The latest example is an unofficial Lamborghini flying car concept circulating online, a sleek cyberpunk creation that looks more at home in Blade Runner than anywhere near public airspace. It’s visually striking, aggressively futuristic, and completely detached from reality.
Flying cars are being pitched as the next great transportation revolution, with companies like Alef Aeronautics and Klein Vision already talking about production and sales. These vehicles are expected to cost well over $1 million, making it clear who this technology is actually for. Billionaires first. Millionaires later. Everyone else gets to watch from the ground.
Created by an experienced automotive designer now working at Kia, the CGI-only project imagines a wedge-shaped Lamborghini adapted for a cyberpunk universe. Small wheels hint at ground mobility. Exposed components suggest flight capability. The aesthetic borrows directly from Blade Runner 2049, a dystopian future defined by inequality, surveillance, and unchecked corporate power. That inspiration is more telling than flattering.
This is where the industry deserves blame. Flying cars are being marketed as glamorous toys while massive questions remain unanswered. Regulation is uncertain. Safety implications are barely discussed. Costs are astronomical. Yet the visuals keep coming, reinforcing the idea that looking futuristic matters more than functioning responsibly.
The Lamborghini concept isn’t dangerous because it exists. It’s dangerous because it distracts. It shifts attention away from hard engineering problems, airspace control, and public safety, and replaces them with mood boards and movie references. It normalizes the idea that the future of mobility should be exclusive, experimental, and largely unaccountable.
The auto industry has done this before. Autonomous hype. Hypercar excess. Tech-first promises that collapse under real-world complexity. Flying cars risk becoming the next chapter in that pattern if manufacturers and designers keep treating them as lifestyle statements instead of regulated machines.
This concept belongs exactly where its creator placed it: in a fictional universe. Until automakers are willing to confront cost, safety, and public impact head-on, flying cars won’t represent progress. They’ll represent another moment when the industry chose spectacle over substance—and reality eventually forced it to stop.
