007 龐德的下一部座駕 非牠莫屬 - sQuba

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sQuba 水陸兩用車問世
2008.02.26《時報週刊1566期》報導＝陳裕盛 圖片＝美聯社

在007系列電影《海底城》中，讓人印象最深刻的除了帥哥美女，就是有1部「水陸兩用車」，在陸上水底 都能自由自在地遨遊，讓影迷神往不已。瑞士的Rinspeed汽車設計公司，最近設計出「sQuba」概念車，預計將在3月舉辦的日內瓦車展亮相。

sQuba外型看起來是一部很帥氣的跑車，但在陸上行駛時的速度並不驚人，最高時速僅有124公里。在水面上行駛時，sQuba依靠底盤兩側的螺旋推進器前進；不過，也別期待它能像遊艇一樣狂飆，最高時速才5公里左右。

最讓人嘖嘖稱奇的，是sQuba真的可以「潛水」。為了讓sQuba能在水中行駛，設計師採用3具電動引擎，其中1個提供陸地上的動力，另外2具則用於潛水。車身兩側還有噴射口，能讓車身在水中左右轉，或者是上下移動。sQuba的潛航時速約3公里，深度則為9公尺。

最妙的是，sQuba是一輛敞篷車，那潛水的時候怎麼辦？對不起，就算潛進水裡，它也還是敞篷車。Rinspeed表示，敞篷車，可以讓乘客在有危險的情況下輕鬆脫身。所以，駕駛sQuba潛水，必須攜帶壓縮氧氣裝置，耍完帥上岸，人也會變成落湯雞。

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YouTube - Rinspeed's first underwater Car

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有人說 影片中這輛 Rinspeed sQuba
是由 Lotus Elise 蓮花跑車下去改裝的

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USAToday 上報導 說 製造這 第一輛樣板車 花費了 150 萬美元;
日後市售價格應該不會高於一輛 Rolls-Royce (Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe has a sticker price of more than US$400,000)

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2008-02-15-squba-car_N.htm

No fins but Rinspeed's 'sQuba' car still swims. Really!

By Bradley S. Klapper, Associated Press Writer
GENEVA — OK, so the Swiss have invented a car that runs on land and underwater. But did they REALLY have to make it a convertible?
It's called the "sQuba," and conjures up memories of James Bond's amphibious Lotus Esprit from The Spy Who Loved Me. That fictional vehicle traveled on land and, when chased by bad guys in a helicopter, plunged into the water and became an airtight submarine — complete with "torpedoes" and "depth charges."

But Bond's "Q" isn't responsible for this one.


The concept car — which unlike Bond's is not armed — was developed by Swiss designer Rinspeed and is set to make a splash at the Geneva Auto Show next month.

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Company CEO Frank Rinderknecht, a self-professed Bond fan, said he has been waiting 30 years to re-create the car he saw Roger Moore use to drive off a dock.

The sQuba can plow through the water at a depth of 30 feet and has electrical motors to turn the underwater screw.

You'll have to break out the wetsuit, however.

The car has an open top, meaning that the two passengers are exposed to the elements.

"For safety reasons, we have built the vehicle as an open car so that the occupants can get out quickly in an emergency," said Rinderknecht, 52.

Passengers will be able to keep breathing underwater through an integrated tank of compressed air similar to what is used in scuba diving.

The sQuba's top speed on land is about 77 mph, but it slows down to 3 mph on the surface of the water, and 1.8 mph underwater.

Working with engineering specialists, Rinspeed removed the combustion engine from a sports car and replaced it with several electrical motors. Three are located in the rear — er, aft — with one providing propulsion on land and the other two driving the screw for underwater driving.

"We always want to do cars that are outrageous, which nobody has done before. So we thought, 'Let's make a car dive,"' said Rinderknecht, whose innovative company has made transparent, flying and voice-activated cars in previous attention-grabbing displays at the Geneva Auto Show.

The company calls the sQuba the first real submersible car. Unlike military amphibious vehicles, which can only drive slowly on a lakebed, the sQuba travels like a submarine — either on the surface or submerged.

The interior is resistant to salt water, allowing the skipper to drive into a lake or the sea.

"Many concept cars introduce important new technology," said John Cabaniss at the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers in Washington. "Anything to improve the efficiency of a vehicle, streamlining or reducing the weight of materials, while maintaining strength ... is put into concept cars first."

Cabaniss said the lithium-ion batteries in Rinspeed's car are "state-of-the-art" and added that the car industry in general would be looking for more ways to make things work electronically. But he was skeptical of the overriding idea.

"Other than some kind of a movie situation, for Bond-like stuff with lots of gimmicks, I can't imagine it will have any practical value," Cabaniss said. "Maybe people will need to go from land to water, and traverse a body of water, but underwater? Especially as it gets your suit wet."

Rinderknecht said it cost more than $1.5 million to make the sole sQuba in existence, and that it was difficult to make a car watertight and pressure-resistant enough to be maneuverable underwater.

"The real challenge, however, was to create a submersible car that moves like a fish in water," he added.

Rinspeed is in discussion with commercial manufacturers about making a limited number of the cars. The price? "It would be cheaper than a Rolls-Royce," he said. A 2008 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe has a sticker price of more than $400,000.

Rinderknecht said it is unlikely that people would soon spot the sQuba tolling down the highway or popping up in your nearby lake.

"They might sell as toys for rich people, perhaps," he said. "I don't see mass transportation switching to cars that dive."

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