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It's Bubble O seven: James Bond underwater car fantasy becomes a realityBy DAN NEWLING -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 machine. Yesterday, he launched the astonishing result. The pioneering Swiss car designer has created the sQuba, a vehicle equally at home on land, sea and beneath the surface. Scroll down for more ...  Once underwater, the passengers breathe air from a compressed tank, like those used by scuba divers "For three decades I have tried to imagine a car that can fly under water," he said. "Now we have made this dream come true." In the 1977 movie, Bond, played by Roger Moore, avoids the clutches of the metal-toothed thug Jaws by plunging his Lotus Esprit Turbo into the ocean. Computer animation techniques show the wheels folding under the chassis while lateral fins and propellers emerge before 007 dispatches his foes with a built-in rocket launcher, harpoons a fish and drives on to a convenient beach. Just like its inspiration, the sQuba is built on the chassis of a Lotus, although this time it is the more rounded Elise. Scroll down for more ...  The sQuba is to be displayed at next month's Geneva Motor Show  Inspiration: Bond driving the car, which doubled as a boat, in The Spy Who Loved Me But realising it would be too difficult to make a car completely watertight as in the Bond film, Mr Rinderknecht designed the sQuba to be open-topped. If driven into water it will float and operate as a boat. Two propellers positioned either side of the rear number plate push it along.  Dream: Swiss designer Frank Rinderknecht But open a door and the car begins to dive. Under water, one of its three battery-powered engines sucks in water through the car's front grille and pushes it out of its two side jet vents. It is these two jets, mounted on swivelling heads, which manoeuvre the car up, down, left and right. The sQuba will go on show at next month's motor show in Geneva, Switzerland. As a one-off concept car it is not for sale, but it cost around £750,000 to be built by Mr Rinderknecht's company Rinspeed, which normally specialises in restoring and modifying classic cars. The interior boasts mother-of-pearl embossed trim with diamond-plated inlays. And the upholstery features sharkskin-style patterning. In a nod to another of James Bond's gadget-filled cars – the Aston Martin DB5 in 1964's Goldfinger – another feature is a rotating rear number-plate holder. Rocket launcher and harpoon gun, however, are not among the optional extras.
 
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cool!!!!!!!
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