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Somebody melt a Smart Car in Cambridge?

By adamg on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 5:09pm

M.L. reports seeing a weird, teensy-tiny little purple car on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge today, headed towards MIT (of course). Corinne replies with the above photo. Anybody know more about it?

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Comments

By geep9 on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 5:22pm.

parked in a garage on Green Street in Central Sq.

By Kinopio on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 5:25pm.

Hey, at least one person bought the car that Homer Simpson designed.

By FredQuimby on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 5:44pm.

The Homer.

By Refugee on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 5:25pm.

Looks like a Sparrow. Little electric they made 15 years ago.

By adamg on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 5:29pm.

Vinny Tesla points us to the Sparrow page.

By JohnAKeith on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 6:50pm.

Was out in SF back in early '00s and saw the dealership and sooo wanted to buy one. They were in pre-production, I guess. From the Sparrow page, looks as though it was just as well I didn't! (Maybe the one in Cambridge is the only one that made it out?)

By Charles Bahne on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 9:25pm.

It appears that Myers Motors, in Ohio, acquired the rights and started making more of them in 2005, this time called the Myers Motors NmG:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers_Motors_NmG

But it doesn't appear on Myers Motors current website:
http://www.myersmotors.com

By Paul Willeaux on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 5:34pm.

More like a SMAHT car, am I right?!

By adamg on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 5:46pm.

Connie Hemenway snapped this photo:

Corbin Sparrow in Cambridge

By Malcolm Tucker on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 5:51pm.

By anon² on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 6:16pm.

Looks like a Fusion Flea to me

IMAGE(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/0/04/FO4_Fusion_Flea.jpg)

By anon on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 6:43pm.

An updated version of a Soviet invalidka.

By boo_urns on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 7:23pm.

to be the exact car I saw on Monday morning on Somerville Ave. I swear it was a different color, but that driver looks to be of about the same build. This was further east past Beacon St. near Conway Park.

The guy did kind of have a smug or wry smile as he passed me, looking in my direction. Certainly wouldn't be my first choice for a car....

By scott on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 8:36pm.

It looks like a marital aid

By John-W on Thu, 03/17/2016 - 9:18am.

...what are you married to...?

By Rob on Thu, 03/17/2016 - 12:15am.

Get a custom paint job, and it'd look like you were filming an ad for a cold med with nasal decongestant:

[announcer voice]"Dosed with a bad cold? Does your nose feel like you're trying to push a small car around all day? Try new FLU-Hub!!![/announcer voice]

By Rob on Thu, 03/17/2016 - 9:58am.

Thinking about it some more, it struck me -

that would be the perfect car for a mixed live-action/animation version of Darkwing Duck!