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* The Supermobile was a flying car piloted by [[Superman]]. [[Merchandise-Driven|Why would Superman need a flying car, you ask?]]
** The comics' excuse was that the Supermobile was invented by Superman at a time he'd lost his powers, and needed something to help him fight Amazo. The car was capable of duplicating most of his powers, was constructed of a super-hard metal, and could shield him from kryptonite.
* The Batcraft flown by Jim Gordon III, in the computer-generated [[Cyberpunk]] [[Elseworld]] comic ''[[Batman
** In [[Grant Morrison]]'s ''Batman and Robin'', Dick Grayson and Damien Wayne have a flying Batmobile.
* A main staple in a lot of Antarctic Press comics. Asrial from ''[[Ninja High School]]'' converts a junked car into one as part of a challenge if she qualified for a job as a mechanic. It later used as the protagonist main transportation around town. Gina from ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'' patented (and often destroyed) "Gina Mobile" can turn into one when needed. And the heroes main transportation in the first half of ''[[I Hunt Monsters]]'' have one named Kirby that they use to get around the world.
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== Fan Works ==
* The police car on Dandond in ''[[
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** All sorts of military and civilian [[Anti Gravity|repulsorlift]] vehicles abound in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]. Speeder bikes (from Episode VI), airspeeders, hovertrucks, pod racers, swoops...
* Lady Penelope's pink Ford limousine in the live action ''[[Thunderbirds]]'' movie.
* Establishing shots of [[San Francisco]] in the ''[[Star Trek (
** Dude, it's the ''states''. People there need the pleasure of driving like pedestrians need oxygen.
** Subverted in [[Star Trek (
* In ''[[
* Perhaps the earliest example in film would be the small personal airplanes seen flitting amongst the buildings in Fritz Lang's ''[[Metropolis]]''. They may not have looked like cars, but they seemed to fill the same function. This was probably also the [[Trope Maker]] for the whole "throw in some flying cars zipping between giant buildings to establish that we're in [[The Future]]" thing, and it remains popular to this day.
* ''[[Repo Man]]'' and the 1964 Chevrolet Malibu.
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** In ''[[Cars 2]]'', espionage agent Holly Shiftwell can fly. Mater manages to do so when he deploys both his parachute and his rocket thrusters.
* The French film ''[[Fantomas|Fantômas se déchaîne]]'' ("Fantômas Unleashed") ends with the titular villain escaping in a Citroën DS that converts into an airplane.
* Howard Stark presented a prototype in ''[[Captain America:
* The students of ''[[Sky High]]'' go to school in a flying bus.
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** In the second book, Arthur Weasley enchanted a Ford Anglia to make it able to fly. [[Loophole Abuse|Because of a loophole]], it wouldn't be considered illegal as long as nobody flew on it.
* ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]''.
* ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] features one of the coolest cars of all time: Gay Deceiver. It doesn't just fly, it flies at hypersonic speed with retractible swing wings. It is capable of vertical take-offs and landings. It can even do semiballistic sub-orbital flights just past the edge of space. Oh, and it gets upgraded with a time machine that can visit alternate universes, some of them fictional ones, including [[Land of Oz
** Pretty much all of Heinlein's "Future History" stories have flying cars. One of them (''[[The Puppet Masters (
* The ''[[In Death]]'' series, set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]. Then, as now, cop equipment is crappy.
* The ''[[Third World Products|3rd World Products]]'' series. Though those were van to small bus size and larger.
* [[Philip K. Dick]] had "ionscraft" in ''The Ganymede Takeover''.
* Like most [[Speculative Fiction]] settings with mature [[Anti Gravity]] technology, [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s [[Vorkosigan Saga]] has a wide variety of flying vehicles:
** Float bikes (flying motorcycle analog)
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** Anything larger will usually have orbital capability, moving into cargo shuttle or [[Drop Ship]] territory.
