Interesting new Dutch invention: the amphibus

[trabitom99]

Great stuff, I wish we had one of these to cross the Rhine:


http://www.spiegel.de/auto/fahrkultur/0 ... 70,00.html

erm, maybe not
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 019264.ece

Tom

[griffo20022]

That looks awsome! Ashame about it's first breakdown! I always loved the amphibious convirtable that looks like a MK2 Mazda MX5, can't remember the name.....

Ooo just found it! The Gibbs Aquada!

[volvosneverdie]

Seen a similar amphibious bus on the Mersey?
Older style though.

Cool things.

[macplaxton]

Here's the BBC report

[volvosneverdie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llgctRlr5rw

[MCHUDD]

Hi all.
Seen that bus on the news the other night.
I can just see the young ones going home at night after a skinfull,
bus going into the tide,puke everywhere.
Cheers Mark.

[bodejodel]

That looks awsome! Ashame about it's first breakdown! I always loved the amphibious convirtable that looks like a MK2 Mazda MX5, can't remember the name.....
Ooo just found it! The Gibbs Aquada!

I think the Rinspeed Splash beats it on land and in the wather, looks and performs better...
30 vs 50 mph in the water
100 vs 125 mph on land

[jtbo]

Water wings are bit of problem in tall waves, also big boats using those are often at docks when there is strong wind, but they are great when weather is good.

I still think that coolest things for sea transportation were ekranoplanes , possibly fastest things on water and those were huge, today they don't do anything like that, in 60's there were lot of stuff that looks more modern than anything there is today, specially what comes to flying or water things.

These are even older,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMDQZtlcLeU 50's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dHQD-D98sQ Rolls&Royce powered

Now between a bus and those boats, I think that I would not go to bus

[dubweiser666]

I've had a bus licence for over ten years now, and driven many volvo's in my time

that looks like a different and novel way of making cash from transport, it'd be cool if it had a glass floor, so u could spot the loch ness monster, ....or raw sewerage, depending on what part of uk you're in.

I think It's a good idea from the dutch boffin's, ......who had been up all night ...smoking.... to come up with that one, cheers holland!, thanks for ......er everything!!!!