I owned a Reliant Rialto for 3.5 years, it was an amazing car to drive. traded it last week for a mk.2 polo, going too miss my reliant. It's a shame this was dead and buried a short few years after this.
I remember watching this on a B/W TV that stood on 4 legs while in primary school. My young mind then still recalls the driver names to date and there were many Vitanen's Mouton's Kirkland's Mikkola's in my village 😂. The kids at 5:45 & 14:28 reminded me of myself, it is how we used to catch a glipse of the safari cars. (I wonder if any those kids know they were caught on video, though very likely not.) Any of them, including the grown ups whose faces were caught on camera, would be ecstatic to see themselves today, 40yrs later, in this video!
It's funny to me that after all that work, they were still schooled by Mitsubishi in an group A. Sainz almost beat Mäkinen in 98 through consistency, and Auriol in 99 was also really close, but if you had to say which car was better at pure performance, you have to say the Mitsubishi Evo IV-V-VI had the edge over the Corolla.
I loved them. The first one I had, was a Reliant Robin with an Austin engine in it. I then had several more of the later ones. The main problems I had was the kingpin and bush on the front wheel of the early ones. The chassis on the early ones were prone to rot. The brakes were poor, and you needed heavy boots to make them work, having said that I loved them, and I was so sad when they stopped making them. They were cheap to run and cheap to tax. Granted they didn't pull the birds, not a lot of room for fun and games. Please bring them back.
Had a couple of these little cars and yes really enjoyed them even in the snow what a pity they're no longer available you can even sit underneath and fix them when it's raining on a mat of course went camping and fishing in them enjoyable times
Bringing back these kind of budget-oriented 3-wheelers into the modern era could be impossible, but it's impressive and admirable at the same time to see this kind of challenge in order to make things work. That's what I think about Jonathan Hanes of Reliant, as well as Rover Group of 1980s and 1990s as well - probably the "Mission Impossible" to make it work in long terms, but can't ignore or blame all of thise effort.
No one could imagine that one day M Sulayem would become president of FIA just when the 2021 controversial 8th World Championship title was stolen by Masi the race director and handed over to Max Verstappen. Congratulation and Good luck to M. Sulayem.
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what does this thing has from a regular street Corolla?? name, logo and a resembling shape, these spawns has nothing to do with their mainstream counterpart car.
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