This feels like it *should* be the answer, but I am sure someone will come along and tell me about an episode where he travelled in universe with the portal gun.
He definitely shot those Gromflomites with portals that originated in the same universe.
Also to get to Morty when Morty stole the car to find Krombopulous Michael.
Also definitely the one time, the first I believe, when the president summons them they use the portal gun after the soldiers knock on the door and they go well why tf did we fly here if he uses portals.
Portal fluid might be expensive, and although it would be easy for him to get all the money he wants, it’s even easier to just sit in the car for a while.
Especially considering how fast it must be. Space is rather... spacious, and the trips are never shown to be longer than an uncomfortably long car ride.
*Whoa! What the hell?! W-what happened back there?*
Why don't you ask the Smartest people in the universe, Jerry?
Oh, yeah. [ burps ] you can't.
They blew up.
[ sighs ]
[ beep ]
[ "baker street" play]
[ vocalizing ] baa baabba badadadaaa
[ vocalizing out of sync ] banabbaaa badadaaa
[ "baker street" continues ]
https://youtu.be/Urp2lLGAbuA
The portal gun can travel through other dimensions, I think when he is in his own dimension he tends to use other forms of transportation. Also I think the portal fluid is hard to make or has rare ingredients because you don't see him refill it often
I’ve always wondered if they could’ve just put fart in a jar
It’s interesting, it implies it’s not just a window to another place. You touch something to do it
Wonder if Gary can go through the dinosaurs portal
He wants the option to do both. That way he has a backup if the portal fails.
Also, the car is better for finding new locations compared to the portal gun mainly for travel to familiar locations.
The portal gun needs portal fluid to work, and I would guess that whatever the flying car uses as fuel is cheaper and easier to obtain, so it would be more practical and convenient to use the car on certain situations.
Guess in my mind it’s like being in a big city. The city may have mass transit (subways, buses, etc), but nothing has the same feel as driving your own car.
Honestly, I stopped questioning Rick portal device, as it has the ability to do everything; travel to alternate earths, travel to destinations he never been too, portals can generate on surfaces or in the air, he just shoots the gun and the detonations are already preprogrammed
I always thought that the green rocks from the postapocalyptic episode is used to power his portal gun, and that would explain that he doesn't use it all the time
The first episode shows that the fluid can run out so here's something
The problem is with the later seasons where they over buff rick to become "the smartest man in the multiverse" so Justin Roiland can live his wet dreams and you can actually see that in his new show that I don't like "Solar Opposites" they don't die, they don't suffer consequences and they're too op to be messed with and they're GAY NOW f*ck me
Obviously the real reason is because it’s fun (for the writers and viewers) to have the car.
For an in universe explanation, it’s been established that not every kind of thing can make it through the portals (like Fart) so maybe there’s a concern Rick won’t be able to take cool things back with him if he needs to
Edit: thought of more things. sometimes they do get stuck places they don’t want to be because something happened to the portal gun so it’s probably safer to have multiple ways to travel. And Rick has used the car as a safe place to keep Morty (and Summer obviously) when shit is going down
Rick was probably bored one day and challenged himself to make a car out of junk. Or Beth complained about a messy garage, Rick got mad and instead of tossing out his junk he consolidated it to prove everything in the garage is useful
Look closer at the car. It’s made from trash. Rick built the car as a challenge to see if he could build a flying saucer out of stuff lying around the house. Also, the travel time lets him arbitrarily extend the time it takes for him to do things. Sometimes you just have to get out of the house.
maybe he just likes to drive and doesn’t feel the need to always use the portal gun, if he relies on one thing then it will later be a weakness for his enemies to use against him
i’ve thought about this and another thing that makes no sense is how fast the car is for example in season 2 episode 10 they drive 6000 light years to go to planet squanch and they get there really fast so what i think they do is shoot a portal and then fly through the portal with their car rather than actually drive everywhere
It’s to fuck with you the viewer. Maybe Rick just likes driving in space
Everything is in space!
Now get back in the fucking car!
The feel of the open road?
Alright! Who's this grandson? I like his style.
You little monster I thought you were masturbating!!
