OMFG... speaking as a seasoned go-kart/dune-buggy/scooter aficionado... the design of that thing is pure shite. I mean, I figured it wouldn't be great, given the limitations of the body design... but fucking wow...!!!
That thing is a deathtrap all by itself going down a empty street, much less sharing the roads with actual roadworthy vehicles. Fuck, it wouldn't even make a good speed-bump; might slow down a Fiat 500.
This is Power Wheels level of shite-ness.
Truly beyond horrible. Motherfucker should've been prosecuted for marketing that as a road vehicle. Wait... was he...?
mnem
The marketing view, according to Sinclair:
The reality:
Note smug dick and the tail-back he's caused in the first photo. Please also note the look of abject fear in the second photo.
A cutaway:
The "chassis":
Sir Clive Sinclair "genius" and Mensa enthusiast. Yeah, right!
I have never implied that I thought they were either a good thing or safe etc, but at the time of their introduction, the UK government deemed them to legal to use on the roads. IIRC at the time of their introduction as well, there was a lot of talk about restricting the number of car journeys being undertaken in city centres and this part of his thinking about how to reduce these journeys.
Who can say that maybe without his C5 providing the seed of a germ to others that we might have had the mobility scooters that so many older people rely on now.
In an earlier post you also rubbished the Sinclair pocket calculator, it managed to produce exactly the same results to equations entered as the HP but at a fraction the HP calculators price and even compared it to being like a Lada and Rolls-Royce, which is IMHO utter rubbish. Not everyone can afford a Rolls Royce, so your response is then that if you can't afford a Rolls-Royce (for example) that you have to stick to walking, a push-bike or buses
The fact the C5 was deemed safe and legal to drive on normal roads is
not of Sinclairs making but the government of the day, it also was only intended to be a solution to inner cities with its limited range of just 20 miles and top speed of 15mph, which surprisingly enough is almost the same as these E scooters I posted about earlier, not sure of their range but top speed is also 15mph. The C5 was never sold or intended to be a car, it was classified only as an electrically assisted bike.
https://www.sandstoneproductions.co.uk/blogtothefuture/2021/1/9/sinclair-c5-