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Rinspeed has released a second round of images of its sQuba concept ahead of the car’s 2008 Geneva Motor Show debut in March. Known for over-the-top concepts, the latest Rinspeed concept is no exception. The Swiss company hails the sQuba as the “world’s first real diving car” as it is capable of diving to depths of 33 feet.
Like the Tesla Roadster, the all-electric sQuba is based on the Lotus Elise.
On land, the sQuba is powered by an electric motor that sends its power to the rear wheels. Once in the water, propulsion is provided by two propellers and a pair of jet drives.
A self-contained on-board air system provides the driver and passenger with oxygen when the sQuba is submerged.
Like the majority of Rinspeed’s creations, there are no plans to put the sQuba into production.
12/17, 12:49 PM
posted by:
CA36GTP
Okay, despite what I’ve said about over-the-top concepts, that’s xxxxxx’ cool.
12/17, 12:53 PM
posted by:
MY Si
um CREEPY……..
12/17, 12:55 PM
posted by:
MY Si
I guess THIS is what happens when you drive your Lotus Elise on a windy day and it gets blown into the SF.Bay. Look out Great Whites!!!!
12/17, 12:55 PM
posted by:
MY Si
And this driving depth. Is that with the top UP or Down!?!
12/17, 12:59 PM
posted by:
LP640
33 feet wow. i always thought that Rinspeed ideas were just stupid
12/17, 1:14 PM
posted by:
Brendino
haha good call, MY Si. what the heck is the top doing down, and what’s up with the awful rendering?
12/17, 1:22 PM
posted by:
SwerveEarly
Under water electric car? How is bouyancy controlle? Hate to see what happens if you sink below dreaded 33′ mark.
12/17, 1:31 PM
posted by:
jackjimturkey
I’ll take 2!
12/17, 1:33 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
This is what happens when you get stoned and start reading back issues of Popular Mechanics.
12/17, 1:53 PM
posted by:
golf4me
That was funny Johnny…
12/17, 1:53 PM
posted by:
MY Si
dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun!!!!!
12/17, 2:02 PM
posted by:
CTS DRIVER
oh man johnny that was pretty good, maybe fema can issue theese to the lower 9th ward in new orleans before the next hurricane season.
12/17, 2:14 PM
posted by:
hbcbob3
it looks like a TVR and a lotus exige had a baby…that is if cars were able to procreate…
12/17, 2:20 PM
posted by:
meanpants555
I hate solutions to problems that don’t exist.
12/17, 2:51 PM
posted by:
global_lightning
Phun with Photoshop. Really, other than the bell thingie on the side and the fins, this is just a rendered Lotus Elise superimposed on an aquatic background. Isn’t it 5 months unit 1 April???
12/17, 2:51 PM
posted by:
CTS DRIVER
F3INT))AP3X, that was pretty funny.
12/17, 4:19 PM
posted by:
C6Racer
Thank you Captain Obvious. As we all know(or should) Rinspeed pretty much just customizes existing production models. They usually work on Porsche’s. At least that’s what I’ve seen.
12/17, 4:20 PM
posted by:
The Stig
ROFL
12/17, 6:09 PM
posted by:
TOZO
I like saying the word “Rinspeed” with a thick high-pitched British accent. Oh nohh Rinspeed, get your knickers out of the wooater, a shark approaches! A shark approaches!
12/17, 6:13 PM
posted by:
JedS88
Its got some Aston Martin in there too
12/17, 6:18 PM
posted by:
DeansterTJ
No plans to put it into production? OK, ok,…
THIS JUST IN:
DeansterTJ just created a car that flies you to the moon, , and then serves you a nice hot coffee. No plans to put it into production, but I created it, yes sirree!
12/17, 7:16 PM
posted by:
jackjimturkey
deantj: been there, done that.
12/17, 7:24 PM
posted by:
F451
Burial at sea.
12/18, 2:28 AM
posted by:
carbonsigma
HAHA funny, DeansterTJ.
Rinspeed, is a stupid idea.
12/18, 12:51 PM
posted by:
CTS DRIVER
deantj where do i send my deposit? i have been depositing in astins ass but i dont get a good **** sucking and coffee out of the deal.
12/18, 2:11 PM
posted by:
SS4LIFE
I’d really like to see some video footage of this testing. I just don’t get why Rinspeed makes all these concepts, I mean concepts are cool, but what do they actually makes that gets produced and how do they profit?
On a side note, the Aquadra Car did come into production and I think that’s really cool. Even though there was the Amphi Car from what the 60’s? Haha that’s a sweet car. I saw two men wearing cow-boy hats drive one right down a boat launch outside a town near Traverse City Michigan and drive it straight down a channel and then drive up a boat Launch in front of a bunch of Charter Fisherman. They even had a pole sticking out the back. Hahaha… should have seen everyones’ faces!
12/18, 6:11 PM
posted by:
jonmiles
I wish I got paid to smoke weed and come up with stupid ideas like this
12/18, 10:56 PM
posted by:
stick2clutch
My Colombian friend would like about ten of these. Business is good… but with this it will get better.
12/19, 4:46 PM
posted by:
Dindel
Frank Rinderknecht knows his classics. It couldn´t have been anything else but a Lotus. Remember `The Spy Who Loved Me”.
02/14, 1:17 PM
posted by:
CTS DRIVER
if it breaks down underwater then the next person who gets there gets salvage rights correct?
02/14, 1:20 PM
posted by:
CTS DRIVER
dman bastards where was my post on who gets the salvage rights when this breaks down underwater. By the way i want to give that hooker in the picture a black eye.
02/14, 1:27 PM
posted by:
corvette
….What?
02/14, 1:27 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
What a skank. If she was bleeding underwater I’ll bet the sharks still wouldn’t come near her.
02/14, 2:28 PM
posted by:
Mach
^You guys shouldn’t talk about your mom that way.
02/14, 2:33 PM
posted by:
CTS DRIVER
^ we were talking about your dad.
02/14, 3:25 PM
posted by:
jumpoffit
now cubans can ride in style on the way to miami
02/14, 9:45 PM
posted by:
autonut
Hey I already had a car like that. Actually I sunk 2 cars in my life.
02/15, 4:11 AM
posted by:
pbwe
Galvanic corrosion greenfield.
02/16, 12:07 AM
posted by:
AdibzumbaAbihganulah
Now people can have a third car. Just put it in the swimming pool.
02/18, 11:29 AM
posted by:
maximus
does it come with paddles if you run out of fuel? Does it require life vests? I can’t imagine this actually making the market at all.
02/18, 11:31 AM
posted by:
maximus
on the plus side, I guess it’s impossible to get flood damage on the car