>>>>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
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>>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.
>
>You think!? How about our very own genius's Clive Sinclair's C5 (of the ZX80)? It never caught on. I wonder why? this was part electric/part pedal power. See:
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>http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/vehicles/c5.htm
>
>:-)

Yeah I remember that thing. It's not a car though - you're out in the elements with it. More like a 3 wheel moped.