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Report: ‘remastered’ Reliant Robin with carbon fibre stabilisers will cost £1m+

Start-up announces new plan to revive three-wheeled icon

Published: 14 Oct 2025

Here’s TopGear.com’s roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring

A start-up has revealed plans to ‘remaster’ the Reliant Robin by adding carbon fibre stabilisers and charging more than £1m, sources have revealed.

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Following a rash of small boutique automotive outlets taking ageing, often unreliable British classics and giving them a modern makeover, the start-up confirmed it had chosen the once-maligned Reliant Robin as its first project.

And it will seek to address the Robin’s infamous yet eternally comical flaw using modern manufacturing solutions unavailable when it was originally built.

“Our Reliant Robin is a shared vision of the individual dreamers whose ambition is to pay homage to classic automotive icons by feathering time-honoured traditions into effortlessly complex forms while maintaining a disruptor ethic through reshaping narratives via next-generation modern expertise and technology,” a source close to the project said.

“Innovation never sleeps but sometimes lies anxiously in a contextually meditative state anticipating the right artisans to rouse it back into a contemporary grandeur guided by a definitive north star mission philosophy that hacks the future by blending the proverbial low-hanging fruit into an ultimate and uncomplicated analogue smoothie worthy of celebration.

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“Our purpose is steered by a simple premise and will be literally unshakeable: big, massive carbon fibre stabilisers across the front axle, a metric boatload of leather, a Bluetooth stereo, and a remapped and tarted-up Rover K-Series engine in there somewhere too.

“For those who repeatedly and comically fall over shall finally understand the truth and embark on the journey of a lifetime for upwards of a million quid.”

The start-up added it had drafted in an award-winning composer to exclusively formulate a "sonically luxurious meep-meep" horn sound, available as a £17,689 optional extra.

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