sarettah
09-04-2003, 10:09 AM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._amphibious_car (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20030903/ap_on_re_eu/britain_amphibious_car)
Britain Launches New Sports Car-Boat
Wed Sep 3, 3:22 PM ET
LONDON - Britain's newest sports car took a test drive Wednesday, zooming back and forth across the waters of the Thames River in pure James Bond style.
The Aquada can hit speeds of 100 miles an hour on land — and once it hits water, the wheels retract into the wheel arch, jets kick in, and the car is suddenly a boat.
picture at:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor.../168/55cdt.html (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030903/168/55cdt.html)
Once waterborne it can reach speeds of 30 miles per hour, according to Gibbs Technologies, the British firm that designed it.
With a sticker price of about $235,000, the convertible has no doors in order to avoid leaks. Drivers and passengers must jump over the side to get into the car — just like a boat.
"With this you can have a really good car on the road, and an exciting toy that can tow a water skier, that you can commute to work with, that you can go to St. Tropez with and take two girlfriends," the firm's chairman Alan Gibbs told reporters at the car's test drive on London's Thames on Wednesday.
Britain Launches New Sports Car-Boat
Wed Sep 3, 3:22 PM ET
LONDON - Britain's newest sports car took a test drive Wednesday, zooming back and forth across the waters of the Thames River in pure James Bond style.
The Aquada can hit speeds of 100 miles an hour on land — and once it hits water, the wheels retract into the wheel arch, jets kick in, and the car is suddenly a boat.
picture at:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor.../168/55cdt.html (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030903/168/55cdt.html)
Once waterborne it can reach speeds of 30 miles per hour, according to Gibbs Technologies, the British firm that designed it.
With a sticker price of about $235,000, the convertible has no doors in order to avoid leaks. Drivers and passengers must jump over the side to get into the car — just like a boat.
"With this you can have a really good car on the road, and an exciting toy that can tow a water skier, that you can commute to work with, that you can go to St. Tropez with and take two girlfriends," the firm's chairman Alan Gibbs told reporters at the car's test drive on London's Thames on Wednesday.