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(NYPost) Spiffy Buy Toyota's new flying car for only $50,000   (nypost.com) divider line 96
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MUCHWYZA [TotalFark] 2002-06-16 04:55:11 PM  
I'dbuy THAT for a dollar!

 
Morlas 2002-06-16 04:56:37 PM  
How long until Hyundai and Kia develop copycat flying cars made out of tin cans that sell for half that?

 
Outlaw_Rudy [TotalFark] 2002-06-16 04:57:47 PM  
Ha! What the article doesn't tell you is that there is no way in hell you can parallel park!

 
Yossarian_Lives 2002-06-16 04:57:58 PM  
Yeah, just what we need, giving people easier access to aircraft.

Our inept government can't keep 747's out of the hands of the wrong people. How will they prevent someone from using one of these flying cars as a missle?

 
PeterNorth 2002-06-16 04:58:16 PM  
I guess you need a runway, which sucks. I want jetsons goddamit.

pics?

 
Squidfartz 2002-06-16 04:58:23 PM  
Don't hold your breath for this one folks.
I want my damn jetpack though!

 
PeterNorth 2002-06-16 04:59:06 PM  
I'm glad to see you have been brainwashed, Yossarian

 
iteration_x 2002-06-16 04:59:54 PM  
...You wouldn't take one for the team for the flying car?!?

 
Quick1 2002-06-16 05:00:18 PM  
Anyone have a picture of it?

 
sexypenguin 2002-06-16 05:00:40 PM  
'bout farking time ...

 
downcaste 2002-06-16 05:02:49 PM  
Rutan called the airborne Toyota "the aeronautical equivalent of the Lexus LS400."

Not to split hairs or anything, but didn't Lexus discontinue the 400 engine a few years back?

 
Outlaw_Rudy [TotalFark] 2002-06-16 05:03:04 PM  
Hehehehe, in a few years, cars will be stuck into trees, and drunks will crash into low flying planes and schools. Really safe. anyway, does it have a pressurized "cabin", or does it just have a ceiling of like 1500 feet?

 
Alcoholocaust 2002-06-16 05:04:16 PM  
...forever change the American lifestyle built around motoring

Bullshiat! Something just like this came out 50 farking years ago...it was called the Convaircar..do a Google search.

It flopped because idiot drivers kept crashing the things and they got a bad rap.

 
yacht-man 2002-06-16 05:05:40 PM  
up up up and away we go............

 
Devotchka 2002-06-16 05:06:03 PM  
Here it is, the car we've all been waiting for.



Come, Josephine, in my flying machine.

 
BillDarryl 2002-06-16 05:06:11 PM  
The present: Doofus forgets to gas up, stalls on highway, inconveniences other motorists.

The future: Doofus forgets to gas up, stalls in midair, crashes and kills other motorists.

I'm not looking forward to the future.

 
Intergalactic 2002-06-16 05:07:10 PM  

 
BillDarryl 2002-06-16 05:07:58 PM  
Now all I need is my jetpack, robot servant, and city on the moon/under the sea, and I'll have the future I was promised!!!

 
shanrick [TotalFark] 2002-06-16 05:08:13 PM  
Or maybe this flying car.

 
MightySausage 2002-06-16 05:08:27 PM  
Finally!

 
stoatbringer 2002-06-16 05:08:34 PM  
How about the Moller car?


 
Ivana_Stolichnaya 2002-06-16 05:09:11 PM  
"Toyota thinks cars of tomorrow will be airborne machines - and has already designed one in a top-secret project."


I guess it is not "Top Secret" anymore!

 
Outlaw_Rudy [TotalFark] 2002-06-16 05:12:39 PM  
anyone else think this "flying" car is activated by eating mushrooms?

 
chewd 2002-06-16 05:12:53 PM  
"Our inept government can't keep 747's out of the hands of the wrong people. How will they prevent someone from using one of these flying cars as a missle?"

hate to tell you this, but as it stands now you can buy an airplane for a helluva lot less than $50,000

used cessnas start at around $20,000

 
CheezieDanish 2002-06-16 05:16:41 PM  
The Moller Car is really noisy and not for the average consumer, unfortunately. I'd love to fly a car - come on...wouldn't you?

 
grandsham 2002-06-16 05:17:03 PM  
hmmmm. I'd much rather want a VTOL air craft (read: Harrier). those things are easy to paralell park, need no runways, and assuming they're fully armed, could clear traffic jams like that*snaps fingers*

 
Forsythe P. Jones [TotalFark] 2002-06-16 05:21:18 PM  
It would give a whole new meaning to DWI's....
"Sorry,son,I'm goin' to have to give you a FWI..Flying while intoxicated..Please..show up in court this time,son."

