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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.
Early "three-wheeler" variants were actually four-wheelers, with two rear wheels closely paired as in some Heinkel bubble cars of the 1960s. Later versions were genuine trikes, three wheels with two wheels in front and one at the back, this allowed to benefit from the (lower) 3-wheel UK road-tax. A four-wheel variant followed later, using an ...
Problems in design and manufacturing, as well as the inability to compete with higher-category cars (including the cheap Trabants), made the four-wheeler a commercial failure, and its production was stopped in 1973. Plans to produce a small car similar to Fiat 500 or a rickshaw-like truck [3] did not materialize.
XR-3 Hybrid: United States Plans–2008, Kit–2009 Front 3-cylinder diesel (125 mpg), rear electric 40 mile range (220 mpg when used as a hybrid) [31] Aptera (solar electric vehicle) United States 2022 planned Solar-powered Electric: Triton Trike: United States 2000–present Gas-powered, 42+ mpg, front-wheel drive, custom builds and kits ...
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 vehicle body is FRP/foam composite. [1]
The Morgan 3 Wheeler was featured in a Series 18 episode of UK motoring show Top Gear where presenter Richard Hammond picked the Morgan 3 Wheeler in a comparison of track-day cars. The 3 Wheeler won the "Not-A-Car of the Year 2011" in Top Gear.
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The three-wheel Carver One is said to have the comfort, controls and stability of a normal car while showing the dynamic [5] cornering behaviour of a motorcycle. The Carver was design with man-wide vehicles (MWVs in mind.) [ 24 ] The Carver can be driven by anyone with a normal car driver's license in the European Union, though other countries ...