I know it’s a setup, but I can’t 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 “sigh, why the fuck did I agree to this. Now I’ll have to flip his car back again…”
Also, the front wheel being positioned directly under the engine is just asking for trouble. I can’t 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.
Still, it’s 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 driver’s side. That weight needs to be counterbalanced if there isn’t going to be a wheel under the driver, or an outrigger or something.
Can’t believe such a car ever made it to be street legal. The 70s were truly a different time.
