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![]() Okay, so you've got one of those wimpy SUVs; what's the point of an off-road vehicle that can't drive underwater or jump over barriers? This is a vehicle that does it all.
Compare to the automatic automobile from The Living Machine by David Keller 1935 and the smart piston spokes from Heavy Weather (1994) by Bruce Sterling.
There was an actual car from the 1960's that could double as a car and as a boat. In the summer of 2003, Alan Gibbs had a team of engineers working for years to perfect the latest version, the Aquada, which travels at 100 miles-per-hour on land and 30 miles-per-hour on the water. See pictures of this amazing craft at Check out the car-boat. A bargain at $235,000; where else can you get something this cool?
If you are more concerned with something that is more environmentally friendly, see the future of SUVs; a diesel-electric hybrid powered by both a 1.8 liter direct-injection turbo diesel engine and an electric motor. Compared to a Ford Explorer, it achieves a 100% improvement of fuel economy - 40 miles per gallon. Created by student engineers in Minnesota.
For a novelist's view of an amphibious craft, see William Gibson's take on the hovercraft, from his novel Mona Lisa Overdrive.
Compare to The Terror - a flying car, boat, submarine and plane from Jules Verne's 1904 novel Master of the World. Comment/Join this discussion ( 3 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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