Photo: Rinspeed
The Swiss design company Rinspeed apparently plans to show this baby off at the Geneva Auto Show next month. The sQuba prototype — not currently available at any price — is based on the submarine car that James Bond used in “The Spy who Loved Me.”
Autoblog has a comprehensive post about this drool-worth gizmo, including a sensible explanation of the obvious question: why in God’s name did they make this thing a convertible?
Some might think a submersible convertible sounds like a submarine with a screen door, but Rinspeed has got a handful of reasons why it didn’t go with a closed cockpit. Safety is one, because in an emergency, occupants might not be able to exit a closed cockpit vehicle underwater. Buoyancy was another, as the vehicle would’ve needed two tons of extra weight to offset the volume of air inside a cockpit, which would’ve seriously compromised the car’s on-road handling. The small issue of breathing underwater is solved by an onboard breathing system that works like, what else, scuba gear.
Be sure to check out the video at the bottom of the autoblog post.
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