Scots Test Out Amphibious Bus, We’ll Watch From Shore

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

Human beings have the strange ability to continually develop new and fascinating ways of transportation. We also have the ability to create modes of transportation that could lead to the grisly demise of their passengers. Enter the “Amfibus,” a passenger bus that also doubles as a ferry boat. They are built in Holland and Glasgow, and Scotland may be the first place to put one into service.

The bus would replace a ferry that was operating at a loss. The initial cost for the bus is no small change, they go for more than a million dollars US. Based off of a Volvo bus, the company adds a water tight hull and the jet drive used to propel the bus in the water. It will go 60 mph on land and a leisurely 8 knots in the water. The bus/boat/submarine has seating for 50 passengers.

The bus will be used to ferry people across the Clyde river.

We think this is kind of a cool idea, but if the yellow bus decides to head for Davy Jones’ Locker, we’d rather be on a boat we could jump off of than inside a spacious Volo bus. It would be bitchin’ to up fit the thing with a bar and other fun stuff and float it around a lake for the day like a massive pontoon boat, although we’d outfit ours with twin, blown, 572ci big block Chevys.