<P> The new version of the executive limousine was expected to debut at the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017 . After prototypes of the new model were seen driven on public roads wrapped in monochromatic multi-scale camouflage, Cadillac confirmed to Fox News that "We've completed our task and we've handed over the vehicle to the customer". When asked by the news channel, the Secret Service confirmed that the program to replace the presidential car was "on track and on schedule" and should be in service by late summer 2018 . Fox News' Gary Gastelu opined that the camouflaged prototype looked similar to the Cadillac CT6 . </P> <P> After the introduction of the automobile in the 1890s, no serving president rode in one until President William McKinley briefly rode in a Stanley Motor Carriage Company steam car on July 13, 1901 . According to the United States Secret Service, it was customary for them to follow the presidential horse - and - buggy on foot, but that with the popularization of the automobile, the Secret Service purchased a 1907 White Motor Company steam car to follow President Theodore Roosevelt's horse - drawn carriage . The president himself eschewed riding in the vehicle due to his "image as a rough - riding horseman". </P> <P> President William Howard Taft changed things up at the White House, converting the stables there to a garage and purchasing a four - car fleet on a $12,000 budget (equivalent to $326,844 in 2017): two "luxurious" Pierce - Arrow cars, a Baker Motor Vehicle electric car, and a $4,000 1911 White Motor Company steam car . President Taft became a fan of the steam car when he discovered he could conceal himself from press photographers with a "carefully timed burst of steam ." </P> <P> President Woodrow Wilson was such a fan of the three Pierce - Arrow cars his administration purchased that he bought one of them from the government for $3,000 (equivalent to $41,160 in 2017) when he left office in 1921 . President Warren G. Harding was the first president to use a car to drive to his inauguration, and was the first president who was driver - qualified . President Herbert Hoover had a Cadillac V - 16 . </P>

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