Not sold on the usefulness of an amphibious car? Consider this example.
A growing field of interest is retirees who sell their primary homes and buy a camper, RV or fifth wheel trailer and set out to see the country. Because you are essentially pulling your home behind you, it’s not possible to bring all of your toys along for the ride. Dual-purpose things become more important.
Say you have an RV, you’ll probably want to tow a car for day trips from your campsite. But if you want a boat, too, you may have to settle for something like a small inflatable that can be folded up and put away when you hit the road again.
But if you had an amphibian such as a WaterCar Python or Gibbs Aquada, you would have your car and your boat all in one package. You go out fishing on the other side of the lake in the morning, then drive to the grocery store in the afternoon — in the same vehicle.
Or consider this scenario: You’re sitting on I-94 in Metro Detroit in the traffic jam to end all traffic jams and the radio traffic reporter says to expect similar delays all the way from Mt. Clemens to Ecorse. But you have a meeting in an hour. If you had an amphibious car, you could head over to Lake St. Clair, go to the Detroit River, speed past the Renaissance Center — as well as the other commuters parked on the freeway — and make you meeting in Ecorse.
Recently, a friend of mine on facebook was complaining about the long drive she had to make from her home on Old Mission Peninsula near Traverse City to Charlevoix. But if she had an amphibious car, she could cut 30 miles off the trip by zipping across East Grand Traverse Bay and getting out at Elk Rapids.
Sign me up.
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