It is the ultimate off-roader and it is coming to an airstrip near you. The flying car has been talked about for almost as long as cars have existed, and now a prototype built by a small American company is finally ready to make the idea a reality.
The Terrafugia Transition is a two-seater plane that at the touch of a button converts into a road-legal car. It takes its maiden flight next month and is scheduled to hit the showrooms by next year. You can’t help but wonder whether, if Bob Nardelli and Rick Wagoner, of Chrysler and General Motors respectively, had been forward-thinking enough to fly into Washington DC in swept-wing Dodge Vipers and Cadillac Escalades instead of corporate jets when they were seeking bailout cash, they would have been showered with government money, downturn or no downturn.
Oh, sure, it doesn't have the way-cool glass bubble top of the Jetson's car, but we're at least one step closer to having our own personal flying cars. And that's pretty freakin' cool...
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5 comments:
Shit, and you thought ROAD rage was bad in Massachusetts. Yikes.
I want a treadmill to walk the dogs.
Cool. But we're going to need vertical take-off and landing or else we're still going to have to do that thing with the TSA at airports.
Car plus plane equals lousy car and lousy plane. Look at the Amphicar for an example of something trying to do two different things poorly. Any volunteers for the first to fly this? I wonder who is putting the money up for this? Let's see how they do.
I'll have to start a new category: Air rage... ;)
No, I'm about as likely to buy one of these contraptions as I am to sprout wings. I don't fly willingly...
Ted,
I want the robot maid, although I'd want styling more along the lines of this...
Popcorn,
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Not a great time-saver if you have to drive an hour and a half to the airport to use the darn thing...
libertyman,
Ah, a man after my own heart. Yes, the hybrid - the worst of both possible worlds.
I still think it's kinda neat.
Now, if they made it an amphicar *too*, they'd have something!
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