History Main / FlyingCar

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1122 SCP-1122 ("The House of Tomorrow")]]. One of the technological items found in the House is a working flying car.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoOnline'' saw the return of the Deluxo (previously only seen in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories Vice City Stories]]'' as a land-based vehicle based on the [[Film/BackToTheFuture DeLorean DMC-12]]) as one of these. It also has [[WeaponizedCar a small arsenal]] onboard. The Oppressor Mk. II, meanwhile, is a hoverbike with a similarly robust arsenal. Both vehicles, incidentally, have [[DemonicSpiders a rather storied reputation]] among the game's fans as the WeaponOfChoice for every {{troll}} and {{griefer}} due to how easy it is to kill other players with them.

* One of the first things Billy did in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' once he started getting savvy with alien technology was make a flying Volkswagen Beetle he dubbed the "Rad Bug". Yes, they could, technically, teleport if they wanted to, but even [[{{Nerd}} Billy]] could tell that a flying car was cooler. And it did come in handy the times they ''couldn't'' teleport.

** [[http://www.fordpinto.com/mitzar1.htm There was even a flying]] [[EveryCarIsAPinto Pinto.]].

* In ''Literature/TerraIgnota'', flying cars are essential to the world, since they have been developed far enough to circle the globe in mere hours, allowing people to live in Europe, work on another continent and return home in time for dinner. They’re one of the contributors to the end of the nation-state: borders lost their significance when crossing them became a routine fact of life. They’re also automated — a large portion of the plot is centered around the bash' house that runs the flying-car system for almost the entire world, something they have been doing for generations. It all can only function because set-sets, [[WetwareCPU human computers]] specialized to an extreme for the calculation of millions of flight routes at once, have been developed, and even then there are a handful of collisions every year, which are invariably fatal to those involved given the speeds involved. [[spoiler:That number is being artificially boosted by said bash’, which is involved in a GovernmentConspiracy and deliberately crashing cars containing passengers their set-sets have calculated to be threats to world peace.]]

* Common in ''Franchise/MassEffect'', due to the ubiquity of Element Zero-based technology. In the "Lair of the Shadow Broker" DLC for ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', you even get to pilot one in a scene reminiscent of ''Film/StarWarsAttackOfTheClones''. In the "Citadel" DLC for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', a lawyer can be overheard telling someone that this makes [[AmbulanceChaser chasing ambulances]] a very bad idea.

** Luke's speeder in ''Film/StarWarsANewHope'' was only ever a few inches off the ground, but it did fly, technically...
** The Coruscant speeder chase in ''Film/StarWarsAttackOfTheClones''. Coruscant seems practically on the verge of having Flying Car traffic jams...
** According to supplementary fluff, the ski-speeders in ''Film/StarWarsTheLastJedi'' were originally designed for racing, similar to the pod racers in ''Film/StarWarsThePhantomMenace''. The Rebel Alliance acquired some of them and modified them as combat craft during the Galactic Civil War, and [[spoiler: The Resistance was forced to use a very beat-up handful of the remaining ski-speeders against the First Order a generation later.]]
** All sorts of military and civilian [[AntiGravity repulsorlift]] vehicles abound in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse''. Speeder bikes (from ''Film/StarWarsReturnOfTheJedi''), airspeeders, hovertrucks, pod racers, swoops...
* Lady Penelope's pink Ford limousine in the live-action ''Film/{{Thunderbirds}}'' movie.
* ''The Flying Car'', a short film taking place in Film/TheViewAskewniverse. Stuck in traffic, Randall and Dante discuss what they would hypothetically be willing to do to get the flying car. Randall badgers Dante by upping the ante until the latter relents and says he would be willing to have his foot hacked off and be sodomized by a MadScientist in exchange for the flying car.

* The ''[[Literature/ThirdWorldProducts 3rd World Products]]'' series. Though those were van to small bus size and larger.
* In ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'', the graphic novel shows LEP cruisers being able to fly, which they can't actually do in the books.

* In ''Literature/TerraIgnota'', flying cars are essential to the world, since they have been developed far enough to circle the globe in mere hours, allowing people to live in Europe, work on another continent and return home in time for dinner. They’re one of the contributors to the end of the nation-state: borders lost their significance when crossing them became a routine fact of life. They’re also automated — a large portion of the plot is centered around the bash' house that runs the flying-car system for almost the entire world, something they have been doing for generations. It all can only function because set-sets, [[WetwareCPU human computers]] specialized to an extreme for the calculation of millions of flight routes at once, have been developed, and even then there are a handful of collisions every year, which are invariably fatal to those involved. [[spoiler:That number is being artificially boosted by a GovernmentConspiracy that uses car collisions as an assassination weapon in the name of preserving world peace.]]

* In ''Literature/TerraIgnota'', flying cars are essential to the world, since they have been developed far enough to circle the globe in mere hours, allowing people to live in Europe, work on another continent and return home in time for dinner. A large portion of the plot is centered around the bash' house that runs the flying-car system for almost the entire world, something they have been doing for generations. It all can only function because set-sets, [[WetwareCPU human computers]] specialized to an extreme for the calculation of millions of flight routes at once, have been developed.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"[[Film/BackToTheFuture Roads? Where we're going,]] [[WeDontNeedRoads we don't]] ''[[WeDontNeedRoads need]]'' [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII roads...]]"]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"[[Film/BackToTheFuture Roads? Where we're going, we don't need]] ''[[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII roads...]]''"]]

