http://www.automotto.org/entry/ccc-concept-car-transforms-into-a-personal-helicopter/

Check this out…it's a car that can transform into a personal helicopter. The toy version of ECTO-2, and its foldable copter-rotors, was the first thing I thought of.(^_^)

That's probably as close to a real Ecto-2 as well see. It's a neat idea.

Certainly interesting. I don't know why people insist on inventing flying cars though, they'll never make into mass production.

I suspect that the E2 was actually based on a RL vehicle (the Wallis WA-116 Autogyro, better known as “Little Nellie”)…

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Little_Nellie.jpg

Or perhaps something more like the ELA-07 (though, I think this particular autogyro may postdate RGB)…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aurogyro-ELA-07-Casarrubios-Spain.jpg

The one thing that worries me about flying cars reaching the masses is: at least around here, drivers are bad enough with only one plane of movement to worry about. In the skies they will only get worse–!

Neat idea though, rooftops are easier to come by here than street parking…

You're all overlooking one tiny little detail.

To me, this isn't a flying car; it's a flying machine that also happens to be roadworthy. What's more, the helicopter parts *fold up* into the car at the push of a button. It's a difference, but a very slight one. You probably couldn't just take to the skies while you're on the road…I imagine you'd have to stop first and then unfold everything. But just think about it! Our heroes could take that folded-up thing and shove it right in the back of the ECTO-1 with minimal fuss. And then, if they needed to, they could drag it out, deploy the air gear, and up-up-and-away.

Hmm…While we're on the subject of flying Ghostbusting vehicles, I had an epiphany about the Ecto-Bomber over the weekend. It looks very much like an adaptation of a racing plane called the Gee Bee (G.B., geddit?).