Rinspeed splash Concept

Presentation Year:	2004
Class:	Concept car
Type:	amphibious
Body design:	Roadster
Engine:	750 cc
Wheelbase:	2’345 mm

The Rinspeed Splash is a concept vehicle of the Swiss creative firm Rinspeed.

History

The Rinspeed Splash is a concept vehicle of Zumikon based company Rinspeed. The vehicle was developed to mark the company's tenth own concept car and presented at the 2004 Geneva Motor Show. The Rinspeed “Splash” with light carbon-composite body with additional buoyancy chambers provide extra lift hydraulic mechanism transforms the sports car into an amphibious hydrofoil vehicle. 

The Splash can be transformed into an amphibious vehicle at the touch of a button and delivers it in the water with a curb weight of only 825 kilograms and its 140 hp to a top speed of 80 km / h. On land, the vehicle is a maximum of 200 km / h fast, from the state reached the car in 5.9 seconds, the 100 km / h mark. The low weight is due to the special "skin" of the Splash, which consists to a large extent of lightweight carbon. The turbocharged 750 cc gasoline-powered two-cylinder four-valve engine from Weber Motor with natural-gas configuration.

Use in the water

In the water, the splash is powered by a propeller, which lowers itself from a water depth of 1.1 meters. On water it is capable of reaching a top speed of about 80 km/h (45 knots). This is steered over the steering wheel of the vehicle. From a water depth of 1.3 meters, the car's pilot can also fold two wings out of the sides of the splash to make the car glide over the surface of the water as a hydrofoil, almost sixty centimetres high. The Z-drive is fitted with a conventional 3-bladed propeller and can be lowered with variable positions from the cockpit while the transfer case sends power to the rear wheels and or the propeller and the steering wheel commands the direction. The wings are extended by an electronic hydraulic system, inside the interior is Lightweight with waterproof plastic seats.