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Reliant Robin: The Car Built to Dodge the Taxman
In 1972, a Grand Prix engineer who tuned Formula One cars for Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart sat down to design a cheap runabout for people who couldn't afford a real car. The result? A lightweight, three-wheeled fibreglass hatchback with an all-aluminium engine that saved its parent company and gave working-class Britain affordable independence.Yet decades later, this clever piece of engineering was rolled down a Sheffield high street on prime-time television until an entire nation agreed it was a national joke. But how much of what we "know" about the Reliant Robin is actually…
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