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  • @MirrorMonolith
    @MirrorMonolith Жыл бұрын

    The more rigged and faked they made Top Gear, the funnier. Because they knew we knew, and we knew they knew. Miss that show.

  • @Jay-fs2nw

    @Jay-fs2nw

    Жыл бұрын

    The latest grand tour specials have been great, is not the exact same but it's got the chemistry

  • @longbow6416

    @longbow6416

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Jay-fs2nw yup. Nothing matches the camaraderie or carnage of those 3 oafs :) The music, editing and locations were surreal

  • @jonesymotor

    @jonesymotor

    Жыл бұрын

    "See you in Spain, lads!"

  • @skylined5534

    @skylined5534

    Жыл бұрын

    It was crap and so is 'The Grand Snore'.

  • @rustyshackleford2808

    @rustyshackleford2808

    Жыл бұрын

    New top gear hosts sucks bollocks

  • @Americansikkunt
    @Americansikkunt Жыл бұрын

    “It can’t happen, see?!” *damages vehicle*

  • @TheAnnoyingBoss

    @TheAnnoyingBoss

    Жыл бұрын

    "They had to do extensive engineering" "Like lowering the tire pressure, and having some weights" 😂😂😂 too funny

  • @Steve.._.

    @Steve.._.

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheAnnoyingBoss what’s funny about it? It’s what they did. It worked too. This guy just weighs more than all the top gear hosts so that’s why he tipped it, they probably put more weight up towards the front right and back right or vice versa

  • @ChaoticMartian

    @ChaoticMartian

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Steve.._. cope

  • @Adenzel

    @Adenzel

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Steve.._.it's funny because it shouldn't be THAT easy to get a car to flip

  • @elijahjenkins846

    @elijahjenkins846

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Steve.._. Its funny and you're very far from funny.

  • @frbrbrgrblgrr7777
    @frbrbrgrblgrr7777 Жыл бұрын

    Top gear took those turns hard. They knew what they were doing and I appreciate that episode. Hilarious bit of tv.

  • @Jonwayne777Iloveyouall

    @Jonwayne777Iloveyouall

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes very much so.

  • @yusufabdoolla5919

    @yusufabdoolla5919

    2 ай бұрын

    They did modify the car so it would be easier to roll but the point behind that was to mock the idiocy behind the design of the car and the people that were fond of it

  • @jacobfernandez-green3949

    @jacobfernandez-green3949

    Ай бұрын

    And if you've ever been to Sheffield, you'd know its really hilly so I guess that made it much easier to flip over

  • @hush6149
    @hush6149 Жыл бұрын

    “Reliants don’t want to roll over” Proceeds to prove Jeremy correct in a matter of seconds

  • @thegooeymanschannel7128

    @thegooeymanschannel7128

    6 ай бұрын

    I think he just meant when theyre sitting still on a flat surface lol

  • @ridge69

    @ridge69

    2 ай бұрын

    Part of it is it's a right hand drive and the traffic circle was going the wrong direction for that car. Needed a person on the left side

  • @SnareX

    @SnareX

    Ай бұрын

    Company D riding at its finest

  • @jimcabezola3051
    @jimcabezola3051 Жыл бұрын

    Used to see these all over the place in Suffolk, England where I lived. Never saw one tip over. The owners were probably more cautious and skilled drivers than Jezza, since they were driving their own cars that they paid for with their own hard-earned money.

  • @formulafish1536

    @formulafish1536

    Жыл бұрын

    I wouldn’t say more skilled. Definitely more cautious. You’ve also got to remember though, Jeremy was virtually paid to crash that car.

  • @longbow6416

    @longbow6416

    Жыл бұрын

    @@formulafish1536 it is Jeremy after all. Myth says Capt. Slow was able to pilot the vehicle flawlessly

  • @itsir2u

    @itsir2u

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, no, the whole joke was flipping it… it was on purpose…

  • @weedconesuer

    @weedconesuer

    Жыл бұрын

    bro rewatch just this video the entire point of the top gear show was 98% satire.. if you took any part of that show seriously I'm sorry but you're slower mentally than James may can drive.. a toddler would have been more careful driving a Robin considering Jeremy was literally paid to intentionally crash the Robin to make fun of reliant Robin owners just like they did with Ferrari. and Bentley. and Mercedes. and every other car in the world. for God's sake Jeremy at one point willingly bought a Maserati for one of the challenges. yes the car nobody owns these days besides 90 year old pedos stuck in the past

  • @MultiHydrogenPeroxid

    @MultiHydrogenPeroxid

    Жыл бұрын

    sure they were more skilled drivers...

