The Reliant Robin

Not wishing to hijack @Zigs' thread any further, I thought I'd start a new thread for this.

Here is BBC Top Gear showcasing the legendary Reliant Robin. This cracked me up.

 

Why on earth did they ever design (and build) that misery?
First of all how much saving is actually achieved by leaving out one wheel and secondly 2 wheels in the front and one at the back would make for a much more stable configuration.
But then again we wouldn't have clips like these.

As regards hijacking Zigs thread, my apologies, simply got side tracked.
As a mod/admin, can you not move those posts here?

EDIT:

Or alternatively delete them? I would not take any offense to those posts of mine being deleted.

 

While stationed at R.A.F. Abingdon, I had two. One was a van and they got me to Hullavington each weekend. Yep, I rolled one and survived.

Cheers, Tony.

 

No good in the snow

 

Don't mind a good thread hijack meself

 

Cheers Zigs.

 

No good in the wet.
No good in the dry.
No good round corners.
No good on the straights.
No good.

 

But fun

easy to maintain, cheap to run

 

There was sound logic in the design. It comes down to a quirk of the vehicle licensing that has since been changed.

The Reliant Robin was, as far as your license was concerned, a motorbike and side car. Disable reverse gear and you could even drive one at 16 years old on a provisional moped license. So in effect, it was a motorbike that kept you dry in bad weather.

 

Haa sneaky.

And horizontal or upside down a lot of the time.

 

Probably also the only car, errr, umm, bike that nearly made it into space

 

A good run around back in the day....i remember a family of four in a smashing chocolate brown brush painted one...they went every where in it....even had a roof rack on it....

Ey...good to tell it's from the north @clueless1

Annd it wasn't me just for the record

 

Brilliant Dave

 

@Zigs

That clip has to be one of my favourite Top Gear "experiments".