Chinese-Built 60 mpg Wildfire Puts a New Face on Motorcycles

If you don't like it, don't buy it. There's no such thing as a
universally loved vehicle. As a niche car/bike it looks kind of
cool. A purpose-built machines go I applaud diversity in the
US & global market.

I'd guess that it's slightly "safer" than a typical bike
but nobody (in this comment thread) is whining about
motorcycle safety.

For those of you who equate mass with safety should put
their money where their mouth is and buy a bus. Otherwise
find another reason to dislike small/cheap/efficient vehicles.

And in terms of Buying American - while a laudable goal -
until We Americans quit shopping at places like Wal-Mart for
the lowest price we will continue to support other nations.

happy trails
dan

Living in Europe after WWII all these poorly designed and dangerous cars remind me of the "desperation" junk designs that briefly popped up in Europe and then died a quick death as people quickly found out that they were a pain to own, slow in traffic, prone to wearing out quickly and had the resale value of a wet paper bag with one side missing.
I like fuel efficient cars but I remember most of these vehicles as having very short life spans and frankly being very poorly designed and unsafe. Many naive eco-poopheads will of course, be attacted to this junk, because they don't know any better, or just don't have the brains to realize that this is just a coffin on wheels. Drum brakes? you must be joking, There's better stuff out there for a little more. Buy a used Toyota Corolla instead.

we learned in WW2 that front single, rear 2 wl vehiles are inherently instable during turning. they now even design recumbent tricycles with 2 turning wheels up front.
what happened to the 3 wheeler ATV's? DUH

I like all of these types of vehicles. All over the world, there are 3 wheeled vehicles that are doing the work of big,heavy, "safe", US regulated cars/trucks. Once upon time, if you look in very old Popular Mechanics magazines, plans to built low-cost vehicles from recyled auto parts and suppiles from your hardware store were published all of time. I think we need to be safe, but here in the USA, we are hindered by regulation that would prevent most of us from using a WildFire on public roads, much less even thinking of making something like this. The other saddening fact is that the ingenuity of building anything has gone by the wayside, we now just look to 3rd world countries for innovations such as the WildFire.