The real inconvenience of driving the sQuba in its particular element is the bind of having to bring your own oxygen, to say nothing of wearing a wet suit. Nevertheless for anyone with a bit of Roger Moore in them or indeed anyone with a fancy for things submarine, what could be more exciting than driving underwater?

Thirty years after the underwater Lotus featured in The Spy Who Loved Me, a Swiss engineer has actually modified a Lotus Elise that can really do this. The obvious difference between the car in the film and the sQuba is the open design of the latter. Safety is the concern behind this. Water pressure would prevent occupants being able to open doors from the inside in the event of an accident. Furthermore the added weight would render the car sluggish as a tortoise on land (a fish out of water?).

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