In the automotive world, the Reliant Robin is known, above all, for a certain tendency to go… “legs in the air”.
Whether it was in the eternal “rumbles” with the famous Mr. Bean's MINI (where it always ended up in a ditch or overturned) or the Top Gear, in which Jeremy Clarkson put him to the test, the truth is that many of the images we've seen of Reliant Robin in motion ended up with… a rollover.
That said, it was with some surprise that we found a video in which a young driver (more precisely Oliver Amon, known for parodies of Gymkhana videos) chooses as his weapon of choice to drift in a parking lot full of snow and ice. none other than a Reliant Robin.
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The truth is that in the short video we ended up discovering that, in the right hands, little Robin can even be quite fun to drive, being able to drift in “slow motion” and without even flipping over! For that, just avoid putting too much weight in front when entering the curves. If you don't believe it, here's the video:
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