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These are some shots of the cheapest of the cheap rides here. I suppose the pedcab is cheaper but motorized, this is the least expensive ride.
They are called chop-chops.
My wife says that they are Japan's junk.
Aparently Japan cuts their old vehicles into large parts by cutting torch. The large parts are shipped here to the Philippines as scrap junk metal. Very cheaply.
Once the "junk" is here workmen weld the parts back together making the junk parts into a vehicle.
In this way the pinoys can avoid the taxes on the vehicles and have something very affordable, if not good looking or fully functional to use here.
A "new" chop-chop will sell for about P170k ( about $4, 000 ).
All the pinoys that I talk to HATE them but dammit, I'd have one if my wife wouldnt throw a fit about it.
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