The 10 Most Badass Fictional Flying Cars of Sci-Fi

Avery Brooks perhaps said it best in his 2000 IBM commercial: “It’s the year 2000, but where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars! I don’t see any flying cars! Why? Why? Why?” In some of the earliest visions of the future ever dreamed up, the concept of personal travel evolving from land based to air based is often referenced. Already more than a decade into the 21st century, the absence of air based automobiles is an obvious, glaring failure in human progress.

While today’s skies are not dominated by airborne Fords and Toyotas, science fiction has often presented inspiring examples of automobiles not confined to asphalt. Some early examples, such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang endowed their vehicles with magical or mysterious methods for attaining light, while future flying cars seemed to be more mechanical in nature, the product of human ingenuity and invention.

The following are 10 of Science Fiction’s most influential and memorable flying cars. But what exactly gets a vehicle classified as a flying car? First, it has to be able to drive on a road on a set of wheels. That means no hovercrafts, airplanes, or Uncle Owen’s Landspeeder. Additionally, the vehicles on this list, while fictional, must achieve their lift through mechanical means, so sorry kids, but no magical cars flown by Harry Potter. So now that the rules are in play, sit back, and enjoy your flight.

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