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See also: Reliant Robin. Obligatory Top Gear link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8

• bcraven 1y ago
  On January 10th 2016, Clarkson came clean in his article in the Mail on Sunday and admitted that the whole thing was rigged. Clarkson wrote, “You may remember: I drove it (the Reliant Robin) around Sheffield and it kept falling over. Well now’s the time to come clean. A normal Reliant Robin will not roll unless a drunken rugby team is on hand. Or its windy. But in a headlong drive to amuse and entertain, I’d asked the backroom boys to play around with the differential so that the poor thing rolled over every time I turned the steering wheel” https://www.reliant.website/topgear.shtml https://www.reliant.website/topgear.shtml
  • DocTomoe 1y ago
    And yet, several of my friends located the general Sheffield area agree that while the video was a bit over the top, generally, Robins tended to do that. That Sheffield is a surprisingly hilly city with sometimes hard turns meaning you have auto-acceleration on hills down, and often are a bit faster than you'd like, probably doesn't help either.
  • voidUpdate 1y ago
    IIRC they also put a big metal plate in the roof to make it even more top-heavy