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" Even people who aren&amp;#039;t huge fans of\u00A0Top Gear have probably seen the clip\u00A0of Jeremy Clarkson attempting to drive the three-wheeled Reliant Robin and rolling over every time he took a turn. If not, here you go.\u00A0 It&amp;#039;s a humorous scene that&amp;#039;s one of the most famous ones\u00A0Top Gear has ever recorded, but as it turns out, it was also entirely staged. Writing in\u00A0The Sunday Times, Jeremy Clarkson himself admitted the Robin only rolled over as frequently as it did because the team messed with the differential. If it hadn&amp;#039;t, the car would have been much more stable. &amp;quot;A normal Reliant Robin will not roll unless a drunken rugby team is on hand. Or it&amp;#039;s windy. But in a headlong drive to amuse and entertain, I&amp;#039;d 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,&amp;quot; he wrote.\u00A0 What? He lied to us?\u00A0Top Gear\u00A0deceived us for the purposes of creating entertaining situations? We&amp;#039;re shocked! He then went on to write,\u00A0 &amp;quot;Since then I&amp;#039;ve used similarly doctored and similarly hammer-free Reliant Robins in countless games of car football during our live shows. And as a result there&amp;#039;s probably no one on the planet who&amp;#039;s rolled a car quite as much as I have.&amp;quot; At the same time, he does appear to have a soft spot for the car he loves to hate, finishing the column saying,\u00A0 &amp;quot;Owning a Reliant Robin is like having a family pet. Yes, it&amp;#039;s a nuisance sometimes, and, yes, it can be stubborn and unreliable, but it scampers when you go out together, and if you play with its differential, it will even roll over so you can tickle its tummy.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s pretty well known that\u00A0Top Gear is an entertainment show, not a documentary, so it should come as no surprise that some of the more entertaining situations didn&amp;#039;t happen entirely on their own. Even if it was fake, that segment was one of the more memorable ones the show ever aired.\u00A0 At the same time, when you hear this or about other scenes that\u00A0Top Gear\u00A0staged, it does make you wonder\u00A0where the scripting really ended.\u00A0Is it unwise, for example, to put faith in the show&amp;#039;s lap times? Probably not, but we certainly would never know if something were off\u00A0unless they told us.\u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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