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Vintage Flying Car Lands on eBay's Auction Table
Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 4:00 PM on October 3, 2008
Are you an ultra-rich tech enthusiast with a hankering to own a piece of aero-automobile history? Moller International is now offering its M200X, the first flying car of its kind, up for sale on that veritable auction house of luxury, eBay. The M200X is a 2-passenger Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle that has completed over 200 manned and unmanned flight demonstrations since 1989. Currently, bids are up to $US18,888... but the reserve hasn't been met yet so you still have a chance to swoop in and snatch it up. [eBay via gizmag]
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DavidPFarrell
Posted 4:26 PM 3/10/08
Everything about that bottom-right picture look photoshopped to me.
DavidPFarrell
stevo
Posted 4:19 PM 3/10/08
That's funny, I just got done watching James May's Big Ideas..
stevo
Molbork
Posted 4:13 PM 3/10/08
huh, it almost looks like the car Homer designed with that bubble top and fin.
Molbork
SomeoneUKno
Posted 5:02 PM 3/10/08
I wonder if they'll ship it via Air Mail...
Get it? AIR mail?! Hahahah---
OK, yeah, that was retarded.
SomeoneUKno
dedalus987
Posted 5:52 PM 3/10/08
jetsons, anyone?
dedalus987
B.Zanetti
Posted 6:43 PM 3/10/08
@undefined: The one on the top left is the same story. I would say the whole thing was a hoax if I hadn't seen the video. Of course it would also seem it hasn't flown in twenty years.
B.Zanetti
Curves
Posted 8:27 PM 3/10/08
With a couple of little green guy suits, you could have a really good time with this....or if you were not exactly honest, extort some serious money from people to get you to fly back to Mars and leave them here.
Curves
Cyberziggy
Posted 8:24 PM 3/10/08
Every video I've ever seen of this thing in operation always shows the thing tethered to a crane.
Attach a tether to my body and I can accomplish the same thing by flapping my arms.
Cyberziggy
PeterSimpson
Posted 9:16 PM 3/10/08
[Jetsons car sound]
PeterSimpson
Tedinasia
Posted 9:38 PM 3/10/08
Does it come with the big ass crane ? ... or is it "Perfectly Safe".
Tedinasia
Netscott
Posted 9:33 PM 3/10/08
Moller must be getting desperate for cash. He's been promising the flying-car for decades with it always being, "just around the corner". This started in the 1970s.... 30 years later and this is the only craft that ever flew with a significant international audience. What is the deal?
-Scott
Netscott
frigg
Posted 10:11 PM 3/10/08
Meet George Jetson.
His Boy Elroy.
Daughter Judy.
Jane his wife.
frigg
EricAlder
Posted 11:24 PM 3/10/08
At last! FLYING CARS!!!
Bless you, Elaine! You made my day!
EricAlder
mordennight
Posted 11:18 PM 3/10/08
@DavidPFarrell:
They didn't HAVE photoshop back then!
mordennight
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 11:13 PM 3/10/08
An $18,000 price tag does not mean you have to be "ultra-rich" to afford it. Even for the "merely rich", $18,000 is an impulse buy - like gum in the checkout line.
Not that the merely rich would know what a checkout line is.
OMG! Ponies!
ddtx2
Posted 11:36 PM 3/10/08
It´s come with airbags?
ddtx2
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 12:34 AM 4/10/08
Now I can finally be Spaceman Spiff!
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
dukemang
Posted 1:53 AM 4/10/08
@Netscott: I know! I've been waiting on the flying car most of my life. Not having one available sure made the year 2000 pretty damn dull.
dukemang
dukemang
Posted 1:51 AM 4/10/08
Moeller must be running out of money for the MX400 development.
dukemang
GTgeek
Posted 12:31 AM 4/10/08
@OMG! Ponies!: Eh, I think you have to have the cash though. No banker is going to finance a flying car from the 80's.
GTgeek
GTgeek
Posted 12:27 AM 4/10/08
@Molbork: Except it's missing the all important separate section for screaming kids and mother in laws.
GTgeek
EricAlder
Posted 3:29 AM 4/10/08
"Where's my hovercraft?
Where's my jet pack?
Where's the font of acquired wisdom that eludes me now?"
- from "The World Before Later On" by They Might Be Giants
EricAlder
Askiba
Posted 6:01 AM 4/10/08
@EricAlder: You just won.
I thought I was the only one on Giz that knew of the existence of this band >_<
Askiba
B.Zanetti
Posted 11:48 AM 4/10/08
@Askiba: Of course people know about them, they WERE on homestarrunner after all.
B.Zanetti
avantreese
Posted 11:51 PM 4/10/08
That guy so looks like my father.
avantreese
StealthNinja
Posted 9:34 PM 9/10/08
SkyCar, rocks! Moller's concepts are great! But, only if it had Microvision's windshield designs with some other functions and concepts added to it too, especially the latest Skycar designs!
StealthNinja