Comments on: Freeway swimming

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:55:38 +0000

OK, then. Hopefully they’ll still be around in 2007, unlike the Sparrow’s creators. :(

By: Steevo

Steevo — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:44:31 +0000

Oh yeah — to me the early Sparrows just look like Nixon’s shnoz.

By: Steevo

Steevo — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:40:41 +0000

$80k first, so they have some working captital. Then if everything turns out as they optimistically hope, you can get a Tango T100 for $18,700 (with $500 deposit) in 2007. Fiberglass, instead of carbon fiber, cloth seats instead of leather, and 0 to 60 in 7 seconds instead of four (among other differences).

By: deb

deb — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:07:07 +0000

Looks like it got squeezed between a couple of buildings and/or bigger cars to me — like that bus on harry potter.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:32:23 +0000

Besides, the Sparrow was more of a “jelly bean”:http://www.casadelgato.com/EV/MySparrow.htm than a shnoz. At least the original one was…

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:29:38 +0000

I see it now, yes. One of those decorative fish you get in aquaria and advertisements.

If it’s stable, I could see doing 150 in it just for the fun. Crashing can’t be as bad as wiping out on a crotch rocket…

I just wish it wasn’t $80,000. That’s a lot of train tickets, that is…