The Reliant Robin; straight from its name is a joke. Developed in England in the 1970s, the Reliant Robin is the epitome of bad design . To truly see what I mean, one must watch the video in which Jeremy Clarkson, a presenter on the British Show Top Gear takes the Reliant Robin on a very brief trip around the town of Sheffield. On this trip, the Reliant Robin proves as reliable as a rattlesnake that has been stepped on. I believe that the designers came up with the Reliant Robin in a pub in the Midlands, because, as you can see, it has just three wheels. Therefore, anyone attempting to turn around a corner in the Reliant Robin ends up with the car either on its side or upside down. Even cars with four wheels going around a corner sometimes lift their back wheel but the Reliant Robin, not possessing wheels on both front ends, is unable to handle the change in momentum and ends up on its side nine times out of ten.
Another major problem with the Reliant Robin was that ever since the car manufacturers fitted it with a bigger, 850cc engine, every time the driver would turn the throttle all the way up, it would lift up as shown in the picture above and this too was not favorable to driving on city streets. The Reliant Robin therefore, can be used by any one looking at examples of badly designed products. For anyone brave enough to venture forth into Reliant Robin territory, this was the fate that awaited them.
This is absolutely absurd. I'm curious as to whether or not these things were mass produced. I really don't understand how anyone could have created something like this. Clearly no one with a background in physics (something I would very much like in my automobile designers). Here is a great example of how a bad design can be catastrophic. Cars are no joke, and an unreliable one can leave the unlucky driver lifeless. This thing should have been thrown through the design process several more times before it ever reached the streets. CRAZY!
ReplyDeleteDougie it is the second highest selling car made with plastic after the Corvette!
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