Thursday, April 7, 2011

A Motor? A Car? A Tri-car!

MM NmG, US$29,995


Call me a 'Mountain Tortoise', which i believe many are, in limitary Singapore. This could be the one and only three-wheeled car registered here - The Myers Motors No more Gas (NmG) electric single-seater three-wheel vehicle. Earlier, the originator of this motorcycle, then named Sparrow, was by Corbin Sparrow till they filed for bankruptcy in 1999.

I was all the "Wow...!" when Ric show me these pics.

Quoting from the Green Autoblog, this three-wheeled configuration, called the tadpole or reverse-trike, keeps two wheels up front and places one in the back, is much stable and has the advantage of decreased weight and lower rolling resistance, being the preferred arrangement for builders of green vehicles.

Go to the Myers Motor website and you can see that the motorcar comes in 14 bright colors!

But there's no saving for owning this green vehicle in Singapore though, the LTA registered it under the car category - meaning you've got to pay for road taxes and parking charges that of a car and not a motorcycle ;)

Now you know why you don't see much Sparrow here?

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