Its new! gigantic unarmored SUV, Conquest vehicles reveals the evade

The world is a serious place—the stuff is always prepare to hit a fan somewhere—so what better way to protect yourself than an armored vehicle? And what better armored vehicle to use than Conquest vehicle Knight fifteen, a massive SUV planned to stop bullets while looking like it can stop a cruise missile. But the world also is an unpredictable place, as partially proven by Conquest Vehicles’s creation of a new, light-grade fifteen look-alike that is not armored. The Toronto based company is calling its more dangerous new model the Evade, which seems apt given that is exactly what buyers will have to do when the bullets start flying.

Like the fifteen, the Evade is based on a Ford F-550 Super Duty commercial truck chassis and wears savagely styled bodywork. Typically, consumer grade armored cars hide their armor and blend in, but not the Dartz like Knight Fifteen & so it goes for the Evade, minus the armor, of course. Conquest Vehicles colorfully describes the Evade’s new body panels as “massive,” but obviously they are “significantly” less so than the 13,000-pound Knight fifteen’s beefed up fare. The panels are rendered using an aluminum/mild-steel blend, but this dose of super legers engineering is offset by the truck’s steering wheel, hinges, and running boards, all of which are formed from solid blocks of stainless steel.

An inner chock-full of luxurious do dads and high-tech security features also doesn’t alleviate the pain felt by the pavement beneath the Evade’s tires. Standard equipment includes 4 wheel drive, FLIR front and rear 9 vision cameras, joystick operated outside lights that offer 360 degrees of lighting coverage, leather and Alcantara interior furnishings, and a “commercial-grade” air suspension. The interior is set up with a 2+2 rear-seating shape with two pairs of chairs facing each other, limousine-style, and buyers can add retractable flat-screen monitors, a partition among the rear quarters and the front cabin, and power rear seats. Like the fifteen, the Evade can be had with one of two Ford engines, one gas and one diesel.

We realize that not every buyer in the market for a commercial truck based land crusher needs armor or blast resistant tires but lose the armor and the Knight fifteen  derived appeal seems lost. Then there is the Evade’s cost tag, which at $579,000 falls just $50,000 shy of the Knight fifteen’s base price. That’s big money for something that lacks a winged B or a flying lady hood ornament, let alone one that also doesn’t save your bacon when the heat is on. We’d splurge for the armored fifteen, which soon will inherit the Evade’s minor styling updates, so that we may indulge in its paramilitary appears & the assurance that it packs paramilitary chops, as well.