June 18, 2007

Jet Power Do you remember the Sinclair C5? You know, the C5 -- that sedate, low-slung vehicle that travels at the speed of sound and blasts the driver's ears out.
posted by Skrik 17 years ago
  • the answer, sadly, seems to be no.
  • Yeah, this is some British thing, isn't it? Like bubbles and squeak and crisps and lorries and Billie Piper. Well, we fought a frigging revolution so we wouldn't have to put up with your nonsense words and poor electric-scooter design, so why don't you go find some inbred royalty to share your 70s UK nostalgia with instead of taking valuable minutes away from my gun/torture/preemptive warfare practice time?
  • Agreed, Nick, the only Sinclair I remember is the Timex Sinclair 1000.
  • The thing about the C5, as I remember it, was that it was never really supposed to be the main product. Sinclair had announced he was developing an electric car, but he was under pressure to get a product out, so he produced the C5 to keep people off his back and make some money in the meantime. As a result the product didn't match expectations. Perhaps for that reason it provoked tremendous hostility in some quarters (perhaps it still does). I remember news items full of tirades against it. As a result, perhaps, the full-scale car never appeared and the C5 failed without ever gaining the jet engine which would clearly, with the benefit of hindsight, have made it a market leader.
  • I had a Timex Sinclair 1000!
  • I used to buy gas at a Sinclair station.
  • Bush sucks alright, eh?
  • Get a Mac!