Flying Car (fiction) - Examples

Examples

• In The Absent Minded Professor and Son of Flubber Professor Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) makes his Model T car fly using Flubber. In the remake Flubber, Robin Williams does the same to his red convertible.
• In Pinocchio 3000 flying cars are used a lot for transportation in Scamboville.
• In Treasure Planet flying boats are used to get to the spaceport and for traveling in outer space.
• In Meet the Robinsons Wilbur takes Lewis in a flying car-plane time machine to visit the future with a lot of flying cars around the city.
• Flying cars were the most common mode of transportation in The Jetsons.
• One of the earliest stories to depict flying cars was Sultana's Dream, a feminist Bengali science fiction story written in 1905 by Begum Roquia Sakhawat Hussain.
• The 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun portrayed the villain escaping in a 1974 AMC Matador with a jet engine and wings mounted to the roof.
• In the Blade Runner movie, important people, police, and Harrison Ford's character use "Spinners", anti-gravity flying cars, to move in the futuristic cyberpunk Los Angeles of 2019.
• In The Fifth Element, flying cars are commonly used.
• The Flying Car was a humorous short film written by Kevin Smith in 2002 for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
• Robert A. Heinlein's lost first novel For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs, featured egg-shaped 'flying cars' that had collapsible wings for fixed-wing flight as well as retractable helicopter-style rotors for take off.
• Robert A. Heinlein's 5th-to-last novel The Number of the Beast, published in 1980, features Gay Deceiver, a Ford flying car and continua craft.
• In That '70s Show, Red Forman has made a few remarks where he is disappointed that the present has yet to have a hovercar, which he was promised after World War II.
• In one of the animated short films from the fictional universe of The Matrix series, "The Second Renaissance" episode, intelligent machines are able to prosper due to the invention of whole new industries, such as the inception of the 'Versatron' flying car, which they sell to human markets. The anti-gravity engines that power these vehicles can later be seen on the exterior of ships like The Nebuchadnezzar or The Osiris, enabling them to fly.
• In the end of the 1985 film Back to the Future the film's main characters, Doctor Emmett Brown, Marty McFly, and Jennifer Jane Parker travel through time with the use of a DeLorean time machine, which Doc Brown had converted with the futuristic, hover conversion technology from the year 2015. However, this function is destroyed in the end of Back to the Future Part II (1989), when the DeLorean is struck by lightning.
• In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ron Weasley and his brothers use a flying car that belongs to their father to rescue Harry Potter from his aunt and uncle. Harry and Ron later use it again to return to Hogwarts when they are unable to board the school train (A house elf named Dobby sealed the secret barrier to the platform). The car is nearly destroyed when it crashes into a tree called the Whomping Willow, which proceeds to smash the car. The car then throws Harry and Ron out and drives into the forest. Later in the book, when they are being attacked by an acromantula named Aragog, Harry and Ron are surprised to see the car drive up and rescue them. It then proceeds to drive back into the forest.
• The Last Starfighter features what may be the earliest CG flying car, the Star Car.
• In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Billy builds the "RAD-Bug" (A Flying VW Beetle) to solve their transportation problems to the Command Center when they couldn't teleport.
• In the 1999 film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, when Austin was asked in the 1960s what the future was like, he replies, "Everyone has a flying car, meals come entirely in pill form and the world is ruled by dang dirty apes."
• The Doctor used a flying car in the series Doctor Who during its 1974 season. Never truly given a name, it's affectionately known as the Whomobile.