New Terrafugia TF-X Flying vehicle is a Stunner

With a new streamlined body that makes it look even more like something out of “Star Trek” the TF-X is the vehicle that hopefully you’ll be able to buy when it eventually goes on sale a few years from now.

It fits a standard one-car garage and yes, it will be road legal.

Flying-car developer Terrafugia has released new designs for its planned TF-X model.

“The model will be tested at the MIT Wright Brothers wind tunnel, the same tunnel that was used to test models of Terrafugia’s Transition”.

The Terrafugia Transition is a less cool looking flying auto.

While the likes of Google focus on driverless cars, Terrafugia continues to look much further into the future with flying cars.

The TF-X is four-seat hybrid electric which Teffafugia claims will make flying easier than any other aircraft to come before it. Thanks to its vertical take off and landing capabilities, Terrafugia also says that the TF-X won’t need a runway. The TF-X is the spiritual successor to the Transition. Its two wings, equipped with twin electric motor pods, then unfold and two helicopter-style propellers lift the vehicle off the ground, using one megawatt of power.

The updated design features a sleeker body shape and the company says it plans to test a one-tenth scale model in a wind tunnel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). That auto was initially going to sell for about $279,000 United States dollars.

In May of 2013, Terrafugia said the development of the TF-X would take between eight to 12 years. Just imagine what would happen if the TF-X was broadsided by an Escalade. However, delivery of the first units was originally expected in 2011 and has been postponed several times since then – and it’s still expected to take a couple more years and cost up to $400,000.