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Originally Posted by MikeG22
Did you happen to catch the video? Its one of my favorite Top Gear segments of all time.
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Never seen the show but catch wind of it occasionally on Autoblog. TG Is notorious for abusing Reliant Robin 3 wheelers for general amusement when they're not dropping pianos onto Morris Marinas.
Wikipedia;
"The BBC2 motoring show Top Gear has featured several Morris Marinas, all of which have been destroyed. A running gag throughout the series involves dropping a piano on a Marina every time the car is featured. The first Marina was set on fire after Jeremy Clarkson raced it against a Lada driven by James May in the Communist Cars episode. Next, following complaints from an online Morris Marina web forum, the presenters claimed that they had bought their own Marina to restore. They ended up dropping a piano on it, which they claimed new delivery firm "Careless Airways" was responsible for. In the Rear Wheel Drive Challenge, May was forced to drive a Marina after his own Ford Capri broke down, during this episode Hammond, who was following May described the Marina as an "Entirely Beige, Wilfully Awful Pile of Misery". It was entered in an ice race against Clarkson in a Porsche 944 and Richard Hammond in a Nissan 300ZX, not to mention several professionals such as Frenchman Olivier Panis. Although the Marina ultimately came first among the three presenters' cars in the ice race, another piano was dropped on top of it. In the Lancia Challenge, a Marina (driven by Hammond) raced against a Lancia Beta HPE (driven by Clarkson). The Lancia caught fire and the Marina broke down. Hammond had strapped a piano to the roof of the Marina to prevent another one landing on it, but another one was dropped anyway. In his DVD Duel, Clarkson was about to race an Aston Martin V12 Vantage against a Marina (driven by The Stig) in a 24-hour endurance race, but the race was canceled when a piano was dropped on the Marina. In the Top Gear book Crap Cars by Richard Porter, the Marina was named 4th worst car of all time."
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