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Originally Posted by niky
Not a motorcycle, but the Suzuki Alto K10. Starts at around $5,300 in India.
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Unfortunately they're not THAT cheap in Uruguay, but occasionally I still see some with Uruguayan plates roaming around in Porto Alegre.
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The Chery 1.0 (which is, not coincidentally, based on a Daewoo 1.0, which is based on an older Suzuki) is sold in the US for use in UTVs, so EPA certification is certainly possible without a lot of trouble.
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You mean the engine used in the Chery QQ?
The 3-cyl 800cc might be the same, but Chery often claims its engines were developed in a partnership with an Austrian engineering company.
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The Chinese, in the meantime, have developed and built dozens of different three-wheel "car alternatives" that cost peanuts. Fulu still sells the same three wheeler I tested over a decade ago... still at around $3,000 wholesale.
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I've already seen some of those Chinese 3-wheeled "car alternatives" in Uruguay, but the ones I saw were meant as an alternative to those car-based mini trucks made in Brazil. For passenger transport, the Indian models based in the Piaggio Ape were less successful, altough similar models and others with a more car-like cabin had been increasingly popular in Peru and Colombia.