What you're looking at is a 1985 photo of the Sinclair C5, a titchy electrically motivated trike of which 12,000(!) were reportedly sold. We stumbled across this gem of an image, and after your ...

Most Hackaday readers will have heard of [Clive Sinclair], the British inventor and ... In early 1985 he launched the C5, a sleek three-wheeler designed to take advantage of new laws governing ...

The European tech blog Tech Digest saw fit to name the top 10 gadgets that are due for a revival. The Apple Newton and Etch-a-Sketch were mentioned but at Number 10 was the Sinclair C5.

Sinclair C5 enthusiasts have praised the vehicle as ... The vehicle boasted a top speed of 15mph and came with a price tag of £399, merely a fragment of the expense of a standard car.

These C5 vehicles were assembled at the Hoover factory in Merthyr Tydfil.Sir Clive Sinclair's short-lived experiment in personal transport dates from 1985, and these C5 vehicles were assembled at ...