive industry that often goes unnoticed: the manufacture and sale of armoured vehicles. Current of changeAn estimated 200,000 to 300,000 armoured vehicles circulate on streets worldwide, with Brazil leading with the highest per capita number of armoured vehicles in the world, according to Texas Armoring Corp. Sâo Paolo alone currently receives 800 armoured vehicles a month. The world’s fastest bulletproof vehicle may be the Audi RS7 Sportback, which the company claims can hit 200mph. Many of the outfits that armoured vehicles advertise their own patented technologies as the lightest-weight and strongest of the lot.

Source: The Edge Markets November 04, 2019 02:03 UTC