Kurt Ernst December 18, 2012 Comment Now! In the late 1950s and early 1960s, it seemed like a future filled with flying cars was inevitable. Automotive designers and engineers weren’t afraid to push ...

This scale styling model is all that remains of the Ford Gyron. It will cross the auction block on December 13. This styling model show the Ford Gyron in its purest form -- the outrigger wheels that ...

Update: Wright, the auction house handling the sale of the Ford Gyron model, has thoughtfully passed along several photos of the item. Find out more information about the December 13 auction at the ...

Ford’s Gyron concept from 1961, a two-wheeled car balanced by gyroscopes, was a space-age flight of fancy, but now a Chinese company is attempting to make it a reality. As reported by Bloomberg, ...

One Chinese engineer’s idea of the perfect car of the future hails back to a Ford prototype that never went into mass production, though it was popular enough to span a successful line of collectibles ...

This undated photo shows the Gyron, a two-wheeled concept car developed by Ford Motor Company. Initially shown off at 1961's Detroit Motor Show, it had two in-line wheels like a motorcycle, and two ...

The 1961 Ford Gyron concept car. Photo by FORD MOTER CO It looks sort of like an enclosed motorcycle, but it's actually a car, a two-wheeled electric car. It is the dream of engineer Zhu Lingyun and ...

Unlike the Nucleon, the Gyron actually progressed as far as a full-size model, which relied on outrigger wheels instead of a gyroscope for stability. Prior to the full-size model being built, Ford’s ...