Friederichs GmbH If you go down to your local Volkswagen dealership and ask for a bodyguard vehicle, they won't sell you one. But if you ask Germany's Carl Friederichs GmbH to sell you a bodyguard vehicle, they'll ask what options you want in it and show you a few types of vehicles they've made. More on Armored Cars Forty years ago the variety of vehicles available anywhere was fairly limited. The U.S. had relied on a number of domestic armoring specialists like O'Gara Hess & Eisenhardt to build cars for U.S. presidents, but when it came to the rest of the world, the variety of off-the-shelf vehicles was much smaller, and that mostly from Mercedes-Benz.