High Security ballistic testing.

Safety just got safer.

Security comes from certainty – which is why the BMW 7 Series High Security was subjected by BMW specialists to the most extreme tests they could devise. The vehicle as a whole – as opposed to the individual armour components – was fired at with a wide variety of weapons, using different sorts of ammunition and from a range of angles. The result is a car you can literally trust with your life: this is the first armoured saloon to have been certified in its entirety for compliance with the new class VR7 ballistic protection standard by a German government test facility (tested as per BRV 2009 guidelines). In fact, the non-transparent area and large parts of the transparent area even fulfil the requirements of the class VR9 standard (tested as per BRV 2009 guidelines).

Full metal jacket and armour-piercing, rigid core ammunition, explosives and hand grenades: the comprehensive testing regime allows us to be completely confident that the armour of the BMW 7 Series High Security can withstand terrorist attacks. The edges of the doors, the places where windows meet frames, and the joins between body panels are obviously the most vulnerable parts of the vehicle – so of course particular reinforcements are incorporated in all these areas.