Where’s The Beast? Is this really a ‘Burb?

What happened to the Top-Kick based “Beast”.  I haven’t seen the POTUS in anything else for several years now.  

And is this really just an up armored Burb or something entirely different.  Sure looks like a 3/4 ton Burb with some armor.  

Edit: Nevermind all that, didn't realize there was a new Beast.  New theory is that given that it was such a last minute decision to ride around and wave, the Beast wasn't ready?

If you look at the pictures of that guy with the door open,  the glass is a solid 3-4" thick.  Probably a 'Burb shell over something completely custom

He usually rides in The Beast.

When I worked a contract in the Canadian embassy in Belgrade over 20 years ago, they had Burbs with glass that thick.  They also had about 15 extra leaves in the rear springs.  An embassy employee told me they were too slow to get out of danger.  Around 12,000 lbs IIRC.  

I’m just surprised they’d put the POTUS in anything but that Caddy bodied Top Kick.  

Zoom in on those burb wheels....beefy!

Amazing.  It's proportioned like a Burb.  Not like the Cadillac which doesn't look like any Cadillac ever.  But you're right.  Those wheels appear to be machined out of a single edifice of something.

Running Goodyear tires, I see.