r/SipsTea • • 19h ago

SMH Museum of Useless Inventions

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u/wolfansbrother 18h ago

with the batteries, the fans, the thrusters the fuel system its gonna weigh like 5000lbs+.

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u/three-sense 18h ago

Presumably it will carry people too and not be a remote controlled vanity project

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u/wolfansbrother 18h ago

Person, the flying version has one seat.

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u/Ordinary_dude_NOT 16h ago

It’s a super car. All super cars are impractical for all intent and purposes. You won’t buy it to get groceries or pickup kids. I am surprised that rocket version is just 500k, price it at 1M and rich people will line up to buy exclusive invite only car.

Point of a super car is that it’s…. drumroll…. “super”, and it has to be super by all measures.

Credit where its due, even if it’s a vanity project.

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u/BeachJustic3 16h ago edited 15h ago

Even by the low standards of supercar practicality this thing is useless and stupid.

It will never in a million years be road legal, and no track on planet earth will let you drive a jumping (it doesnt fly, flying requires sustaining flight) car without closing the entire track down. The barriers and safety design is simply not built for this.

So you'd be spending an enormous amount of money for something that lets be real is likely never going to see the light of day production wise, and is extraordinarily limited in where you can take it.

I wont deny it is an impressive if ultimately stupid and pointless tech demo, even by the standards of billionaire toys.

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u/Ordinary_dude_NOT 13m ago

Just to be clear there are 4 versions of this car and only “invite only” version has rockets which you have been commenting on.

There are so many supercars which are not street legal as they are meant for tracks. Bugatti Bolide, Pagani Hauyra R, Zonda R and the list goes on. Being road legal is not a measure of a successful supercar.

You are measuring it based on your own experiences, but the thing is 99.999999% of human population will never experience a supercar or the utility of it.

If this car is delivered people will buy it, it’s as simple as that.

No amount of irrelevant comments here will mean to supercar buyers as they live in a different world 😂