The Moller International Flying Saucer Sky Car

Forget electric cars. Forget hybrid cars. The future of transportation in the age of the Bush/McCain gasoline tax that never ends can be found by tilting your neck in a backwise manner and looking into the sky. Moller International has developed the Skycar, which they bill as the "first and only feasible, personally affordable, personal vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle the world has ever seen." The Moller Skycar of today is a very sleek piece of 21^st century technology that looks like something you'd seen in an updated version of Top Gun. (By the way, did you know that I have never actually seen Top Gun all the way through? I just can't get past the first appearance of Tom Cruise. I hear it's supposed to be a not terribly bad Air Force recruiting film, however.)

The Moller M400 Skycar looks like a Maserati in the sky, but frankly I wish Moller had put themselves to work getting their original prototype up and running. Yes, sure, there is much to be said for a Skycar that anyone would be proud to simply drive down the highway, but the XM2 and the XM3 and, especially, the Moller M200X are the kind of vertical takeoff and landing vehicles that anybody who grew up back in the age of UFO innocence would kill for. Because, although sleek Jaguar design of the recent Moller Skycars look deadly cool, there is just something amazingly cook about a Skycar that looks like a flying saucer.