Amphibious vehicle to go on sale soon in US

[x635 4,066]

I could see this being very useful to some fire departments and rescue agencies.

Amphibious vehicle to go on sale soon in US

By DEE-ANN DURBIN | Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) — Amphibious vehicles could soon be zooming out of James Bond's garage — or pond — and into yours.

http://news.yahoo.co...6--finance.html

[PFDRes47cue 653]

Pretty cool.

[FF398 45]

I saw a video on these vehicles a few years ago. Pretty cool concept.

[antiquefirelt 994]

If this can go ice to water and water to ice, I'd think it'd have a market with anyone with ice water rescue. Maybe water rescue where there is no normal boat presence? I can see a bunch of AFG's being filed now.

[peterose313 345]

Amphibious vehicles have been around for years. I used to know someone who had an 8 wheeled argo/utv. They're pretty cool and can go from land to water and vice versa with ease. It used to look like the vehicle in this image but unlike this quadski, I'm not sure you could go all that fast.

The quadski is a 1 seater so I'm not entirely sure how this would help in the fire service.

http://www.argoatv.n..._750_EFI_v3.jpg

Edit: Here's some specs of that vehicle. http://www.argoatv.nl/8x8response.html

Edited October 14, 2012 by peterose313

[peterose313 345]

I happened to catch this photo gallery on Lohud earlier of a man taking his amphibious vehicle for a ride on the Hudson River earlier today. He "launched" at the Nyack Marina.

Photos by: Ricky Flores/The Journal News

http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=BH&Dato=20121023&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=310230111&Ref=PH&odyssey=mod%7Cdefcon%7Cimg%7CFrontpage&gcheck=1&nclick_check=1