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Keep Your Eye on the Electric Sparrow

Posted by michael on from the betamax dept.

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!"

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  1. vroom by sweeney37 · · Score: 3, Funny

    maybe my sparrow would of gotten more use if it had a plug-in to recharge my electric jacket.

    Mike

  2. it must be asked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    was it an african or european spa- oh, wait. nevermind.

    1. Re:it must be asked by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Maybe if they had been able to drive TWO of these in tandem, and been able to carry a coconut between them, they might have succeeded.

      I guess you'd have to call those a Beowulf Cluster, though. :)

      ("One...Two...Two bad jokes, hahahahaha!" - The Count)

      Nobody did the "I'm not dead, yet" joke, though - this thing really does look dead.

      Strangely, I first saw one of these in person just a few days ago. A bright green thing in downtown Seattle; it turned lots of heads.

    2. Re:it must be asked by ncc74656 · · Score: 2, Funny
      Nobody did the "I'm not dead, yet" joke, though - this thing really does look dead.

      It's not dead...it's just pining for the fjords.

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      20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
    3. Re:it must be asked by willum448 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Its only a bankruptcy! (its only a flesh wound)

  3. It's not the size that matters.... by DarkBlackFox · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...It's how you use it!!

    Or in this case, how you use a potential market and profit margins...

  4. OK, its conspiracy time! by Brian_Ellenberger · · Score: 3, Funny

    So who *REALLY* killed the Sparrow?

    Was it
    A) An evil conspiracy of evil Oil Companies seeking to cover the planet in waste and polution in a plot to take over the world.

    B) An evil conspiracy of evil Car Companies seeking to cover the planet in waste and polution in a plot to take over the world.

    C) An evil conspiracy of evil Oil Companies working with evil Car Companies seeking to cover the planet in waste and polution in a plot to take over the world.

    D) The oil lovin' election stealin' George W Bush and evil Oil Company exCEO Dick Chaney

    E) SUVs

    F) George W Bush and Dick Chaney driving an SUV filled with evil Oil Company CEOs and evil Car Company CEOs.

    Brian Ellenberger

    1. Re:OK, its conspiracy time! by ehiris · · Score: 1, Funny

      "a plot to take over the world"
      You mean a plot to keep the world?

  5. It must be done by rahl · · Score: 2, Funny

    This.. is an EX-Sparrow!

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    Reality is indistinguishable from any sufficiently advanced fantasy.
  6. haha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ha ha, who cares. Only stupid hippies drive electric cars, anyway.