Friday, March 29

Amphibious Luxury RV Hits 7 Knots in Water

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Just in case you’ve ever thought of driving your luxury motorhome into the water, take a look at the amphibious Terra Wind by CAMI that travels 80 mph on land and 7 knots when it’s floating.

The Terra Wind is 42’ 6” long with an 8’ 6” beam; it weighs 33,000 pounds, or a bit more than a school bus, and it has a draft of 3’ 5.” It’s driven by a single 330-hp Cat turbo diesel, with an automatic transmission for the road and a marine gearbox for the water. It has two 19-inch bronze props.

It comes with marble tile floors, granite countertops, teak cabinets, leather furniture, and a Jacuzzi tub in the bathroom/head. There’s a full galley, appropriate for a land yacht, a dining room, and a master stateroom in the rear with a mirrored ceiling and a slide-out back porch. The dash is padded leather, and is equipped with GPS and what the company says is a computer docking system.

If you want to go from land to water (fresh water only), you get out and inflate the 13-foot pontoons on the sides that give the RV stability. Then you drive straight ahead and shift the road transmission into neutral and the marine transmission into drive. And you have a yacht.

CAMI is a Bluffton, South Carolina, builder that often makes amphibious craft in various sizes. Base price for the Terra Wind is $850,000, but with everything mentioned above it costs about $1.2 million. Read more at http://camillc.com  and see the Terra Wind in action in the video below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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