WaterCar Panther: amphibious car faster

Who does not dream of being on the water with his car? What a feat already realized the Amphicar in the 60s.

Even here, in the old port of Montreal can take an amphibious bus that allows us to navigate the river and take great cliches of the city of Montreal.

WaterCar Panther

However, the Californian company WaterCar specialized in the manufacture of amphibious vehicles just presented to the press its very latest achievement, the Panther.

Although the resemblance is striking, it is not a Jeep Wrangler into vehicle can sneak up on water.

The Panther is powered by a V6 3.7-liter engine supplied by Honda, which develops an output of 250 horsepower and is mated to a manual gearbox only four reports.

A force that allows it to reach a maximum speed of 130 km / h on land and 70 km / h on water.

WaterCar Python has already markets the model, which in 2010 had established a speed record on water, recognized by the Guinness World Records, is 96 km / h and had taken only 4.5 seconds to reach. Panther has all the attributes to beat that record.

In both cases, we speak of a vehicle whose price hovers around $ 135,000.