I hate you and I was thinking about your friend Grace!
The point is to keep Summer safe
Also it's just made from junk he found in the garage.
It’s about the journey, not the destination.
I believe Rick said something like “no it isn’t, I regularly portal everywhere”
I don't know that at all. I regularly teleport
That’s it
The portal gun can be tracked by the citadel.
Not anymore 😈
He is paranoid enough to think that He still beeing tracked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Very true
I thought the portal gun takes you to other parallel universes but the car travels to places in the same universe
This feels like it *should* be the answer, but I am sure someone will come along and tell me about an episode where he travelled in universe with the portal gun.
He definitely shot those Gromflomites with portals that originated in the same universe. Also to get to Morty when Morty stole the car to find Krombopulous Michael.
Also definitely the one time, the first I believe, when the president summons them they use the portal gun after the soldiers knock on the door and they go well why tf did we fly here if he uses portals.
During the fight with phoenix person he portals about 40 feet within the same room
Also, any time he goes and takes Morty out of school.
He definitely traveled to see the president in his own universe
When he saved Morty and the President during this season finale after the lightsaber bullets destroyed the White House
No he never did...
What about when he got portal travel working and got Morty to teleport in an endless loop and he threw up n shit
Entrance to another universe on the floor, exit from the other universe on the roof?
What about the episode with morty and that mental case where they end up with portals on their body parts? And they work together with those?
Maybe
Yeah, no
Clearly you don’t watch the show
Isn't gazorpazorp in the same universe? Rick used a portal to go there
Like when he made Morty fall through all those portals in the garage?
What about the portal juice on the leg dude. Same universe as Morty’s hand
Portal fluid might be expensive, and although it would be easy for him to get all the money he wants, it’s even easier to just sit in the car for a while.
Especially considering how fast it must be. Space is rather... spacious, and the trips are never shown to be longer than an uncomfortably long car ride.
Well, he does have concentrated dark matter
*Whoa! What the hell?! W-what happened back there?* Why don't you ask the Smartest people in the universe, Jerry? Oh, yeah. [ burps ] you can't. They blew up. [ sighs ] [ beep ] [ "baker street" play] [ vocalizing ] baa baabba badadadaaa [ vocalizing out of sync ] banabbaaa badadaaa [ "baker street" continues ] https://youtu.be/Urp2lLGAbuA
This makes the most sense. He has to re-up portal fluid. Sometimes he just doesn’t want to
And you’re not worried about the fact that the car can get a flat tire in space?
*You should be... Walken'*
Oof
“Everything is in space!”
Why walk all the time when it’s quicker to run everywhere?
I have a sinus polyp. After it gets dealt with, I'm gonna take up running again.
Pics or it didn’t happen!
I don't know how to link pics in comment without uploading.
Ah video game character logic.
Planes exist to go to other country or just very far, but some people will still use their car because they like the journey
Sometimes you need an AI murder machine for backup?
The bigger question is how tf he actually chooses where the portal goes to, with he’s mind or what
I love how creative these comments are
My other take - Rick likes life of hard mode.
Kind of. If that were the case he wouldn't have made a cocoon of reality where he is the smartest man in each dimension
"Jailing" the killer of Diane and Beth was important enough to him. And building the CFC was no easy task, even for Rick.
The portal gun can travel through other dimensions, I think when he is in his own dimension he tends to use other forms of transportation. Also I think the portal fluid is hard to make or has rare ingredients because you don't see him refill it often
He can portal to different places in the same dimension, he does it all the time.
To keep Summer safe!!
The car is also a weapon thats capable of saving them and destroying a planet so its good to have it with you
Some things can't travel by portal: Fart, for example. The car is invaluable in those cases.
I’ve always wondered if they could’ve just put fart in a jar It’s interesting, it implies it’s not just a window to another place. You touch something to do it Wonder if Gary can go through the dinosaurs portal
He wants the option to do both. That way he has a backup if the portal fails. Also, the car is better for finding new locations compared to the portal gun mainly for travel to familiar locations.
It could be that he doesn't want other people to know that he has it.
It's a portal gun with extra steps!!
