news page of the amphiclopedia

Click on a letter in the frame above. I try to sort the vehicles on factory name. (as good as possible) many vehicles have more than one name. :)
Below is amphibious news!
14 March 2010 The AmphiTruck website is back online! www.amphitruck.com/
06 Feb 2010 Finaly somebody who tryes to stop Tim Dutton an action I fully support see http://www.amphijeep.info I am to an owner of an amphibious Dutton and after much work: Wat I have done can be found HERE. It is not what I expected from a man with 40 year car building experience! Please read: http://www.amphijeep.info If you are think about an amphibious vehicle!
10 Oct 2009 NEW EUROPEAN RULES!!!! after May 2009. EVERY EU COUNTRY MUST HAVE SOMETHING LIKE SVA. SVA, is Singe Vehicle Approval. More info here Sorry it is a big project, but health problems keep me from updating.
24 Apr 2009 China The Beijing (Baiyun) Boatcar Has an amphibious 6x6 TRUCK in production see www.boatcar.net it is build on the base of a 6x6 Dong Feng truck
29 Mar 2009 CANADA has an Amphibious vehicle in production. In Canada there is www.aquaterra.ca that builds a copy of the Dutton Commander.
08 Jan 2009 IVECO AMPHIB IN PROTOTYPE STAGE There is a new Amphib in the testing phase. The Iveco Terramare (that means landsea) Iveco is giving assistance in the building of the second prototype the first prototype is the - Iveco WM40 home build - . This new Amphib will be produced with the Iveco trade mark and Iveco assistance and Iveco warranty. Water propulsion by a hydro jet. Full time 4WD, 3 differentials (all 3 manually lockable). 4 disc brakes. Front and rear independent axles. Engine is Iveco 3.000 turbo diesel 176 HP. Hull will be made out of stain less steel.
TIM DUTTON PAYS FOR QUALITY OF HIS AMPHIBS! Dutton builds an amphibious vehicle. And a a judge described it as a "floating coffin." He ended up having to pay Ł28,500 compensation. Tim Dutton is using a new business called Amphijeep after winding up his previous company Amphibious Cars http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3614890.Sussex_businessman_s___30k_bill/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7575208.stm
I can not say that this is a suprice, I have a Dutton Commander S2 for more info on MY AMPHIB look HERE. It is a vehicle to transport 2 or max 4 people and it needs SO much work to make it usable.
18 July 2008 In the DETROIT NEWS there is an article about Gibbs Creating 250 jobs over the next 5 years. The first production vehicle is expected in 2009 So things are cooking!!!! http://www.gibbstech.co.uk The article was send to me by Bob Rose.

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I have started this domain on 28 September 1999. Before 1999 the site was hosted on http://www.d-w-e.nl/amphibious/ Around 1995 it started on my 5 Mb home page www.nursing.nl/rosloot. ?? or something like that or on www.caiw.nl/rosloot I do not know that any more.