No, the Nash Metropolitans did look like a bathtub (upside down), but they weren't amphibious. They were an inexpensive little two-seater (but not a sports car), and people who had them really liked them. I know the one Genie means, but I can't recall who made them or what they were called. Some years back, the owner of one cause a near-panic when he took a look at the Mercer Island floating bridge across Lake Washington (east of Seattle) and saw that traffic was bumper to bumper and going nowhere. He left the streets, found access to the lakefront, and putt-putted across the lake while people on the bridge sat a stared. Somebody called the police and soon rescue boats were all over the lake, accompanied by the news media. The report was that someone had driven their car into the lake--which was sorta true, but by then the amphibous car and its driver were across the lake and home. Considering the current state of traffic on the Lake Washington bridges, that should be the wave of the future.

Don Firth