Talk:Reliant Regal

David Dickinson’s Van?

According to his article, David Dickinson bought a Trotter’s van for “over £44,000”; in this article Ricky Hatton bought one for the same figure. Did they both buy vans for the same price, or was it only one of the them, and one of the articles is wrong? Jock123 (talk) 14:04, 30 June 2010 (UTC

The Hatton Trotter Van was bought off the ONly Fools Fan Club as a replica and for £2200 only - its my personal old van - all the rest is paper talk - The Dickenson Van was bought from Coys and in the opinion of the Appreciation Society was never used in an episode of Only Fools

Still Existing

I wonder if this 3 wheeler is still existing nowadays ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.6.239.154 (talk) 03:34, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

No, it went out of production decades ago. As stated in the article. There are some surviving examples of it of course, which is how we've got modern digital photographs of them to include on the page... 80.189.49.237 (talk) 13:57, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Aluminium or fibreglass?

"Regals MkI-MkVI had aluminium bodies and 747cc side-valve engines. However, during the 1950s, the price of aluminium increased markedly across Europe. In response, Reliant developed an expertise in making panels of glass fibre which piece by piece replaced the aluminium panels, until the 1956 Mark 3 Regal featured a wholly glass fibre body."

There's a contradiction here, if Marks 1 to 6 were aluminium yet 3 was glass fibre. Needs to be clarified and corrected if necessary. Mspritch (talk) 14:48, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Just to clarify the motorcycle license thing...

...in case anyone else gets the urge to edit it.

Any 2 wheeled vehicle is a motorcycle.

Any 3 wheeled vehicle under 7cwt (450kg) is a light tricycle, including old style 3-wheel ATVs, custom cruiser bikes, the Piaggio Ape, many tuk-tuks, and all of Reliant's 3 wheelers.

Any 4 wheeled vehicle under 7cwt is a light quadricycle, including the vehicles produced by the french Aixam and Microcar companies, the electric Reva G-Wiz, golf buggies and other light service buggies, and most ATV quads. But not the MCC Smart, Fiat 500, etc, which are all too heavy.

There are various levels of motorcycle license since the UK joined the EU. At first there was the full A (any bike) plus the A1 (having passed full test but not DAS, and waiting 2 years under a 33bhp/25kW restriction) and A2 (125cc, 14bhp/11kW, a towing/sidecar ban and some weight restriction IIRC along with a power/weight ratio limit - essentially a provisional license that allows you to take off the L-plates, carry a passenger and go on the motorway), along with the P (mopeds under 50cc, restricted to 50km/h and something like 4kW output with a lower power/weight ratio and maybe all-up weight; again, basically a 16-year-old's provisional but with a pillion/no-L-plate allowance). Now it's even more complex with additional stages along the way.

In any case, the different levels are staged by a combination of cylinder capacity and power output restrictions, the higher of which now is 45hp (33kW). Because of capacity, anyone with a moped or 125cc license cannot drive any typical trike or quad including all Reliants, unless they've been retrofitted with a smaller powerplant (I'm not entirely sure about the weight, as there are 125 and 50cc microcars that can apparently be driven by holders of said licenses, but they've only turned up in the wild in France so far, and their performance is severely hobbled by putting even the lightest of enclosed bodies on top of something which has only 14 or even 5hp to play with). Because of power output, at least some Regals and many Robins are out-of-bounds to those labouring under a 33hp/25kw restriction (even though there's no capacity restriction). However, it should probably be possible to drive any of them with less than 45hp (ie most Robins, all Regals) on a newer A2 license (33kW restriction) unless there's specifically an exclusion for light tricycles/quadricycles in there. It might count as having a sidecar or something, I dunno. Worth checking in more detail before making further edits.

Either way, if you want to be absolutely sure you're good for driving a 3-wheeler, and haven't got a car license, it's best to either do DAS or wait for / take the tests to stage up your restricted bike license to a full one. No power, weight, capacity, power/weight, sidecar or towing restrictions other than those laid out in the vehicle type approval regs, then. 80.189.49.237 (talk) 14:11, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Tomber

The link is broken, but did it ever give a valid confirmation that Tomber is not either A based upon a different vehicle, B is a mashup of this and other vehicles, (perhaps so much altered to count as C) or C an original creation? Sadly the only Link I could find which I understand brings up the question is behinds a paywall: https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/06/20/with-cars-2-john-lasseter-gives-a-franchise-a-tune-up/ D.C.Rigate (talk) 17:41, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

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