Wonder how long it is before they go bankrupt?
Something tells me that a 40-hp engine driving a 3000-lb car will not yield the kind of road performance that would make anyone who forked over $450k real happy.
Something tells me that car will tip over as soon as you try and turn a corner which will probably render the performance issue moot.
sigh
If you have $450,000 you’ve got enough for a Mercedes S-class and a gently used Bell Jet Ranger. Why bother with a flying car?
When we’ve perfected antigravity, we’ll have practical flying cars.
Can we all agree to refuse to use the term “flying car”? All of us together, any time the term “flying car” comes up, we stop the person short and correct them that what they really have is a “roadable aircraft”.
A car that can fly would be pretty cool. That would be something that drives like a car, except in the air. Except flying is nothing like driving. Any vehicle that can fly is an aircraft, not a car. Perhaps you can drive your airplane on surface streets once you’ve folded up the wings, but an aircraft you can drive on the road sounds pretty lame.
And that’s because it is lame. It will be a crappy airplane, and a crappy car. The engineering compromises neccesary to allow the plane to drive on the roads will make it a crap plane. And given the fact that a crappy airplane tends to end up with people smeared all over the cornfield, it’s never going to work.
And, what’s the POINT of a roadable aircraft? Unless you’ve got a VTOL craft, you’re going to have to take off and land from an airport, you’re not going to have a landing strip in your backyard and one at work. If you want to fly to work, you can buy a light plane and two cars for much less than the price of a roadable airplane. You drive the car to the small airport, get in your plane, fly to the other small airport, where you’ve parked your other car. Then you drive to work, and when you’re done with work do the whole thing in reverse.
So let’s all agree to fight the meme “flying car” whenever and wherever we see it. Who’s with me?
Lemur866, I’m with you - for one thing, putting the issue into the term “roadable aircraft” will emphasize the control problems that a lot of the enthusiasts for the idea never consider.
I also just stumbled upon this website, that might be interesting for those reading this thread, who’ve not seen it before. Roadable Times
Roadable aircraft? Pffft. Whatevs. If I wanted to fly a small plane I’d fly a small plane. Give me VTOL and dumb it down for me with as many computers and redundant safety systems as you have to.
But that’s the point. You can’t just load up a plane with safety systems and let the typical thumb fingered driver head out into the skies, because that’s handing them a death sentence.
If you could load up a plane with safety systems and computers and automation and have it be as safe and easy as driving a car, they would have done it by now. Such a thing does not exist. And there’s no cheap and easy and safe VTOL system either. If you want VTOL you’re going to have to get yourself a helicopter.
The people who want a flying car want something that, absent antigravity, simply cannot exist, as long as we have wind and rain. Which is why any time someone uses the term flying car, we correct them that there is no such thing as a flying car, what they have is a roadable aircraft.
In a Freak Brothers story, Phineas finds himself in possesion of a small aircraft loaded with drugs. Not knowing how to fly, he figures that, with the wings folded up, it wouldn’t be much bigger than a Cadillac, so he drives it home.
Cadillacs were larger when that story was written.
You´re overlooking the enormous commercial posibilities of redneck aviation. 
To be fair the thing looks a lot more practical than, for example, the Moller sort-of-flying contraption. The pictures on the actual website are quite good, on the road configuration it looks rather nice, an odd shaped but stylish car. Check some pictures near the bottom of this link. . Except for the fugly rear it doesn´t look bad at all.
Of course it remains to be seen if the darn thing can actually take wing, but I`m not going to criticize this people, I mean, how cool is it to build a roadable aircraft on your garage?