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  1. Re:Car-sub! by steveha · · Score: 4, Interesting · on James Bond Gadgets

    Fascinating. Here's a link to the text explaining the car:

    http://www.rinspeed.com/pages/cars/squba/pre-squba.htm

    This is an actual car, but the Bond version remains sheer fantasy. The Rinspeed's passenger compartment is not pressurized; it's designed to let the water in. According to the above cited text:

    With an enclosed volume of just two cubic meters of air the vehicle weight would have to increase by two tons (!) to counteract the unwanted buoyancy, giving the "sQuba" the land mobility of a turtle.

    The James Bond movie car drove fast on land, and shot wet cement onto the windscreen of a pursuing car, before driving into the sea and then firing a missile to shoot down a helicopter. This is cooler, though, because it actually exists.

    steveha

  2. Re:Car-sub! by netsavior · · Score: 5, Interesting · on James Bond Gadgets

    yes, yes they have had a sub-car
    Rinspeed sQuba

  3. Flying cars, you say? by metlin · · Score: 1 · on Europe Joins Race To Send Humans To Mars

    A little offtopic, but apparently, the Swiss have developed some flying cars.

    More details can be found here.

    (yeah yeah, I know that they're technically hover-craft kinda thingys for brief over-water flight, but hey!)

  4. Web Page Link with specs, photos, etc by Alien54 · · Score: 4 · on Zero to Rutabaga in 6 Seconds
    Apparently the car is done in cooperation with Rinspeed - [English page here] They have a frames menu, but the Advantige R is there under the concept cars, with far more detail (with specs!) than in the original story.

    The Concept car page is here (broken out of the frame).

    Photos too. very much worth checking out.

    Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip

  5. Web Page Link with specs, photos, etc by Alien54 · · Score: 4 · on Zero to Rutabaga in 6 Seconds
    Apparently the car is done in cooperation with Rinspeed - [English page here] They have a frames menu, but the Advantige R is there under the concept cars, with far more detail (with specs!) than in the original story.

    The Concept car page is here (broken out of the frame).

    Photos too. very much worth checking out.

    Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip

  6. Re:Back to the future....... by Perx · · Score: 1 · on Zero to Rutabaga in 6 Seconds

    The first thing I thought when I read your post was, 'My ass - I'll bet the engine is in the back'. Turns out I would have won.

    Can't be bothered looking at the web site? I quote 'The rear-mounted bivalent 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine (16V) produces 120 hp at 5,500 rpm and delivers its maximum torque of 165 Nm at 3,000 rpm.

  7. Car Specs by b1ng0 · · Score: 2 · on Zero to Rutabaga in 6 Seconds

    You can read more about the Advantige R at Rinspeed's web site.

    Apparently they are using Kompogas for their bio fuel.

  8. More info about the car and fuel by joshwa · · Score: 2 · on Zero to Rutabaga in 6 Seconds

    The car: http://www.rinspeed.com/pages/press/pre-r_one.htm

    The Fuel: http://www.kompogas.ch/e/index.html

    copy and paste the link text for the goatsex-wary...