History Main / AmphibiousAutomobile

* ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. Film/JamesBond's [[CoolCar Lotus Esprit]] becomes a sub. Eventually de-fictionalized; see both RealLife and Live-Action TV.

* In ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', Film/JamesBond's [[CoolCar Lotus Esprit]] becomes a sub. Eventually de-fictionalized; see both RealLife and Live-Action TV.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The Sea Lion's lackys take the cops on a merry chase through Gotham and then drive off a pier at full speed revealing their car doubles as a boat.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} 2'', the Film/JamesBond pastiche Finn [=McMissile=] transforms into a hydrofoil and a submarine.

* In ''Film/HerbieRidesAgain'', the bug is shown to float and propel itself in the Pacific for around 30 minutes. But, this is [[CoolCar Herbie]]. Obviously inspired by the VW ads. The later film ''Film/HerbieGoesBananas'' goes UpToEleven with this by having Herbie being tossed off a cruise ship by its pissed-off captain and "swim" several hundred miles to a South American country, including ''through'' the Panama Canal, only apparently ([[DisneyDeath and temporarily]]) "dying" from exhaustion once he arrives to shore.

* While [[TankGoodness tanks]] usually cannot float, at least four nations figured out how to make them amphibious in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. The Americans, Japanese and Germans used detachable pontoons, and the British used canvas-displacement screens. Both were using a Duplux Drive system involving two propellers added to the rear of the tank (ultimately, it was the British canvas screen design that was used in combat by the Western allies). The Germans, on the other hand, eventually discarded pontoons[[note]]Fine on light tanks like the Czech-built Panzer 35(t). But pontoons capable of floating a Tiger would have been half the size of a football field.[[/note]] and developed deep-water fording kits using snorkels to allow their tanks to motor across the bottom. Postwar, with tanks grown too big to be floated, several other nations also developed deep water fording systems, an idea that has since been given up as impractical.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', Goofy's [[TheAllegedCar AMC Pacer]] floats down a huge western river with two people on top. It's only the waterfall that beats it.

Contrast to SisterTrope, FlyingCar, though making a car float on water is ''much'' easier than making it fly. SubTrope of WeDontNeedRoads. Can be achieved by a TransformingVehicle.

* [[SignatureTeamTransport The Aesir]] in ''Literature/TheDreamsideRoad'' enters the story driving from a crowded roadway into a river and can occasionally be found on the water, such as during [[BadassNormal Orson’s]] first escape from [[TheRemnant the Liberty Corps]].

Contrast to SisterTrope, FlyingCar, though making a car float on water is ''much'' easier than making it fly. SubTrope of WeDontNeedRoads.

** In the ''50 Years of James Bond'' special, Hammond pilots a working version of the submersible Lotus Espirit from ''The Spy Who Loved Me''.

* They can change networks and shows, but the second season of ''Series/TheGrandTour'' proves that some things about Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will stay the same. Trying to one up their stunt from ''Series/TopGear'' this time they attempt to convert a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_Bug Bond Bug]] into amphibious vehicle capable of beating the UK water speed record for an amphibious vehicle. It was uncomfortable, nearly unsteerable, the engine kept cutting out because of the choppy ride and the conversion from land to water was long and complicated (it was designed by James May after all). But it not only worked, it succeeded in breaking the record.

* They can change networks and shows, but the second season of ''Series/TheGrandTour'' proves that somethings about Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will stay the same. Trying to one up their stunt from ''Series/TopGear'' this time they attempt to convert a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_Bug Bond Bug]] into amphibious vehicle capable of beating the UK water speed record for an amphibious vehicle. It was uncomfortable, nearly unsteerable, the engine kept cutting out because of the choppy ride and the conversion from land to water was long and complicated (it was designed by James May after all). But it not only worked, it succeeded in breaking the record.

* An Amphicar owned by the protagonists becomes an important item on the film ''Cadillac Moon'' (it allows the agoraphobic mother to give chase to her husband and son as they go on a [[RoadTripPlot road trip]] to reach to a certain spot at the same time the Apollo 11 reaches the moon and later it's used to escape the police by driving into a lake).

* The screwball comedy ''What's Up Doc'' climaxes in a car chase where the protagonists lead everyone after TheMacGuffin off a pier and into San Francisco Bay. Fortunately for our heroes they are driving a Volkswagen, which floats.

* The Amphicar was a car that had special external welding to make it double as a boat. From Germany via the Grandt Group, it was powered with an 1147cc engine and had a straight four transmission. Manufactured from 1961 to 1965, it was a recurring prize on the original version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight.''

* The Amphicar was a car that had special external welding to make it double as a boat. From Germany via the Grandt Group, it was powered with an 1147cc engine and had a straight four transmission. It was a recurring prize on the original version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight.''

* Any vehicle with the Amphibious property in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3''. A few of them (such as the Allied Riptide ACV) are hovercraft, some are regular boats or ships that sprout treads or legs on land, but the vast majority are ordinary-looking trucks and tanks that merely extend a few pontoons and motor on.

* In ''Manga/KokoroLibrary'' lina drives a VW Schwimmwagen (see RealLife section). Comes in handy once or twice when she forgets to look where she is driving and ends up in the riwer.