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“Chinese parts are everywhere,” notes Yasir from a Saddar auto market. “You can fix a broken axle on a CFMOTO in a village workshop with a hammer and a welding rod. A Polaris? You wait three months for a belt from the US.” The SXS boom has a shadow economy. Due to high customs duties on fully built units, many high-end SXS vehicles enter Pakistan not via the Karachi port, but through the porous Torkham and Chaman borders with Afghanistan. These vehicles are often purchased in Dubai, driven to Kabul (where duties are negligible), and then smuggled south.

“Farmers in Swat are using them to bring apples down from high orchards where a tractor cannot turn,” says Bilal Khan, an off-road mechanic in Islamabad who specializes in CFMOTO and Polaris models. “The old way was donkeys—slow, needing rest. The SXS makes five trips in one day.” pakistani sxs

Furthermore, the legality is murky. The Excise and Taxation department generally considers SXS vehicles as “sporting machinery,” not road-legal vehicles. You cannot put a license plate on one. Yet, every evening in upscale neighborhoods, owners drive them to local chai shops, daring the traffic police to catch a vehicle that can jump a curb and disappear up a dirt track. Whispers in the auto industry suggest that a major Pakistani tractor manufacturer is in talks with a Chinese SXS brand to begin CKD (Completely Knocked Down) assembly in Faisalabad. If successful, the price of a brand-new, warrantied SXS could drop below PKR 1 million ($3,500). “Chinese parts are everywhere,” notes Yasir from a