The VW Riceball

This is pretty cool. Who said Chinese students can't innovate?

http://gochengdoo.com/en/blog/item/2740/chengdu_designer_creates_hovering_vehicle_for_volkswagen

P.S. Watch the video.

Wow. Cool concept, and obviously engineered well enough to impress the folks at VW. 

nice! the parents are awful cute 

That's wonderful! Way cool!!!
Looks like a good local site for Chengdu, too...

It's hypothetically possible to build a hover car like this using electromagnetic repulsion if the streets contain enough diamagnetic material.  Obviously CGI'd or using wires in most/all of the outdoor shots since they showed it going on concrete overpasses (which would likely contain iron rebar would slam that thing into the pavement and lock it there until the magnets were turned off).  The initial indoor shot may have been real if the floor was plated with enough aluminum.

Obviously CGI'd or using wires...

No shit! The 'concept' is nothing new. At first, I was thinking 'What the Hell?... there are no electromagnets there... how could they power them without tracks or a special roadway?'

When Le Ja explained "Chengdu has a lot of unique minerals underground." I burst out laughing! Many people will read the article/watch the video and believe they have actually made a working prototype.

This explains a lot -
"Wang is studying animation design at the department of electronic information at the Chengdu Vocational College of Agricultural Science and Technology..."
 

you mean its a fake? In China?? Maybe she gets it to fly the same way Santa's reindeer do.

This explains a lot -
"Wang is studying animation design at the department of electronic information at the Chengdu Vocational College of Agricultural Science and Technology..."