Cloud City Pod Car

The Cloud City Pod Car, also known as the Bespin Motors Cloud Car, Prototype Cloud Car, or simply Cloud Car, was an atmospheric prototype vehicle known as a cloud car, popularized by its use in the habitable zone of the gas giant Bespin, home of Cloud City. The Pod Car, manufactured by Bespin Motors, saw use during the Galactic Civil War as a patrol craft for the Cloud City Sky Patrol. In attack mode, the Pod Car featured a proton torpedo launcher. Combat equipped versions included mounted, dual blaster cannons on its underbelly.

Characteristics
The Pod Car was a single pod from the Storm IV Twin-Pod cloud car. However, it had a number of notable design differences. For instance, the Pod Car employed a more rounded cockpit canopy design, and a much more angular chassis appearance. Perhaps its most striking difference was the Pod Car's extendable assault wings and air foils, deployed during attack mode. These extendable air foils revealed a nose-mounted launcher, capable of firing an orange colored, triangular shaped proton torpedo. Combat equipped versions of the Cloud City Pod Car included mounted, dual blaster cannons on its underbelly. The Pod Car was orange in color, much like other cloud cars, and its interior was made with rich Corellian leather. As an atmospheric repulsorcraft, the Pod Car was capable of flying at high altitudes. However, it was also capable of traveling low across the terrain, much like an ordinary landspeeder. The Pod Car, a prototype in design, was propelled by a single ion engine, and piloted by a single person.

History
Manufactured by Bespin Motors, the Pod Car was popularized by its use in the habitable zone of the gas giant Bespin, home of Cloud City. During the time of the Galactic Civil War, the Pod Car served as an atmospheric patrol craft for the Cloud City Sky Patrol, formally known as the Bespin Wing Guard.

As a result of its growing popularity, the Cloud City Pod Car saw use on other worlds, used by spacers as personal transport vehicles. These civilian-use Pod Car's lacked the mounted dual blaster cannons and workable proton torpedo launcher, but the assault wings and air foils could still be extended.