Drive Like James Bond In This Iconic Underwater Car

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AN INNOVATIVE car design company has created the only real submarine car in the world. Car designer Frank M. Rinderknecht, aged 64, and his team at Swiss mobility lab Rinspeed are responsible for the “sQuba, the world’s first and only real submersible car capable of driving seamlessly from land to underwater. The idea originated from the Lotus submarine car which James Bond drove in the iconic 1977 film “The Spy Who Loved Me”. But unlike Bond’s Lotus, the sQuba is a convertible, with oxygen masks for the car’s passengers and a quick drying interior for when you arrive back on land.  Video Credits: Videographer / director: Bob Callway Producer:  Kalina Van Vlack / Paola Desiderio  Editor: Alex Lubetkin​/George Morris

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00:00The SCUBA is the only real diving car in the world.

00:08The idea suddenly came from this vehicle.

00:11We all know it from James Bond.

00:14It was fiction, it was Hollywood, it never really happened.

00:17So our claim was to put all that fiction into reality,

00:22to build a car which can drive on the road,

00:24which is able to go in the water.

00:26It's really out of this world, it's our icon.

00:30We took out the internal combustion engine

00:36and replaced it with an electric one.

00:39In the original James Bond movie, the car was closed.

00:42Here in the back, we see the two propellers,

00:45and like a ship, we can control going left or going right.

00:49Like James Bond has his fish, which he handed out after he resurfaced,

00:54we have our lobster, which we caught while diving.

01:00SCUBA is the only real diving car in the world.

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