i have a question need to know what you guys recon

[Bikerpsyco]

Right then first of all hi its been a while been busy with my new house and work,
heres the thing i am fed up with cars they are costing me a fortune i have a nissan 100nx 1.6 targa Automatic and it does 45 miles on £10 driving it very sensibly and this for me is too much with a new mortgage so i thaught i would buy a smaller car which is less sporty so got a peugeot 106xr 1.4 manual 1996 reg, nice car thaught it would be ok BUT to my surprise it has done 43 miles on £10 worth of fuel so my effors seen to be in vein, my question is if i built a motorcycle trike with a body and a roof and a screen would it be classed as a trike or would it be in the reliant robin classification which you need to insure as a car??
also do any of you know of such a trike pics etc?
i have just baught a gn250 to do up which do 80-90 miled to the gallon and im thinking trike with a shell for a laugh?

cheers
chris

[blair]

my guess is that since you yourself have descibed it as a reliant robin then thats what they (  the man ) would also say it was , so then it would be insured as a car and you would be aswell buying a robin and save making one 

[voodoo]

Yep just get a Robin as no point putting in all that effort to build something that resembles a Robin lol...Voodoo..

[nabsim]

Have a look and see if you can find some pics from Autumn NABD rally. There was a 'Bat' trike won a trophy and it has a full body. FJ1200 engine driving the front wheel. Have seen some pics Creature has posted but know nothing else, definately looks like something from a Batman film though.

This is no use for you enquiry but may give you some ideas

By the way, I would say 45mpg from any auto is very good. My beemer currently averages between 18.2 and 18.7

[Simple Simon]

This one?

[Simple Simon]

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[Firery Fred]

Anybody remember the "Quasar",not sure about the spelling

[Bikerpsyco]

i think blair u dont quite understand what i mean as i dont mean making something that  resembles a reliant at all  i was mor ethinking of  a motorcycle trike with a body kind of moulded like a phoenix trike and somekind of removeable roof, the reliant was just the example as it is a trike but has a roof and is insured as a car, oh nabsim i dont mean45 miles to the gallon i mean 45 to £10-£12 of fuel.
nice trike that well spacey,

[nabsim]

Jeez that must be around 20 to the gallon, Caz's 3.0 omega auto does about 24 and my old 2.5 Vec auto used to average 30 so long as I didn't rag ir too much. That aint good for a 1.6. Saying that I had a brand new Astra 1.4 auto when M was new and that only ever averaged 24mpg, that was accurate figure as well as it was a compnay car so had to do fuel returns.

[tazet]

My old Beemer did about 16 to the gallon if I was lucky. When Manky was using it to commute back and forth from Guildford to Basingstoke to work, it was about 35 miles one way so a 70 mile round trip and he was putting in £20 petrol every day. I averaged £20 - £30 a day. My Charger when it's done will do about 8 to the gallon so I've been told.

[nabsim]

My old Beemer did about 16 to the gallon if I was lucky. When Manky was using it to commute back and forth from Guildford to Basingstoke to work, it was about 35 miles one way so a 70 mile round trip and he was putting in £20 petrol every day. I averaged £20 - £30 a day. My Charger when it's done will do about 8 to the gallon so I've been told.

It gives you a nice warm feeling inside to know you are selflessly doing your bit for global warming so all the others can have nice sunny days to ride round in though dunnit?