Strafing the supermarket from 10,000 feet!

Ever wished you could fly to the shops? What about jumping over that traffic jam that’s held you 400m away from your motorway exit for the past hour? Maybe, just maybe, you’ll soon be able to soar high in the Moller M400 Skycar.

Ok, I’ve taken the fantasy a little too far; the Moller M4 isn’t a car that converts into a plane at the flick of switch so you won’t be seeing cars lifting off from the motorways anytime soon.

* the 300mph flying car

The M400 is the brainchild of Canadian-born inventor Paul Moller and it basically the equivalent of an airborne supercar - the Supercar with wings that cruises at 300 mph. And at 20 mpg it’s certainly more economical than some its earth bound brethren.

The Moller M400 is powered by eight, tiny Wankel rotary engines, each cranking out 150 hp. The engines are hidden away inside pods that can rotate to give the M400 VTOL just like the Harrier Jumpjet…the ideal opportunity to imagine yourself as Maverick, Danger Zone blasting out whilst you manouevre your airborne VW Beetle in attack formation. Sweet.

There is a major sticking point - the authorities. Before the M400 gets the green light, Moller needs to convince them that this isn’t going to create a motorway pile-up in the sky. If he’s successful we could soon be seeing the (low level) skies filled with M400’s.

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