AN INNOVATIVE car design company has created the only real submarine car in the world. Car designer Frank M. Rinderknecht, aged 64, and his team at Swiss mobility lab Rinspeed are responsible for the “sQuba, the world’s first and only real submersible car capable of driving seamlessly from land to underwater. The idea originated from the Lotus submarine car which James Bond drove in the iconic 1977 film “The Spy Who Loved Me”. But unlike Bond’s Lotus, the sQuba is a convertible, with oxygen masks for the car’s passengers and a quick drying interior for when you arrive back on land.
Video Credits:
Videographer / director: Bob Callway
Producer: Kalina Van Vlack / Paola Desiderio
Editor: Alex Lubetkin/George Morris
Video Credits:
Videographer / director: Bob Callway
Producer: Kalina Van Vlack / Paola Desiderio
Editor: Alex Lubetkin/George Morris
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00:00The Scuba is the only real diving car in the world.
00:08The idea suddenly came from this vehicle.
00:11We all know it from James Bond.
00:14It was fiction. It was Hollywood. It never really happened.
00:17So our claim was to put all that fiction into reality,
00:22to build a car which can drive on the road,
00:25which is able to go in the water.
00:27It's really out of this world. It's our icon.
00:30We took out the internal combustion engine
00:36and replaced it with an electric one.
00:38In the original James Bond's movie, the car was closed.
00:42Here in the back, we see the two propellers.
00:45And like a ship, we can control going left or going right.
00:49Like James Bond has his fish,
00:51which he handed out after he resurfaced,
00:54we have our lobster, which we caught while diving.
01:00The way to the sea is that,
01:01we're a full jet engine.
01:02So he's supposed to go.
01:03So you can take out the air sous videot Birmingham.
01:04Because this one is the whole of his ship.
01:06We have to go on top cup,
01:07and we have to go on top of the ship.
01:08Okay, so we're going to go on top.
01:10Then the two cardiac cars are going on top and down.
01:11And we have to go on top of the ship.
01:12And we have to do the ship.
01:13And to the ship's sea,
01:14we have to ride with them.
01:16And the boat is taken off to the ship.
01:18And now we have to get into the ship.