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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. 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.