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Keep Your Eye on the Electric Sparrow
WC as Kato writes "Corbin Motors, the company that made the cute electric Sparrow car driven by Austin Powers in Goldmember, has gone into bankruptcy. SJ Mercury News has details of the dead bird..er Sparrow. Another electric car bites the dust!"
A Corbin Motors official, on the condition of anonymity, stated that the company will be selling the rest of its inventory to monster truck shows around the nation. There children in their parent's YUKON, NAVIGATOR, EXPEDITION, and SUBURBAN sport utility monsters will be able to experience the feeling of running over a vehicle, all for only $69.95 per run.
Honestly, who would want to own an overpriced, slow vehicle in the land of the monster gas hogs? All the lack of safety of a motorcycle, with NONE of the fun. Must electric cars always look like a deformed chicken egg?
I was sick and tired of scraping them off the windshield and out of the grill of my semi-tractor.
Seriously, whenever I saw the sparrow I couldn't help but be reminded of the driver's ed film they showed us where they crashed small imports into American 4-door sedans. The intended message was "your father's crappy old car isn't cool, but it's a lot safer". Of course, we were teenage boys so the received message was "Oh boy! We get to sit in class and watch car crashes!".
I for one, would be willing to chip in 50 bucks to see a Sparrow go mano-a-bird with a Chevy Caprice. OK... 5 bucks... as part of the gate fee at the stock car races. Very doable. Hey... this could save the company.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
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