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The Reliant Rialto is a three-wheeled car that was manufactured by Reliant Motor Company, replacing the original Mk 1 Reliant Robin in 1982. It featured a much squarer aerodynamic body, servicing panels, a single large windscreen wiper, a thicker fibreglass body, and altered interior, but the chassis, engine, and a lot of large components were carried over from the previous model.
Beginning in its second year of production, 1984, the Fox used the Reliant HT-E "economy" engine, [4] as was fitted to the Reliant Rialto, and which was known as the "yellow top" because of its colour. While still displacing 848cc, it produced 37.5 bhp instead of the 40 bhp from Reliant's standard "red top" engine. [11]
Reliant Motor Company was a British car manufacturer based in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.It was founded in 1935 and ended car production in 2002, the company had been known as "Reliant Motor Company" (or RMC for short) until the 1990s when it became "Reliant Motors" and then finally became "Reliant Cars LTD" after production had ended of the Robin as the company was restructured to be a ...
The 2018 music video for Rick Astley's She Makes Me, from the album Beautiful Life prominently features a yellow Reliant Rialto. [12] In both the 1990 novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett and the TV series released in 2019, the Reliant Robin makes an appearance in Good Omens.
Reliant Robin. The Reliant Robin is a three-wheeled small car. It is the perhaps best-known and most infamous product of the British three-wheeled car industry that was very successful from the 1950s until the 1980s; mainly due to British tax loopholes that allowed three-wheeled cars to be taxed as motorcycles and be driven with a motorcycle ...
In 1994, Reliant unveiled the "Reliant Sprint"; this car was a complete redesign of the original Bond Bug. Tom Karen of Ogle design rounded off all the sharp edges of the Bug and added round headlights, giving the car a totally new look; the prototype had Minilite alloy wheels, a grey vinyl interior, and was bright yellow.
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The Kitten was Reliant's second attempt to sell into the general small car market, the previous attempt in the 1960s was the Reliant Rebel and Reliant at the time told Ogle design to make the Rebel look completely different to the Reliant Regal 3/25 it was based on (but keep the same doors and windscreen) but for the new Kitten design Reliant told Ogle to keep as much of the Robin as they ...