  • @Metallislayer1
    @Metallislayer1 Жыл бұрын

    Dude: *grinds fender on ground* Same dude:" oh there *IS* some damage

  • @meruliouslacrimens5154
    @meruliouslacrimens5154 Жыл бұрын

    In the 1970s lots of my friends had robin reliants and i can assure you they are very easy to flip .They were popular, because you could drive them on a motorcycle licence.

  • @mickbradley6588

    @mickbradley6588

    Ай бұрын

    While others had Capri Fords?

  • @robf7537
    @robf7537 Жыл бұрын

    I felt salt when he called tire pressure and potato sacks “quite a bit of engineering”, so it was quite relieving to see him mop the cement with his paint. Great clip.

  • @sqweezzstr

    @sqweezzstr

    Жыл бұрын

    oh no i scratched it *looks at exposed bondo*

  • @joeyg29jgjg

    @joeyg29jgjg

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah I was thinking the same thing it doesn't take much engineering to put weight on the outside of the turn and lower the tire on the outside of the turn

  • @SergeantSniper

    @SergeantSniper

    Жыл бұрын

    🤣

  • @danielbrealey2924

    @danielbrealey2924

    Жыл бұрын

    I felt the same way- I'd hardly call that "engineering"... 🤦

  • @michaelashley4180

    @michaelashley4180

    Жыл бұрын

    @@danielbrealey2924 they also welded the dif

  • @gr0wnup5
    @gr0wnup5 Жыл бұрын

    Mr.Bean flashbacks 😂

  • @Priza25

    @Priza25

    Жыл бұрын

    Mr bean drove a mini….

  • @JustABoyo

    @JustABoyo

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Priza25 Well yes but in the shorts where he was driving it it was always a sky blue reliant taking a dip and turning over due to his shenanigans

  • @loclam3791

    @loclam3791

    Жыл бұрын

    TRUE 🤣

  • @Priza25

    @Priza25

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JustABoyo I don’t get the reply? Mr bean never drove a reliant it was a yellow and black mini. Jeremy clarkson did use a reliant in top gear.

  • @JustABoyo

    @JustABoyo

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Priza25 Yes Mr Bean drove a Mini, SOMEONE Else on Mr.Bean drove sky blue reliant tho

  • @ColeSpolaric
    @ColeSpolaric Жыл бұрын

    It didn't really flip over. It tilted, but didn't flip

  • @7Beanss

    @7Beanss

    Жыл бұрын

    Uhhhh TecHnIcALlY 🤓🤓🤓

  • @Ozilus21

    @Ozilus21

    Жыл бұрын

    You must be fun at parties

  • @flatmarssociety5707

    @flatmarssociety5707

    Жыл бұрын

    @@7Beanss not technically literally it didn't it just tilted

  • @badcornflakes6374

    @badcornflakes6374

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Ozilus21 this isn't a party

  • @initialyeet3951

    @initialyeet3951

    Жыл бұрын

    @@flatmarssociety5707 yeah this is not a flip. By this measure, leaning hard on a bike is a flip a well

  • @schagon
    @schagon Жыл бұрын

    That is basic physics: Reliant Robin design favours rollovers.

  • @PresidentHotdog
    @PresidentHotdog Жыл бұрын

    I live in Northern England and can confirm they flip. I've lost countless friends and family to these plastic deathtraps.

  • @riptear

    @riptear

    Жыл бұрын

    Bro what

  • @jreut09

    @jreut09

    Жыл бұрын

    How many of your friends and family drive robins? Don't you think they would stop buying them after a bit

  • @PresidentHotdog

    @PresidentHotdog

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jreut09 no because they died. No repeat customers.

  • @christopherdean1326

    @christopherdean1326

    7 күн бұрын

    "Countless friends and family"? Seriously? You have either been astonishingly unlucky, to the point of being actually cursed, or that's utter BS.

  • @PresidentHotdog

    @PresidentHotdog

    7 күн бұрын

    @@christopherdean1326 or I was joking. In the north of England we also have humour.

  • @Estoooopid
    @Estoooopid Жыл бұрын

    Two wheels at the front and one at the back might have been better

  • @rawhidelamp

    @rawhidelamp

    Жыл бұрын

    Eh, depends on engine placement mostly, front engined, like this, would have been better in that config yes,

  • @SonicBoone56

    @SonicBoone56

    Жыл бұрын

    It is. That's why most 3 wheel designs use it

  • @joemann7971

    @joemann7971

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SonicBoone56 I think most recent ones but a lot of 3 wheeled vehicles are just modified motorcycles turned into trikes. But most of those trikes have most of the weight in the back, making it harder for them to flip like this.

