Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
This had to be the best Top Gear Program ever. You could rich selling these in Indiana!
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My favorite was the rugby episode. I also liked when they attempted to drive through Rome, and some of their cross-country excursions through Africa.
what a derpy caar
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That is a Reliant Robin, I drove one once for a bet, seriously scary in a crosswind!!
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
I know but just think how much more entertaining NASCAR would be if they built these with 800 HP engines and raced them at Daytona!!
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Yea...run over a harvest beetle in a cross wind and that could be it for you. LOL
I love them. I had never heard of them before I ran across this video on youtube. "Yes...I know Grind...you saw this years ago.". They should have a major racing circuit for these....but who'd be crazy enough to drive one of these outside of the north of England or the Southern USA?
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I hate to tell you this but that Robin was made deliberately unstable for TV. They did this by fitting a 10 inch wheel on one side and a 12 inch on the other.
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
I hear you but it doesn't take a Purdue engineer grad to understand that this is not a good engineering design.
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Or this?
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The whole point of them was you could drive it on a motorbike licence and the car tax was the same as a bike.
It would have been far more steady if they put the two wheels up front with the engine and made it front wheel drive.
Which still would have worked with my modifications... It wouldn't be nearly as much fun trying to drift a turn but...
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
I was driving through a roundabout in my Mazda the other day and I turned into it aggressively and the back end started coming around. So I accelerated and counter steered (drifting) through the round about and it put a huge smile on my face. What a blast. The car handled it magnificently. Unfortunately the misses was in the passenger seat and you could have heard her scream in Cincinnati. Put a damper on the whole experience, I tell you.
What's interesting is that I learned how to counter steer on my bicycle bombing down big hills and mountains. If you get into mountain biking it's one of the first techniques you need to learn.
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Cool. I bet she had some butt puckering going on there... LOL
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
She's lucky I wasn't driving a rwd car, it's hard to make a fwd car drift with a rwd roadster or coupe you could drift completely around a roundabout.
zappasguitar
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OMG you are so right about that!
I almost wet myself I was laughing so hard at that segment, and watching Jeremy roll it every time he tried to corner was hysterical!
zappasguitar
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Mott, you also need to check out the guys trip to Bolivia to drive the "Road of Death"!
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That was just about the most brilliant of all, apart maybe from driving to the North Pole in a Toyota Hilux.
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Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
No thank you! I've seen several programs about the Bolivian road to death. You couldn't get me to ride on that at the point of a gun. No freaken way. Maybe when I was younger but the older I get the worse I am about heights.