>>I want one of these.
>>http://www.hightechscience.org/sparrow.htm
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>Just shows you that there's "nothing new under the sun". There used toi be loads of this ilk on the orads of the UK back in the 50s/60s - Messerschmidt post-war production, for example:
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>http://www.microcarmuseum.com/info.html

Yepper. The sparrows are all electirc though. Corbin is no longer making them and the guys that bought them out (Meyers Motors???) - well they're selling the darn things for $40,000 or something insane like that. I keep my eyes open for a used one. The gas ones like the old Messerschmidt have the advantage of being able to go more than 60 miles without having to park/charge the the thing for 2 hours though.
Having something like that here in the USA is probably dangerous though, some bozo in a Hummer (getting like 3 feet to the gallon) would probably plow you over.