• flying cars

    DARPA Looking For Someone To Build Flying Cars

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for a few inventive companies looking for cash to develop the holy grail of automotive awesomeness — flying cars. As part of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) proposal, DARPA is looking for actionable plans for a military vehicle able to hold two or four people, drive up to sixty miles per hour, fit it inside an eight and a half by seven by twenty four foot box, then take of vertically and fly for two hours at 150 MPH. The obvious application is reconnaissance and evacuation with transportation in a large cargo plane, but fold these babies into the NASA SATS program and blamo — air cars for everyone! Complete proposal details and program specifics below. More »

    2:30 PM on Thu Nov 13 2008
    By Ben Wojdyla
    1,644 views, 46 comments

    Most discussed Rock517: Hell, I'm still waiting on this, so I'm not holding my breath for a flying car anytime soon. more »

  • concept cars

    Audi Calamaro Flying Concept Car Takes Future Design Competitions To Higher Level

    This futuristic take on a flying car was designed by Hungarian design student Tibor for a design contest run by his native Porsche distributor. Inspired by the “bone of a cuttlefish,” the Audi Calamaro does a good job of looking kind of like its name suggests while still adapting current Audi design themes — check out the ‘beard’ air intake — to a product clearly intended for the distant future. We can spot no obvious means of propulsion, so can only assume it uses a Mr. Fusion.

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    4:20 PM on Thu Oct 23 2008
    By Wes Siler
    5,460 views, 61 comments

    Most discussed OldeEnglishD misses Polar: So the future of transportation is a Dirt Devil handheld? WTF? more »

  • flying cars

    Reality-Defying Futurama Flying Car For Sale On Amazon For A Mere $50,000!

    Good news everyone! A recently-launched merchant on Amazon — named Jetson — is offering the "Futurama Flying Car" for the bargain price of only $50,000. Although the seller makes no promises or claims, other than an artfully updated image of the Guigiaro B.A.T. 5, the reviews on this product offer stunning insight into the performance of this revolutionary, yet totally fictional, vehicle. More »

    4:00 PM on Fri Oct 10 2008
    By Ben Wojdyla
    7,295 views, 33 comments

    Most discussed Ze_Ben: That $#!+$ gay, I wouldn't pay $50 for it. more »

  • flying cars

    Moller Planning Flying Ferrari 599 GTB For Russian Businessman

    We love flying cars, and apparently so does a Russian businessman who contracted Moller to design a flying car based on the Ferrari 599 GTB. Moller is the leading authority on flying "cars", but as far as we can tell this is the first time they're seriously designing a flying machine based on an existing automobile. They call it the Autovolanter — catchy eh? To catch you up on their previous creations, there's the Moller M200 flying saucer, and the M400 Sky Car which has graced the covers of many a buff book over the 200 years it's been in development. Despite being the best in the flying car business, Moller never really got either of those to work out. We hope things are different with this flying Ferrari, but it's not too promising thus far.


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    4:20 PM on Fri Sep 12 2008
    By Mark Arnold
    7,172 views, 42 comments

    Most discussed 71rivnut: The biggest problem with flying cars is where the debris goes after the inevitable mid air collision. My guess is more »

  • meadow brook concours d'elegance

    Aerocar To Be Displayed At 2008 Meadow Brook Concours, Land In Our Dreams

    What would a car show be without a flying car? Frankly, we don't want to know, which is why we're glad the Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance, taking place Sunday, August 3, is playing host to the Taylor Aerocar. Built in 1956, this is perhaps the most successful flying car of all time. That's right, despite our fascination with flying cars, the best one was probably built more than 50 years ago. If you're on hand at the Meadow Brook event on August 3rd you can see one up close. More »

    10:40 AM on Tue Jun 17 2008
    By Matt Hardigree
    2,031 views, 23 comments

    Latest by microcars: @YetAnotherVariant: really? he bought it 3 years ago? Which one of the 6 known to exist did he buy? The Model more »

  • novelties

    Rocket Powered Flying Citroen DS, All Our Memes Are Belong to Fantômas

    We've never heard of what is a apparently a classic French character named Fantômas, but apprently he's a master of disguise and miscreant extraordinaire. More important to us though, in a 1964 flick, he drove a flying, rocket-powered Citroen DS. As we can see in this chase sequence between a Mini Moke and the DS in question, the transformation is brilliantly controlled through the HVAC controls and lets the creepy gray-faced anti-hero escape without a scratch. Let's just hope an underinformed passenger doesn't try to warm up the cabin in thick traffic.


