Fast car or fast boat... BOTH?

QCHQCH Ancient GuruChicago Area - USA Icrontian
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
This just in, for those of you that want to have a fast car and a fast boat... Gibbs Technologies has created a prototype that is fast on land and water....

quote:

"Apart from having three seats side-by-side, at first glance the Aquada looks like many other cars, until you see it skim over the water. The company says the Aquada can reach speeds of 160 km/h an hour on land, and with the press of a button, 48 km/h on water. "

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
<a href="http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=0406C4DA-5C71-4A94-8B55-5D5EFEE30A10&quot; target=_blank>Read it here</a>

Comments

  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    It will debut for 150,000£ or $225,000 US. I saw this yesterday on the BBC website.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    Will it take a supercharged 502? :D
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    No, but it has something like 275HP, I can't find the story on the BBC website like I did yesterday.
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    I submitted this yesterday but it got lost by our staff...
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    They had cars that could travel on water 30 years back. The real problem was never the wheels causing drag as the article says, it was that after about 1 year the car would fall to bits through rust.

    Is it made of aluminium or something?

    ~Cyrix
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    CyrixInstead said
    They had cars that could travel on water 30 years back. The real problem was never the wheels causing drag as the article says, it was that after about 1 year the car would fall to bits through rust.

    Is it made of aluminium or something?

    ~Cyrix

    No, it has a fiberglass underside, and I think on the sides too.
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