Watercar! Chasing a Dream - The Downshift Episode 23
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- On this episode of The Downshift, we follow Watercar through their journey to build the world's fastest amphibious vehicle. After nearly a decade of development, Watercar believe's their prototype is almost ready for production.
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OMFG!! WOW!!! Just how AWESOME is the Python!!! U could VERY easily set the the record for the fastest car to drive across the English Channel! WOW!!! hehe!!!
"Last frontier of transportation" Riiight.... Over a flying car? Over spaceships? I think not.
(Pun intended)
Looks like a jeep quite a bit. The first one looked like a camaro quite a bit.
Try using the Jeep Wrangler 4 Door Rubicon. Its longer, and that will give you more room to work with. You could also go for the 4 wheel drive. Lets face it, where I live 2 wheel drive is not going to get you out of the Rivers. From the Space Cost of Florida.
I think the problem with 4wd is a technical one, because they already have the transfer-case running the boat motor
+Matt, Just add a second transfer case to the mane drive for the wheels.
I think a respectful number of people would love to have one of these, especially people who have water front properties, I know I would love to own one, keep up the good work you will be reworded one day, thanks.
It takes offroading to the next level :o
try selling it in my country, Philippines.
I could see the police or search and rescue using it. It could be either a general purpose work horse or even a rescue vehicle that could rescue a swimmer out at sea, then drive directly onto the highway as an ambulance to the nearest hospital.
but you've bought a car, AND a boat...
I cannot help but imagine a military application for a high speed small amphibious jeep-like vehicle. This would be an optimal recon vehicle.
i really hope this goes into production, its actually pretty awesome. imagine having a car like this ahhhh (imaginary thought bubble) LOL
Nice if i have that kind of a car i can used that whenever a storm or typhoon hit my place imagine if the road or bridges are flooded with large amount of water cause of a storm that will be usefull u just drive on 6 feet of flood water and not to worry that ur car will sink or u get drown lol
it seems top heavy if you have to keep the weight, engine, passengers above water line
+cluny um... that's how boats are made
More on the way...
Congrats on 6M subs dude : )
Think what is water carnivals to promote adventurous tourism for your country and solutions to commercially viable dampened by water weather that alternative hovercraft sales can make up financially during bad weather changes, my personal advise
,me former WCIT2008 and former WITSA project coordinator
Very nice video, i know i'm not a critic or someone who is important, so you don't have to respond but, i loved this video and its defiantly going on my favorites :)
I am disapointed! They talking so much and show pictures and only half a minute of interesting video in the end. I want much more interesting video
Uh, MT, ever heard of the Gibbs Technologies Aquada? It's an amphibious car which can do 30 mph on the water, and can also pull a skier. If I were looking for an amphibious vehicle, I'd buy an Aquada over one of these guy's monstrosities. I think you have dropped the ball here, and covered the wrong car. Plus, I'm fairly certain that whether they meant to or not, they likely copied stuff Gibbs already owns patents for, so as soon as they go to sell their car, they're probably getting sued.
Nah it's different. Brabus is like Merc's unofficial official partner. There's even the Brabus name on a Smart car. But there was a company making 300SL replicas, and guess what Merc did? They stripped the car to pieces with photo evidence. While I don't see any partnership or agreement between these guys and the big companies, and they just sculpted their cars to look like others, it's kinda worrying... Just saying.
I would like to have one similar to the original '60s Amphicar. Just longer with a bit of the Batmobile Futura styling.
starting with the ram-vette and the jeep, commercialize it and see what needs improvement after tons of people using it, that'd be a great start. that's basically how electric cars started anyways. and maybe the big dogs of the motor industry can help em out once they do. you never know in a world like this. :)
Let's face it, there's a ton of cars on the road that aren't really exceptional at anything but people still buy them. The fact that this car is above average on the road and exceptional on the water is more than enough to sell a bunch of them. Mass produce 100 and see if they sell! If I had money to burn I'd buy one!
why the hell does that look like so much fun??? All he needs is a tackle box. fishing pole, and some brew =)
Under a hundred thousand dollars....top gear made a Toyota pickup to drive in the water. And I think it only cost like $15k
hell this car would be awesome for me to drive in greece from island to island,fk ships or loading your car in one and taking hours till you start/arrive...it all depends tho on how good it can withstand high waves...small waves seem to be no problem in the vid.
