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Sinclair C5 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Relatively cheap to purchase (it sold for £399 + £29 for delivery), it quickly became an object of popular ridicule, and was a (Click link for more info and facts about commercial disaster) commercial disaster, with only around 17,000 being sold. |
 | | The C5 was a battery-assisted tricycle steered by handles on either side of the driver seat. |
 | | These were flippantly expressed in a contemporary (A humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine) cartoon showing a C5 and a juggernaut approaching each other at a blind corner, the C5 being occupied by a family of (Any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution) lemmings. |
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