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Into The successful series of films starring James Bond, now about to cross the finish line of the 50 years, it has attracted generations of viewers and secured billions of dollars in box: In addition to the charm of the secret agent of MI6, one of the aspects of greatest attraction for the public has always been technological gimmicks used by the British spy , regularly supplied to Bond by Q, the head of the Research & Development of the British secret service.

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Into In The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Roger Moore could move underwater with his flaming Lotus Esprit, which can function as a real submarine . The car used in the film, which of course can only go underwater to the big screen, was sold at auction in London for the respectable figure of 550,000 pounds (about 650,000 Euros): the buyer was an anonymous buyer who propra made the offer over the phone.

Into But the anonymity did not last long: to win the car was Elon Musk , the mastermind behind the PayPal transactions, electric cars Tesla Motors, and SpaceX’s space flights and now, even the creator of an ambitious project that involves the Lotus of James Bond.

Into The South African-born billionaire has been identified by the website Jalopnik, and you have not created problems to confirm the rumor. Probably to get some ‘free publicity for his new gimmick, which involves the transformation of Bond-mobile in an electric car . But not like the ones we are used to.

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Into “As a child in South Africa (Pretoria Musk has lived in until the age of 17 years, Ed) was great watching James Bond in ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ drive his Lotus Esprit off a pier, press a button and turn it into a submarine. I was disappointed when I learned that he could not really turn . What I’ll do is update it with an electric motor Tesla and try to get them to really transform. “

An ambitious project? Maybe . But it was also imagine a private constructor that provides the NASA its services to supply the International Space Station. Yet, in February 2014, the Dragon spacecraft, built by SpaceX (the company’s aerospace Musk) will launch its fifth to the orbiting laboratory.

Into After all, in these days we talked about the prototype flying machine developed by a Slovak engineer: when there is half a brain like that of Musk (not to mention its ambition) everything is possible. And even an electric car able to move underwater seems to become plausible.

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