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* A few real examples, excluding the beetle, are amphibious cars like the [[World War II]] Schwimmwaggen and GPA,the [[The Sixties]] Amphicar and a host of less famous cars. Ironically, by far the most successful wasn't a car at all: it was the DUKW amphibious 2-1/2 ton truck, which are popular among military vehicle collectors and used as emergency and [[wikipedia:Duck tour|excursion vehicles]] even today. |
* A few real examples, excluding the beetle, are amphibious cars like the [[World War II]] Schwimmwaggen and GPA,the [[The Sixties]] Amphicar and a host of less famous cars. Ironically, by far the most successful wasn't a car at all: it was the DUKW amphibious 2-1/2 ton truck, which are popular among military vehicle collectors and used as emergency and [[wikipedia:Duck tour|excursion vehicles]] even today. |
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** The [https://web.archive.org/web/20100107062217/http://www.rinspeed.com/pages/cars/squba/pre-squba.htm Rinspeed sQuba] is designed to behave like the aforementioned Lotus Esprit from ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]].'' However, it's open-topped rather than watertight and as such, requires the passengers to wear SCUBA gear. |
** The [https://web.archive.org/web/20100107062217/http://www.rinspeed.com/pages/cars/squba/pre-squba.htm Rinspeed sQuba] is designed to behave like the aforementioned Lotus Esprit from ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]].'' However, it's open-topped rather than watertight and as such, requires the passengers to wear SCUBA gear. |
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* A non industrial example: Floating Cubans. Cubans take normal cars ([http://www.rowand.net/Shop/MechanicalFunnyBone/1959BuickBoat/1959BuickBoat1_files/040204_boatcar_hmed_2p.hmedium.jpg often old American cars]) and modify them so they can float across the Ocean to Miami, using propellers, buoyant oil drums and/or water sealer. |
* A non industrial example: Floating Cubans. Cubans take normal cars ([https://web.archive.org/web/20190614054405/http://www.rowand.net/Shop/MechanicalFunnyBone/1959BuickBoat/1959BuickBoat1_files/040204_boatcar_hmed_2p.hmedium.jpg often old American cars]) and modify them so they can float across the Ocean to Miami, using propellers, buoyant oil drums and/or water sealer. |
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* While [[Tank Goodness|tanks]] usually cannot float, both the British and the Americans figured out how to make them amphibious in [[World War 2]], the Americans using pontoons and the British using canvas displacement screens. The Germans, on the other hand, developed deep water fording kits using snorkels to allow their tanks to motor across the bottom, Postwar, with tanks grown too big to be floated, several other nations also developed deep water fording systems, an idea that has since been given up as impractical. |
* While [[Tank Goodness|tanks]] usually cannot float, both the British and the Americans figured out how to make them amphibious in [[World War 2]], the Americans using pontoons and the British using canvas displacement screens. The Germans, on the other hand, developed deep water fording kits using snorkels to allow their tanks to motor across the bottom, Postwar, with tanks grown too big to be floated, several other nations also developed deep water fording systems, an idea that has since been given up as impractical. |
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