Unlike the unrealized promise of flying automobiles (prototypes notwithstanding), there does exist a car capable of acting like a boat. It’s a vehicle that can drive right down a lakeside ramp and ...

And back on planet Earth, you may have heard big, older model American cars referred to as `land yachts,' but what would you call a car that really is a boat? Well, as it turns out, you'd call it an ...

A new Walt Disney World restaurant is offering Amphicar rides. For those unaware of the Amphicar, it was manufactured between 1961 and 1968 and was a bimodal vehicle that offered the capability of ...

What is it? Is it a car? Is it a boat? The answer is it’s a novelty. Yes, it is a car and a boat. But it’s neither a very good car nor a very good boat. The Amphicar was built in Germany from 1961 to ...

Joseph has always been interested in cars and automotive history. He can be found driving around town in a rusty police cruiser that he purchased from a city auction. His dream is to one day compete ...

Back in the mid-1960s, a company out of West Germany built the Amphicar Model 770. The curiously-named ‘car’ was an amphibious vehicle and while it never proved exceptionally popular (just 3,878 units ...

The automotive industry was rather crazy in the ‘50s and ‘60s, and the cars of that era explain why we can make this statement today. While “regular” automobiles were also built during those times, ...

The problem with almost any car that tries to do two completely different things at the same time is that it doesn’t do either of them very well. One of the rare exceptions to this rule is the ...

It seemed almost redundant to head into more water, given the weather's wet response to Saturday's opening of boating season, the annual Seattle ritual that asks, "When was it that boating season ...

The Amphicar was a good idea that maybe never had a chance. Built for a few years in the 1960s, they were amphibious German droptops that could do 70 mph on land and seven knots in the water. Only a ...