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Daniel H ◊ 2006-04-17 14:41	Reliant Regal van
BeanBandit ◊ 2006-04-17 15:23	Why does Bean hate Reliants?
Saturn Simon ◊ 2006-04-17 18:21	It's a Reliant Regal Supervan
truckface ◊ 2006-04-20 08:49	BeanBandit wrote Why does Bean hate Reliants? I don`t think Bean hates it. It`s just a funny gag with the blue car that allways seems to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
wickey ◊ 2006-06-02 16:13	from ep. 03
stronghold ◊ 2006-06-02 17:55	These things were pretty unstable.. & had a fierce clutch.!! (unlike the Robin 850...much better.! )
truckface ◊ 2006-06-02 19:59	Doesn`t the Reliant Robin look like the Ford Anglia, only w/3 wheels??
G-MANN ◊ 2006-06-04 14:59	truckface wrote I don`t think Bean hates it. It`s just a funny gag with the blue car that allways seems to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. It's just he can be a bit of a bully sometimes and enjoys making it flip over for his own amusement. It's like a child knocking on the glass of a fish tank. In episode 3 he gets stuck with a steep charge for the multistorey car park so he tries to leave through the entrance. He makes various attempts which fail (including one where gets past the barrier but a Mercedes arrives at the entrance, he is forced to go back through the barrier and gets trapped in again). Eventually he sees the Reliant arrive and charges towards it, it reverses away from the entrance and he gets out, while the poor Reliant turns overs on it's side.
IRT_BMT_IND ◊ 2006-06-05 21:11	I think this car should be four stars. It shows up in almost every episode.
antp ◊ 2006-06-05 21:33	Not every episode, only few ones. And it is each time in a minor action.
stronghold ◊ 2006-06-16 09:58	truckface wrote Doesn`t the Reliant Robin look like the Ford Anglia, only w/3 wheels?? NO http://storm.tocmp.com/reliant/robin/Reliant%20Robin%201e.jpg -- Last edit: 2006-06-18 10:22:35
truckface ◊ 2006-06-18 11:12	Just thougt there was a Reliant that had the same rear window as the Anglia. Or was it the Reliant Regal sedan??
Sunbar ◊ 2006-06-18 17:05	truckface wrote Just thougt there was a Reliant that had the same rear window as the Anglia. Or was it the Reliant Regal sedan?? The Reliant Regal 3/25 did have a rearward sloping rear window. http://www.3wheelers.com/archives/archive1/body_gal39.html
modell ◊ 2006-09-19 19:16	In Mr. Bean's Diary, it says that the driver of the van is a neighbor he hates.
landrover1 ◊ 2006-11-18 20:07	modell wrote In Mr. Bean's Diary, it says that the driver of the van is a neighbor he hates. cool, i dont know that before...where did u see that mr.bean's diary, i dont know that...
bent8rover ◊ 2007-04-15 22:57	stronghold wrote These things were pretty unstable.. I've been in one that tipped and nearly rolled, at speed :O from Ep. 1.12
crazyforcars12 ◊ 2007-07-31 19:57	wickey wrote from ep. 03 If you go to www.3wheelers.com it say that in this episode the Reliant ended up been cut up into 3 parts and chucked into a skip!!
crazyforcars12 ◊ 2007-07-31 19:58	crazyforcars12 wrote If you go to www.3wheelers.com it say that in this episode the Reliant ended up been cut up into 3 parts and chucked into a skip!! This page to be exact: http://www.3wheelers.com/tvserie2.html
ZeREs_001 ◊ 2008-12-14 18:46	bent8rover wrote I've been in one that tipped and nearly rolled, at speed :O LOL!
paul4990 ◊ 2009-01-11 22:10	1972
Ingo ◊ 2009-07-04 00:42	I'm a bit shocked about the ideas of my brother-in-law. Now he wants to have such a car - because he liked the scenes with it in the Mr.Bean-show so much. "Only for 800 Pounds in good, running condition. For sale nearby Manchester. How much is the ferry, because there aren't bargain-flights from Berlin?" This I have heard yesterday. Maybe he will ask me to enjoy him, because his English isn't that good. As I know him, he will have the idea to drive it back home on its own wheels, from Manchester to his town, East of Berlin, close to the Polish border... If his 1977' Mercedes 280 SE and the 1970' Opel Kadett B aren't enough - between 15 motorbikes. A Trabant is too all-day and boring, for him in the "Eastern Zone" Which I haven't known before: the Reliant is illegal in Germany. Due its flammable plastic body and the unsafe three-wheel-construction. But my brother-in-law will drive it with his red collector's plates, then it should be possible. Hopefully his wife will cancel his idea. I like to travel and to make such crazy car-buying-tours abroad, it wouldn't be the first time for me - but not going back in SUCH a car.
chris40 ◊ 2009-07-04 09:28	@ingo: Your brother-in-law must be slightly insane: aren't there enough eccentric cars around that aren't death-traps? I remember following a Regal 3/25 which performed the same feat as bent8rover's above on a sharp bend near Wallingford. BTW I remember reading somewhere that the successor to the Regal, the equally notorious Robin, was quite popular in Austria!
Trollface ◊ 2015-08-22 14:31	Fake plate because DVLA shows nothing
TIMMSTER ◊ 2018-04-03 18:24	For all you Brits out there, I heard that the Reliant Robin was a meme. Is that why it's a gag?
the sad biker ◊ 2018-04-03 18:48	TIMMSTER wrote For all you Brits out there, I heard that the Reliant Robin was a meme. Is that why it's a gag? What? You'll have to explain that to us adults, what's a meme?
TIMMSTER ◊ 2018-04-03 22:27	In America (HOME OF THE BRAVE AND LAND OF THE FREE ), that's a funny joke that is all across the Internet. Also, a meme is a picture with the white text across it that says something funny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2018-04-03 22:38	1. The Reliant Regal and the Reliant Robin are two different models. There were several Regals over the years of its production. 2. If your meaning is that you thought the Reliant Three Wheeler was a joke, as a fully paid up Briton I can advise you slightly differently, we KNOW it’s a joke. /vehicle_1049144-Reliant-Regal-1959.html /vehicle_294215-Reliant-Regal-3-25-1965.html /vehicle_676515-Reliant-Robin-1976.html -- Last edit: 2018-04-03 22:51:17
TIMMSTER ◊ 2018-04-03 22:55	Well, thanks. Just trying to make sure.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2018-04-03 23:04	You may find this informative! http://danlockton.co.uk/rebel/early_years.html http://www.3wheelers.com/reliant.html -- Last edit: 2018-04-03 23:09:35
the sad biker ◊ 2018-04-03 23:39	A couple of my mates bought 'em as a cheap & easy way into cars (you only needed a bike licence, some girlfriends can be awkward about riding pillion in winter). You can have great fun with the vans on twisty back roads, especially with moving ballast in the back, just like the passenger on a racing sidecar outfit, everyone shifts from one side to the other to keep the lifting wheel down An 850 with twin carbs off a 1300 GT can shift a bit, young-uns today doing wheel spins in McDonalds car park don't know what fun is! -- Last edit: 2018-04-03 23:49:01
TIMMSTER ◊ 2018-04-04 03:50	Jeremy Clarkson made fun of them a lot.

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1972 Reliant Regal Supervan III in Mr. Bean (The Exciting Escapades of Mr. Bean), TV Series, 1990-1995 Ep. 12

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