  • @fujiwaratofushop1491

    @fujiwaratofushop1491

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes and no. Its more stable but the main purpose of those cars were to put cargo. Like delivery milk to houses or something like that. One wheel could not stand the weight

  • @pws3rd170

    @pws3rd170

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rawhidelamp then replace the body with a tube frame, give it sports car seats… oh look, we have invented the Polaris Slingshot

  • @insertnamehere6960
    @insertnamehere6960 Жыл бұрын

    My mum and her husband used to have 5 or these over a 10 year period , apparently they’re not particularly roll happy but they do tip up a lot and are very unforgiving when they do because you lose all steering, that being said apparently they usually don’t go fast enough to tip much on faster roads, it tend to only be turning too tight on small roundabouts and in car parks that does it

  • @fairyheli2

    @fairyheli2

    Жыл бұрын

    I had one for over a year, you don't lose steering at all. Also they definitely go fast enough, had 85 out of it

  • @insertnamehere6960

    @insertnamehere6960

    Жыл бұрын

    @@fairyheli2 I guess lose steering is the wrong term, that’s just how she describes and while I’m sure you can get 85 out of one. You’re probably not going to be getting fast enough on a road to roll it by accident. You’d have to be going from a fast road into a tight corner

  • @fairyheli2

    @fairyheli2

    Жыл бұрын

    @@insertnamehere6960 I managed 70 down a twisty road. Managed to keep up with a fiat Panda through the area around Goodwood hill. The trick with them is to never brake into a corner. Brake before then accelerate round the corner, this helps stop the weight going into the front corner, keeping weight on the back. Only time I got it to tip was when I went round a mini roundabout too fast while braking with a mate in the passenger seat. All that happened was the chassis scraped the ground a bit. It was a fun car I miss owning it, but it was also an unreliable pain in the arse. Working on the engine is fun because there's hardly any access.

  • @deptusmechanikus7362
    @deptusmechanikus7362 Жыл бұрын

    Next thing you tell me, they had to do some modifications to a Robin that they tried to launch into space! The outrage!!

  • @TheChrisLeone
    @TheChrisLeone Жыл бұрын

    Watching Clarkson flip the Robin is one of my favorite things ever

  • @ridge69
    @ridge69 Жыл бұрын

    Gotta mount some shopping cart wheels on the front corners 😆

  • @LRM12o8

    @LRM12o8

    Жыл бұрын

    Or training wheels on the sides, like little kids have on their bikes 😂

  • @hell_march6652

    @hell_march6652

    Жыл бұрын

    Even better add a spring so it will give it some bounce back to right itself

  • @Telogor

    @Telogor

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@LRM12o8The Reliant Robin is in Forza Horizon 4, and "training wheels" are actually a body kit you can install.

  • @LRM12o8

    @LRM12o8

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Telogor that just made me laugh really hard 🤣 Didn't even know it was in the game (probably just didn't care), but of course it would be! 😅

  • @CobraRaptor6

    @CobraRaptor6

    2 ай бұрын

    guys if someone did that in real life it would become the ibishu pigeon 'the stabilizer (m)' config💀💀💀

  • @asthmaticfish
    @asthmaticfish Жыл бұрын

    “Why do you think Reliant owners have really heavy tool boxes?” “Yeah, I was just gonna say… your teeth! Did you lose those in a Robin accident!?”

  • @MichSciFi10

    @MichSciFi10

    Жыл бұрын

    I heard that in the voice he did XD

  • @MichaelfromtheGraves

    @MichaelfromtheGraves

    Жыл бұрын

    then Jeremy picks up his northern accent again and you can't understand a word he says

  • @Red_Beard2798

    @Red_Beard2798

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MichaelfromtheGraves- "When I were a lad 'round here, all the rich people, them's who's could afford *four* wheels on the car; they all had Ladas! 'La-dee-das' we called them. You wouldn't to hit one of them, I'll tell you that for nought, they were built like tanks!" I can translate the rest of his Northerner speak if you wish 😂

  • @YingDat
    @YingDat Жыл бұрын

    As young adult we used to stick 2/3 big people in the back of the old robins and then get them to jump up and down in the back it makes the car do a wheelie 😂

  • @MrEpsilonEagle
    @MrEpsilonEagle Жыл бұрын

    I had one for a few days and it was fun and a bit scary at the same time. It even had the same blue colour as in the Mr. Bean show. A great experience!

