The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

[Imowface]

I would buy the gold plated one, but at 250 000$ I could also buy another maser 

[phatzo]

The Delorean is Brittish and was only a prototype field modded by the Americans, its time travel abilities would make it perked in the order of millions. -1
Chitty Chitty Ban Bang would make a great early war flying car. +1
 

[Shuffler]

...because Fiat's are brilliantly engineered cars... 

A car that doesn't rust, corrode, need compounding/waxing, has modular body panels that any idiot can change and can be made to look showroom new in moments with some elbow grease and a nylon scrubby pad?  What a horrible idea 

Stainless does corrode

[Ripsnort]

put a single 30 mm on the front and we're in business

if theyre willing to put a b29 i figure anything ridiculous is acceptable

Sounds like the next Evil Con mission!!!

[Dichotomy]

Stainless does corrode

SHHHH!!!!! some of my customers don't think that and spec stainless steel anchor bolts to prevent rusting.  I make bank on the mark up

[Muzzy]

Dude all we need is a good supply of flubber and you can fly your own dang car!

[Der Jude]

Dude all we need is a good supply of flubber and you can fly your own dang car!

ok the flying car from flubber is something i can cosign with. Btw thanks vonmessa. Happy belated purim.

[phatzo]

SHHHH!!!!! some of my customers don't think that and spec stainless steel anchor bolts to prevent rusting.  I make bank on the mark up

Do you use the term "Tea Staining" a lot.

[DREDIOCK]

Not cost effective.

They don't wear out. (wonder why cars today do not last nearly as long as they used to?  Designed obsolescence, anyone?)

The company couldn't stay solvent at the price it was selling it's cars at.  They cost more to produce than originally expected and therefore the market price had to follow suit.

John Delorean's reputation was besmirched by false accusations and very bad press, all of which he recovered from personally, but by the time it was found out that it was all untrue, the company was in shambles.

Their is still a thriving, vibrant community of Delorean DMC-12 owners and, in fact, one can still buy or assemble by one's self, a "new" DMC-12 utilizing unused OEM parts that were produced but never assembled at the plant.

http://www.delorean.com/

(PS:  That is not the only car he ever designed.  Ever heard of a Pontiac GTO?     )

Kinda reminds me of the story of the Tucker.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/tucker-cars.htm

[Imowface]

My favorite car from a failure company has to be the bricklen SV-1

[VonMessa]

Kinda reminds me of the story of the Tucker.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/tucker-cars.htm

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One of my favorite cars.

Brilliantly innovative, implementing technology and safety measures that have become standard today. 

A sterling example of how big business will do anything possible to quash the innovative entrepreneur regardless of how better/safer the final product is for the consumer if it will affect their bottom line.

There is one at the car museum in Lancaster, PA (near Miller's Restaurant for lack of a better landmark)

Ingenious