Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Reliant Regal

Surely no one is fooled by a posh name given to something ordinary. Like the Reliant Regal, which was certainly the last vehicle you'd connect to royalty. This was a very basic car that was cheap to buy, thanks to its lack of a fourth wheel, meaning it was taxed as a motorbike not a car. And while car buffs might be sniffy about the vehicle, it was, in its way, actually quite significant and a mark of a company that liked to defy convention.