"undercover elephant" <ue@home.com> wrote

> Likewise, I know it's each to their own, but why do you dislike them so
> much?

Where do you start?

I owned one for 2 years and it broke down or was otherwise unreliable around
20% of the time, meaning there was a 20% chance it wouldn't start or stop on
any given day, despite my spending thousands. It broke down probably 20
times in 2 years which means it broke more frequently than all the other
cars I've ever owned put together.

As well as persistent overheating, the brakes regularly failed, as did the
electricals and the windscreen wipers; the engine went off tune every 100
miles or so and as a result it did about 12 to the gallon; it used batteries
every 1000 miles or so, the tyres constantly deflated, it rattled, it
grounded its exhaust on speedbumps....the list goes on. I cannot think of a
single good point about it except its rarity, but that's really a
consequence of its undesirability.

I would seriously recommend to the OP that he acquire a cheap second car, a
£200 Escort maybe, as a spare for all the times the Reliant will let him
down.