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    4:20 PM on Tue May 27 2008
    By Ben Wojdyla
    2,563 views, 39 comments

    Latest by mzs: I saw this as a kid in either Austria or Poland at the age of 4 or 5 on a more »

  • novelties

    Russian Aerocar Promises All Purpose Travel - New Cold War

    With the development of the Russian-made Aerocar, it has become radically evident that the United States is now embroiled in the midst of a flying car technology race. While we have the sleek and the supposedly in-production Moller M200G, it's only limited to flying at heights of only 10 feet. The Russians have developed a version of an ultralight which can fly at up to 160 KPH and reach heights of 4,000 meters while on road it can top out at 80 KPH. Certainly it's not as elegant a solution, but they're working on a new and improved version which will fly at speeds of 450 KPH and travel on land at 100 KPH. You heard it here first, watch out for a flying Vlad buzz bombing a quiet American town near you! [RussiaToday]

    4:45 PM on Tue Apr 8 2008
    By Ben Wojdyla
    3,033 views, 25 comments

    Latest by oldraven: Would you really want to be 4,000M off the ground in something built by the same people who made the more »

  • concept cars

    LaBiche Aerospace FSC-1: Another Flying Car Just Around the Corner.

    It's been a little while since we last had any flying cars (the hoaky Monster Garage created flying Panoz Esperante from the last BJ Auction comes to mind). Here's a nifty concept from LaBiche Aerospace called the FSC-1. Rolls right off the tongue doesn't it? The ambitious concept features something which actually looks like a car and does its best transformer act to become a multi-winged flying wonder potentially capable of 275 mph. Of course, they're just waiting for the funding as step one, step two is... something, and finally step three: huge profits. More »

    10:20 AM on Mon Feb 25 2008
    By Ben Wojdyla
    1,290 views, 25 comments

    Latest by Dr.Danger, I run the Death Star: @workingonyourinvoice: @laxman15: LIES! more »

  • commenter of the day

    Commenter of the Day: Gerard Manley Hopkins Edition

    As we have learned through the harsh tutor of experience, you can give people the past, the present, and above all else the future, and no matter what, they will still demand flying cars. We're getting there! Closer every day! And not always safely. It's understandable, this earthbound contempt for beloved vehicles that can't fly yet. Even retro-tech of a highly prescient variety is no salve. And so, onward (upward?) to the commenter of the day. More »

    5:30 PM on Mon Feb 4 2008
    By Matthew DeBord
    1,799 views, 29 comments

    Latest by thatguy01: "Commander Ed Straker's 1980 car has a ROOF scoop for WHAT reason...? " Ventilation, just like Pat Moss' Big Healey rally more »

  • flying cars

    Cell Craft Flying Cars Will Be the Future, Once Inventor Does More Inventing

    Gino d'Ignazio Gizio has a dream. A dream where the average person has access to his or her own flying car. A dream where long commutes are a thing of the past and people take to the skies at 350mph with the freedom and ease we currently enjoy in our land-based cars (as long as we don't live someplace where there's, you know, traffic). Gino wants his Cell Craft to facilitate that dream. The problem, he hasn't quite figured out how it works yet.

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    12:45 PM on Thu Jan 24 2008
    By Wes Siler
    1,792 views, 34 comments

    Latest by DarkApplepolisher: One flaw I've always seen in flying cars... Standard land vehicles have a tendency to break down after how many more »