Hi guys as usually its me just a voice over and you are watching review machines!
Well, Its summer season already!
Lets accompany these pretty ladies on our way to the shore and enjoy this awesome sunny
day!
Moreover today we’ve managed to find the most interesting machines for a review.
You’ll see now why they are so interesting, take your seats, we are to start right now!
Oops…the police.
But that will be later, and now we are heading to the beach.
Today we have the rarest machines, there are so few reviews of these vehicles on youtube,
it was quite a job to get these machines, so if you want to support us just press a
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Today we are riding two machines – Water Car Panther and Gibbs Quadski ATV.
These vehicles are very similar so we decided not to separate this material into two videos.
Their most important feature is that they are real amphibious vehicles.
The can go both on a ground and on water!
We have already made reviews of some amphibious ATVs, most of them can tackle offroad very
well, but on water they can move so slowly!
And what about our vehicles?
Well for example Watercar can accelerate up to 200 km/h on ground and up to 70 km/h on
water.
That’s what I call a real amphibious vehicle!
Meantime we got to the shore, but it turned out there was no any beach at all, just a
concrete wharf!
And our ladies were slightly disappointed about this fact.
But we noticed a real beach on the opposite bank in the distance.
What a great opportunity to test our vehicles on water!
It’s time to have a swim!
Watercar Panther like a real transformer turns into a real motor boat!
And Quadski is not an ATV any more…now it’s a jet ski!
You have to just press a button and both machines immediately transforms.
The engines switch into water mode, and the wheels hide under the fenders to provide better
maneuverability on water.
Well, we are heading to the beach!
The both machines go on water so perfectly that its hard to say what their main destination
is.
The matter is they are specially made to show the perfect results both on water and ground.
By the way it required a lot of innovative solutions to create such machines.
And huge amount of them are covered by patents.
The idea started in 1999, when some guys decided to build the fastest amphibious vehicle in
the world!
Since then numerous prototypes were created but only in 2010 they managed to win a world
record as the fastest amphibious car!
Right after that the guys got many orders to build such machines and they decided to
found the company which is called now Watercar.
The first serial machine was produced in 2013, but even today these cars are extremely rare,
cause their price is very impressive.
But about it a bit later.
And now few words about Quadski history.
Quadski machines are built by Gibbs Company.
First vehicle was made in 2012.
The engineers invented a special technology to built such a machine.
It is called HAS, that means High speed amphibian.
This technology contains more than 300 solutions covered by patents.
And the result is clear.
It is the first in the world transformer that can transform from a quad into a real jet
ski!
It takes only 5 seconds to switch the modes and it has the same speed both on ground and
on water.
Its 72 km/h.
Meantime we got to the hidden beach on the opposite bank.
Look how smoothly the machines transform and go from water on ground.
But I should say they require quite a gently sloping bank like this beach.
Undoubtedly these machines are awesome, cause they provide such a great possibility to get
the hidden secret places, that its hard to get on a regular car or atv.
Now I think its high time to look at the machines more in detail.
Firstly Watercar Panther.
This vehicle is built on base of Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler.
But now so few original parts remained here.
The frame is made of a lighter and more expensive steel than usual cars.
And the body parts are made of a glass fiber.
The bottom contains 32 waterproof cells, and the total weight is only 1300 kilos, so the
car can perfectly float.
The length is 4,5 meters, the width is 1.8 meters.
Watercar is equipped with the engine Honda V-tec, 3.7 liters capacity and 250 horse power.
This engine can accelerate the vehicle up to 200 km/h on a flat road.
The gearbox is mechanical.
The interior is quite robust, the dashboard, the seats and all other elements here are
waterproof.
Then we see here a water jet, specially built for this machine.
It is driven by the engine and provides the speed on water about 70 km/h.
Gibbs Qudski – the body is made of a special plastic.
It is very durable material that can resist blows and sea water.
The lengh of the vehicle is 3.3 meters, the width is 1.6 meter.
And the total weight is 535 kilos.
There is an BMW engine 1.3 liters capacity and 140 horse powers.
Waterjet is also was specially built for this model, it provides 72 km/h on water.
The suspension elements are made of aluminum with high quality FOX shocks.
Handlebar is almost like on a regular quad, it isn’t worth our attention I think.
Well, lets move on and have a little ride on a rough terrain.
First of all I should say – forget about any offroading.
The matter is the both machines have a rear drive.
And I think it is the main and most important drawback here.
Unfortunately it is very hard to build such an amphibious vehicle with all wheel drive
so it is very easy to get stuck on these machines even in a little mud.
Just a good road, maybe sand, not more.
So there is every reason to say that it is great cars for recreation, but we cant consider
them as a serious ATV.
Lets talk a little about some other drawbacks.
Firstly if you decide to buy such a car, you should know, that it has to be registered
both as a car and as a boat.
So the driver must have both licences for regular car and for a motorboat.
But in practice when the police caught us, they even didn’t ask to show them any documents,
they wanted just to take some photos, that’s all!
Meantime we are coming back to the concrete jungle.
And it is high time to speak about the prices.
And I think it is also can be considered as a drawback, cause the prices are also impressive.
Qudski starts from about 60 000 dollars.
As to watercar panther its price is about 200 thousand dollars.
Well guys, its time to sum up our review.
Certainly I can say that today we’ve seen som incredible machines.
Not ATV at all, but probably most effective amphibious vehicles available on a market
nowadays.
What do you think, please post a comment with your opinions about the machines.
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