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Where’s Q? Introducing our James Bond ambulance

By Mark Cox
June 4, 2010 at 4:00 pm

In truth, I really am not the person to be writing this particular blog. I hate cars and trucks. I loathe Top Gear petrolheads, don’t care who their mystery driver the Stig is and – for all I understand him – Jeremy Clarkson might as well be speaking Swahili when he blethers on about twin turbos and cam shafts.

But still, the Red Cross has an exciting motor announcement and – given the unavailability of Clarkson or that little hamster-looking chap – it falls to me to trumpet the good news.

It appears the Red Cross volunteers in Cumbria will today receive a brand new, custom-made, state of the art Land Rover ambulance – complete with the sort of ‘extras’ customarily created by Q for James Bond in the 007 movies.

The uber-vehicle is a fully-equipped ambulance on the inside, but can go off-road at the drop of a hat to cope with snow, ice and flooding. It’s six and a half inches higher inside than existing Land Rover ambulances, giving more working space to the crew (and presumably meaning that very tall casualties won’t bang their heads getting in).

Spookily, it even features an electric-powered trolley to swish patients around really quickly and a new computer-controlled electrical system. (No, I don’t know what that means either.)

Rumours of an ejector seat, underwater travelling capacity and headlights-cum-machine guns are all unconfirmed, but it’s surely only a matter of time before these important additions are implemented.

It’s a brave, new, motorised world, my friends. Brooom, broom.

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