Auto industry flash news 15 February 2008

Submarine car surfaces

EVER since he saw James Bond drive into the sea to escape a villain in The Spy Who Loved Me, Frank Rinderknecht dreamed of creating his own submarine dream …

Bond fantasy becomes fact — just don’t expect RACV help “Pond, James Pond”: Test drivers take concept car designer Frank Rinderknecht’s Lotus creation for a spin underwater. THIRTY years after James Bond …

It only ever existed in world of James Bond - until now By ALASTAIR JAMIESON CINEMA audiences gasped as James Bond’s white Lotus Esprit plunged into the sea and became an armed submarine in the 1977 film The Spy …

James Bond Fantasy Comes True Designers are bringing back memories of a famous James Bond scene - by producing a car that can travel under water. In the 007 film The Spy Who Loved Me, …

Land-Locked Swiss Invent Underwater Car GENEVA (AP) — OK, so the Swiss have invented a car that runs on land and underwater. But did they REALLY have to make it a convertible? …

Bond car inspires underwater dream

By staff writers FORGET James Bond. A Swiss company says it has created the world’s first truly submersible car - and it’s a convertible. …