
This makes the country the perfect proving ground for vertical mobility, as well as for overcoming the safety and logistical hurdles that entail. Not only is China a major market for Volkswagen vehicles, it’s also the single largest auto market on the planet.

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Instead, lots of excellent free publicity for the car manufacturer. Who is next to jump on the bandwagon, Jaguar or Bentley, perhaps?Ĭertainly, developing a flying car for the Chinese market is a smart business move. When Aston Martin revealed in July, 2018 it was forming a partnership with UK Cranfield Aerospace to create a flying car and offered futuristic-looking illustrations to support it, the media jumped on the story like flies on… Since then, no further news has emerged, zilch, diddly-squat. Disclosure: Walyou is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC. The problem being it is easy to speculate. vw hover car 1 vw hover car 3 Tech News & Cool Gadgets. Volkswagen is particularly interested in Chinese technology and potential business partnerships, as the country now makes up a major share of world VW sales. The executives indicated the company “is exploring possible partnerships and vehicle concepts for a drone that could be licenced as urban aerial transit”. In a post on LinkedIn recently, CEO Herbert Diess and Stephan Woellenstein, the head of VW’s China operations, discussed how “vertical mobility” could be part of its future - that is, “flying cars.” Still shrouded under the global scandal of its “rigging of diesel systems”, a VW all-electric flying car would be an excellent distraction and tongues are wagging that a collaboration with a Chinese partner may be on the cards.

After Aston Martin, Porsche, Cadillac and Roll-Royce, the latest car manufacturer to be “speculated over” for designing a flying car is Volkswagon, reports.