  • @daftwatcher
    @daftwatcher Жыл бұрын

    to be fair Jeremy really hit those corners hard

  • @AlonsoOfVyond17

    @AlonsoOfVyond17

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, it is something with comedy

  • @alexgerrits349

    @alexgerrits349

    Жыл бұрын

    To be fair, the cars really were rolling over. NOT "fake" in the least.

  • @Ricksdetrix
    @Ricksdetrix Жыл бұрын

    My mum always tells me the story of when they flipped an RR. The car was full so I wonder if that affected it

  • @GangstalkerInitiate
    @GangstalkerInitiate Жыл бұрын

    Bro was personally offended over his 3 wheeled car

  • @yorkiegilly4355
    @yorkiegilly4355 Жыл бұрын

    My late Mrs. had a motorcycle license and had 3 Reliants over the years ,which she drove like a Demon . Nobody would travel with her ,but during a period with a broken leg I couldn"t drive and after many weeks we all wondered how we were still alive . Never once did she damage one of the cars ! . Can"t say the family"s nerves are any good tho .

  • @zerofink2586
    @zerofink2586 Жыл бұрын

    I wanna have the same vibe as the owner a guy walks up to ya and asks if your car ever flipped and is willing to do it for a vid “fuck yeah let’s go”

  • @ShaunHensley
    @ShaunHensley Жыл бұрын

    they still look fun

  • @Mike--Oxmall
    @Mike--Oxmall Жыл бұрын

    My father owned a Reliant robin and it would tip over in the strong winds. Children walking past would also come and tip it over. In the end it was just too much hassle.

  • @Ghost812many
    @Ghost812many Жыл бұрын

    Inherent design instability. That's why the traditional motorized 3 wheeler was banned in the U.S. Kind of amazing that the fix for it was to simply change the travel direction, i.e. the Can-Am Spider!

  • @mrsteve4313
    @mrsteve4313 Жыл бұрын

    Well technically it didn't flip over but it did flip up.

  • @jama211

    @jama211

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm so glad you brought this clarification to the conversation...

  • @jacksonsilva4409
    @jacksonsilva4409 Жыл бұрын

    The guy inside probably weighs more than the car. It certainly helps.

  • @madyottoyotto3055
    @madyottoyotto3055 Жыл бұрын

    They are hard to flip in comparison to top gear Some guy near me welded bars on with castors on the end It was like the laurel and hardy show everyday waling down the road and hear that famous noise of metal castors on the hardtop

  • @coryswanson2247
    @coryswanson2247 Жыл бұрын

    Used to work literally 2 buildings away from TFL hq in Boulder, glad to see y’all are doing well

  • @casematecardinal
    @casematecardinal Жыл бұрын

    I've heard that the way to do it is to have good weight distribution, and that you have to be more aware of your surroundings than most other drivers.

  • @LRM12o8

    @LRM12o8

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, had it been a left-hand drive, he would not tip in a British roundabout*. So you'll have to have a bunch of weights on the passenger side to balance out your own weight, when you're driving alone! 🤣 I just find it hilarious that someone thought building this flawed and more difficult to drive version of a car for people *who don't have a driver's license for regular cars* was a good idea... *(just about anywhere else in the world 😅)

  • @LurpakSpreadableButter

    @LurpakSpreadableButter

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LRM12o8 It was made to be cheaper and more affordable, as the tax for three wheeled vehicles was lower than four wheeled vehicles

  • @robertm2172
    @robertm2172 Жыл бұрын

    Looking at all the bondo in the corner it appears it’s not the first time

  • @crazymayne69

    @crazymayne69

    Жыл бұрын

    That may just be fiberglass. If I remember correctly these car bodies used a lot of fiberglass panels

  • @x66Hawk66x

    @x66Hawk66x

    Жыл бұрын

    That's gel coat

  • @skylined5534

    @skylined5534

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@x66Hawk66x Yep. Gel coat over fibreglass.

  • @jama211

    @jama211

    Жыл бұрын

    @@crazymayne69 Ah fair enough

  • @fookyoutube7274
    @fookyoutube7274 Жыл бұрын

    I live in the UK where these were quite common. They are easy to roll.

