Cue the "waa-waa" horns and the James Bond theme music...

As the Kool-Aid Gang probably knows, my fascination with Lotus cars began with the Espirit back when I first saw Roger Moore drive one straight into the depths of the sea and watched it turn into a submarine in The Spy Who Loved Me. Obviously, it was a preposterous idea that a car could submerge underwater like that, but for a young kid like me with no sense of the laws of physics, it was just super-cool--you might even say, dangerously cheesy.

Anywho, some guy in Switzerland has actually made this a reality, using the modern Lotus (an Elise) as the framework for his own Q-Branch vehicle. I guess it's not truly the James Bond submarine car--it has an open top in order to overcome buoyancy issues and you basically have to use a diving respirator to breathe. Still, it's kind of a fun idea and just goes to show you what one can do with too much money on their hands.