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MDI may say this isn't vaporware, but they have a track record of making promises of mass production that aren't met. First the introduced the e.Volution in 2000, saying it was going into production in France in 2000 and South Africa in 2002. Then they announced air powered taxis to be mass produced in Mexico in 2003. None of this happened, and the e.Volution quietly disappeard. In its place was a series of CAT cars, such as the MiniCat. It was announed as going into production in 2005. Nothing happened. Then in early 2007 they announced that Tata Motors had licensed the MDI design and would build 6,000 cars in summer 2008. But in summer 2008 Tata said that the design and technology were nascent and not ready for production in the near future. So now we have yet another version of the air car announced. And they say THIS one isn't vaporware. Meanwhile, no auto magazines have ever gotten to test one of their cars. The only test data ever published was some old stuff on MDIs website where their prototype could only manage 7.22km (less than 5 miles) before running out of air. They then did an analysis where they hypothesized improvement after improvement after improvement and claimed that these paper improvement would increase range by a factor of 30 to about 120miles. Since 2000 they have used these sort of numbers for the range, without ever having publically shown that they can actually do it. Vaporware is a charitable term for these non-existent cars.