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A New 'Alternative' Vehicle:
UK-based Gibbs Techonlogies introduces a new vehicle to the US. The Aquada from Gibbs Technologies is designed to provide sports car-like performance on land and on sea. While the technical hurdles in designing a competent amphibious ...
New engine for new amphibious crossing attempt
A new attempt at setting the record for the fastest crossing of the Cook Strait in an amphibious vehicle has been scheduled for Tuesday, this time with a brand new engine.
Will Detroit Build New Amphibian Car?
After a number of delays, the well-off entrepreneur from New Zealand aims to start selling the amphibious vehicles in the United States by 2009. He is also developing a land-and-sea vehicle with Lockheed Martin for military use. ...
First Underwater Car!
The car is not only able to drive on roads autonomously with a push of a button (thus without a driver, passenger or further assistance), but can also transform into an amphibious vehicle which can be submerged in water up to 10 meters ...
Poser or Player?
Instead, New Zealand must invest in capabilities that allow us to control our immediate region. Project Protector is a good start, but we need more ocean patrol vessels, long-range reconnaissance aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles ...
Underwater sports car
New sports car creates a splash ... Similar to 007's Lotus Esprit, the sQuba is a road-worthy vehicle that, at the touch of a button, can transform into an amphibious vehicle capable of diving to a depth of about 33 feet. ...
US Ground Forces: More Money Needed
The Marine Corps' $3 billion list includes $1.7 billion for a new amphibious force ship. Other items include lightweight howitzers, armored vehicles and day care centers in Hawaii and North Carolina. The Navy's $4.6 billion wish list ...
intelligence brief, USMC expeditionary fighting vehicle.
Other Marine forces like the British and Dutch, they note, are relying instead on smaller amphibious vehicles like the BvS-10 Viking. These vehicles are also fully amphibious, but trade less water speed and slightly less protection for ...
Back to New Zealand at the end of leg two
Clarkson refused to have anything to do with the project on the gorunds that it was dangerous and doomed to failure (not very far removed from building amphibious vehicles out of old wrecks and attempting to cross the channel, then), ...
Ananova: New sports car creates a splash
The Rinspeed sQuba concept car was inspired by James Bond’s The Spy Who Loved Me. Similar to 007’s Lotus Esprit, the sQuba is a road-worthy vehicle that, at the touch of a button, can transform into an amphibious vehicle [...]
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