sQuba - the Car that Swims

Cutlass · Mar 3, 2008

sQuba

More than 30 years since Roger Moore's 007 put the idea into every guy's head, someone has finally replicated the underwater auto experience. Swiss design company Rinspeed has created the sQuba ($1.4 million), the world's first submersible car. Based on the Lotus Elise (it was a Lotus Esprit in The Spy Who Loved Me), the all-electric convertible can drive you to the lake in style and then dive underwater to a depth of over 30 feet. The car's engine was removed and replaced by three motors one for land driving, good for up to 75 mph, and two others for the underwater propellers. Power is supplied by rechargeable Lithium-Ion batteries. You can check the sQuba out in person at the Geneva Motor Show next month, but, unfortunately, there are no current plans to build others besides this prototype.

http://www.uncrate.com/men/cars/concept/squba/

http://www.rinspeed.com/pages/cars/squba/pre-squba.htm

http://www.rinspeed.com/pages/content/frames_e.htm

Do you want a submarine/car?

Love · Mar 3, 2008

Thats too James Bondish to be true.

West 36 · Mar 3, 2008

Thank god they made it a convertible, lest I not feel the cool water in my hair.

Leonel · Mar 3, 2008

I'd be satisfied with a boat car. Just drive to the nearest boat launch, sail to Island County, drive up the boat launch and have lunch in Oak Harbor.

Cutlass · Mar 3, 2008

leonel said:
I'd be satisfied with a boat car. Just drive to the nearest boat launch, sail to Island County, drive up the boat launch and have lunch in Oak Harbor.

that's been done

Leonel · Mar 3, 2008

Cutlass said:
that's been done

Something that doesn't look like WW2 surplus.

Masquerouge · Mar 3, 2008

I'm not sure if that's for real or not, but I'm pretty dubious about the "cars that swim" market size. I don't recall one single time where I would have needed one.

SS-18 ICBM · Mar 3, 2008

Think of how awesome an accident would be.

Leonel · Mar 3, 2008

SS-18 ICBM said:
Think of how awesome an accident would be.

o/` Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you. That is how I know you'll go on. o/`

Hitti-Litti · Mar 3, 2008

Umm... what if something breaks when you're underwater? Water just bursts inside, and you've got to drive pretty fast to the surface to survive.

Masquerouge · Mar 3, 2008

Hitti-Litti said:
Umm... what if something breaks when you're underwater? Water just bursts inside, and you've got to drive pretty fast to the surface to survive.

Umm... what if something breaks on your regular car while you're driving at 65 MPH?

Shirastro · Mar 3, 2008

Hmm....how often do you actually need to go in the water with your car?

Catharsis · Mar 3, 2008

Keith Moon must be rolling in his grave.

StarWorms · Mar 3, 2008

Would be nice to have in the rare event of a flood. Apart from that, there really won't be much use for it, apart from on lakes.

sourboy · Mar 4, 2008

Monster Garage did this... anyone can...

Hitti-Litti · Mar 4, 2008

Masquerouge said:
Umm... what if something breaks on your regular car while you're driving at 65 MPH?

I meant something like glass breaking or just something that allows the water to burst in. You won't drown when driving on dry surface.

Love · Mar 4, 2008

Yes you will!

Cutlass · Mar 4, 2008

Hitti-Litti said:
I meant something like glass breaking or just something that allows the water to burst in. You won't drown when driving on dry surface.

It's a convertible. The water is already in.

emzie · Mar 4, 2008

leonel said:
Something that doesn't look like WW2 surplus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphicar

They're quite expensive on upkeep.

Fugitive Sisyphus · Mar 4, 2008

Is it called 'sQuba' to bring to mind Scuba which makes you think under water or is it called ' sQuba' to bring to mind Cuba which makes you think of those Cubans who convert their cars to boats in order to make it to Florida.

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