The first road-certified / road-legal flying car in Europe.

[BrianHG]

[tom66]

All of the impracticality of a two-seater car that now needs regular aircraft maintenance.

Still, if money were not object, I think it would get a garage spot, just because it is so unique.

[sleemanj]

I preferred the PAl-V One, was so much cooler design, not like this luxurised monstrosity.

[LaserSteve]

Does it have the common Auto-Gyro failure mode, where if the pilot tilts the rotor too far forward, or unloads the rotor suddenly, it is nearly  impossible to develop enough force on the control handle  to recover?  Aka "bunting" the rotor.

A good friend writes books on piloting helicopters.  He forbid me from taking a ride in a homebuilt  autogyro with a low time pilot  for precisely that reason.

I'd love to own one, but one wonders if a beat up old C172 is more practical. 

Steve

[Cerebus]

The bloke selling these doesn't go by the name Del Boy by any chance? 

The reason I ask is that it looks a lot like someone has stuck an autogyro rotor on a fancy version of the infamous Reliant Robin. If you registered one in the UK you'd have to get the tail number G-DELB.

[VK3DRB]

An airy-fairy idea. It won't "take off" for a long, long time, if ever.

Reasons:
1. Power lines and trees - major hazards.
2. Popularity leading to cluttered skies.
3. Noise.
4. Safety of those in the sky and those on the ground.
5. People on the ground with air rifles, lasers, AK47's (USA), and potato guns using them as target practice.
6. Privacy issues like what we have with drones in cities.
7. Energy consumption & cost.
8. Severe weather mitigation.
9. Lack of take-off/landing areas.
10. Regulations and licensing hassles.

Let's not forget taxes. As electric cars are being purchased by a small minority, the Victorian government has announced imposing a 2.5 cents per kilometre tax on them to prevent "losing" revenue from petrol taxes. With such an aircraft, don't even think for a minute the taxman won't have his hand in it.