Corbin Motors

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Corbin Motors Inc.
legal form Inc.
founding 1999
resolution 2006
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Hollister , California , USA
management Mike Corbin
Branch Automobiles

Corbin Sparrow
Rear view

Corbin Motors Inc. was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded on March 29, 1999. It belonged to Corbin-Pacific . Mike Corbin ran it. The seat was in Hollister , California . The production of automobiles began. The brand name was Corbin . Production ended in 2003 when a bankruptcy petition was filed. Myers Motors took over the vehicle project in 2004. On August 18, 2006 the company was dissolved. A total of around 300 vehicles were built.

vehicles

The first Corbin Sparrow model was a three-wheeled electric car . The closed body offered space for one person. The vehicles were driven by an electric motor with an output of 15 kW.

In 2002 the single-seat Corbin Merlin followed . In addition to the coupe , a roadster was at least planned. A gasoline engine from Harley-Davidson with 1400 cm³ displacement and 70 HP power drove the front wheels.

literature

Web links

Commons : Corbin Motors  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Corbin (II).
  2. ↑ a b c George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 334. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d www.3wheelers.com (accessed on January 22, 2017)
  4. ↑ a b Bloomberg (English, accessed January 22, 2017)
  5. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on January 22, 2017)