For a week, a story about the Rinspeed Splash, a Swiss-made car-boat-hydrophoil that looks like a Miata and is fast enough to tow a skier, graced our home page. We thought it was funny – the strangest boat of all.

Then this crossed my path: the same company is making an car that can dive. According to the company's website, the Rinspeed sQuba will be capable of traveling more than 30 feet below the surface. Inspired by a scene in the 1977 James Bond movie "The Spy Who Loved Me" (the Roger Moore era), the car is expected to debut in the Geneva Motor Show next month.

The sQuba, according to the company, has three motors – one for driving and two for the screws – and jet drives on the front...or should I say bow? The entire cockpit fills with water – apparently, you drive into the water, the car floats and then you literally open the door and let the water in. This eliminates unwanted bouyancy, and occupants then breathe via SCUBA tanks. The car sports an open top for emergency exits.

Why am I writing about this? Because it is insane...extreme...mad, even. Like mega yachts and $75,000 infrared cameras, it's not my cuppa joe but I'm glad it exists. Rinspeed chief exec Frank M. Rinderknecht, the architect of these insane little not-for-sale projects, clearly has some vision, odd as it is. As Rinderknecht explained it, he's had this on his mind since he saw the Bond film.

"For three decades I have tried to imagine how it might be possible to build a car that can fly under water," he said in a statement. "Now we have made this dream come true."

Well, boats – even those of the strange, driving, submarine-line variety – are all about dreams. Go Frank.

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