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The JZR 'beetle-back' at Newark Kit Car Show, Lincolnshire c.1993. JZR was inspired by the early Morgan Aero three-wheelers and more recent cars like the Triking. The kit comprised a square tube steel chassis with a galvanized floorpan and body sides. The upper body consisted of GRP panels.
The XR-3 Hybrid is a plug-in hybrid kit vehicle from Robert Q. Riley Enterprises.. The top speed is 80 mph (130 km/h) and fuel economy is 125 mpg ‑US (1.88 L/100 km; 150 mpg ‑imp) on diesel power only and 225 mpg ‑US (1.05 L/100 km; 270 mpg ‑imp) on combined diesel and electric power.
The DRK is a three-wheeled kit car produced by DRK Kits of Ellesmere Port, England, between 1987 and 1998. [1] The car was introduced at the Cheshire Kit Car show in May 1986, where its positive reception prompted the formation of the company to build it. [2] [a] The car has a two front wheels, one rear wheel configuration, with front-wheel drive.
The car consists of a fibreglass body mounted on an un-modified Citroën 2CV or Dyane floorpan and engine. Later a steel tube chassis was introduced. A Lomax is usually an open two-seat roadster. The original 1982 prototype had a bespoke four-wheel chassis which was specially constructed, and of shorter wheelbase than the donor car, a Citroën Ami.
Early automotive pioneer Karl Benz developed a number of three-wheeled models. [3] One of these, the Benz Patent Motorwagen, [4] is regarded as the first purpose-built automobile. It was made in 1885. In 1896, John Henry Knight showed a tri-car at The Great Exhibition. [3] In 1897, Edward Butler made the Butler Petrol Cycle, another three ...
The Stimson Scorcher is a three-wheeled vehicle designed by Barry Stimson and first produced in the UK in 1976. [1] The Scorcher was available preassembled or as a kit, sold by Noovoh Developments of Brighton [1] for £385 (equivalent to £2100 in 2023 [a]).
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Once a kit car has been correctly registered, a V5C, or log book, will be assigned and then a kit car is treated in exactly the same way as a production car, from any larger manufacturer. A kit car must pass its MOT test and have a valid car tax, or have a valid Statutory Off-Road Notification (SORN) declaration.