{"id":34995,"date":"2016-06-17T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34995"},"modified":"2019-08-28T08:28:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T12:28:11","slug":"qotd-that-time-that-jeremy-clarkson-sabotaged-a-reliant-robin-for-a-top-gear-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/06\/17\/qotd-that-time-that-jeremy-clarkson-sabotaged-a-reliant-robin-for-a-top-gear-segment\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: That time that Jeremy Clarkson sabotaged a Reliant Robin for a <em>Top Gear<\/em> segment"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Here\u2019s what Clarkson confessed to the <em>Sunday Times<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>TO JUDGE from the letters I get and the remarks in the street, it seems the most memorable thing I did on Top Gear was a short segment about the Reliant Robin. You may remember: I drove it around Sheffield and it kept falling over.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Well, now\u2019s the time to come clean. A normal Reliant Robin will not roll unless a drunken rugby team is on hand. Or it\u2019s windy. But in a headlong drive to amuse and entertain, I\u2019d asked the backroom boys to play around with the differential so that the poor little thing rolled over every time I turned the steering wheel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Naturally, the health and safety department was very worried about this and insisted that the car be fitted with a small hammer that I could use, in case I was trapped after the roll, to break what was left of the glass.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reliant sold plenty of cheap, usable little three-wheelers, and somehow managed to never be charged for crimes against humanity. The cars weren\u2019t the most stable things in the world (no pointy-fronted three-wheeler is) but they certainly didn\u2019t tumble around like a roofie\u2019d Mary Lou Retton at every turn.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Torchinsky, <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/clarkson-reveals-bombshell-top-gear-modified-reliant-r-1752707025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Clarkson Reveals Bombshell: <em>Top Gear<\/em> Modified Reliant Robins To Make Them Roll&#8221;, <em>Jalopnik<\/em><\/a>, 2016-01-13.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what Clarkson confessed to the Sunday Times: TO JUDGE from the letters I get and the remarks in the street, it seems the most memorable thing I did on Top Gear was a short segment about the Reliant Robin. You may remember: I drove it around Sheffield and it kept falling over. Well, now\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,57,28,41],"tags":[111,1306,777,101],"class_list":["post-34995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","tag-cars","tag-jeremyclarkson","tag-topgear","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-96r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50660,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34995\/revisions\/50660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}