Ogle Range Rover Popemobile.

After the May 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, security for his May-June 1982 pastoral visit to Britain demanded something new: the first bullet-resistant popemobiles. British Leyland supplied two armoured Range Rovers developed with Ogle Design of Letchworth (alongside two larger Leyland T45 lorry-based vehicles), at a reputed cost of 64,000 pounds each. Each V8-powered Range Rover carried a raised rear enclosure - contemporary accounts likened it to a telephone box - of armoured plate and bullet-resistant glass with seating for four, lifting the overall height to 102 inches (about 2.6 m), and was fitted with run-flat tyres and police radios. The white coachwork carried the papal crest on the bonnet.

The two cars led different lives after the visit. One accompanied the Pope from England to Scotland and was then sent to the Vatican, where it remained in service and was later used by Pope Benedict XVI. The other went to the Caribbean for two further papal tours, passed into private hands in England, was restored and sold through the Cars of Stars motor museum collection, and is now the centrepiece of the 'Celebrating the Lives and Deaths of the Popes' exhibit at the National Museum of Funeral History in Houston, Texas, which opened in 2008.