  • @frankielove31
    @frankielove316 ай бұрын

    In the 90s my grandmother had one of these that she gave to me and my cousin for a paddock basher when she got a new bentley. We rolled it twice between her house and KFC and again in the drive through at about 3 miles an hour and it was hilarious

  • @TheEmperorPigeon
    @TheEmperorPigeon Жыл бұрын

    This is old news. Different wheel sizes, hydraulic pumps, and of course the "random" celebrity appearances should all be clues that it was staged for the comedy "gold".

  • @musewolfman

    @musewolfman

    Жыл бұрын

    they literally had a script writer in the credits after every episode. not everything was staged or scripted, but far more than a lot of people think.

  • @obeseperson

    @obeseperson

    Жыл бұрын

    It was comedy gold and one of the most fondly remembered moments of the show

  • @skylined5534

    @skylined5534

    Жыл бұрын

    @riley When did that happen?

  • @skylined5534

    @skylined5534

    Жыл бұрын

    @@obeseperson Oh dear.

  • @jackedrussell

    @jackedrussell

    Жыл бұрын

    You can tell it was scripted to roll over long before the first rollover. It's very easy to tell that all of the glass was replaced with plastic so it doesn't shatter.

  • @isaacbutterworth3740
    @isaacbutterworth3740 Жыл бұрын

    Another surprising fact about these is that they are incredible in the snow, just glide over the road with no hesitation

  • @DemonicDinos

    @DemonicDinos

    Жыл бұрын

    narrow tires better in the snow? Not a surprising fact.

  • @isaacbutterworth3740

    @isaacbutterworth3740

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DemonicDinos I take it your socks are firmly on and not knocked off

  • @peterrenn6341

    @peterrenn6341

    Жыл бұрын

    'glide over the road with no hesitation' - pretty good definition of a skid...

  • @DemonicDinos

    @DemonicDinos

    Жыл бұрын

    @@isaacbutterworth3740 😐I have no clue what the fuck you're on about. But I will say this, as a Canadian who has 10 years experience driving in all seasons of weather, including very heavy snow fall storms. driving with narrow tires will always be better for driving in the snow.

  • @MrHemlock51
    @MrHemlock51 Жыл бұрын

    The trick to driving a Reliant is to brake in a straight line and accelerate round the bend. This is good practice in a four wheeled car too. I rolled mine when a bend was tighter than I expected...

  • @ALucas73
    @ALucas73 Жыл бұрын

    The little wheel on each side to stop damage if it tips was a brilliant solution.

  • @wolfrig2000
    @wolfrig2000 Жыл бұрын

    and here we see a story of an "Expert" thinking they know everything and then getting immediately proven wrong.

  • @bmo3778

    @bmo3778

    Жыл бұрын

    ikr. I know Top Gear is just an entertainment, but they of course had some expert or advisor in the back. they are on tv after all, and they had to have some standards and precautions.

  • @stewietinktink8441
    @stewietinktink8441 Жыл бұрын

    That was one of the most hilarious episode I had seen I was dying laughing, in fact they may have been the first episode that ever saw and it hooked me.

  • @poiiihy

    @poiiihy

    Жыл бұрын

    same

  • @Dorench
    @Dorench Жыл бұрын

    My aunt had one. My aunt also flipped it going round a bend in a country lane. She's was also part of the first group of female armed response driver in the UK, so yeah... she can drive.

  • @dshe8637
    @dshe8637 Жыл бұрын

    We were driving along when we came across a Reliant Robin waiting to turn left. We started to overtake, but then it pulled to the right and we hit it at the back right. The RR flew up and turned over, landing right way up. The driver was fine, but surprised.

  • @luismonet6985
    @luismonet6985 Жыл бұрын

    Even Ray Charles can see that.. Or stevie wonder😂😂

  • @johnjohnfofohniam
    @johnjohnfofohniam Жыл бұрын

    Had one as a first car that I practiced in for my license. Day of the test, the instructor goes, "Turn right, turn right!" and I end up going just a liiittle too fast for the turn and boom: Car sideways and light post knocked over. Took us two hours to flip it right side-up, and he let me pass anyway 😂 If you're reading this, thanks Mr. Hannon.

  • @Crlarl

    @Crlarl

    Жыл бұрын

    They let you pass‽

  • @johnjohnfofohniam

    @johnjohnfofohniam

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Crlarl Yessir! It was toward the end, I was actually missing the turn back into the driver ed's lot since it was a complicated road. I did pretty good up until the tipping point 🤣 The memories in that car though, boy do I miss em

  • @cfb36
    @cfb36 Жыл бұрын

    Watched that Top Gear episode when it first premiered and that Reliant Robin bit was the hardest I’d ever laughed in my life. Comedy gold!!

