Rinspeed sQuba Concept

Is it just a clever computer animation or maybe more a fiction from a Hollywood movie? Or is it actually a real car sitting there? Many visitors to the upcoming Geneva Motor Show (March 6th thru 16th, 2008) will ask themselves just these questions when faced with the new Rinspeed creation “sQuba” - the worlds first real diving car. This astonishing concept vehicle from the renowned Swiss powerhouse for new designs and ideas looks almost like it just came out of a James Bond movie.

Its capabilities not only to drive on roads - and this also at a push of a button autonomously (thus without a driver, passenger or further assistance) - but also to agitate as an amphibious vehicle and to protrude to water depth of up to 10 meters (33 feet) go beyond the scope of many human virtues of imagination.

For Rinspeed boss Frank M. Rinderknecht the “sQuba” symbolizes the realization of a long-cherished dream and of movie fictions - of which perhaps the most noted out of the James Bond film hit “The spy who loved me”. “And exactly thirty years later this amazing - yet at the time animated - film sequence materializes and becomes reality, in today’s world”, says Rinderknecht.


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DaHarder - 12/17/2007 11:46:39 AM

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Ok...

This 'rendering' is absolutely ridiculous:

A TARGA Top... GET REAL!

DaHarder - 12/17/2007 12:19:22 PM

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- and if it does look anything like this 'rendering', I think the boys over at Lotus are going to just bit a bit perturbed.

chris760 - 12/17/2007 7:29:55 PM

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looks like a lotus elise with its rearend built by aston martin...and also, how can a car go underwater WITHOUT A FRICKING ROOF????

I95SPEEDINGTICKETS - 12/18/2007 6:19:18 AM

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Called SQuba as in Scuba not Sub as in Submarine

With Scuba you would have to wear some kind of breathing gear.

I Think.