Where's my flying car already?

Researchers and engineers at places like NASA and Boeing are still thinking about that tired flying car idea, but now they are saying that the concept is still there and the goods are mere decades away (wasn't what they were telling us, um, decades ago?). So we figure by the time we're way too old to get behind the wheel maybe the first prototypes of these will finally have come out. But come on flying-car-designers, you can do better than an awkward Delorean-looking setup.