Q830 - solved - Laruti

Quiller · April 12, 2013, 04:54:29 AM

Quote from: DeAutogids on April 09, 2013, 11:00:54 AM
Quote from: kwgibbs on April 09, 2013, 10:29:38 AM
KeKe?
Which I believe is local dialect for a three wheeler.

I think that's right - a generic term, in other words.
Still looking for the name...

DeAutogids · April 12, 2013, 02:13:22 PM

This thread has seen more Nigerian car brands, even if three wheelers, then most sites combined about African car makes. I assume that it is not a Keke Napep, a vehicle which was made to reduce impoverment in Nigeria. I suppose it is not the Ajumose either, those seem to be Piaggo-copies. Difficult to findit seems!

DeAutogids · April 12, 2013, 02:36:14 PM

Trident Tri-Car

kwgibbs · April 13, 2013, 01:44:48 AM

KeKe marwa?

Quiller · April 16, 2013, 10:17:07 AM

Marwa
Trident
Napep

No to all three I'm afraid...

DeAutogids · April 19, 2013, 03:48:35 PM

Lafbart?

Quiller · April 21, 2013, 05:27:24 AM

Quote from: DeAutogids on April 19, 2013, 03:48:35 PM
Lafbart?

Quote from: Quiller on April 04, 2013, 01:48:56 PM
I'm afraid it's neither Simba nor Lafbart...

Quiller · April 30, 2013, 11:44:29 AM

Time to elevate

Paul Jaray · April 30, 2013, 11:51:12 AM

I don't know the puzzle car, but this is made by Taixing Sandi:

kwgibbs · April 30, 2013, 01:12:07 PM

tricar-three-wheel?

sixtee5cuda · April 30, 2013, 03:36:27 PM

Searching for Taixing Sandi, I was able to find this vehicle under the model name 650Zk-4A (or SD650Zk-4A). There are very few pictures of this three-wheeler with the long third window on the side.

sixtee5cuda · April 30, 2013, 03:48:01 PM

The brand name may be PH, as provided by the Suzhou Puhan Power Machine Co., Ltd

(Sorry, ignore my purely Chinese guesses, as China was already excluded.)

pnegyesi · May 01, 2013, 02:29:19 AM

The puzzle car is a Laruti three-wheeler. The Lagos State Government on Tuesday directed the beneficiaries and operators of the Lagos State Rural Transport Initiatives (LARUTI) tricycles to restrict their operations to only designated rural areas and not the highways in the metropolis.

Quiller · May 01, 2013, 08:12:10 AM

Laruti is correct! It is made in Nigeria - but I agree it looks a lot like an extended Taixing Sandi, and there may well be a connection

autospeurder · May 01, 2013, 01:32:15 PM

I would like to know who is producing (assembling) this car in Nigeria and their address.

Thanks

pnegyesi · May 01, 2013, 02:59:11 PM

I did some more digging. Quiller, are you sure these are produced in Nigeria? There were talks about an assembly plant in Lagos, but I did not find any proof for that.

sixtee5cuda · May 01, 2013, 04:36:58 PM

The Laruti Scheme distributes these tricycles in Lagos, but I don't think that is the actual brand name of this vehicle.

Quiller · May 06, 2013, 01:29:25 PM

My reading of the info was that Laruti assembled them - but I could be wrong ...

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Q830 - solved - Laruti