* ''[[Dune]]'''s ornithopters (or just "thopter"s) probably count, although they may be more equivalent to helicopters. Note that ornithopters are a real invention, people have been attempting (and failing) to build practical ones for a century now.
* Played hilariously straight in ''[[
* The aptly named [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|SkyKar]] in ''[[Villain Dot Net|Villain.net]]''.
* The [[Insistent Terminology|volantors]] of Chasm City seen in [[Alastair Reynolds]]' ''Revelation Space'' series. Their most explicit appearance is in the novella ''Diamond Dogs''.
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* One of the first things Billy did in ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' 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.
** ''[[Gekisou Sentai Carranger]]'' / ''[[Power Rangers Turbo]]'' has two sentient cars, one of which could convert to a flight mode.
** Also, Speedor of ''[[Engine Sentai Go-onger]]'' / the Eagle Racer of ''[[
** ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'' frequently showed a small number of flying vehicles to remind us that we're [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]. Oddly, the ''Ranger's'' vehicles were all either ground-bound or full-blown aircraft.
* ''[[
* The third Doctor in ''[[
** More recently, the new series has "New Earth", which features flying cars. In its second appearance, the cars have the worst traffic jam in the history of the universe in "Gridlock".
== Music ==
* In [[
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== Video Games ==
* Dribble and Spitz's taxi in the ''[[
* ''[[Beam Breakers]]'' was a computer game in which you drove antigravity cars in a [[Fifth Element]]-esque city. It was also awesome...
* The Pheonix Hovercar in ''[[X-COM]]: Apocalypse''. Together with the [[Cool Bike|Hoverbikes]], they're excellent vehicles for [[Zerg Rush|Zerg Rushing]] [[Flying Saucer|Flying Saucers]] in the early and mid game.
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* Common in ''[[Mass Effect]]'', due to the ubiquity of Element Zero-based technology. In the "Lair of the Shadow Broker" DLC for ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', you even get to pilot one in a scene reminiscent of ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''.
* ''[[Space Taxi]]''.
* [[Professor Layton and
{{quote| '''Luke''': "Professor, where did you learn to fly a plane?"<br />
'''Layton''': "Plane? This is an automobile." }}
* A common power-up for your tank in the ''[[
* [[Tex Murphy]] has one in ''Mean Streets''. It is not clear what happened to it in the subsequent games.
* ''[[
* The upcoming game [[Mario Kart|''Mario Kart 7'']] will feature cars that can turn into hang gliders.
* Hover cars seem to the norm in [[Future Cop LAPD]], even if they still use roads.
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== Web Original ==
* [[Deconstructed Trope]] by [[Cracked
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* About half of the cars in ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', including the Batmobile, can fly. There are still roads though, covered with wheeled vehicles.
* The Falconcar on ''[[Dynomutt Dog Wonder]]''.
* British cartoon hero ''[[Danger Mouse]]'' had what looked suspiciously like a flight-capable version of [[James Bond]]'s [[Shout
* Heroes aren't the only ones to get the sweet rides: [[Inspector Gadget|Dr Claw]] had his getaway car which could function as both a jet and a submarine.
* In ''[[Futurama]]'' all cars are flying cars. Nobody even knows what wheels are. And yet they still [[Crapsack World|crawl along in traffic jams]].
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* [[The Jetsons|The Jetsons']] jet-car, probably one of most-cited examples of a flying car as far as the general public's concerned.
* Common in the future presented in ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]''. The Time Machine is even engineered from one a la ''[[Back to The Future]]''.
* Flint Lockwood made an attempt of building one without wings in ''[[Cloudy
* Tracks' alternate mode in ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' was a Corvette Stingray with pop-out wings
** In ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'', Optimus' vehicle mode has a flight configuration. The side panels swing out and then rotate down to become large wings, and the ladder/cannon on either one swings around so that it still faces forward. His vehicle mode? A fire truck. That's right, he turns into a ''[[Crazy Awesome|flying fire truck]]''.
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