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First Commercially Available Flying Car Goes on Sale for $399,000 [Heater not included]
www.motortrend.com ^ | 02-13-2017 | Kelly Pleskot

Posted on 02/14/2017 12:59:54 PM PST by Red Badger

The flying car is here.

For $400,000, you can buy a very nice Rolls-Royce Dawn. Or you can purchase something slightly less sleek but more versatile: a flying car.

Dutch company PAL-V is now taking orders for the world’s first commercial flying car, the Liberty. The company says that the Liberty models are fully compliant with safety regulations set by global governing bodies, and that deliveries will begin by the end of 2018.

The first 90 copies are designated as Pioneer Editions, boasting special exterior and interior details. For the personalized touch and additional standard features such as power heating, buyers will have to pay $599,000. After the Pioneer Edition sells out, PAL-V will start selling the standard model, known as the Liberty Sport, for $399,000.

“PAL-V deliberately chose to engineer, design and build a flying car with proven technologies and fully compliant with existing regulations,” the company said in a press release today. “This leads to a first product delivery date that is realistic and imminent.” PAL-V expects North America to be a major market for its flying car.

Buyers should have a license for both driving and flying. On the road, the Liberty can lower its suspension and make use of its tilting cockpit for better maneuverability. PAL-V lists top speed on the road as 100 mph, while 0-62 mph is estimated to take less than 9 seconds. In the air, it can travel at up to 112 mph.

PAL-V may be the first company to bring a flying car to market, but it isn’t the only one in the game. Airbus is another potential player and says it will have a prototype by the end of the year.

Do you think PAL-V’s flying car will take off in the U.S.? Tell us in the comments below.

Source: PAL-V


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Sports; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: flyngcar; jetsons
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1 posted on 02/14/2017 12:59:54 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

They should call it the George Jetson.


2 posted on 02/14/2017 1:01:50 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Nailbiter

ping


3 posted on 02/14/2017 1:01:54 PM PST by IncPen (I just found out that PIAPS is a reference to the "Pig In A Pants Suit". Ha! #NeverHillary)
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To: Red Badger

looks like a heliocopter


4 posted on 02/14/2017 1:02:22 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: IncPen

flying cars have existed since the 1950s


5 posted on 02/14/2017 1:03:47 PM PST by vooch
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To: MichaelCorleone
"...The first 90 copies are designated as Pioneer Editions..."

They should call them Beta Experimental Human fodder editions.

You first!

6 posted on 02/14/2017 1:05:12 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (:^¤)
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To: Red Badger

Looks more like some kind of flying 3 wheel motorcycle


7 posted on 02/14/2017 1:05:23 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Red Badger

My youngest stepdaughter took the old Buick flying.....once.


8 posted on 02/14/2017 1:05:47 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Fiddlstix

More or less.............


9 posted on 02/14/2017 1:06:04 PM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: blueunicorn6

So did I............once...............


10 posted on 02/14/2017 1:06:38 PM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: Red Badger

I bet Jay Leno will buy one for his collection.


11 posted on 02/14/2017 1:09:38 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the War on White People, is to recognize it exists.)
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To: Red Badger

Gyro-copter.


12 posted on 02/14/2017 1:10:16 PM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: blueunicorn6

the Kennedy Clan have been pioneers in automotive aviation, inland water aviation, and sports aviation, and drug assisted brainium aviation.

;>)


13 posted on 02/14/2017 1:11:09 PM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: T-Bone Texan

LMAO....YEAH I wanna watch the first flight around
the block some millionaire rapper trys....


14 posted on 02/14/2017 1:11:32 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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I should start a gofundme
I have been waiting for my flying car for decades
and I demand me some satisfaction


15 posted on 02/14/2017 1:11:52 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%fe)
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To: Red Badger

If it can’t fold up into a brief case, it ain’t a flying car.


16 posted on 02/14/2017 1:12:23 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: blueunicorn6

You should see me do the barrel rolls.


17 posted on 02/14/2017 1:13:04 PM PST by BipolarBob (I thought money was burning a hole in my pocket but it was just my Samsung Note 7.)
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To: AndyTheBear

But if it can’t travel through time, what good is it?


18 posted on 02/14/2017 1:14:04 PM PST by freepertoo
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To: Red Badger

And the buyer can have any color they want as long as it’s black.


19 posted on 02/14/2017 1:14:57 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

And Lady GAGA................


20 posted on 02/14/2017 1:17:07 PM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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