** Luke's speeder in ''Film/ANewHope'' was only ever a few inches off the ground, but it did fly, technically...
** The Coruscant speeder chase in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. Coruscant seems practically on the verge of having Flying Car traffic jams...
** According to supplementary fluff, the ski-speeders in ''Film/TheLastJedi'' were originally designed for racing, similar to the pod racers in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. The Rebel Alliance acquired some of them and modified them as combat craft during the Galactic Civil War, and [[spoiler: The Resistance was forced to use a very beat-up handful of the remaining ski-speeders against the First Order a generation later.]]
** All sorts of military and civilian [[AntiGravity repulsorlift]] vehicles abound in the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse. Speeder bikes (from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''), airspeeders, hovertrucks, pod racers, swoops...

* The ''[[ThirdWorldProducts 3rd World Products]]'' series. Though those were van to small bus size and larger.

* ''TabletopGame/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' has spacesters: look like a car, move like a flying saucer. No teenager can afford to buy one -- but a clever human/alien pair can ''build'' one by, yes, cannibalizing parts from a car and a flying saucer.

* ''VideoGame/BeamBreakers'' was a computer game in which you drove antigravity cars in a ''Film/TheFifthElement''-esque city. It was also awesome...

* ''VideoGame/{{CrossOut}}'' has "Hover" wheel parts, which can turn any vehicle they are attached to either into one of these or a HoverTank

* ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Grand Theft Auto Online]]'' saw the return of the Deluxo (previously only seen in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories Vice City Stories]]'' as a land-based vehicle based on the [[Film/BackToTheFuture DeLorean DMC-12]]) as one of these. It also has [[WeaponizedCar a small arsenal]] onboard. The Oppressor Mk. II, meanwhile, is a hoverbike with a similarly robust arsenal. Both vehicles, incidentally, have [[DemonicSpiders a rather storied reputation]] among the game's fans as the WeaponOfChoice for every {{troll}} and {{griefer}} due to how easy it is to kill other players with them.

* ''VideoGame/MarioKart 7'' features cars that can turn into hang gliders.
** And, in ''VideoGame/MarioKart 8'', the karts transform into a hovercraft for certain portions of certain tracks. Complete with fold-down wheels ala ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''!
* Common in ''Franchise/MassEffect'', due to the ubiquity of Element Zero-based technology. In the "Lair of the Shadow Broker" DLC for ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', you even get to pilot one in a scene reminiscent of ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. In the "Citadel" DLC for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', a lawyer can be overheard telling someone that this makes [[AmbulanceChaser chasing ambulances]] a very bad idea.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Home}}'', Oh rebuilds Tip's broken car so it can fly, under the impression that it was supposed to do that.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/BackToTheFuture "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need]] ''[[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII roads..."]]'']]

* The ''Literature/InDeath'' series, set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. Then, as now, cop equipment is crappy. But they ''do'' have flying cars, ''and'' [[StunGuns laser stunners]], ''and'' offworld travel is more or less routine. I'd say the trade-offs are worth it.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' makes flying cars commonplace by [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture the year 2015]]. Apparently the writers really liked this idea, because it was one of the few things from the original script of the first movie to survive. Spoofed in ''Website/CollegeHumor'''s "Back to the Future in ACTUAL 2015" when Doc Brown explains that not only aren't there any flying cars, people are too scared to fly for fear of fundamentalist hijackers.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/BackToTheFuture "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need]] ''[[Film/BackToTheFuture roads."]]'']]

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->''"Roads? Where we're going we don't need ''roads''."''
-->-- '''Doc Brown''', ''Film/BackToTheFuture''

->''"Roads? Where we're going we don't need ''[[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII roads]]''."''

->''"Roads? Where we're going we don't need ''roads''."''

** Pretty much all of Heinlein's "Future History" stories have flying cars. One of them (''Literature/ThePuppetMasters'') even describes the North American radar net as being called the "[[Literature/TheBible No Sparrow Shall Fall]]" network that tracks every car (note there are about 250 million registered passenger vehicles currently in the USA). Despite the fact that he was considered one of the "kings" of [[SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness Hard Science Fiction]], he never would admit that flying cars are AwesomeButImpractical.

* Nora speculates an Altesian troop transport she and her friends obtain in "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13858618/1/ Attack on Titan A New Path]]", can fly. Everyone dismisses it as one of her flights of fancy. Cue the transport starting to lift off the ground.

** Pretty much all of Heinlein's "Future History" stories have flying cars. One of them (''Literature/ThePuppetMasters'') even describes the North American radar net as being called the "[[Literature/TheBible No Sparrow Shall Fall]]" network that tracks every car (note there are about 250 million registered passenger vehicles currently in the USA). Despite the fact that he was considered one of the "kings" of [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness Hard Science Fiction]], he never would admit that flying cars are AwesomeButImpractical.

* Tracks' alternate mode in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersGeneration1'' was a Corvette Stingray with pop-out wings.