The shock-mitigating seats complete the most civilized amphibious vehicle on the planet.

Amphibious vehicles are not new, they've been mandatory in military circles since WW2 and we've written about more than a dozen commercially available amphibious vehicles over the last two decades ... but this is different.

Amphibious vehicles come in two distinct flavours: cars that can travel on water, and boats that can travel on land. Neither sub-species is particularly good at both, but what the amphibious boat genus has most obviously lacked has been genuine comfort.

The two most obvious contenders for the preeminent amphibious boat until now have been the French Iguana Yachts (above) and the Sea Legsthat hails from New Zealand (below), with the latter licensing its amphibious system to a number of other manufacturers.