  • @r-urbex1611
    @r-urbex1611 Жыл бұрын

    My mates dad used to love a Robin, he was forever rolling them into ditches on the back roads 😂

  • @WhisperXK
    @WhisperXK Жыл бұрын

    *car leans and gets scratched* This guy: "it flipped"

  • @AnthonyShuker

    @AnthonyShuker

    Жыл бұрын

    yeah because the outcome was sooo different...

  • @skylined5534

    @skylined5534

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AnthonyShuker Flipped usually means going over... did you see it go over? No? Shut your rip then.

  • @AnthonyShuker

    @AnthonyShuker

    Жыл бұрын

    @@skylined5534 Flipped, tilted, it doesn't matter. It doesn't defeat the point. It fell over regardless. Pipe down old 3 wheeled boomer.

  • @dailyinsanity8188

    @dailyinsanity8188

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@AnthonyShuker yet another day that the KZread comments getting into an argument wins my amazement. Tf. Why do people die on the stupidest hills?

  • @AnthonyShuker

    @AnthonyShuker

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@dailyinsanity8188 Dying on the hill that "my 3 wheel car tilts and scrapes the floor, it doesn't roll over, it's fine" is a weird hill.

  • @chrisdavidson911
    @chrisdavidson911 Жыл бұрын

    the way he steers makes it look like he did it on purpose

  • @detaart

    @detaart

    Жыл бұрын

    Sure, and if you did that in a normal car, absolutely nothing would happen. That was walking speed

  • @nautilus7098
    @nautilus7098 Жыл бұрын

    I used to drive a three wheeled piaggio ape 50 from 2016 and I must say it’s damn stable on the road, cause the center of gravity is pretty low. It’s was even able to drift on a wet road with this thing … (with all wheels touching the ground)

  • @unbearifiedbear1885
    @unbearifiedbear1885 Жыл бұрын

    My Grandad had a motorbike license, so used to drive Rialto's and Reliant's.. huge nostalgia

  • @brianpinkey676
    @brianpinkey676 Жыл бұрын

    In Top Gears defense, that car didn't flip it was just a bit tippy.

  • @Sykozona
    @Sykozona Жыл бұрын

    Reliants are pretty good vehicles, as long as you're careful not to go too fast around a corner you're fine

  • @mrjed6912

    @mrjed6912

    Жыл бұрын

    Even if you go quickly it's fine. Unless you turn aggressively and you weigh alot

  • @dwaynefoley1020

    @dwaynefoley1020

    Жыл бұрын

    Compared to what? 😂 “good vehicles” 😂

  • @mrjed6912

    @mrjed6912

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dwaynefoley1020 The classic mini, the Trabant, fiat 126p, the Zastava, the Yugo, and old Fiat Panda. The Reliant was manoeuvrable, compact, awesome to drive, Reliable, didn't rust as much, could park everywhere, could be driven on a motorcycle license, gets 60MPG and everyone on the road loves it. If you think none of these matter than you probably have very little car experience.

  • @Lord.Kiltridge
    @Lord.Kiltridge Жыл бұрын

    I would love to have a three wheeled car, but the Robin and a turn on a three wheeled ATV years ago, convinced me that two wheels _had_ top be in front. Plus let's be honest, Cars like the Morgan 3 Wheeler they have _always_ been the coolest.

  • @camaroman101
    @camaroman101 Жыл бұрын

    it was said they added weights to the front corners to get them to roll so easily.

  • @yamaharider8014
    @yamaharider8014 Жыл бұрын

    Gotta have two wheels up front and one in the rear, like the Can-Am vehicles. Much more stable....👍😺

  • @skylined5534

    @skylined5534

    Жыл бұрын

    Kinda missing the point of what these vehicles were intended for though.

  • @charlesc.9012

    @charlesc.9012

    Жыл бұрын

    You cannot carry as much stuff with only 1 back wheel, which is why they went the long way in engineering when the Isetta setup is both simpler and cheaper

  • @theoriginaldylangreene

    @theoriginaldylangreene

    Жыл бұрын

    Morgan had done it already in 1910. Can-Am just updated the old Morgan 3 wheelers.

  • @thenerdy0boist955

    @thenerdy0boist955

    Жыл бұрын

    The main problem, I believe, was the reliant’s center of mass is quite high - the car sits high and is top heavy. Paired with the awkward engine and wheel combination, you get the mess it was.

