Video: Hey, let’s make a submersible car — with an open top
posted at 8:00 pm on February 15, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Never has something so stupid been quite so awesome.
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Lotus cars have always been my favorite. When I was a kid, I wanted the JPS (John Player Special) Europa. Bad to the bone.
Zorro on February 15, 2008 at 8:05 PM
Who couldn’t use one of these?
BL@KBIRD on February 15, 2008 at 8:06 PM
I want enough money to build a sub car. I wouldn’t but I want that kind of money!
HotAirExpert on February 15, 2008 at 8:09 PM
It is a waste of a perfectly good road car!
Zorro on February 15, 2008 at 8:09 PM
Damn! I was going to send this to you many hours ago, Allah, but thought it was just too stupid to make the awesome level.
laelaps on February 15, 2008 at 8:12 PM
Must.
Have.
It!
ThePrez on February 15, 2008 at 8:14 PM
I have many jokes!
1) So. It’s slow on land AND in water? Sign me up!
2) Is the target market New Orleans? (wuh? Too soon?)
3) Solves the problem of needing to be airtight
4) water damage? What water damage! It’s submersible!
5) It’ll get your women wet (get it? get it?)
6) No peeing in the car!
I’ll stop
lorien1973 on February 15, 2008 at 8:22 PM
If it had a closed top and trapped air it would need to have a couple tons of balast.
TheSitRep on February 15, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Adding terrestrial capabilities to one’s submarine is gilding the lily.
Kralizec on February 15, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Perhaps they can get Edward Kennedy (D-MA) to do a celebrity endorsement.
BadCubby on February 15, 2008 at 8:27 PM
Stirred, not shaken.
I’m renting Thunderball tonight.
Kini on February 15, 2008 at 8:39 PM
Well this sort of thing definately opens up the possibility that I might try scuba. Scuba diving’s cool already, but scuba diving in a sportscar? That’s just badass.
Dork B. on February 15, 2008 at 8:39 PM
I don’t want to know what job you have to have where something like this is needed for the commute.
Voidseeker on February 15, 2008 at 8:41 PM
Spend all of that money and the freaking car won’t even dry you off. What a rip off.
Lance Murdock on February 15, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Rinspeed.
Hee. Rinsycle.
Which is not to say I don’t want one.
Tanya on February 15, 2008 at 8:49 PM
How long till you get some moron who would get the idea to drive across the ocean depths in a trans atlantic swim ?
William Amos on February 15, 2008 at 8:58 PM
LOL….can’t wait for one of them Hollywood types to realize at 30ft down in the Pacific that the Amp meter just zeroed out.
Limerick on February 15, 2008 at 8:59 PM
That’s a negative ten on the karma scale.
FLcapitalistthug on February 15, 2008 at 9:00 PM
Speaking of James Bond, can we not all agree that the invisible Aston Martin in Die Another Day is the lamest Bond car ever?
Dork B. on February 15, 2008 at 9:21 PM
Only if the passenger area of that tiny two-seater is 64 cubic feet.
flip on February 15, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Hmmmm…
Looks like something out of VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
The False Dervish on February 15, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Thats pretty cool,but if you really want to blow my mind
I like to see a station wagon loaded with kids checking
out the underwater sealife,enclosed of course!
Lets see,and then there would be a whole new deminsion
with old Vans converted,if the van is parked by the coral
and bubbling to the surface,best a not bother knocking!
And if this underwater venture was taking a new fad in say
a destination where a so-called famous potty mouth actress
described it as the centre of America,so to speak.
Well it would be an interesting night on Coast Guard partrol,separating the underwater targets!
somemany ideas,so little time,Haha
canopfor on February 15, 2008 at 9:50 PM
A: “Wah!? Did Randy wet his pants???”
B: “Nah, he bought one of those sports car topless subs. The wind blows his hair dry by the time he gets to work, but I guess his pants don’t get any wind.”
Randy: “nah, I wet ‘em.”
p40tiger on February 15, 2008 at 9:55 PM
Don’t you guys get it? This is the answer that the Goracle has been looking for!!
Zero emissions-check!
Capable of driving you to work after your coastal city has submerged 30 feet from global warming-check!
Too expensive for “the people” to ever afford-check!
It’s PERFECT!
Lancer on February 15, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Too funny!
jgapinoy on February 15, 2008 at 10:31 PM
With all of the stickers on the car I bet it goes fast.
F15Mech on February 15, 2008 at 11:09 PM
I’d put some fresh rims on that b*tch.
Dork B. on February 15, 2008 at 11:21 PM
Echt doof.
Tzetzes on February 15, 2008 at 11:23 PM
My luck, I get this car, it will rust..
StuLongIsland on February 15, 2008 at 11:28 PM
I love the last frame where the older guy sips a martini with a glamorous blonde babe young enough to be his daughter on his arm.
“Darling would you like to drive it home? I’d hate to be cited for Diving Under the Influence.”
Dork B. on February 15, 2008 at 11:43 PM
what was the awesome part?
Snooper on February 16, 2008 at 12:37 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW
Chakra Hammer on February 16, 2008 at 12:59 AM
Fitting that it’s a Lotus, cause James Bond had a submersible Lotus Esprit.
otcconan on February 16, 2008 at 2:39 AM
So when it breaks down under water, does AAA have affiliations with SeaTow?
UncleOlaf on February 16, 2008 at 7:36 AM
More importantly.. does this thing register as a car or a boat?
My New jersey Taxocrats DEMAND to know (so they can plan on how to immediately raise the tolls on it 800%)
UncleOlaf on February 16, 2008 at 7:44 AM
Just think what you’d save in bridge tolls. The car would pay for itself in a few centuries.
Buttercup on February 16, 2008 at 9:59 AM
And be structurally a bit different to withstand the underwater pressure without cracking/breaking.
Midas on February 16, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Near the end of the clip it shows “engineered by eSORO”.
Could it be? He has tons of money and is pretty stupid.
Clink on February 16, 2008 at 5:07 PM
lorien, I just about peed myself on this one: I grew up in Chalmette. As a teen I was used to driving on roads submerged 2ft or more at least once annually, around May (the so-called “100-year storm” that seemed to come once a year, with eight inches of rain or more in 24 hours).
Now to make my amusement complete, I’m waiting for “chocolate city” Nagin to buy one.
Wanderlust on February 16, 2008 at 6:32 PM
Like that design of the steering column. Talk about a chest piercing during an accident!
Egfrow on February 16, 2008 at 9:17 PM
WOW.
Livefreeordie on February 17, 2008 at 1:33 AM
A bit unbelievable but the start of a different idea.
I can just see them opening the door when the car comes off the ramp out the lake/ocean – and the cockpit is full of water!
More believable if it had an enclosed cockpit. If they want a convertable seal the top before they get into the water. Warm, dry, comfortable, I could see that being fun. Wet, cold, dirty from whatever was in that water with you (we don’t even want to talk about the Thames or the East river) – well, yugh!
Design needs work.
omegaram on February 17, 2008 at 9:26 PM
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