If money were no object....

[DaveE]

would you want one of these? I have to admit this looks pretty cool.


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Item
Skycar Prototype
Price $3,500,000.00
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[Rockford35]

3.5 mill is alot of chatered flights. I dunno, seems cheesy. From the stuff Moller has made in the past, i dunno.

Money was no object? Maybe.

I think i'd do something more tangible with my money. Like eat a panda or have ferocious animals fight themselves in a ring.

You know, the obvious stuff.

R35

 

[DaveE]

It'd be more than charter flights. You can land this thing in your driveway so it could be your everyday drive to work. I only drive 7 miles each way but wow, what great 7 miles.

Of course if I could afford 3.5 mil for a toy I probably wouldn't be going to work.

 

[SiberianDVM]

Does it have room for me, my caddie, and my clubs?

 

[Silver]

I'd be so down with that. I hate traffic so much...I hate that it takes me an hour to travel 37.5 kms each way to school and back, whereas w/o traffic it takes me less than 40 minutes. Everyday, I think to myself "if only I could be flying."

And now I can! HALLELUJAH!