 
Dinglebarf 2002-06-16 05:21:55 PM  
That article was worth about what I paid for it.

 
Forsythe P. Jones [TotalFark] 2002-06-16 05:23:06 PM  
And the sobriety test at 2000 feet would be killer.."Heel,toe,son..Whoops!"

 
UnknownCactus 2002-06-16 05:23:46 PM  
am i the only one that thinks that flying cars are a bad idea? i mean if you break down, your chances for survival hit the shiatter

 
Dinglebarf 2002-06-16 05:23:50 PM  
Oh, and it's not a flying car. It's just another GA design and probably won't be produced. It uses a Lycoming engine, too.

 
el_matarife 2002-06-16 05:26:35 PM  
Seems to be a cheap personal plane to me. Not exactly a flying car. I guess it will be nice for people with long commutes or something if there is a small airport nearbye. You have to have a runway and landing strip, it has to maintain flight lanes, basically just a cheap personal plane.

 
llarken 2002-06-16 05:28:07 PM  
Hmmm...well, I guess is someone had to build one, at least it was Toyota.

After owning a '92 Ford Taurus, which decided to just randomly chuck important internal parts on the pavement, I would feel even less safe if Ford were the one to pioneer this inevitable market

 
IHateMonkies 2002-06-16 05:34:11 PM  
I bet it looks something like this:

 
chewd 2002-06-16 05:34:26 PM  
actually ford has built airplanes before.

for the nazis

yep thats right, Henry Ford was a prodigious anti-semite & nazi sympathizer.

 
strife 2002-06-16 05:36:02 PM  
I want an A-Wing.

 
mce1123 2002-06-16 05:39:23 PM  
yep thats right, Henry Ford was a prodigious anti-semite & nazi sympathizer.

and now the ford foundation is the biggest sponsor of the ACLU...

some things never change

 
IHateMonkies 2002-06-16 05:46:59 PM  

 
xoxotl 2002-06-16 05:47:47 PM  
W00t!

Actually, why I was hoping for a Back to the Future II type hovercar, it seems more akin to a Blade Runner type "spinner". If you'll recall, only government agencies like police and big corps had access to "spinners".

Still, pretty cool. Imagine configuring one of these things for a life-saving operation, like MedEvac or firefighting (just hover over the house and dump water on top of it, or being able to quickly and safely pick up people trapped in high-rise buildings)

 
Shiver_Me_Timbers 2002-06-16 05:50:27 PM  
this would have been cool when people wanted one

 
xoxotl 2002-06-16 05:52:21 PM  

 
xoxotl 2002-06-16 05:53:30 PM  
Pah. Darn HTML (or my lack to use it properly):


 
Shiver_Me_Timbers 2002-06-16 06:02:06 PM  
"the new flying ford focus...STILL uncool at any speed"

 
Dahne 2002-06-16 06:09:36 PM  
Finally!

 
stoatbringer 2002-06-16 06:11:07 PM  
The roads are already full of idiots who shouldn't be allowed to control a ton of metal travelling at 60mph. We really don't need the sky full of them as well.

 
Mad Ogre 2002-06-16 06:11:57 PM  
About Damn Time!

 
rburk4444 2002-06-16 06:17:32 PM  
Did you ever see a car fly?
Well, I've seen a horse fly.
Ha! I've seen a dragon fly.
Aheh, I've even seen a house fly.
But I ain't never seen a car fly!

 
Mikey_B 2002-06-16 06:22:57 PM  
If I had that much money I'd buy it! Now we just need light sabers and warp drive :)

 
DogInARocket 2002-06-16 06:48:13 PM  
What's the big deal? Flying cars have been around for nearly 100 years. Some people call them planes though.

I can understand people wanting to fly, but the idea of putting the gridlocked mess of automobile traffic in the air seems ridiculous. What problem is this the solution to exactly? Dodging traffic to save time? Where's the time savings if you count pre-flight preparation and waiting in line to get runway clearance while a thousand other "flying cars" land before you? For short commutes I can't imagine there would be a time savings.

These things would cost more than the average car, would have a higher fuel requirement, and would be more dangerous than cars. The argument that flying is a safer mode of travel is only true because there are a lot fewer people in control of planes in a given area than is true for cars. Put a crowded highway in the air and you better put on your hardhat.

 
Zoobtro 2002-06-16 06:54:14 PM  

 
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