Kolibear, did you actually look at the Skycar? The buggy part has suspension that is evidently designed to cope with more than the rabbit holes which would have Cessnas limping off the maintenance hangar. If the wheels can be powered during the takeoff run, the initial acceleration should also be considerably better than the average light plane.
The wing is a fabric parafoil, and as the one & two man foot-launched versions go into a sack, there is no reason why this one shouldn't, albeit a slightly larger sack. No doubt a vacuum connection on the engine air inlet could be used to draw the air out of the bag and make it a bit more compact for in-car storage.
Sewing machine to repair sack or wing? Both.
Pilot DAR, your points are all valid in the context of Western Europe, and most of North America, but what about those airstrips in Africa and other parts of the world, which don't have an Avis rep waiting with your car keys? What about those places which don't have a hurricane-proof hangar in which to push your tens of square metres of easily dented 20swg aluminium?
If the Skycar is used in the UK in its current form, it would be as a toy. Most self-piloted flights in the UK, once flight planning and pre-flights are taken into account, don't save much time compared to driving; so unless you intend travelling from Cornwall to West Wales, for example, you are probably better off staying on the ground.
Practical flying cars are unlikely to catch on here, all the time that the human is the weak link in the system. The average man or woman in the street struggles to navigate on the surface of the planet with the help of roadsigns, Tom Toms & street atlases. The chaos and ensuing carnage if Joe Public takes to the air and has to navigate himself, through a presumably, very crowded sky, defies imagination (just imagine what15 million mode S transponder signals would do to for an Air Traffic Controller's blood pressure...).
As a tool in the third world the Skycar already has a place. When the take off, flight control and navigation and subsequent landing can all be automated, then a mass-produced G-xxxx reg. flying car may become a reality here too.