Aquada...d' Amphibious car!!!

**Paulo** · November 16th, 2003 06:45 PM

The UK's newest sports car went splashing on the River Thames this week.
At about R1.7m you can have a striking drop-top with which you can go
speeding on tarmac and, well, on water.

Wheels24 first reported about this amphibious car while it was still
in development.

The amphibious Aquada is part speedboat, part car and is the world's
first High Speed Amphibian (HAS). It has a steering wheel in the middle of he front seat and no doors which means you just hop in.

Designed to reach speeds of 161km/h on land, it can switch to cruising
on water within seconds, according to Gibbs Technologies0, the British
firm that designed it.

Once waterborne it can reach speeds of 48km/h.

Gibbs Technologies says the will build a hundred of the cars this
year.

Te car is part of the Aquada Bond series, but the company couldn't
say whether that is a veiled reference to James Bond and the
sports-car-cum-submarine that he operated in the movie The Spy Who Loved
Me
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In promoting the Aquada vehicle, Alan Gibbs, chairperson of Gibbs
Technologies, said heavy traffic in English cities such as London makes
it pointless to have a sports car that can't leave the roads for a short
cut across a river such as the Thames.

"With this you can have a really good car on the road, and an exciting
toy hat can tow a water skier, that you can commute to work with, that you an go to St. Tropez with and take two girlfriends," he said.

During the test drive in the River Thames, the Aquada entered the
waterway down a ramp and appeared as manoeuvrable and watertight as a
speedboat.

When the car enters the water, its wheels retract into the wheel-arch, while the drive mechanism is transferred to power a jet that propels
the vehicle.

Gibbs said the car was the product of a seven-year development program,
and 60 newly patented technologies.

"The design requirements for the Aquada were daunting, but the
technology has delivered and demonstrates the quality of British engineering. I am extremely proud of the achievements of the team in making this a reality," Gibbs told reporters.

Gibbs, a New Zealand entrepreneur, built his first fast amphibian
vehicle in 1995, before moving his company to Britain in 1999.

**Paulo** · November 16th, 2003 06:51 PM

more pics of Aquada...

**Ungas** · November 17th, 2003 11:20 AM

Not another thread of the Aquada... there have been a couple of topics posted already. Still has the same features as before, nothing to fuss about.

**Ungas** · November 17th, 2003 11:27 AM

See related links:
Do it James Bond-style... on the water

how to look good in flood water

HTH

**BoyL3** · November 17th, 2003 02:06 PM

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paki explain to' tnx

**ssaloon** · November 17th, 2003 02:53 PM

US$225,000 daw ang MSRP nito..

**Ungas** · November 17th, 2003 03:32 PM

OT:

Originally posted by BoyL3
Please note that this poster and its associates and contributors cannot be held liable for injury or damage to people or equipment from use of material from this site.

paki explain to' tnx

Baka po kasi idemanda nyo ako o ang mga kasamahan sa tsikot pag nalunod kayo habang nakasakay sa Aquada.