Rinspeed sQuba Concept

[TheIntrepid]

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.

Definitely part of the material world is the power of the concept car: An electric motor with powerful torque drives the rear wheels. The propulsion on the water is ensured by two propellers in the stern and two powerful jet drives in the bow propel the vehicle under water while diving. With zero emissions, zero pollution in the seven seas of this world. The light weight body with components made of futuristic Carbon Nano Tubes encloses in a streamlined manner the driver and passenger who are supplied with fresh breathing air by the self-contained on-bord system.

[Raghavan]

WTF...
How can they have two jet motors that produce no pollution?

[giant_mtb]

What a novelty.  They'll sell four.

[Soup DeVille]

What a novelty.  They'll sell four.

It's Rinspeed. They won't ever sell any.

They aren't trying to either. What they do is sell their design services to other companies.

Their concepts are always outlandish.

[Soup DeVille]

WTF...
How can they have two jet motors that produce no pollution?

Not jet motors. It's an electric motor.

Jet drives are a type of propeller: used most commobnly on Jetskis and such.

[93JC]

Whatever. I'll take a Gibbs Aquada. It may not dive, but it's real, and it verifiably works.

[Soup DeVille]

Whatever. I'll take a Gibbs Aquada. It may not dive, but it's real, and it verifiably works.

It's probably real and it probably works.

They made this one a few years ago: On land, the hydrofoils fold up and becdome a rollbar and a rear wing.

[TheIntrepid]

It looks like an Elise/Tesla, so it'll sell five instead of four.

[SVT_Power]

It's probably real and it probably works.

They made this one a few years ago: On land, the hydrofoils fold up and becdome a rollbar and a rear wing.

that was on top gear wasn't it?

[Soup DeVille]

that was on top gear wasn't it?

Maybe? I don't know.

[Submariner]

I love how the roof is off.

[TheIntrepid]

I love how the roof is off.

Whoa!! I didn't even notice.

[sportyaccordy]

An underwater CONVERTIBLE?

[Tave]

That's what I've been wondering, too.

[Vinsanity]

An underwater CONVERTIBLE?

LOL.



Fail.

[Soup DeVille]

That's what I've been wondering, too.

Maybe you didn't get the name of the car: sQuba: as in Scuba...

[Tave]

Maybe you didn't get the name of the car: sQuba: as in Scuba...

So you're expected to wear a tank while you drive it?

And I thought people who wear helmets in cars were weird...



I'm not talking about track drivers.

[Soup DeVille]

So you're expected to wear a tank while you drive it?

And I thought people who wear helmets in cars were weird...



I'm not talking about track drivers.

It says something about having it's own onboard air supply. " driver and passenger who are supplied with fresh breathing air by the self-contained on-bord system."

Although, I'd still want a spareair and a BC on...

[Laconian]

And a wetsuit... I don't think any climate control system can do much for this car.