http://www.flixxy.com/volkswagen-levitating-car.htm

I just dont know what to say, on this one!

 

What the ,,, photo shop??

 

That has to be the ugliest woman i have ever seen. Cute car though.

 

But, is it considered a car, or a 'sedgeway' type thing?
One way or the other, I'll bet the oil companies buy all the patents!!
Hopefully, before Obama makes everybody buy one!

 

Deja Vu......remember the commercials early 70's when the VW bug floated but on water.

 

You do realize this is not real - a special effect, right?

 

Wow - I always wanted to ride in a commercial washing machine!
I guess when i hit the highway, I set the big dial to "spin", right??

 

Bugs do float on water if they're not rusty .
I want a floating hockey puck car , or maybe convert a vert Olds to hover .
When it actually works I'm in !

 

It looks real to me - it's a MagLev vehicle. It uses a powerful electromagnetic field to hold itself up off the ground. The catch is that it can only hold itself up over ferrous materials (like MagLev bullet trains, which have to be on steel rails). The trick is that the city where they are demonstrating it is in an iron-mining area, and the ground is essentially made of iron. The other trick is that it probably runs for about five minutes before needing a recharge due to the huge power consumption of the magnet.

Neat car, though, and you never get a flat.

- Eric

 

Nope, I don't buy it or the mag lev theory on this. Mag lev is much more sophisticated. They don't run on steel rails either Eric, but I think you were trying to say they 'hover or levitate' and are propelled by electromagnetic coils embedded in various parts of the guideway surfaces.

My vote on that video is 'wish list' but pure hocum at this time.

 

Welllll... I'd give Volkswagen the credit that if they were going to make some unusual style of propulsion the feature of an ad, they would make sure it was real.

And if it was a spoof of a VW ad, they'd have already very "efficiently" forced YouTube to find a "solution" to the "problem."

- Eric

 

Meet George Jetson.

 

I believe this is a concept from the 60s