Del Boy and Rodney’s iconic yellow three-wheeled Robin Reliant takes poll position in a list of the greatest on-screen vehicles, beating the high-flying Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Herbie, the 1963 Volkswagen Beatle. The survey, conducted by Carmoola, put James Bond’s silver Aston DB5 from Goldfinger into fourth place, no doubt leaving the spy a little shaken and stirred that his car was outmaneuvered by Doc-Brown’s time-travelling DeLorean from Back to the Future.
Carmoola, a newly launched car financing service, calculated the monthly finance payments for the most iconic film and TV motors with eye watering results. One of the DeLorean’s used in the hit 1985 movie, sold for close to £400,000 in 2011. Without a deposit, calculations show that to buy the gull-winged ‘time machine’, you’re going to need to find £12,294 every month for three years at a rate of 6.9% APR - which is probably beyond the reach of most Back to the Future fans - and that’s without the crucial flux capacitor included in the price.
A yellow three-wheeler used in the much-loved Only Fools and Horses TV series sold for £38,000 at an auction in 2021. The repayments for the 1972 Reliant Rebel Supervan III - half a century old - would amount to around £800 a month, over 48 months, with a deposit of £3800.