Hi, Wow I am Love this Watercar the best, if this watercar could fly the top of the world means technology. ( Watercar! Chasing a Dream - The Downshift Episode 23). Entire I was a youth dreaming one day someone will making the future car of the world. Could driving on road, water, fly too Wow the best. "In 2014 I was thinking when year of 2015 I wants to build my dreaming car Technology call Back To The Future" and 2014 the fans NASA missions invited me to the spacecraft I was cancel. Thank you!
i got my suzuki X90 to float for about 15 mins then had to have it towed out of river but it was still running and drove 70 miles home with water pouring out everywhere so its easy to water proof a car i just need an outboard motor fitted
you want to get this technology off the ground... Get the thing in a JAMES BOND 007 movie doing things it can realistically do. I know that sounds crazy but if people realize, "Hey, this is a very real thing I can go and have made to order (minus anybwe weaponry for a Bond film) then you got something there... Get with BMW or LAND ROVER and Build a High Performance Amphibious SUV with street cred...
I love this!! But you know that a big company like Ferrari or Lamborghini or ford or something is gonna come in and beat their recorded which really makes me sad cause that was watercars dream not the big company's:/
But why not put cowling that covers the wheel wells? Just have them extend from the rockers...
Surely, compared with the rest of what they are doing, that's got to be one of the easiest things...
Wow. How do the wheels just like stay up in the frame while gliding across the water, but you can easily get onto land without, well pretty much, crashing? You guys just, amaze me!
if i was rich i d buy the corvette ram deal, the jeep and the fuckin camero. those are all sick i hope you get it on the market, and i hope i make enough to get one.
I live by a lake and if I had one I could drive across the lake to Milford Sound instead of having to drive around the lake which takes 3 1/2 hours, it'd be AWESOME.
pretty good deal.. try to get a nice car and a boat for under 100grand.. plus when something first comes out it always cost more.. the more they make the cheaper it gets
i disagree with them saying no one has got a car to float on water and be fun and exciting because go on youtube and research suboataru once you see it you will be amazed
I see the jeep version in Navy, U.S.C.G services, SEAL teams and now Boarder Patrol service. With more lights and mirrors, and a M249 mount. Air ride system all around.
That invention is awesomeee!!But if you guys look to a non roof SUV for Family fun would be the best! Ground clearance looks awesome, fit more people inside,
If you had the money this wouldn't be hard to build at all. It's also still a sub par boat and car. There is a reason nobody was trying to make an amphibious car.
@bloximonkey not exactly because they're not selling those things. if they were then they could get sued. but they must have paid for everything themselves so yea
There's this other amazing invention you may have heard of, ..... it's called a "trailer hitch".
It makes it possible to have a real jeep that does jeep things and it can tow a real boat that does boat things real well.
Where's the fun in that?
is that richard branson the first guy? and how ironic that ricjard brandson has the fastest time cross the brittish channel using a amphibious car
i was thinking, that would be cool if it automatically switched to a boat if it had water sensors...
but then i said "wait... what happens if it rains??"
Who downvotes this? Glad i don't know ya. Whether this project succeeds in the end or not, these guys have had a shit load of fun trying. Awesome!!
You guys definitely need to put those jeeps into production. Actually you should make a slower one for around $40 grand and produce all three.
If I had 100 k to blow I would get one. The range on the Water cant be but a few miles. At 40 knots may be 30 miles out of a 16 gallon tank?
I hope the cost goes down to around 30kish in the future. Who knows, somone will come up with a cheaper design for the same fruit :p!
yes you also need to make a double insurance on it,one for water and 1 for land use(took the info from one of the videos in their channel)
i doubt it. companies like brabus buy mercedes cars, overhaul them and sell them to the public as their own and mercedes didn't sue them
Don't pull the wheels up, use a bottom like they use for air boats in the Everglades, add waterfoiles to make it ride high and ignore the waves as a hydrofoil and you can have high speed and stability. Continue to use the water jet propulsion. Use a 4 cyl turbocharged engine they are as powerful and lighter. Love the concept...
Damn it, don't comment on ads in other peoples video. Other people don't see the ads you see. The world does not revolve around you.
same as the Gibbs vehicles...seems that they are too scared to show us how they handle with a bit of rough water.
Simple answer is that you get...real wet, real fast except if you are on a lake or river.
yeah... bet that cost well over 100k which water car is aiming for below 100k and that looks like a great everyday car.
the black jeep is a much better design. well executed sir :) i want one :)
I like going to the lake for a boat ride and a swim. Trailering the boat is like work. We also need a second car. Forget the boat, buy a water car.
This is what the USA is supposed to be about.Intrepid entrepreneurship at it's most fun.Not whiny Welfare Occupiers.
