A case in point is [Clive Sinclair]’s C5 electric vehicle from 1985. If you’ve heard of it at all, you probably recall it was considered a stellar disaster when it was released. But it is a ...

The Sinclair C5, as it was named ... with some fetching prices surpassing their initial sale price and nudging into the ...

A case in point is [Clive Sinclair]’s C5 electric vehicle from 1985. If you’ve heard of it at all, you probably recall it was considered a stellar disaster when it was released. But it is a ...

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 ...

The Apple Newton and Etch-a-Sketch were mentioned but at Number 10 was the Sinclair C5. About 12,000 of these 3-wheeled electrified shopping carts were built in 1985. Before the year's end the ...

Why did 'ahead of its time' Sinclair C5 fail to succeed?Why did 'ahead of its time' Sinclair C5 fail to succeed?

These included a portable mini-TV, a folding bicycle and the much-mocked Sinclair C5 electric vehicle, which was a recumbent electric bike. My ZX Spectrum had the external 32KB RAM pack attached ...

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 ...