OK, OK. Did Top Gear really just try to launch a Reliant Robin into space, or was it all just a bit of clever graphics?
Either way the Brits have to win all the awards for eccentricity, lunacy etc, etc…
http://www.topgear.com/content/tgonbbc2/
Nao
Considering the scale and budget of some of their previous stunts it doesn’t seem entirely unlikely, although presumably it was unmanned.
it was unmanned they said it was, and it would of been plain stupid to put some one in that
Cool! We watched Top Gear a few times on BBC International when we were in Europe last summer for Unicon. Great show, I wish we could get it here.
You can.
I just watched this episode.
It ended very well, one less crappy “Reliant”.
I have just been told that they actually built the rocket, over a period of 4 months, and that it was designed and constructed just three miles from where I live. Pretty wild stunt, even by the high standards of TG.
Nao
It is perhaps the only reason to actually watch the bbc these days best show there is. I just wish they had put that porsche 911 round the track I wannted to see how fast it would go when the stig drove it
I’m amazed it didn’t land on anyone.
Considering it crashed to the ground as a flaming fireball, yes it would have been pretty stupid to put someone in there!
I was pretty gutted it didnt work properly, because I think it would have worked and looked awesome!
I want a Reliant!
Oh, and the Porsche! 40-60 in 1 second! ONE! Kerrayzay!
Rock on!
Edd
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Considering it crashed to the ground as a flaming fireball, yes it would have been pretty stupid to put someone in there!
Hmmm…I can think of one or two politicians…
I was pretty gutted it didnt work properly, because I think it would have worked and looked awesome!
It looked pretty awesome as it was. But I seriously doubt that that RC enthusiast would have done much to control its flightpath had it separated properly from the booster tank.
I want a Reliant!
A friend at work said he used to have one: think he said it was an 850cc fibreglass supervan or something like that. Apparently it was pretty good around corners, and he would also race ford escorts away from traffic lights and beat them.
Probably a very green too, as cars go…but his was red.
Don’t know when they stopped making them but I still see a few around here, together with the occasional Scimitar.
Nao
Reliant seems to be in a never-ending cycle of going bust, being bought by someone with big ideas, making a few more cars then going bust again.
My mother had one for a while; inside they are impossibly noisy (they have a stereo but there’s no way you can hear it), the front passengers have to squeeze their legs down the side of the engine and whatever anyone says I never got over the fear of going round corners in it.
Phil
I found it hilrious when he chain-sawed the bike off the cool section of the board:D. Does the top gear set normanly have chain saws just lying obout? 