007 Esprit submarine...

[kennypinkerton]

I had no clue it was actually functional underwater. Pretty cool! Some good info here...
https://lotusespritworld.com/EOtherstuff/Submarine.html

...for those of ya that haven't seen this.

 

[michalotti_tr]

Pretty kewl! Did anyone see the History Channel's show on armored cars the other night? The US Army has built a truck that incorporates many James Bond type features in real life - including smoke screen, tack spreader, pepper spray, electrified door handles and a gernade launcher!

 

[Bruce Bowker]

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I had no clue it was actually functional underwater. Pretty cool! Some good info here...
https://lotusespritworld.com/EOtherstuff/Submarine.html

...for those of ya that haven't seen this.

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It was not all just one car of course. They had a road car(s) and a separate sub.

 

[kennypinkerton]

I knew that, but I alway's figured the submarine one was a scale model or something. I think it's pretty neat that it was full scale, and actually operated by itself! Even neater that it's still out there and someone bought it on ebay a few years ago.

 

[JRTurbo909]

Yeah they actually had problems keeping it off the ocean bottom due to the aerodynamics of the car...

i love lotus...

Shah

 

[Nunyas]

lots of down force, you say? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif nice to know the same physics apply under water as on the road.... then again, it's prolly why my Physics Professor liked to refer to "Aerodynamics" as "Hydrodynamics" ...