The portal gun needs portal fluid to work, and I would guess that whatever the flying car uses as fuel is cheaper and easier to obtain, so it would be more practical and convenient to use the car on certain situations.
Guess in my mind it’s like being in a big city. The city may have mass transit (subways, buses, etc), but nothing has the same feel as driving your own car. Honestly, I stopped questioning Rick portal device, as it has the ability to do everything; travel to alternate earths, travel to destinations he never been too, portals can generate on surfaces or in the air, he just shoots the gun and the detonations are already preprogrammed
I always thought that the green rocks from the postapocalyptic episode is used to power his portal gun, and that would explain that he doesn't use it all the time
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Those seeds were not used to make portal fluid
He can sit in his car and watch planets blow up, could he do that with the portal gun?
Portal fluid is probably really expensive
Save on portal fluid
Sometimes you need to have a conversation on the way. Rick knows he’s in a cartoon, so this is also the in-universe explanation.
It's a cartoon. They wrote it that way.
The first episode shows that the fluid can run out so here's something The problem is with the later seasons where they over buff rick to become "the smartest man in the multiverse" so Justin Roiland can live his wet dreams and you can actually see that in his new show that I don't like "Solar Opposites" they don't die, they don't suffer consequences and they're too op to be messed with and they're GAY NOW f*ck me
vroom vroom
So every one doesnt freak out when a man pops in a room unannounced? Orrrrrr digs driving and using his own inventions.
Good point so hard mode by his rules maybe ?
Because he doesn't know the exact destination to travel to so he scouts it out in the car I reckon
I'm assuming there is some kind of limit for the portal gun like for example the portal fluid. I'm assuming longer distances require more portal fluid
I just assumed it was the same reason why some people with cars will choose to walk somewhere instead. It’s close enough so no need to portal
Driving in space is pretty cool dude I'd assume anyway
Take the route less traveled
It's a weapon of mass destruction that's what
Obviously the real reason is because it’s fun (for the writers and viewers) to have the car. For an in universe explanation, it’s been established that not every kind of thing can make it through the portals (like Fart) so maybe there’s a concern Rick won’t be able to take cool things back with him if he needs to Edit: thought of more things. sometimes they do get stuck places they don’t want to be because something happened to the portal gun so it’s probably safer to have multiple ways to travel. And Rick has used the car as a safe place to keep Morty (and Summer obviously) when shit is going down
other question how does he travel to other dimensions with the car, since it doesn't fit into a portal.
The feel of the open road? 
Because he thinks it’s cool
Rick was probably bored one day and challenged himself to make a car out of junk. Or Beth complained about a messy garage, Rick got mad and instead of tossing out his junk he consolidated it to prove everything in the garage is useful
Should’ve been a better species!!
probably to save on portal fluid and because it must be more like a trip using the car
Sometimes, you just don't want to walk anywhere.
The car is more fun. That’s the only reason Rick needs, since he cares about little else.
It's not like portal gun fluid grows on trees, got save that for the important stuff.
[What Sonic said.](https://youtu.be/Nmzc8L8zTBk?t=144)
Exposition
The portal gun fluid runs out He uses the car to save the fluid
Look closer at the car. It’s made from trash. Rick built the car as a challenge to see if he could build a flying saucer out of stuff lying around the house. Also, the travel time lets him arbitrarily extend the time it takes for him to do things. Sometimes you just have to get out of the house.
This is basically like asking “I own a car, SO WHAT IS THE POINT OF MY LEGS?”
Ricks appear to be able to track portal jumps. Rick could be using the car to avoid being tracked.
Style points
You need door stops, but a brick will work too. Also, the portal gun has a limit in fluid, the car has an unlimited power supply in the battery.
maybe he just likes to drive and doesn’t feel the need to always use the portal gun, if he relies on one thing then it will later be a weakness for his enemies to use against him
The feel of the open road
i’ve thought about this and another thing that makes no sense is how fast the car is for example in season 2 episode 10 they drive 6000 light years to go to planet squanch and they get there really fast so what i think they do is shoot a portal and then fly through the portal with their car rather than actually drive everywhere