Are we missing something here? Is this not one of the most pointless cars ever built?
It's not just an example of people with more money than sense but also of way too much time on their hands. They haven't even thought to put a blowdrier across the dash to dry your sopping clothes.
Inspired by 007's sub-aqua Lotus in The Spy Who Loved Me, the sQuba was the brainchild of Rinspeed and completed in 2008 in time for the Geneva Motorshow.
The blurb from the Rinspeed website says: "This extraordinary concept car created by the famous Swiss Rinspeed Design Company could have come straight out of a James Bond film. Its ability not just to drive along the road – and that on autopilot at the press of a button – but also to continue along its route through water, diving to depths of ten meters, breaks the bounds of the imagination of many people when they think of a car. Its unique bodywork, designed to echo that of the Lotus Elise cult sports car, is being complemented by a whole new world of colorful experience."
We're just saying all that effort could have gone into creating a something slightly more practical and less silly.
This extraordinary Concept Car created by the famous Swiss Rinspeed Design Company could have come straight out of a James Bond film. Its ability not just to drive along the road – and that on autopilot at the press of a button – but also to continue along its route through water, diving to depths of ten meters, breaks the bounds of the imagination of many people when they think of a car. Its unique bodywork, designed to echo that of the Lotus Elise cult sports car, is being complemented by a whole new world of colorful experience.