Back in the middle Sixties, the Germans brought us the Amphicar. It was a quaint looking little car boat combo powered by a Triumph Herald engine putting out a whopping 38 horsepower. This made for top speeds of 7 knots on water and 70 mph on land. It sat 4 people and more or less bobbed around in the water looking rather like it was about to lose the buoyancy battle. Not exactly the right machine to cruise the beach in search of frauleins. In more recent years, the boys at Top Gear have tried to make a number of different 4 wheeled contraptions float with varying levels of failure. If I recall correctly, all but one of these ended up on the bottom. Again, not something the birds are going to flock to. It seems that it takes an American gearhead to build a machine worth of cruising for chicks at Lake Havasu. Californian Dave March saw the similarities between modern car and boat construction and thought the time had come for a real amphibious car. One that can go fas on land and water

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