WHY hasn’t anyone made amphibious cars that can zip along at a decent clip? Until now they have been heavy, underpowered, snub-nosed beasts, incapable of going faster than 10 kilometres per hour.
But after a seven-year development programme – in which it filed some 60 patents – a UK-based engineering company believes it has cracked the problem. The result, the Aquada sports car, is being launched this week: it can reach 160 kilometres per hour on the road and up to 50 km/h on the water – as first predicted on Newscientist.com in July 2001.
With an estimated price tag of around £50,000,…
