This image made available by Swiss car maker Rinspeed shows its new model, the sQuba, which the company claims is the world's first submersible car.
This image made available by Swiss car maker Rinspeed shows its new model, the sQuba, which the company claims is the world's first submersible car.
GENEVA — In "The Spy Who Loved Me," James Bond takes his sports car underwater, swaps his wheels for fins and fires a missile that knocks a pursuing helicopter out of the sky.
Roger Moore's feats as the iconic British spy may be difficult to match, but a Swiss company says it has created a vehicle that really can turn into a submarine — though without the firearms.
The concept car developer Rinspeed calls its "sQuba" the first real submersible car.
Unlike military vehicles, which can only drive slowly on a lakebed, Rinspeed says its car can provide a stable "flight" at a depth of 30 feet.
"For three decades I have tried to imagine how it might be possible to build a car that can fly underwater," says Frank Rinderknecht, Rinspeed's 52-year-old CEO and a professed James Bond fan. "Now we have made this dream come true."
