The pioneering Swiss car designer has created the sQuba, a vehicle equally at home on land, sea and beneath the surface.
Once underwater, the passengers breathe air from a compressed tank, like those used by scuba divers
“For three decades I have tried to imagine a car that can fly under water,” he said.
“Now we have made this dream come true.”
In the 1977 movie, Bond, played by Roger Moore, avoids the clutches of the metal-toothed thug Jaws by plunging his Lotus Esprit Turbo into the ocean.
Computer animation techniques show the wheels folding under the chassis while lateral fins and propellers emerge before 007 dispatches his foes with a built-in rocket launcher, harpoons a fish and drives on to a convenient beach.
Just like its inspiration, the sQuba is built on the chassis of a Lotus, although this time it is the more rounded Elise.
The sQuba is to be displayed at next month’s Geneva Motor Show
I don’t know about anyone else but to me this one is definitely in the cute , expensive but ultimately useless category. I can think of a great number of cars that would be better value at the price quoted above.
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