  • @volvo09
    @volvo09 Жыл бұрын

    Oh no, at least it didn't flip... Seems like that was what most robin "situations" would have been. With an open differential you won't get enough force to continue it into a full rollover (easily).

  • @Jamiman
    @Jamiman Жыл бұрын

    I had a few drifts out of mine in the wet. Had it on 2 wheels a few times but as long as you kept your foot on the throttle it wouldn't bottom out like this. Only happens if you let off or brake while turning

  • @cbrrick36
    @cbrrick36 Жыл бұрын

    The 3 wheel car was and still is one of the funniest episodes of top gear ever! I literally couldn't stop laughing the first time I saw it! It just got funnier everytime he flipped it! Especially when he pulled into the car meet 😂😂

  • @lildvsvevo
    @lildvsvevo Жыл бұрын

    Anyone else hear the Pokémon “super-effective” sound effect when it tipped and scraped the ground?

  • @Ravlog_LP
    @Ravlog_LP Жыл бұрын

    Plot twist: he rigged the car too.

  • @jonathanswoboda

    @jonathanswoboda

    9 ай бұрын

    By sitting in it? lol

  • @Slingin_Bait
    @Slingin_Bait Жыл бұрын

    Mr bean in the background laughing at him scratching his car up.

  • @jjtinkler97
    @jjtinkler97 Жыл бұрын

    I was behind one in Wandsworth on Saturday.

  • @santeris.4708
    @santeris.4708 Жыл бұрын

    "Top gear wasn't too scripted like the Grand Tour is" Top Gear:

  • @baited3901
    @baited3901 Жыл бұрын

    A miss being young we used to tip them over in the street if we seen them 😂

  • @The_Unintelligent_Speculator
    @The_Unintelligent_Speculator Жыл бұрын

    I remember watching the top gear episode and pissed myself when the robin rolled past behind the news reporter

  • @johnje4285
    @johnje4285 Жыл бұрын

    I had a three wheeler Reliant Regal when I was 16 in England. I hit a grass verge and flipped it on its roof

  • @clayton9136
    @clayton9136 Жыл бұрын

    Wow I hope you paid for the damage to this mans vehicle.

  • @dwaynefoley1020

    @dwaynefoley1020

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m sure he gave him 20p to buy another one

  • @krisjones74

    @krisjones74

    Жыл бұрын

    It was the Reliant Robin enthusiast driving his own car that almost flipped it.

  • @maxsmith184
    @maxsmith184 Жыл бұрын

    There used to be a brown one of these outside of my town park but I haven’t seen it in years

  • @Shakes-Off-Fear
    @Shakes-Off-Fear Жыл бұрын

    In the video game Wreckfest, they have an expy of the Regal Supervan (another three wheeler) and I could not get it to roll, no matter how hard I tried 😂 it was exactly like this, the front panels rubbing against the road.

  • @TC-V8
    @TC-V8 Жыл бұрын

    My grandad rolled his Relient Robin (locally called the 3 wheeled pig - as it was made in Tamworth where pigs are common)

  • @spencerallison3196
    @spencerallison31968 ай бұрын

    From what I heard the robin from TG had a heightened suspension, so with one big guy driving really roughly, even without the higher suspension it would've been scrapping the arch just as many times.

  • @Rob-eg8qc
    @Rob-eg8qc Жыл бұрын

    Ten a penny in the UK 1970/80s, used to see loads with lefthand side road rash wounds.

  • @cl0ut_gxd554
    @cl0ut_gxd554 Жыл бұрын

    I remember seeing one of these when I was little and being so confused

  • @moncey1120
    @moncey1120 Жыл бұрын

    Clearly didn't flip at first as there was a passenger evening the car out. As the northern chap said in the original episode, the best way to stop it from rolling is a bag of cement on the passenger seat

  • @stuartgreenshields5591
    @stuartgreenshields5591 Жыл бұрын

    A van version overtook my bicycle down a hill, many decades ago in Dorset. It then went to overtake the car in front. It certainly did roll over, multiple times and in quite the dramatic fashion too. The woolly jumper of the loose lad in the back unravelled after getting caught on shards of fibreglass. The tyres being carried in the back flew out and disappeared over a hedge and couldn't be found. Mercifully everyone came out ok, but the ease in which it so rapidly got out of shape has convinced me never to go near one of them.

