{"id":8916,"date":"2011-05-17T18:05:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T18:05:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-17T18:05:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T18:05:26","slug":"The-Flying-Car-Soon-to-Come-to-India","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=8916","title":{"rendered":"The Flying Car Soon to Come to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A flying car that looks more at home on the set of the Jetsons or the latest James Bond movie has become a reality \u2013 and Subhash Shihora, a U.K.-based Gujarati entrepreneur, is jumping on board.  Named \u201cTransition,\u201d the part-car, part-plane can fly but fold up its wings in less than 30 seconds for road travel, Mr. Shihora explained in a telephone interview. It doesn\u2019t come cheap: when he booked the machine in 2009, it cost $200,000 but the final cost is expected to be $250,000 after taxes, he says.  \u201cThe machine will look like a sophisticated sports car on road, and onlookers will not be able to identify its unique flying prowess,\u201d he says. That may be debatable judging by these pictures of the plane on the road, but maybe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Designed by U.S.-based Terrafugia (Latin for \u201cescape from the land\u201d), an aviation firm in Massachusetts, the two-seater has been designed to take off and land at local airports and drive on any road surface.  Mr. Shihora saw the machine first in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, six hours from Chicago, in 2009. He says over 80 such air-cars have been booked and expects to get his early next year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAn important reason to buy this car is that it provides flexibility of time. Since I\u2019m a frequent flyer, I will be able to attend meetings in different cities in a day \u2014 from Ahmedabad to Mumbai, then to Bangalore, Hyderabad and back home,\u201d he says.  Mr. Shihora says he doesn\u2019t need to book a hangar at airports and plans to park the flying car in his home garage in Ahmedabad, Gujarat\u2019s business capital.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/indiarealtime\/2011\/05\/18\/the-flying-car-soon-to-come-to-india\/\" title=\"SOURCE\">SOURCE<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flying car that looks more at home on the set of the Jetsons or the latest James Bond movie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":71051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car-130x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car-150x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Joshua","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"3","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"A flying car that looks more at home on the set of the Jetsons or the latest James Bond movie","magazineBlocksPostCategories":[],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":200,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car.jpg",262,174,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car.jpg",262,174,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying car-150x150.jpg",150,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Joshua","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1213"},"magazine_blocks_comment":3,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}