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The sQuba, developed by Swiss company Rinspeed, is the world's first car that can be driven both on land and underwater. [1] [2] The original idea by Rinspeed founder and CEO Frank M. Rinderknecht was inspired by the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. The chassis from the Lotus Elise is used as the base for this vehicle. [3]
Rinspeed became synonymous with launches at the Geneva Motorshow, their first unveiling was, a turbocharged, modified Volkswagen Golf GTI with squared grille and headlamps. [1] In 1981, Rinspeed returned to the show with a more heavily modified Golf called the Aliporta, featuring gullwing doors similar to those on the Delorean DMC-12 . [ 2 ]
ThrustSSC, Thrust SSC or Thrust SuperSonic Car is a British jet car developed by Richard Noble, Glynne Bowsher, Ron Ayers, and Jeremy Bliss. [1] Thrust SSC holds the world land speed record , set on 15 October 1997, and driven by Andy Green , when it achieved a speed of 1,228 km/h (763 mph) and it became the first and only land vehicle to ...
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The submarine does not maintain a dry interior, and thus is a "wet sub" that requires occupants to don scuba gear. [6]It was built by Perry Oceanographic, Inc., of Riviera Beach, Florida, United States, [7] specifically for the film, using a Lotus Esprit S1 bodyshell, for about $100,000 at the time. [8]
A car song is a song with lyrics or musical themes pertaining to car travel. Though the earliest forms appeared in the 1900s, car songs emerged in full during the 1950s as part of rock and roll and car culture, but achieved their peak popularity in the West Coast of the United States during the 1960s with the emergence of hot rod rock as an outgrowth of the surf music scene.
The SOFAR channel (short for sound fixing and ranging channel), or deep sound channel (DSC), [1] is a horizontal layer of water in the ocean at which depth the speed of sound is at its minimum. The SOFAR channel acts as a waveguide for sound, and low frequency sound waves within the channel may travel thousands of miles before dissipating.
Up Off the Floor (stylized as up off the floor) is the third and final studio album by God Lives Underwater. The album was originally recorded in 2000 but due to various problems, the album was shelved until Locomotive Records (owned by Megaforce Records ) picked it up.