Any idiot who parks their car on a tramway deserves to have their empty car totaled by the much heavier tram moving at a speed appropriate to obliterate their stupidly parked car.
I know itâs a setup, but I canât help but laugh at the BBC reporter tipping the Robin back up, Clarkson immediately flipping it again, and the reporter just sort of opening his arm in exaspiration, like âsigh, why the fuck did I agree to this. Now Iâll have to flip his car back againâŚâ
Also, the front wheel being positioned directly under the engine is just asking for trouble. I canât believe even a single mechanical engineer signed off on any aspect of that car.
I can just imagine the poor engineers tasked with the prototype, quietly sobbing into their neck ties, as the Reliant CEO just bombards them with the demand for a single front wheel, directly under the engine, not offset in height, so that the car is the perfect machine for barrel rolls.
For what cost? The tram damaged and possibly derailed, having to wait for cops or perhaps techs, the passengers having to wait or find another transportation? Not worth it.
Yeah. True.
I had train in my head. Iâve seen what a passenger amtrack 5 cars long going 80mph can do to a motorcycle, with relatively little damage to the train.
Realizing now that a tram is a different beast.
Not sure what you mean by âdirectly underâ- the Robinâs front wheel is in front of the engine. http://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2016/2247605401_1bbf4b913b_m.jpg
I stand corrected.
Still, itâs a pretty huge design flaw to have a single wheel front and center with the driver not centered inline with it. Notice how the Robin always tips onto the driverâs side. That weight needs to be counterbalanced if there isnât going to be a wheel under the driver, or an outrigger or something.
Canât believe such a car ever made it to be street legal. The 70s were truly a different time.
Apparently, they were still made until 2001- and the original chassis design dates from 1953. Pretty impressive, eh?
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