I had no idea their were new cars like that or ppl making them around a hundred thousand is just right for the jeep
the future has already begun and we think, the things of fiction as a reality atuau, congratulations to inventors ...... the globe is in the future as well! ......... JB
Is this the vehicle that is now called the watercar panther. I have seen youtube videos of that vehicle and I believe it must be the same company. I thought they were a great idea but only the super wealthy can play with such a toy.
Its really not that expensive. 130k. not that bad to be honest.
ImZa1no Sure most of the world has 130K to spend. ImZa most of the world does not have 130K discretionary money to spend for their entire lifespan. The 1%'s can look at this price as not being expensive but us "middle class?????" have no chance except in our dreams. I applaud these guys for their ingenuity and accomplishment and hope to see their product out on the water, I only wish that more could have a chance to experience it.
13thSystem I neither begged nor bitched. I commented that the vehicle is beyond the price tag that the middle class can afford through most of their lifespan. If you listen to the video itself they comment that they changed from a sportscar water vehicle to a jeep type vehicle out of the practicallity of making a vehicle that more of the public would use and afford. My comment replied saying they have made a very useful and practical vehicle but it is not yet affordable to even the slightly well off but only to the very well off.
ImZa1no If you can afford a $100,000-130,000 vehicle you're rich. Simply put. That's worth a small house with a little land.
13thSystem You really must be privileged. Nobody has $130,000 to waste on this unless they're rich. You'd be better off putting one together yourself.
The problem with amphicars is that they always look stupid on land and in water. None of these are any different.
I would love to have one of these vehicles
I love water car and what they do, love them
Passion and inspiration => Innovation and Creativity ...the Black jeep looks like something I would buy!!
I'm sorry but "Watercar" is the one of the most blatantly uncreative names for a company I've ever heard.
Is there some kind of bumper to bumper warranty that comes with this?
they would have to to be sellible in the US.. the jeep is awesome! sure it would pass any crash test.
i would love to invest some million dollars in such a technology.....!!!
i"m searching 4 u bro....!!!
So cool. I like everything they are doing. It looks fun to see and imagine doing what they are doing. Real fun and something new and a money maker. These guys are really smart with cool ideas.
We share the same dream, but you acted and looks like you accomplished your dream, one day I will own one of these!!! Awesome Love it!!!
Amaizing digital life nowadays, I like it n one day if God wishes I shall be one among those have.
If you release it with enough publicity, you can get a lot of people interested in buying it....
RIGHT, R2, CIRCLE, R1, L2, SQUARE, R1, R2, GRAND THEFT AUTO 'DRIVE CAR ON WATER CHEAT': ACTIVATED.
then watch the cops trackdown those few people who have this water traveling car and wow...caught
This style amphibious vehicles, one day will be in Turkey. But it must be done in a short time.
It's so good to see that American ingenuity is alive and well. I wish them the best of luck.
I wish this company all the best. Great idea, and great implimentation of that idea. That thing should sell.
that amphibian jeep or truck have a good market in tropical & archipelago countries.
you guys are an inspiration. How about an amphibious car that has an easy removable top?
very inspiring ideas ... :D near future .. no bot was product .. just this car will ...
errr, Top Gear did this for like a few thousand £, sorry guys haha. that jeep is badass
It will be viable in flooded countries like in the philippines.
You get that in production form and under 100k, and Imma ship one over to Norway ASAP.
for around 100.000 dollar all u can do is have it as background to ur desktop hahaha
No trailer, no dock needed! I'd like to buy one just to pass up my folks in their crappy boat they bought!
The Jeep version is Badass! I hope they go into production..
Watch someone do this to get away from the cops
i wonder whatever happened to the camaro? i remember reading about it years ago...
Hate aside, good luck to them, if they make something nicer, I might consider it.
Right on man, even if out doesn't sell, you had heaps of fun. That's awesome.
What? You really want a car/boat that costs nearly 100 thousands dollars?
sure cuz it's a mix of the 2 design so in that there is no copyright for it
it's really amazing. however, what if the car flips in top speed and turn it inverted into water?
Richard Branson did it in 2004 with a modified Miata.
I like this, the Jeep-like especially, but the Gibbs Aquada is better...
their a duck tour in my town and they go in water and drive around town
Nice but how safe is this for normal road usage with a fiberglass shell?
man that is so cool
do the lifeguards in cali have one of these yet???
i bet this drives like a 81 datsun on the road, but in water its a champ
Keep at it guys. The doors will open and your dream will be realized. I like the idea!
If i were rich i would come to your company today to by the black jeep
7:00- 7:27 , that'sall.
Just don't roll it. Jeeps are famous for that. In water I can't see it being much better.