This boom began in 1994 with the kidnapping of a billionaire banker who was held 106 days his family paid a ransom of 30 million dollars. Mexico’s Government thinks that consumers are living under a false sense of security if they own one of these cars. The people need to learn to follow better safety measures then expect a bulletproof car to do it for them.

It isn’t just the public that is buying these bullet proof vehicles, huge drug cartels also own them along with vests and jackets. The manufacturers swear they haven’t sold any of these items to the cartels, but they have them just the same.

Learn Something: The first bullet proof vest was created in 1538, by Francesco Maria della Rovere.