Talk:Amphicar

message: Does driving it require a special type of driver's licence? Or a boat's license? -- Toytoy 03:12, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
:You know, that's a good point. I have no clue. --MasterA113 03:56, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:   It's simply a boat and a car.  Licensing depends upon the local (state) driving license regulations.  In the U.S. those are state rules, which are loosely coordinated with some vehicle types.  As this was apparently sold as a retail automobile, in the U.S. it is probably considered a "street legal" car and in most states would carry a normal (or collector's) automobile registration and license plate, classified as an automobile.  So it probably only requires a normal driver's license.  In the water, the local boat requirements would apply, so in many places to be used as a boat it would also require a powered boat registration (some photos show boat ID numbers near the "bow"); I just photographed one marked such, but we have enough photos already.  Thus the operator would require whatever license is needed for a small boat with an inboard motor, if any license is needed.  So the licensing both varies by location and is so ordinary there probably are no regulatory sources which address this, so it's not worth mentioning in the article.  -- SEWilco (talk) 03:18, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Licensing 

message: I remember seeing one of these cars as a young boy - though it was parked on the road. It would be interesting to know how much these Amphicar's cost against the cost of a Triumph Herald. They must have been mighty expensive and the main reason so few were made. Youtube "suboataru" some more of this sort of wonderful madness!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.121.186.28 (talk) 07:40, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cost - compared to a Triumph Herald 

message: The car is referenced in the opening segment of the Simpsons episode "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)", season 5, episode ten
--77.131.218.88 (talk) 13:07, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simpsons Reference 

message: ITV4's coverage of the third stage of the 2001 Tour de France briefly featured an Amphicar with four people aboard and in the water.
Yeet Yeet Yeet The Car Dude  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.150.228.195 (talk) 17:55, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tour de France 

message: I disagree with the statement that the Amphicar is a "descendant" of the Schwimmwagen.  A "descendant" indicates a direct connection, as Wikipedia's own article on the word proves.  There is no connection I can find between Volkswagen and the Quandt Group.  (The source for the descendant claim is a mention in Time Magazine, but that doesn't make it true.)  Elsquared (talk) 05:53, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: As the Amphicar was designed by Hans Trippel, it may be a descendant of the Trippel SG6 amphibious vehicle originally built by him at Hamburg in the 1930's. That was a three-wheeler, which was taken up by the Wehrmacht during the war and built under his direction at the commandeered Bugatti factory in Alsace. Eventually that factory switched to making the four-wheeled Volkswagen Schwimmwagen. NRPanikker (talk) 19:58, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  not descendant of Schwimmwagen 

message: Amphicars were available for rides at the 1964 World's Fair in Queens, NY 2601:41:C402:8350:EF3:7DFA:D1A9:73E2 (talk) 12:25, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worlds Fair