This was in the news a few years ago, but it looks like the company is setting up shop to sell it in the US market.

http://autos.msn.com/advice/article....&topart=luxury

 

A New 'Alternative' Vehicle: The Amphibious Car

Here's something the MINI could never do.
The Amphicar is well known, and the Germans had the Swimwagen (sp?). I think it's a neat car. I would post on the MSN forum, but I'm not signing up.

Even though Arizona has a high boat per capita ratio, I would never want one, but to each their own.

 

Cool! I could see wealthy vacationers (or residents) on Cape Cod buying one of these to get around the traffic bottlenecks at the two bridges leading onto the Cape. I wonder what sort of ocean waves it can handle?

(I must confess I'm not going to read the whole article. There's a flamefest going on in a real estate forum that I read, which is much more compelling lunchtime reading material. )

 

Great minds think alike! I merged Kurt's thread with sndwave's.

 

Thanks Clo!

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mini82/page6/
I stumbled across this!

 

Well, with Global Warming on the horizon, we may eventually
all have amphibious cars.

 

Detailing it might get interesting.

 

That's a real Mini. It's got a jet ski under it but it's a MINI body.

 

How about this one?

Rinspeed Splash

Also check out Rinspeed's site at Rinnspeed They drove it across the channel!

 

A hydrofoil! That works for deep channels.