You are James Bond
posted on september 4, 2003, tag: tech
In what can only be described simultaneously as "the most ridiculous" and "best idea ever," a company in the UK called Gibbs has designed and is now selling a new car called the Aquada—the world's first "High Speed Amphibian (HSA).
For the uninformed (everyone on the fucking planet except the insane and/or people obsessed with Transformers), an HSA is a car and a boat. When on land, the Aquada is capable of speeds of up to 100 miles per hour, when on water up to 30 mph (Strange that they write that on their website, which is located in the UK, where they use kilometers per hour... maybe they know the only people stupid enough to buy this car would be Americans?).
I guess this would be a great car for people who live, say, on a river and never built a bridge. "Well, I've lost 5 cars in that damned river, but now I won't have to worry about that." Or, maybe, people who just want to scare the shit out of their friends by buying the car and not telling people it becomes a boat: "Frank, you're going a little bit fast, especially when we're right next to the river. Hey, watch it! What the hell are you doing?! You're heading right for the water! Ahhh! Ahhhhhh! [Shits pants] I'm going to die! Help me Jesu—oh. It turns into a boat. Funny." And, of course, there's rich people who just need to buy everything ("I must have a car that can also be a boat."). But regular people... well, it's a fucking fat chance anyone will buy one.
Still, you've got to admit that whoever started the project had balls—"I'm going to build a car boat!"—and it is neat. If only it had a submarine function, a remote control, missiles, people chasing it shooting at it and guaranteed vaginal penetration with hot women, you would be—for all intents and purposes—James Bond.
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James on 09/04/2003:
Actually, despite the official death of the Imperial measurement system in Europe, it still survives in the UK. Distances and speeds are normally referred to in miles and mph. Long live the inch, the ounce, the stone and the pint!
zlog on 09/07/2003:
I'm English and I drive at 50mph ;)
Jimmy on 09/07/2003:
I seem to have this argument with loads of people who are not actually from UK - we don't use kilometers per hour. Thats a presumption you've made becuase, as James said, the death of imperial measurement system. However, it would be a large price to fork out to change millions and millions of signs around the whole of the United Kingdom just to change to km.
slang is a must on 10/19/2003:
Amphibious cars are not only restricted to giving a subject of writing to unaware people ! There have been allready hundreds of them sold in the sixties ! remember the amphicar ( have a look at www.amphicar.com or many other sites, just make a reasearch on the web !).
An amphibious car is just the only boat allways stored ready "in your car", or just like 10 friends waiting with a trailer at the ramps of the lake you are boating in !
Any boat enthousiast would buy it once more affordable !