  • @onthel817
    @onthel81710 ай бұрын

    Well, respect jeremy for his work

  • @michaeledwards427
    @michaeledwards4277 ай бұрын

    My sister had one of these, as a few years ago until the law changed they could be driven by people who only had a motorcycle licence just like my sister. But this wasn't the worst 3 wheeler car on the roads of the UK. They were called the invacar, part of the disabilitiy drivers scheme. EVERY single one was duck egg blue, with handle bar steering and a 2 stroke engine. They were deemed unsafe so the government brought alot of them back and scrapped them. The advantage of them was that 99% of them were owned by the elderly so at least other drivers knew who to avoid!!! These motoring oddities are now mostly found in museums.

  • @Neil070
    @Neil070 Жыл бұрын

    By coincidence I was watching tv yesterday and police film of a Reliant Robin popped up in a reality / documentary programme. It amazed us that a Robin could go so fast, and it took 90⁰ turns at speed without difficulty, almost shaking off the pursuing police car. My grandfather had a Reliant Regal, he sold it quickly, saying he didn't feel safe, but I think that was just because he was used to four wheels. He hated automatic transmission cars too

  • @elimanic7925
    @elimanic7925 Жыл бұрын

    The car tapping its bumper against the road sounded like a critical hit in Pokemon.

  • @2j4ez
    @2j4ez Жыл бұрын

    My friend has a 3 wheeler and I’ve been in it loads of times and he’s never flipped it even going around round a bouts

  • @iraqifoodcart8447
    @iraqifoodcart8447 Жыл бұрын

    If the Can Am Spyder is anything to go by, the correct approach with three wheelers is two up front, one at the back

  • @daltonpitman6195
    @daltonpitman6195 Жыл бұрын

    Idk about cars but the three wheeler i had when i was young almost killed me an all my brothers too haha miss that thing

  • @smeeruk
    @smeeruk Жыл бұрын

    I flipped one about 30 years ago. I wasn't trying to, but it went over quite easily.

  • @andrewcruise9522
    @andrewcruise9522 Жыл бұрын

    I love how he ground off bog. It's already been filled.

  • @gunnercooper9405
    @gunnercooper9405 Жыл бұрын

    I want one 😂 i grew up riding three wheelers toting one of the back wheel up in the air everywhere i went😂

  • @robsmithracing
    @robsmithracing Жыл бұрын

    Seeing one of these in the states 😮

  • @codegerman71
    @codegerman71 Жыл бұрын

    Add a fifth wheel like that slightly out front in of the “front wheels” and make the “front wheels” slightly wider than the back, making a kind of star/pentagon pattern with the all wheels when you look at it from above, then it might not flip at all?

  • @technom3598
    @technom3598Ай бұрын

    Lol. Plus you can see all the bondo under the scratches. It's happened many times before

  • @redboyjan
    @redboyjan Жыл бұрын

    They were super easy to tip over by hand. Was a fun game

  • @bsmith8943
    @bsmith89436 ай бұрын

    I love top gear and I still watch it every week

  • @LegendHusky
    @LegendHusky8 ай бұрын

    I laughed so hard at that segment of that episode of Top Gear. 🤣

  • @cbrboy76
    @cbrboy76 Жыл бұрын

    The robin reliant did suffer from this problem, like the suzuki jimny had its rollocer issues. when i was young it was common to see robins with a big heavy toolchest on the passenger seat to even out the weight. The camber of the road played its part too.

  • @photografiq_presents
    @photografiq_presents Жыл бұрын

    my old man ha one in the early 70's. Yes it was alwas tipping over. But it was fun :)

  • @rickyholman3116
    @rickyholman3116 Жыл бұрын

    Talking to people that used to drive them here in uk used to roll them all the time

  • @homiesaur3423
    @homiesaur3423 Жыл бұрын

    Add skid plates to the bottom so if you do flip it won't scratch the paint

  • @Jwlar
    @Jwlar Жыл бұрын

    My grandad and uncle died in one of these. They may not be as easy to flip as in TG, but they’ll still do it given the right speed and angle.

  • @dwaynefoley1020

    @dwaynefoley1020

    Жыл бұрын

    Now that is an embarrassing way to go 😂

  • @MrZigzter
    @MrZigzter Жыл бұрын

    One of mister beans skits consisted of him running a Robin reliant off the road while in his mini 😂

  • @davekennedy6315
    @davekennedy6315 Жыл бұрын

    I spoke to a guy that owned a Reliant Robin (here in the UK) and he said he regularly put it on its side. He said it became so common (I don't think he used to drive slowly!) that you got used to just jumping out and pushing the car back on its wheels. It was no big deal haha!

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