I Bought a Reliant Robin!

[agingwheels]

Whoops. Tamworth is in the midlands, not the north. Sorry about that. That little mistake probably had several Reliant fans rolling over with anger

[DougDeMuro]

This remains one of the finest car channels on YouTube. Only Harry's Garage is better.

[DjangoRaisuli]

Midengine, rear wheel drive, Fiberglass body, made in England ... basicallly a McLaren!

[marjon]

9:11 I laughed so hard! As a British engineer, I am (for some reason) quite proud of the 'Duct tape and hope' era of our consumer products. They worked, they were easily attainable and easy to repair. With my current car (Audi), about once a month I need to plug in my laptop and give the fragile thing Digital Psychotherapy, where I press certain keys and code the equivalent of 'There, There, everything is OK, You are doing very well, no, , , , the microscopic glitch when you changed gears a week ago does not mean we hate you, we consider you an important part of our family. *Group HUG*

[tavarish]

This is the most beautiful car I've ever seen

[stilldking]

Looks like a fun toy. Now a joke you've probably heard:
A man driving a Trabant suddenly breaks his windshield wiper. Pulling into a service station, he hails a mechanic. "Wipers for a Trabi?" he asks. The mechanic thinks about it for a few seconds and replies, "Ja, sounds like a fair trade."

[nowafers]

11:36 - that button is actually your low brake fluid warning lamp, you push the button to test the bulb :D

[jimbobaggins]

My stepdad only had a motorcycle license when my little brother was born in the early 90s. This led to us having several Reliant Robins as our family car for most of my childhood.
In the UK they were fairly popular in the 70s and 80s meaning that by the 90s there were a lot of them available very cheap. My stepdad would buy one for around £50, drive it til it failed (which boy did they) and then buy another.
By the time my sister was born in the late 90s we all had our own spot we had to sit in to keep the weight ratio inside even.
My step dad in the drivers seat, my 4' 10" Mum behind him. My baby sister in her car seat in the front because the back had no seat belts. My brother in the middle and me, being the heaviest member of the family by that time, behind my sister. For anyone worried about there being no seat belts in the back, we were so crammed into the bench seat there was little chance of us moving out of it if we crashed.
We never tipped over in one with us all in the car, but we did often find that local kids had picked them up and flipped them over whilst they were parked. Parts of them also fell off sometimes whilst driving around, but I think that was mainly due to them not really being maintained.
My parents did flip over in one when it was just them in the front after someone hit them from behind on a hill. This was the day after that infamous Top Gear episode aired.
I was working at the local newspaper then and the story came in around lunch time. As people started coming back from lunch they would see the story in our system, start commenting on the Top Gear episode they'd seen the night before, then get hushed by a colleague who told them it was my parents who were involved in the crash.
Neither of them was hurt, just shaken up and after that experience they both got full car licenses and they've never driven in a Reliant Robin again. But my step Dad does have one in pieces in his garage, so they may still drive one again some day

[BandBHawks]

Not only is Robert driving a suspiciously imported Robin in the US, he's doing so with "BOLLOCKS" splayed across the front of the car.

[ptonpc]

In 1999, I was driving North from Liverpool. The motorway was fairly empty at the time and I was sitting at 60 / 70 mph. I could hear this metallic buzzing coming from behind me. The sound went on for a few minutes it seemed, then, with amazement I realised I was being overtaken by a Robin. As it passed me, I looked into the car and saw at least three huge burly men in it. We were able to stare at each other for about a minute before it crawled ahead of me.

[thedeadstig]

Also I was at the filming for Top Gear with the reliant episode....the reason why it fell over was because they fitted a 12inch wheel on the passenger side, a 13inch wheel on front and a 10inch wheel on the drivers side, thats why it only rolled on the drivers side throughout the episode

they made a robin do a wheelie by welding a huge drum to the back and filling it with water

[reddeviluk]

I will never forget being transported in the boot of a Reliant Robin from Whitby to Middlesbrough during a storm. This is in the UK and the reason we were being transported is because there was a terrible storm which stopped the trains running due to flooding so a friend's dad came to collect us.

The journey was is across an incredibly isolated road and it was terrifying. We drove through flood waters, gale force winds and it only bloody made it.

[iseeolly]

That mystery switch is a low brake fluid warning lamp. The switch is just to test that the lamp is OK. Cheers from the UK.

[Metmovie]

"I have bought a Reliant Robin"

Reliant Robin: BOLLOCKS

[SavageGreywolf]

"I bought a Reliant Robin"
Mr Bean: so you have chosen death

[pchris]

The delivery on "This is the rear wiper. It works exceedingly well." was amazing.

[Crazy_Borg]

4:40 "the premiere collector of unusual slow and badly-made death traps!"
The cheerfulness in that voice really sells it. XD
But congratulations on the car. Now get a Bond Bug!

[LevyNeptune]

I'll be honest, the Robin Hood pun flew over my head until you mentioned that it doesn't make sense if you call it a bonnet, then I thought it was GENIUS.

[archonix]

You should also look up the Reliant Kitten, which is the Robin, but with an extra wheel. I had one for a while. It was terrible. You'd love it.

[LazerLord]

This is still one of my favorite car videos on youtube, no joke.